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1986 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament

Edition of USA college basketball tournament

Field	Value
Year	1986
Image	1986 Final Four logo.png
Teams	64
FinalFourArena	Reunion Arena
FinalFourCity	Dallas, Texas
Champions	Louisville Cardinals
TitleCount	2nd
ChampGameCount	2nd
ChampFFCount	7th
RunnerUp	Duke Blue Devils
GameCount	3rd
RunnerFFCount	5th
Semifinal1	Kansas Jayhawks
FinalFourCount	7th
Semifinal2	LSU Tigers
FinalFourCount2	3rd
Coach	Denny Crum
CoachCount	2nd
MOP	Pervis Ellison
MOPTeam	Louisville
Attendance	499,704
TopScorer	Johnny Dawkins
TopScorerTeam	Duke
Points	153

The 1986 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament involved 64 schools playing in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division I college basketball. The 48th annual edition of the tournament began on March 13, 1986, and ended with the championship game on March 31, at Reunion Arena in Dallas, Texas. A total of 63 games were played.

Louisville, coached by Denny Crum, won the national title with a 72–69 victory in the final game over Duke, coached by Mike Krzyzewski. Pervis Ellison of Louisville was named the tournament's Most Outstanding Player. Louisville became the first team from outside a power conference to win the championship since the expansion to 64 teams, and remains one of only two teams to do so (the other team was UNLV in 1990).

The 1986 NCAA Men's Basketball Championship Tournament was the first tournament to use a shot clock limiting the amount of time for any one offensive possession by a team prior to taking a shot at the basket. Beginning with the 1986 tournament, the shot clock was set at 45 seconds, which it would remain until being shortened to 35 seconds beginning in the 1994 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament, and further shortened to 30 seconds (the same as NCAA women's basketball) starting with the 2016 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament. The 1986 tournament was also the last to not feature the three-point shot.

LSU's 1985–86 team is tied for the lowest-seeded team (#11) to ever make the Final Four with the 2005–06 George Mason Patriots, the 2010–11 VCU Rams, the 2017–18 Loyola-Chicago Ramblers, the 2020–21 UCLA Bruins, and the 2023-24 NC State Wolfpack. As of 2018, they are the only team in tournament history to beat the top 3 seeds from their region. LSU began its run to the Final Four by winning two games on its home court, the LSU Assembly Center, leading to a change two years later which prohibited teams from playing NCAA tournament games on a court which they have played four or more games in the regular season. Cleveland State University became the first #14 seed to reach the Sweet Sixteen, losing to their fellow underdog, Navy, by a single point. This was also the first year in which two #14 seeds reached the second round in the same year, as Arkansas-Little Rock beat #3-seed Notre Dame; however, they lost their second-round game in overtime. Both feats have only occurred one other time. Chattanooga reached the Sweet Sixteen as a 14-seed in 1997, and Old Dominion and Weber State both reached the second round as 14-seeds in 1995.

Every regional final featured a #1 or #2 seed playing a team seeded #6 or lower. The lone #1 seed to not reach the Elite Eight, St. John's (West), was knocked out in the second round by #8 Auburn, which lost to #2 Louisville in the regional final.

It can be argued that these upsets by the 14-seeds launched the NCAA tournament's reputation for having unknown teams surprise well-known basketball powers, and both happened on the same day. Indiana's stunning loss to Cleveland State would be part of the climax in the best-selling book A Season On The Brink.

Another story of the tournament was when Navy reached the Elite 8 thanks to stunning performances by David Robinson. This tournament had no Pac 10 teams advance beyond the round of 64. This did not occur again until 2018.

