1967 Season In Ncaa Basketball

By Author: Carmen Cameron
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The 1967 NCAA Basketball Tournament was quite an exciting tournament. This tournament was like years previous. There were 23 teams invited to play to decide which team is the best team in the nation. Those 23 teams participate in single elimination play. The teams that had better season in the regular season are seeded higher than those teams that had poor regular seasons.

The tournament games would be spread over Maryland, Illinois, Kansas, Oregon Colorado, Virginia, Rhode Island and Kentucky. The previous season the world was shocked by the all black team from Texas Western that changed the face of college basketball.

Texas Western started things off right again this year, beating Seattle in the first round of the tournament. Unfortunately, Texas Western did not have any more magic remaining for the 2nd round. They fell to Pacific by a score of 72-63.

The other teams to advance in the first round of the tournament were Princeton, St. John's, Boston College, Dayton and Virginia Tech. North Carolina, Indiana, Tennessee, SMU, Louisville, Kansas, Wyoming, Pacific and UCLA had already earned a bye to the semifinals ...
... of their region.

Princeton would have to square off against North Carolina in the semifinals. North Carolina was a solid team and looked like a real contender to win the whole tournament. They showed what they were made of in this game with an impressive victory over Princeton.

Boston College and St. John's faced off in a classic matchup. These teams brought things all the way to the wire as Boston College was able to sneak out a victory by a margin of 63-62. Dayton pulled off a similarly tough win against Tennessee. The final score of that matchup was 53-52.

Virginia Tech, Houston, SMU and UCLA also managed to win their games. The most impressive of all of these victories came at the hands of UCLA. UCLA managed to put their opponents out of their misery with a convincing 109-60 win. This win opened everyone's eyes and UCLA was instantly the team that stood out from the rest of the field.

The next round helped UCLA's case as they took out Pacific by a score of 80-64. UCLA would head to the Final Four without a team really offering a scare to them.

SMU and Houston squared off in a tough battle, but Houston was able to keep things under control. They managed to hold off SMU and took the win by a margin of 8 points.

Dayton managed to take out Virginia Tech and North Carolina easily beat Boston College to become the last two teams in the Final Four.

Dayton and North Carolina would square off on one wide while UCLA and Houston would play on the other side. North Carolina had looked rather impressive to this point, but they were not able to hang with Dayton. Dayton headed to the Finals with a 14 point victory.

UCLA was equally dominant over Houston, winning by 15 points to take on Dayton in the National Championship Game.

The National Championship Game would be another testament to the dominance of UCLA in 1967. They easily took out Dayton by a score of 79-64. UCLA was the new National Championship team.

AUTHOR:-
Carmen Cameron writes reviews on various sporting events including the various online sportsbook. In this piece of write up the author wrote about National Basketball Association games. The author takes the readers opinion on how to do NBA Betting online.