1966–67 UCLA Bruins men's basketball team

Los Angeles Classic,
AAWU Conference Championship

NCAA National Championship Game
vs. Dayton, W, 79–64

Conference

Ranking

Coaches

1966–67 record

30–0 (14–0 Pac-8)

Head coach

Assistant coach

Jerry Norman

Home arena

Seasons

The 1966–67 UCLA Bruins men's basketball team won UCLA's third NCAA National Basketball Championship under head coach John Wooden with a win over Dayton.

In the NCAA West Regional at Corvallis, Oregon, the Bruins beat Wyoming (109–60) and Pacific (80–64). The Final Four was played in Louisville, Kentucky, where UCLA defeated Houston (73–58) and Dayton (79–64)^[1].

The team was led by starters Lynn Shackelford, Kenny Heitz, Lew Alcindor (now Kareem Abdul-Jabbar), Mike Warren, and Lucius Allen.

Players

UCLA won the L.A. Classic by defeating Wisconsin, Georgia Tech, and USC.
Bruins' third national championship in four years.
The dunk was banned in college basketball after the season, primarily because of Alcindor's dominant use of the shot.^[2]^[3]

Lew Alcindor, NCAA Basketball Tournament MOP (1967)
Lew Alcindor, USBWA College Player of the Year ^[4]
Lew Alcindor, Helms Foundation Player of the Year 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)

^ UCLA History, UCLA Men's Basketball Media Guild 2008
^ Scavone, Daniel C (2002) [1992]. Dawson, Dawn P. ed. Great Athletes. 1 (Revised ed.). Salem Press. pp. 7–10. ISBN 1-58765-008-8.
^ Lew's Still Loose. Time Magazine, April 14, 1967. Quote:First there was the Wilt Chamberlain Rule, designed to force him away from the basket by widening the "3-sec. zone," in which an offensive player can remain for only 3 sec. at a time. Next came the Bill Russell Rule, which forbids blocking a shot when the ball is on its downward course. Now there is the Lew Alcindor Rule. College basketball's rules makers decided last week that players may no longer "dunk" or "stuff" the ball by ramming it through the hoop from directly above.
^ http://www.sportswriters.net/usbwa/awards/robertson/index.html

UCLA Bruins Men's Basketball 1966–67 NCAA Champions

22 Kenny Heitz 33 Lew Alcindor (MOP) 42 Lucius Allen 44 Mike Warren 53 Lynn Shackelford Head Coach John Wooden

UCLA Bruins men's basketball seasons

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Bold denotes national championship, Italic denotes final four appearance