The 1967–68 UCLA Bruins men's basketball team won UCLA's fourth 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 R. Wooden with a win over North Carolina

North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball

The North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball program is the intercollegiate men's basketball of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and is considered one of the most successful programs in NCAA history...

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UCLA's 47 game winning streak came to an end in January when the Bruins were beaten by Houston and All-American Elvin Hayes

Elvin Hayes

Elvin Ernest Hayes is a retired American basketball player and radio analyst for Houston Cougars men's basketball, where he played college basketball...

 in the Astrodome 71–69; the game was known as the Game of the Century

Game of the Century (college basketball)

The Game of the Century in college basketball was a historical NCAA game between the University of Houston Cougars and the UCLA Bruins played on January 20, 1968 at the Astrodome in Houston, Texas. It was the first NCAA regular season game broadcast nationwide in prime time...

. The Bruins avenged the loss in a rematch with Houston in the NCAA Final Four

1968 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament

The 1968 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 8, 1968, and ended with the championship game on March 23 in Los Angeles, California...

, by beating the Cougars 101–69 to become the only team to win consecutive NCAA championships twice.

Players

• 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...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Kenny Heitz
• Edgar Lacey
  Edgar Lacey
  Edgar Eddie Lacey was an American basketball player who won two NCAA championships at UCLA, then played one season in the American Basketball Association with the Los Angeles Stars....
  
   (1945–2011)
• Mike Lynn
  Mike Lynn (basketball)
  Michael Edward Lynn is a retired American basketball player. He won two NCAA championships at UCLA, then played two seasons in the National Basketball Association....
  
  
• Jim Nielsen
• Lynn Shackelford
  Lynn Shackelford
  Lynn Shackelford is a retired American professional basketball player.A 6'5" forward, Shackelford played college basketball at the UCLA under legendary coach John Wooden....
  
  
• 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:...
  
  

Lew Alcindor would suffer the first major injury of his athletic career. He suffered a scratched left cornea

Cornea

The cornea is the transparent front part of the eye that covers the iris, pupil, and anterior chamber. Together with the lens, the cornea refracts light, with the cornea accounting for approximately two-thirds of the eye's total optical power. In humans, the refractive power of the cornea is...

 on January 12, 1968 in a game against the California Golden Bears. He got struck by Ted Henderson of Cal in a rebound battle. He would miss the next two games against Stanford and Portland. This happened right before the game against the University of Houston.

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...
  
   (1968
  1968 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament
  The 1968 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 8, 1968, and ended with the championship game on March 23 in Los Angeles, California...
  
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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

Team players drafted into the NBA

Round	Pick	Player	NBA Team
4	45	Mike Lynn	Chicago Bulls
4	49	Edgar Lacy	San Francsisco Warriors
14	180	Mike Warren	Seattle Supersonics

External links

• UCLA Bruins men's basketball official website