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NCAA Final Four Champion > Cincinnati > 1962 |
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1962 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament Teams 25 Finals Site Freedom Hall Louisville, Kentucky Champions Cincinnati (2nd title) Runner-Up Ohio State (4th title game) Semifinalists UCLA (1st Final Four) Wake Forest (1st Final Four) Winning Coach Ed Jucker (2nd title) MOP Paul Hogue Cincinnati Attendance 177,469 Top scorer Len Chappell Wake Forest (134 points) |
The 1962 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 in the United States. It began on March 12, 1962, and
ended with the championship game on March 24 in Louisville, Kentucky. A total
of 29 games were played, including a third place game in each region and a national
third place game. Cincinnati, coached by Ed Jucker, won the national title with a 71-59 victory in the final game over Ohio State, coached by Fred Taylor. Paul Hogue of Cincinnati was named the tournament's Most Outstanding Player. |
Unanimous three-time All American guard Oscar Robertson led the nation in scoring
during the 1957-58, 1958-59, and 1959-60 seasons and posted a career average of
33.8 points per game, which ranks as the third all-time best in Division I. However, Cincinnati won its only national championships (both against Ohio State) in 1961 and 1962, which were after Robertson's graduation. The 1961 and 1962 titles were won under rookie coach Ed Jucker. |
While Cincinnati's men's basketball squads have been a perennial "bracket team" in
the NCAA tournament, the program's record in tournament play has been inconsistent.
Arguably, the most prolific era in Bearcats basketball was during the late
1950s and early 1960s, when the Bearcats posted five consecutive Final Four
appearances. season. However, his 21-13 record was not enough to convince
the university to retain him on a non-interim basis, and Kennedy was allowed to
go to the University of Mississippi. |
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Cincinnati fell out of prominence during the early 1970s. After a brief resurgence
in the mid-1970s, the program fell on hard times in the 1980s, but was revitalized
under head coach Bob Huggins following his hiring in 1989. Under Huggins,
the Bearcats compiled a 399-127 record in sixteen seasons, and posted fourteen
straight NCAA tournament appearances. The most notable of the teams from the Huggins
era was the 1991-1992 team, which lost to the Michigan Wolverines in the
Final Four. |
