1998 NCAA MEN'S DIVISION I BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT

The '1998 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 12, 1998, and ended with the championship game on March 30 at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas. A total of 63 games were played.
Kentucky, coached by Tubby Smith, won the national title with a 78-69 victory in the final game over Utah, coached by Rick Majerus. Jeff Sheppard of Kentucky was named the tournament's Most Outstanding Player. Kentucky came back from double-digit halftime deficits in each of its last three games in the tournament, leading to the school's fans dubbing the team the "Comeback Cats". This was Kentucky's third straight championship game appearance.

Contents

Locations

Teams

Bids by conference

Bracket

East region

West region

South region

Midwest region

Final Four

External links

Locations

Region	Site	Other Locations
East	Greensboro, North Carolina	Hartford, Connecticut, Washington, District of Columbia
Midwest	St. Louis, Missouri	Chicago, Illinois, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
South	St. Petersburg, Florida	Atlanta, Georgia, Lexington, Kentucky
West	Anaheim, California	Boise, Idaho, Sacramento, California
Finals	San Antonio, Texas

Teams

Region	Seed	Team	Coach	Finished	Final Opponent	Score
'East'
East	1	North Carolina	Bill Guthridge	National Semifinals	3 Utah	L 65-59
East	2	Connecticut	Jim Calhoun	Elite Eight	1 North Carolina	L 75-64
East	3	South Carolina	Eddie Fogler	Round of 64	14 Richmond	L 62-61
East	4	Michigan State	Tom Izzo	Sweet Sixteen	1 North Carolina	L 73-58
East	5	Princeton	Bill Carmody	Round of 32	4 Michigan State	L 63-56
East	6	Xavier	Skip Prosser	Round of 64	11 Washington	L 69-68
East	7	Indiana	Bob Knight	Round of 32	2 Connecticut	L 78-68
East	8	UNC-Charlotte	Melvin Watkins	Round of 32	1 North Carolina	L 93-83
East	9	UI-Chicago	Jimmy Collins	Round of 64	8 UNCC	L 77-62
East	10	Oklahoma	Kelvin Sampson	Round of 64	7 Indiana	L 94-87
East	11	Washington	Bob Bender	Sweet Sixteen	2 Connecticut	L 75-74
East	12	UNLV	Bill Bayno	Round of 64	5 Princeton	L 69-57
East	13	Eastern Michigan	Milton Barnes	Round of 64	4 Michigan State	L 83-71
East	14	Richmond	John Beilein	Round of 32	11 Washington	L 87-66
East	15	Fairleigh Dickinson	Tom Green	Round of 64	2 Connecticut	L 93-85
East	16	Navy	Don DeVoe	Round of 64	1 North Carolina	L 88-52
'Midwest'
Midwest	1	Kansas	Roy Williams	Round of 32	8 Rhode Island	L 80-75
Midwest	2	Purdue	Gene Keady	Sweet Sixteen	3 Stanford	L 67-59
Midwest	3	Stanford	Mike Montgomery	National Semifinals	2 Kentucky	L 86-85
Midwest	4	Mississippi	Rob Evans	Round of 64	13 Valparaiso	L 70-69
Midwest	5	Texas Christian	Billy Tubbs	Round of 64	12 Florida State	L 96-87
Midwest	6	Clemson	Rick Barnes	Round of 64	11 Western Michigan	L 75-72
Midwest	7	St. John's	Fran Fraschilla	Round of 64	10 Detroit	L 66-64
Midwest	8	Rhode Island	Jim Harrick	Elite Eight	3 Stanford	L 79-77
