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The 1990
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involved 64 schools playing in
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play to determine the national champion of
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men's
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. It began on March 15, 1990, and ended with the championship game on April 2 in
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. A total of 63 games were played. UNLV, coached by
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, won the national title with a 103–73 victory in the final game over
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, coached by Mike Krzyzewski. In doing so, UNLV set the NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament record for largest margin of victory in a championship game. UNLV's win marks the last time a school from a non- power conference has won the championship game.
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of UNLV was named the tournament's
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. This tournament is also remembered for an emotional run by Loyola Marymount in the West regional. In the quarterfinals of the
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tournament against the Portland Pilots, Lions star forward Hank Gathers collapsed and died due to a heart condition. The WCC tournament was immediately suspended, with the regular-season champion Lions given the conference's automatic bid. The team defeated New Mexico State, then laid a 34-point thrashing on defending national champion
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, and defeated
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in the Sweet Sixteen (the only game in which Loyola Marymount did not score 100 or more points in the tournament) before running into eventual champion UNLV in the regional final. Gathers' childhood friend Bo Kimble, the team's undisputed floor leader in the wake of the tragedy, paid tribute to his friend by attempting his first free throw in each game left-handed despite being right-handed. (Gathers was right-handed, but struggled so much with free throws that he tried shooting them left-handed for a time.) Kimble made all of his left-handed attempts in the tournament. The tournament employed a new timing system borrowed from
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& the NBA: when the game was played in an NBA arena, the final minute of the period is measured in tenths-seconds, rather than whole seconds as in previous years.


Schedule and venues

The following are the sites that were selected to host each round of the 1990 tournament, and their host(s): First and Second Rounds *March 15 and 17 **East Region ***
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, Hartford, Connecticut (
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) **Midwest Region *** Frank Erwin Center,
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(
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) **Southeast Region *** Thompson–Boling Arena,
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(
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) **West Region *** Jon M. Huntsman Center,
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) *March 16 and 18 **East Region ***
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,
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(
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) **Midwest Region *** Hoosier Dome,
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( Butler/ IUPUI) **Southeast Region *** Richmond Coliseum,
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( Richmond/ VCU) **West Region *** Long Beach Arena,
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( Long Beach State) Regional semifinals and finals (Sweet Sixteen and Elite Eight) *March 22 and 24 **East Regional, Brendan Byrne Arena,
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( Seton Hall) **Midwest Regional, Reunion Arena,
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(
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) *March 23 and 25 **Southeast Regional,
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Oakland–Alameda County Coliseum Arena,
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) National semifinals and championship (Final Four and championship) *March 31 and April 2 ** McNichols Sports Arena,
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) Denver became the 23rd host city, and McNichols Sports Arena the 26th host venue, for the Final Four, the only time it has hosted. Two new cities, Oakland, California and Richmond, Virginia, became host cities in 1990. Games had not been played in the East Bay region since 1958 when Cal's Men's Gym (now Haas Pavilion) hosted; the tournament has returned twice since. Richmond became the third city in Virginia, after Blacksburg and Williamsburg, to host tournament games; like the previous cities it has only hosted twice. Additionally, the tournament returned to Knoxville for the first time since 1983, this time at the new Thompson–Boling Arena. This year also marked the second and, to date, last appearance of the Long Beach Arena in the tournament; with newer, larger venues in Los Angeles and Anaheim, it is unlikely to return soon. Any future tournament games to be played in the San Francisco area would be played at SAP Center or Chase Center & in Denver at the
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.


Teams


Bracket


East Regional – East Rutherford, New Jersey

''* – denotes overtime period''


Regional Final summary


Midwest Regional – Dallas, Texas


Regional Final summary


Southeast Regional – New Orleans, Louisiana

''* – denotes overtime period''


Regional Final summary


West Regional – Oakland, California

''* – denotes overtime period''