Schedule and venues

The following are the sites that were selected to host each round of the 1986 tournament:

First and Second Rounds

March 13 and 15
- East Region
  - Greensboro Coliseum, Greensboro, North Carolina (Host: Atlantic Coast Conference)
- Midwest Region
  - University of Dayton Arena, Dayton, Ohio (Host: University of Dayton)
- Southeast Region
  - LSU Assembly Center, Baton Rouge, Louisiana (Host: Louisiana State University)
- West Region
  - Dee Events Center, Ogden, Utah (Host: Weber State University)
March 14 and 16
- East Region
  - Carrier Dome, Syracuse, New York (Host: Syracuse University)
- Midwest Region
  - Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome, Minneapolis, Minnesota (Host: University of Minnesota)
- Southeast Region
  - Charlotte Coliseum, Charlotte, North Carolina (Host: University of North Carolina at Charlotte)
- West Region
  - Long Beach Arena, Long Beach, California (Host: Long Beach State University)

Regional semifinals and finals (Sweet Sixteen and Elite Eight)

March 20 and 22
- Southeast Regional, Omni Coliseum, Atlanta, Georgia (Host: Georgia Tech)
- West Regional, The Summit, Houston, Texas (Hosts: University of Houston, Rice University)
March 21 and 23
- East Regional, Brendan Byrne Arena, East Rutherford, New Jersey (Hosts: Seton Hall University, Big East Conference)
- Midwest Regional, Kemper Arena, Kansas City, Missouri (Host: Big 8 Conference)

National semifinals and championship (Final Four and championship)

March 29 and 31
- Reunion Arena, Dallas, Texas (Host: Southwest Conference)

