The 1964–65 UCLA Bruins men's basketball team won its second
NCAA national championship under head coach
John Wooden
John Robert Wooden (October 14, 1910 – June 4, 2010) was an American basketball coach and player. Nicknamed "the Wizard of Westwood", he won ten National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament, nati ...
.
At
Memorial Coliseum in
Portland, Oregon
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, the #2 Bruins successfully defended their national title with a 91–80 win over top-ranked
Michigan
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before 13,204.
Gail Goodrich
Gail Charles Goodrich Jr. (born April 23, 1943) is an American former professional basketball player in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He is best known for scoring a then record 42 points for UCLA in the 1965 NCAA championship game vs ...
's 42 points and
Kenny Washington's 17 points helped UCLA to become the fifth team to win consecutive championships. Wooden liked Goodrich for his "poise, quickness and speed."
After dropping the season opener at
Illinois
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in early December, the Bruins finished the season with a 28–2 record, winning the last fifteen games and scoring a team record of 400 points in the four tournament games. Brigham Young, San Francisco, and
Wichita State
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were also eliminated by the Bruins.
This was Wooden's 17th season at UCLA.
Roster
Schedule
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Regular Season
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Notes
* UCLA began the season ranked first in
both major polls.
* Half time score of the championship game was UCLA 47, Michigan 34.
* UCLA hit .569 of its shots, while Michigan hit .516.
* Gail Goodrich was a first team
All-American
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References
External links
1964–65 UCLA Bruinsat Sports-Reference.com
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UCLA Bruins men's basketball seasons
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NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament Final Four seasons
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The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California, United States. Its academic roots were established in 1881 as a normal school then known as the southern branch of the C ...
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The UCLA Bruins are the athletic teams that represent the University of California, Los Angeles. The Bruin men's and women's teams participate in NCAA Division I as part of the Big Ten Conference and the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation (MPSF ...
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