Midwest	9	Murray State	Mark Gottfried	Round of 64	8 Rhode Island	L 97-74
Midwest	10	Detroit	Perry Watson	Round of 32	2 Purdue	L 80-65
Midwest	11	Western Michigan	Bob Donewald	Round of 32	3 Stanford	L 83-65
Midwest	12	Florida State	Steve Robinson	Round of 32	13 Valparaiso	L 83-77
Midwest	13	Valparaiso	Homer Drew	Sweet Sixteen	8 Rhode Island	L 74-68
Midwest	14	College of Charleston	John Kresse	Round of 64	3 Stanford	L 67-57
Midwest	15	Delaware	Mike Brey	Round of 64	2 Purdue	L 95-56
Midwest	16	Prairie View	Elwood Plummer	Round of 64	1 Kansas	L 110-52
'South'
South	1	Duke	Mike Krzyzewski	Elite Eight	2 Kentucky	L 86-84
South	2	Kentucky	Tubby Smith	'Champion'	3 Utah	W 78-69
South	3	Michigan	Brian Ellerbe	Round of 32	6 UCLA	L 85-82
South	4	New Mexico	Dave Bliss	Round of 32	5 Syracuse	L 56-46
South	5	Syracuse	Jim Boeheim	Sweet Sixteen	1 Duke	L 80-67
South	6	UCLA	Steve Lavin	Sweet Sixteen	2 Kentucky	L 94-68
South	7	Massachusetts	Bruiser Flint	Round of 64	10 Saint Louis	L 51-46
South	8	Oklahoma State	Eddie Sutton	Round of 32	1 Duke	L 79-73
South	9	George Washington	Mike Jarvis	Round of 64	8 Oklahoma State	L 74-59
South	10	Saint Louis	Charlie Spoonhour	Round of 32	2 Kentucky	L 88-61
South	11	Miami, Florida	Leonard Hamilton	Round of 64	6 UCLA	L 65-62
South	12	Iona	Tim Welsh	Round of 64	5 Syracuse	L 63-61
South	13	Butler	Barry Collier	Round of 64	4 New Mexico	L 79-62
South	14	Davidson	Bob McKillop	Round of 64	3 Michigan	L 80-61
South	15	South Carolina State	Cy Alexander	Round of 64	2 Kentucky	L 82-67
South	16	Radford	Ron Bradley	Round of 64	1 Duke	L 99-63
'West'
West	1	Arizona	Lute Olson	Elite Eight	3 Utah	L 76-51
West	2	Cincinnati	Bob Huggins	Round of 32	10 West Virginia	L 75-74
West	3	Utah	Rick Majerus	Runner Up	2 Kentucky	L 78-69
West	4	Maryland	Gary Williams	Sweet Sixteen	1 Arizona	L 87-79
West	5	Illinois	Lon Kruger	Round of 32	4 Maryland	L 67-61
West	6	Arkansas	Nolan Richardson	Round of 32	3 Utah	L 75-69
West	7	Temple	John Chaney	Round of 64	10 West Virginia	L 82-52
West	8	Tennessee	Jerry Green	Round of 64	9 Illinois State	L 82-81
West	9	Illinois State	Kevin Stallings	Round of 32	1 Arizona	L 82-49
West	10	West Virginia	Gale Catlett	Sweet Sixteen	3 Utah	L 65-62
West	11	Nebraska	Danny Nee	Round of 64	6 Arkansas	L 74-65
West	12	South Alabama	Bob Weltlich	Round of 64	5 Illinois	L 64-51
West	13	Utah State	Larry Eustachy	Round of 64	4 Maryland	L 82-68
West	14	San Francisco	Phil Mathews	Round of 64	3 Utah	L 85-68
West	15	Northern Arizona	Ben Howland	Round of 64	2 Cincinnati	L 65-62
West	16	Nicholls State	Rickey Broussard	Round of 64	1 Arizona	L 99-60

Bids by conference

Bids by Conference
Bids	Conference(s)
5	Atlantic 10, ACC, Big Ten, Big East, SEC
4	Big 12, Pac-10, WAC
3	C-USA, Horizon
2	Mid-American
1	19 others

Bracket

East region

West region

South region

Midwest region

Final Four

External links

★ 1998 NCAA Basketball Tournament on Shrp Sports (source for the bracket)

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