Regional Final summary


Final Four – Denver, Colorado


Game summaries


National Championship


Announcers

CBS and NCAA Productions broadcast all tournament games. * Brent Musburger and Billy Packer – First round (Ohio State–Providence) at Salt Lake City, Utah; Second Round at Austin, Texas and Richmond, Virginia; West Regional at Oakland, California; Final Four at Denver, Colorado. Musburger's final games for CBS. * Dick Stockton and Hubie Brown – Second Round at Atlanta, Georgia; East Regional at East Rutherford, New Jersey * James Brown and Bill Raftery – Second Round at Hartford, Connecticut and Indianapolis, Indiana; Midwest Regional at Dallas, Texas *
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and Quinn Buckner – First round (New Mexico State–Loyola-Marymount) and Second Round at Long Beach, California; Southeast Regional at New Orleans, Louisiana * Brad Nessler and Tom Heinsohn – Second Round at Knoxville, Tennessee * Tim Brant and Len Elmore – Second Round at Salt Lake City, Utah * Bob Carpenter and Clark Kellogg – First round (Indiana–California, Clemson–Brigham Young) at Hartford, Connecticut * Mike Gorman and Ron Perry – First round (La Salle–Southern Mississippi) at Hartford, Connecticut * Fred White and Larry Conley – First round (St. John's–Temple, Kansas–Robert Morris) at Atlanta, Georgia * Ralph Hacker and Dan Belluomini – First round (UCLA–UAB) at Atlanta, Georgia * Ron Franklin and
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– First round (North Carolina–SW Missouri State, Arkansas–Princeton) at Austin, Texas * Tom Hammond and Gary Thompson – First round (Georgetown–Texas Southern, Georgia–Texas) at Indianapolis, Indiana * Mick Hubert and Gary Thompson – First round (Xavier–Kansas State) at Indianapolis, Indiana; First round (Arizona–South Florida) at Long Beach, California * Mike Patrick and Dan Bonner – First round (Missouri–Northern Iowa, Syracuse–Coppin State) at Richmond, Virginia * Bob Rathbun and
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– First round (Minnesota–UTEP) at Richmond, Virginia * Bob Rathbun and Mimi Griffin – First round (Virginia–Notre Dame) at Richmond, Virginia * Wayne Larrivee and Bruce Larson – First round (UNLV–Arkansas-Little Rock, Oregon State–Ball State) at Salt Lake City, Utah * John Sanders and Len Elmore – First round (Louisville–Idaho) at Salt Lake City, Utah *
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and Mike Rice – First round (Alabama–Colorado State, Michigan–Illinois State) at Long Beach, California


Tournament notes

* Loyola Marymount's 149–115 win over Michigan set a new tournament record for most combined points (264). * UNLV's 103–73 win over Duke marked the first, (and to date, only), time in the history of the tournament that at least 100 points were scored in the championship game. * UNLV's 571 points over six games set the record for most points scored by a single team in any one year of the tournament. * UNLV is the only team in tournament history to average more than 95 points per game, over six games. In six tournament games, they won three by exactly 30 points, while scoring more than 100 points in each 30-point victory. *UNLV and UCLA in 1965 are the only teams in tournament history to win three games all while scoring at least 100 points in each win. (Loyola Marymount also scored at least 100 points in three games in the 1990 tournament, but lost their last game, where they scored 101 points, to UNLV, by 30 points. UNLV also scored at least 100 points in three victories in the 1977 tournament, but their last one was in the Final Four ''consolation'' game.) * UNLV's 30-point margin of victory in the championship game is also a tournament record. *To date, UNLV remains the last team from a non-power conference ( AAC, ACC, Big East,
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, Pac-12, and SEC) to win the national championship; and the only one since 1977. *The championship game was UNLV’s eleventh-consecutive win. They would eventually run the win streak to an astounding 45 games. That is the fourth-longest win streak in NCAA Division 1 basketball history, and the longest win streak since the longest one ever, by UCLA, ended in 1974.https://www.ncaa.com/news/basketball-men/article/2020-01-19/longest-winning-streaks-college-basketball-history


See also

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1990 NCAA Division II men's basketball tournament The 1990 NCAA Division II men's basketball tournament involved 32 schools playing in a single-elimination tournament to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division II college basketball as a culmination of the 1989-90 NCAA Division II ...
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1990 NCAA Division III men's basketball tournament The 1990 NCAA Division III men's basketball tournament was the 16th annual single-elimination tournament to determine the national champions of National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) men's Division III collegiate basketball in the Unite ...
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1990 NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament The 1990 NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament began on March 11 and ended on April 1. The tournament featured 48 teams. The Final Four consisted of Virginia, Stanford, Auburn, and Louisiana Tech, with Stanford defeating Auburn 76-60 to ...
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NCAA Division II women's basketball tournament The NCAA Division II women's basketball tournament (officially styled as "Championship" instead of "Tournament") is an annual tournament to determine the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division II women's college basketball nati ...
* NCAA Division III women's basketball tournament *
1990 National Invitation Tournament The 1990 National Invitation Tournament was the 1990 edition of the annual NCAA college basketball competition. This tournament adopted the tenths-second game clock in the final minute of every period when played in NBA arenas, unlike whole second ...
* National Women's Invitation Tournament *
1990 NAIA Division I men's basketball tournament The 1990 NAIA men's basketball tournament was held in March at Kemper Arena in Kansas City, Missouri. The 53rd annual NAIA basketball tournament featured 32 teams playing in a single-elimination format. Awards and honors *Leading scorers: *Lead ...
* NAIA Division I women's basketball tournament


References

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