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1983 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament Teams 52 Finals Site The Pit Albuquerque, New Mexico Champions NC State (2nd title) Runner-Up Houston (1st title game) Semifinalists Georgia (1st Final Four) Louisville (6th Final Four) Winning Coach Jim Valvano (1st title) MOP Akeem Olajuwon Houston Attendance 364,356 Top scorer Dereck Whittenburg NC State (120 points) |
The 1983 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament involved 48 schools playing
in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division
I college basketball. It began on March 2, 1983, and ended with the championship
game on April 4 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. A total of 47 games were played. North Carolina State, coached by Jim Valvano, won the national title with a 54-52 victory in the final game over Houston, coached by Guy Lewis. The ending of the final is one of the most famous in college basketball history, with Lorenzo Charles' dunk at the buzzer off a high, arching alley-oop pass from 30 feet out by Dereck Whittenburg providing the final margin. This contributed to the nickname given to North Carolina State, the "Cardiac Pack", a reference to their often close games that came down to the wire — in fact, the team won 7 of its last 9 games after trailing with a minute left in the game. Both Charles' dunk and Valvano's running around the court in celebration immediately after the game have been staples of NCAA tournament coverage ever since. North Carolina State's victory has often been considered the greatest upset in college basketball history and one of the best in sports history. |
There are also 10 Atlantic Coast Conference titles and seven Southern Conference
Championships belonging to the Wolfpack, the most recent being the 1987 ACC Championship
under Jim Valvano. NCSU's biggest rivalry is with the North Carolina
Tar Heels (See UNC-NCSU rivalry). In 1973 the Wolfpack had a perfect record but
were ineligible for postseason play. The impact of NC State's men's basketball program on college basketball cannot be overstated. |
The NC State Wolfpack Men's basketball program is considered one of the more tradition
packed programs in the history of college basketball. The Wolfpack is coached
by Sidney Lowe and play in the RBC Center, which they moved to in the 1999
season after playing for 50 years in historic Reynolds Coliseum. The program has two NCAA Championships under its belt, one in 1974 under head coach Norm Sloan and one in 1983 under coach Jim Valvano. |
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Everett Case, NC State's Hall of Fame coach, is credited with “bringing basketball
to the South” and accepted as the “grandfather” of the greatest basketball conference
in the country, since Case was the man who had the idea for the ACC and
the ACC Tournament. Case, an Indiana high school basketball coaching legend,
came to NC State and brought with him some top Indiana players. State's rise as
a basketball program forced Duke and North Carolina to up the ante. In 1959, Duke
hired Vic Bubas, a former NC State player and Case's assistant coach, who would
take Duke to 4 ACC Tournament Championships and three appearances in the NCAA
Final Four (in 1963, '64 and '66). |
