The 1966–67 UCLA Bruins men's basketball team won UCLA's third NCAA National Basketball Championship

NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship

The NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship is a single-elimination tournament held each spring in the United States, featuring 68 college basketball teams, to determine the national championship in the top tier of college basketball...

 under head coach John Wooden

John Wooden

John Robert Wooden was an American basketball player and coach. Nicknamed the "Wizard of Westwood", he won ten NCAA national championships in a 12-year period — seven in a row — as head coach at UCLA, an unprecedented feat. Within this period, his teams won a record 88 consecutive games...

 with a win over Dayton

Dayton Flyers men's basketball

The Dayton Flyers men's basketball team is a college basketball program that competes in NCAA Division I and the Atlantic Ten Conference representing the University of Dayton. They are known for a rivalry with Xavier University, playing for the Blackburn/McCafferty Trophy each year.-History:The...

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In the NCAA West Regional at Corvallis

Corvallis, Oregon

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, Oregon

Oregon

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, the Bruins beat Wyoming

Wyoming Cowboys men's basketball

The University of Wyoming men's basketball program, which currently competes in the Mountain West Conference, has a lengthy tradition dating back to 1905. Cowboys fans can claim something that few other teams' fans can: an NCAA Championship, won in 1943 under Hall of Fame coach Everett Shelton and...

 (109–60) and Pacific

Pacific Tigers men's basketball

The University of the Pacific Tigers Mens Basketball team are an NCAA Division I basketball team, part of the Big West conference. The team is based in Stockton, California. They play their home games at Alex G. Spanos Center and are led by head coach Bob Thomason.-NCAA Tournament Results:The...

 (80–64). The Final Four was played in Louisville

Louisville, Kentucky

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, Kentucky

Kentucky

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, where UCLA defeated Houston

Houston Cougars men's basketball

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 (73–58) and Dayton (79–64).

The team was led by starters Lynn Shackelford, Kenny Heitz, Lew Alcindor

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is a retired American professional basketball player. He is the NBA's all-time leading scorer, with 38,387 points. During his career with the NBA's Milwaukee Bucks and Los Angeles Lakers from 1969 to 1989, Abdul-Jabbar won six NBA championships and a record six regular season...

 (now Kareem Abdul-Jabbar), Mike Warren

Michael Warren (actor)

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, and Lucius Allen

Lucius Allen

Lucius Oliver Allen, Jr. is a former professional basketball player. Prior to his NBA career, he became an All-American as part of two of legendary coach John Wooden's UCLA NCAA Championship teams, 1967 and 1968...

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Players

• Don Saffer
• Lucius Allen
  Lucius Allen
  Lucius Oliver Allen, Jr. is a former professional basketball player. Prior to his NBA career, he became an All-American as part of two of legendary coach John Wooden's UCLA NCAA Championship teams, 1967 and 1968...
  
  
• Dick Lynn
• Gene Sutherland
• Mike Warren
  Michael Warren (actor)
  Michael Warren is an American TV actor and former college basketball player, best known for playing Officer Bobby Hill on the NBC television series Hill Street Blues.-College basketball career:...
  
  
• Joe Chrisman
• Lynn Shackelford
• Neville Saner
• Lew Alcindor
  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is a retired American professional basketball player. He is the NBA's all-time leading scorer, with 38,387 points. During his career with the NBA's Milwaukee Bucks and Los Angeles Lakers from 1969 to 1989, Abdul-Jabbar won six NBA championships and a record six regular season...
  
  
• Jim Nielsen
• Ken Heitz
• Bill Sweek

Awards and honors

• Lew Alcindor, NCAA Basketball Tournament MOP
  NCAA Basketball Tournament Most Outstanding Player
  At the conclusion of the NCAA men's and women's Division I basketball championships , the Associated Press selects a Most Outstanding Player. The MOP need not be, but almost always is a member of the Championship team, especially since the third place game was eliminated after 1981...
  
   (1967
  1967 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament
  The 1967 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament involved 23 schools playing in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division I college basketball. It began on March 11, 1967, and ended with the championship game on March 25 in Louisville, Kentucky...
  
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• Lew Alcindor, USBWA College Player of the Year
  Oscar Robertson Trophy
  The Oscar Robertson Trophy is given out annually to outstanding men's college basketball players by the United States Basketball Writers Association . The trophy is considered to be the oldest of its kind and has been given out since 1959...
  
  
• Lew Alcindor, Helms Foundation Player of the Year
  Helms Foundation Player of the Year
  The Helms Foundation College Basketball Player of the Year was an annual basketball award given to the most outstanding intercollegiate men's basketball player in the United States. The award was first given following the 1904–05 season and ceased being awarded after the 1978–79 season...
  
  award
• Lew Alcindor, First Team All-American
• Lew Alcindor, School Record, Most season Points: 870 (1967)
• Lew Alcindor, School Record, Highest season Scoring Average: 29.0 (1967)
• Lew Alcindor, School Record, Most season Field Goals: 346 (1967)
• Lew Alcindor, School Record, Most season Free Throw Attempts: 274 (1967)
• Lew Alcindor, School Record, Most single game field goals: 26 (vs. Washington State, 2/25/67)

External links

• UCLA Bruins men's basketball official website