1963 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament

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The 1963 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament involved 25 schools playing in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division I college basketball. It began on March 9, 1963, and ended with the championship game on March 23 in Louisville, Kentucky. A total of 29 games were played.

Loyola, Illinois, coached by George Ireland, won the national title with a 60-58 victory in the final game over Cincinnati, coached by Ed Jucker. Art Heyman of Duke was named the tournament's Most Outstanding Player.

Contents 1 Teams 2 Bracket 2.1 East region 2.2 Mideast region 2.3 Midwest region 2.4 West region 2.5 Final Four 3 External links

[edit] Teams

Region	Seed	Team	Coach	Finished	Final Opponent	Score
East
East	n/a	UConn	George Wigton	First round	West Virginia	L 77-71
East	n/a	Duke	Vic Bubas	Third Place	Oregon State	W 85-63
East	n/a	NYU	Lou Rossini	Regional Fourth Place	West Virginia	L 83-73
East	n/a	Pittsburgh	Bob Timmons	First round	NYU	L 93-83
East	n/a	Princeton	Butch van Breda Kolff	First round	Saint Joseph's	L 82-81
East	n/a	Saint Joseph's	Jack Ramsey	Elite Eight	Duke	L 73-59
East	n/a	West Virginia	George King	Regional Third Place	NYU	W 83-73
Mideast
Mideast	n/a	Bowling Green	Harold Anderson	Regional Fourth Place	Illinois	L 70-67
Mideast	n/a	Illinois	Harry Combes	Elite Eight	Loyola, Illinois	L 79-64
Mideast	n/a	Loyola, Illinois	George Ireland	Champion	Cincinnati	W 60-58
Mideast	n/a	Mississippi State	Babe McCarthy	Regional Third Place	Bowling Green	W 65-60
Mideast	n/a	Notre Dame	John Jordan	First round	Bowling Green	L 77-72
Mideast	n/a	Tennessee Tech	Johnny Oldham	First round	Loyola, Illinois	L 111-42
Midwest
Midwest	n/a	Cincinnati	Ed Jucker	Runner Up	Loyola, Illinois	L 60-58
Midwest	n/a	Colorado	Sox Walseth	Elite Eight	Cincinnati	L 67-60
Midwest	n/a	Colorado State	Jim Williams	First round	Oklahoma City	L 70-67
Midwest	n/a	Oklahoma City	Abe Lemons	Regional Fourth Place	Texas	L 90-83
Midwest	n/a	Texas	Harold Bradley	Regional Third Place	Oklahoma City	W 90-83
Midwest	n/a	Texas Western	Don Haskins	First round	Texas	L 65-47
West
West	n/a	Arizona State	Ned Wulk	Elite Eight	Oregon State	L 83-65
West	n/a	Oregon State	Slats Gill	Fourth Place	Duke	L 85-63
West	n/a	San Francisco	Peter Peletta	Regional Third Place	UCLA	W 76-75
West	n/a	Seattle	Clair Markey	First round	Oregon State	L 70-66
West	n/a	UCLA	John Wooden	Regional Fourth Place	San Francisco	L 76-75
West	n/a	Utah State	Ladell Andersen	First round	Arizona State	L 79-75

[edit] Bracket

[edit] East region

	Quarterfinals					Semifinals					Finals
							Duke	81
							NYU	76
		NYU	93
		Pittsburgh	83
												Duke	73
												St Josephs	59
		West Virginia	77
		Connecticut	71
							West Virginia	88
							St Josephs	97
		St Josephs	82
		Princeton	81*

[edit] Mideast region

	Quarterfinals					Semifinals					Finals
							Illinois	70
							Bowling Green	67
		Bowling Green	77
		Notre Dame	72
												Illinois	64
												Loyola-IL	79
							Mississippi State	51
							Loyola-IL	61
		Loyola-IL	111
		Tennessee Tech	42

[edit] Midwest region

	Quarterfinals					Semifinals					Finals
							Colorado	78
							Oklahoma City	72
		Oklahoma City	70
		Colorado State	67
												Colorado	60
												Cincinnati	67
							Cincinnati	73
							Texas	68
		Texas	65
		Texas Western	47

[edit] West region

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Finals

UCLA

79

Arizona State

93

Arizona State

79

Utah State

75*

Arizona State

65

Oregon State

83

San Francisco

61

Oregon State

65

Oregon State

70

Seattle

66

[edit] Final Four

	National Semifinals					National Finals
		Duke	75
		Loyola-IL	94
							Loyola-IL	60
							Cincinnati	58*
		Cincinnati	80
		Oregon State	46

[edit] External links

• 1963 NCAA Basketball Tournament on Shrp Sports (source for the bracket)
• HoopsTournament.Net, source for much of the information on this page.

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