1995 NCAA MEN'S DIVISION I BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT

The '1995 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament' involved 64 schools playing in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division I college basketball. It began on March 16, 1995, and ended with the championship game on April 3 at the Kingdome in Seattle, Washington. A total of 63 games were played. UCLA, coached by Jim Harrick, won its record 11th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship and its first since the John Wooden era by defeating the University of Arkansas, who came up one game short in their bid to repeat as champions.

Contents

Locations

Teams

Bracket

East region

West region

Southeast region

Midwest region

Final Four

External links

Locations

Region	Site	Other Locations
East	East Rutherford, New Jersey	Albany, New York, Baltimore, Maryland
Midwest	Kansas City, Missouri	Austin, Texas, Dayton, Ohio
Southeast	Birmingham, Alabama	Memphis, Tennessee, Tallahassee, Florida
West	Oakland, California	Boise, Idaho, Salt Lake City, Utah
Finals	Seattle, Washington

Teams

Region	Seed	Team	Coach	Finished	Final Opponent	Score
'West'
West	1	UCLA	Jim Harrick	'Champion'	2 Arkansas	W 89-78
West	2	Connecticut	Jim Calhoun	Elite Eight	1 UCLA	L 102-96
West	3	Maryland	Gary Williams	Sweet Sixteen	2 Connecticut	L 99-89
West	4	Utah	Rick Majerus	Round of 32	5 Mississippi State	L 78-64
West	5	Mississippi State	Richard Williams	Sweet Sixteen	1 UCLA	L 86-67
West	6	Oregon	Jerry Green	Round of 64	11 Texas	L 90-73
West	7	Cincinnati	Bob Huggins	Round of 32	2 Connecticut	L 96-91
West	8	Missouri	Norm Stewart	Round of 32	1 UCLA	L 75-74
West	9	Indiana	Bob Knight	Round of 64	8 Missouri	L 65-60
West	10	Temple	John Chaney	Round of 64	7 Cincinnati	L 77-71
West	11	Texas	Tom Penders	Round of 32	3 Maryland	L 82-68
West	12	Santa Clara	Dick Davey	Round of 64	5 Mississippi State	L 75-67
West	13	Long Beach State	Seth Greenberg	Round of 64	4 Utah	L 76-64
West	14	Gonzaga	Dan Fitzgerald	Round of 64	3 Maryland	L 87-63
West	15	Chattanooga	Mack McCarthy	Round of 64	2 Connecticut	L 100-71
West	16	Florida International	Bob Weltlich	Round of 64	1 UCLA	L 92-56
'Midwest'
Midwest	1	Kansas	Roy Williams	Sweet Sixteen	4 Virginia	L 67-58
Midwest	2	Arkansas	Nolan Richardson	Runner Up	1 UCLA	L 89-78
Midwest	3	Purdue	Gene Keady	Round of 32	6 Memphis	L 75-73
Midwest	4	Virginia	Jeff Jones	Elite Eight	2 Arkansas	L 68-61
Midwest	5	Arizona	Lute Olson	Round of 64	12 Miami, Ohio	L 71-62
Midwest	6	Memphis	Larry Finch	Sweet Sixteen	2 Arkansas	L 96-91
Midwest	7	Syracuse	Jim Boeheim	Round of 32	2 Arkansas	L 96-94
Midwest	8	Western Kentucky	Matt Kilcullen	Round of 32	1 Kansas	L 75-70
Midwest	9	Michigan	Steve Fisher	Round of 64	8 Western Kentucky	L 82-76
Midwest	10	Southern Illinois	Rich Herrin	Round of 64	7 Syracuse	L 96-92
