2001 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournamentThe 2001 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament involved 65 schools playing in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division Icollege basketball for the 2000–01 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The 63rd annual edition of the tournament began on March 13, 2001, with the play-in game, and ended with the championship game on April 2, 2001, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, at the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome.
NCAA Division I men's basketball tournamentThe NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament, branded as March Madness, or The Big Dance, is a single-elimination tournament played in the United States to determine the men's college basketball national champion of the Division I level in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). Played mostly during March, the tournament was first conducted in 1939 and currently consists of 76 teams.
1984 NCAA Division I men's basketball championship gameDateApril 2, 1984VenueKingdome, Seattle, WashingtonMVPPatrick Ewing, GeorgetownFavoriteGeorgetownAttendance38,471United States TV coverageNetworkCBSAnnouncersGary Bender (play-by-play)Billy Packer (color)← 19831985 →The 1984 NCAA Division I men's basketball championship game was the finals of the 1984 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament and it determined the national champion for the 1983-84 NCAA Division I men's basketball season The game was played on April 2, 1984, at the Kingdome in Seattle, Washington, and featured the West Regional Champion, #1-seeded Georgetown and the Midwest Regional Champion, #2-seeded Houston.
Guy LewisGuy Vernon Lewis II (March 19, 1922 – November 26, 2015) was an American basketball player and coach. He served as the head men's basketball coach at the University of Houston from 1956 to 1986. Lewis led his Houston Cougars to five appearances in the Final Four of the NCAA tournament, in 1967, 1968, 1982, 1983, and 1984. His 1980s teams, nicknamed Phi Slama Jama for their slam dunks, were runners-up for the national championship in back-to-back seasons in 1983 and 1984.
KingdomeThe Kingdome (officially the King County Stadium) was a multi-purpose stadium located in the Industrial District (later SoDo) neighborhood of Seattle, Washington, United States.
SeattleCity in Washington, United StatesCity in Washington, United StatesSeattle ( ) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Washington and the Pacific Northwest region of North America. It is the 18th-most populous city in the United States with a population of 784,777 in 2025, while the Seattle metropolitan area at over 4.15 million residents is the 15th-most populous metropolitan area in the nation.
1983–84 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball teamThe 1983–84 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team represented Georgetown University in the 1983–84 NCAA Division I college basketball season. John Thompson coached them in his 12th season as head coach.
Single-elimination tournamentA single-elimination knockout, or sudden-death tournament is a type of elimination tournament where the loser of a match-up is immediately eliminated from the tournament. Each winner will play another in the next round, until the final match-up, whose winner becomes the tournament champion(s). Some match-ups may be a single match or several, for example two-legged ties in European sports or best-of series in North American pro sports.
College basketballCollege basketball is basketball that is played by teams of student-athletes at universities and colleges.
John Thompson (basketball)John Robert Thompson Jr. (September 2, 1941 – August 30, 2020) was an American professional basketball player and college basketball coach for the Georgetown Hoyas men's team. He became the first African-American head coach to win a major collegiate championship in basketball when he led the Hoyas to the NCAA Division I national championship in 1984. Thompson was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame and National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame.1983–84 Houston Cougars men's basketball teamThe 1983–84 Houston Cougars men's basketball team represented the University of Houston during the 1983–84 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The head coach was Guy Lewis. The team played its home games in the Hofheinz Pavilion in Houston, Texas, and was then a member of the Southwest Conference. The third of Houston's famous Phi Slama Jama teams, this squad was led by Michael Young, Alvin Franklin, and future Hall of Famer Akeem Olajuwon.
NCAA Division IHighest division of the National Collegiate Athletic AssociationNCAA Division I logoNCAA Division I (D-I) is the highest division of intercollegiate athletics sanctioned by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) in the United States, which accepts players globally.*As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.