Midwest	11	Louisville	Denny Crum	Round of 64	6 Memphis	L 77-56
Midwest	12	Miami, Ohio	Herb Sendek	Round of 32	4 Virginia	L 60-54
Midwest	13	Nicholls State	Rickey Broussard	Round of 64	4 Virginia	L 96-72
Midwest	14	Wisconsin-Green Bay	Dick Bennett	Round of 64	3 Purdue	L 49-48
Midwest	15	Texas Southern	Robert Moreland	Round of 64	2 Arkansas	L 79-78
Midwest	16	Colgate	Jack Bruen	Round of 64	1 Kansas	L 82-68
'Southeast'
Southeast	1	Kentucky	Rick Pitino	Elite Eight	2 North Carolina	L 74-61
Southeast	2	North Carolina	Dean Smith	National Semifinals	2 Arkansas	L 75-68
Southeast	3	Michigan State	Jud Heathcote	Round of 64	14 Weber State	L 79-72
Southeast	4	Oklahoma	Kelvin Sampson	Round of 64	13 Manhattan	L 77-67
Southeast	5	Arizona State	Bill Frieder	Sweet Sixteen	1 Kentucky	L 97-73
Southeast	6	Georgetown	John Thompson	Sweet Sixteen	2 North Carolina	L 74-64
Southeast	7	Iowa State	Tim Floyd	Round of 32	2 North Carolina	L 73-51
Southeast	8	BYU	Roger Reid	Round of 64	9 Tulane	L 76-70
Southeast	9	Tulane	Perry Clark	Round of 32	1 Kentucky	L 82-60
Southeast	10	Florida	Lon Kruger	Round of 64	7 Iowa State	L 64-61
Southeast	11	Xavier	Skip Prosser	Round of 64	6 Georgetown	L 68-63
Southeast	12	Ball State	Ray McCallum	Round of 64	5 Arizona State	L 81-66
Southeast	13	Manhattan	Fran Fraschilla	Round of 32	5 Arizona State	L 64-54
Southeast	14	Weber State	Ron Abegglen	Round of 32	6 Georgetown	L 53-51
Southeast	15	Murray State	Scott Edgar	Round of 64	2 North Carolina	L 80-70
Southeast	16	Mount St. Mary's	Jim Phelan	Round of 64	1 Kentucky	L 113-67
'East'
East	1	Wake Forest	Dave Odom	Sweet Sixteen	4 Oklahoma State	L 71-66
East	2	Massachusetts	John Calipari	Elite Eight	4 Oklahoma State	L 68-54
East	3	Villanova	Steve Lappas	Round of 64	14 Old Dominion	L 89-81
East	4	Oklahoma State	Eddie Sutton	National Semifinals	1 UCLA	L 74-61
East	5	Alabama	David Hobbs	Round of 32	4 Oklahoma State	L 66-52
East	6	Tulsa	Tubby Smith	Sweet Sixteen	2 Massachusetts	L 76-51
East	7	UNC-Charlotte	Jeff Mullins	Round of 64	10 Stanford	L 70-68
East	8	Minnesota	Clem Haskins	Round of 64	9 Saint Louis	L 64-61
East	9	Saint Louis	Charlie Spoonhour	Round of 32	1 Wake Forest	L 64-59
East	10	Stanford	Mike Montgomery	Round of 32	2 Massachusetts	L 75-53
East	11	Illinois	Lou Henson	Round of 64	6 Tulsa	L 68-62
East	12	Pennsylvania	Fran Dunphy	Round of 64	5 Alabama	L 91-85
East	13	Drexel	Bill Herrion	Round of 64	4 Oklahoma State	L 73-49
East	14	Old Dominion	Jeff Capel	Round of 32	6 Tulsa	L 64-52
East	15	Saint Peter's	Ted Fiore	Round of 64	2 Massachusetts	L 68-51
East	16	North Carolina A&T	Roy Thomas	Round of 64	1 Wake Forest	L 79-47

Bracket

East region

West region

Southeast region

Midwest region

Final Four

External links

★ 1995 NCAA Basketball Tournament on Shrp Sports (source for the bracket)

★ HoopsTournament.Net, source for much of the information on this page.