Teams

Region	Seed	Team	Coach	Conference	Finished	Final opponent	Score
West	1	St. John's	Lou Carnesecca	Big East	Round of 32	8 Auburn	L 81–65
West	2	Louisville	Denny Crum	Metro	Champion	1 Duke	W 72–69
West	3	North Carolina	Dean Smith	Atlantic Coast	Sweet Sixteen	2 Louisville	L 94–79
West	4	UNLV	Jerry Tarkanian	Pacific Coast	Sweet Sixteen	8 Auburn	L 70–63
West	5	Maryland	Lefty Driesell	Atlantic Coast	Round of 32	4 UNLV	L 70–64
West	6	UAB	Gene Bartow	Sun Belt	Round of 32	3 North Carolina	L 77–59
West	7	Bradley	Dick Versace	Missouri Valley	Round of 32	2 Louisville	L 82–68
West	8	Auburn	Sonny Smith	Southeastern	Regional Runner-up	2 Louisville	L 84–76
West	9	Arizona	Lute Olson	Pacific-10	Round of 64	8 Auburn	L 73–63
West	10	UTEP	Don Haskins	Western Athletic	Round of 64	7 Bradley	L 83–65
West	11	Missouri	Norm Stewart	Big Eight	Round of 64	6 UAB	L 66–64
West	12	Pepperdine	Jim Harrick	West Coast	Round of 64	5 Maryland	L 69–64
West	13	Northeast Louisiana	Mike Vining	Southland	Round of 64	4 UNLV	L 74–51
West	14	Utah	Lynn Archibald	Western Athletic	Round of 64	3 North Carolina	L 84–72
West	15	Drexel	Eddie Burke	East Coast	Round of 64	2 Louisville	L 93–73
West	16	Montana State	Stu Starner	Big Sky	Round of 64	1 St. John's	L 83–74
Midwest	1	Kansas	Larry Brown	Big Eight	National semifinals	1 Duke	L 71–67
Midwest	2	Michigan	Bill Frieder	Big Ten	Round of 32	7 Iowa State	L 72–69
Midwest	3	Notre Dame	Digger Phelps	Independent	Round of 64	14 Arkansas–Little Rock	L 90–83
Midwest	4	Georgetown	John Thompson	Big East	Round of 32	5 Michigan State	L 80–68
Midwest	5	Michigan State	Jud Heathcote	Big Ten	Sweet Sixteen	1 Kansas	L 96–86
Midwest	6	NC State	Jim Valvano	Atlantic Coast	Regional Runner-up	1 Kansas	L 75–67
Midwest	7	Iowa State	Johnny Orr	Big Eight	Sweet Sixteen	6 NC State	L 70–66
Midwest	8	Jacksonville	Bob Wenzel	Sun Belt	Round of 64	9 Temple	L 61–50
Midwest	9	Temple	John Chaney	Atlantic 10	Round of 32	1 Kansas	L 65–43
Midwest	10	Miami (OH)	Jerry Peirson	Mid-American	Round of 64	7 Iowa State	L 81–79
Midwest	11	Iowa	George Raveling	Big Ten	Round of 64	6 NC State	L 66–64
Midwest	12	Washington	Andy Russo	Pacific-10	Round of 64	5 Michigan State	L 72–70
Midwest	13	Texas Tech	Gerald Myers	Southwest	Round of 64	4 Georgetown	L 70–64
Midwest	14		Mike Newell	Trans America	Round of 32	6 NC State	L 80–66
Midwest	15	Akron	Bob Huggins	Ohio Valley	Round of 64	2 Michigan	L 70–64
Midwest	16	North Carolina A&T	Don Corbett	Mid-Eastern	Round of 64	1 Kansas	L 71–46
Southeast	1	Kentucky	Eddie Sutton	Southeastern	Regional Runner-up	11 LSU	L 59–57
Southeast	2	Georgia Tech	Bobby Cremins	Atlantic Coast	Sweet Sixteen	11 LSU	L 70–64
Southeast	3	Memphis State (Vacated)	Dana Kirk	Metro	Round of 32	11 LSU	L 83–81
Southeast	4	Illinois	Lou Henson	Big Ten	Round of 32	5 Alabama	L 58–56
Southeast	5	Alabama	Wimp Sanderson	Southeastern	Sweet Sixteen	1 Kentucky	L 68–63
Southeast	6	Purdue	Gene Keady	Big Ten	Round of 64	11 LSU	L 94–87
Southeast	7	Virginia Tech	Charles Moir	Metro	Round of 64	10 Villanova	L 71–62
Southeast	8	Western Kentucky	Clem Haskins	Sun Belt	Round of 32	1 Kentucky	L 71–64
Southeast	9	Nebraska	Moe Iba	Big Eight	Round of 64	8 Western Kentucky	L 67–59
Southeast	10	Villanova	Rollie Massimino	Big East	Round of 32	2 Georgia Tech	L 66–61
Southeast	11	LSU	Dale Brown	Southeastern	National semifinals	2 Louisville	L 88–77
Southeast	12	Xavier	Pete Gillen	Midwestern	Round of 64	5 Alabama	L 97–80
Southeast	13	Fairfield	Mitch Buonaguro	Metro Atlantic	Round of 64	4 Illinois	L 75–51
Southeast	14	Ball State	Al Brown	Mid-American	Round of 64	3 Memphis State	L 95–63
Southeast	15	Marist	Matt Furjanic	ECAC Metro	Round of 64	2 Georgia Tech	L 68–53
Southeast	16	Davidson	Bobby Hussey	Southern	Round of 64	1 Kentucky	L 75–55
East	1	Duke	Mike Krzyzewski	Atlantic Coast	Runner Up	2 Louisville	L 72–69
East	2	Syracuse	Jim Boeheim	Big East	Round of 32	7 Navy	L 97–85
East	3	Indiana	Bob Knight	Big Ten	Round of 64	14 Cleveland State	L 83–79
East	4	Oklahoma	Billy Tubbs	Big Eight	Round of 32	12 DePaul	L 74–69
East	5	Virginia	Terry Holland	Atlantic Coast	Round of 64	12 DePaul	L 72–68
East	6	Saint Joseph's	Jim Boyle	Atlantic 10	Round of 32	14 Cleveland State	L 75–69
East	7	Navy	Paul Evans	Colonial	Regional Runner-up	1 Duke	L 71–50
East	8	Old Dominion	Tom Young	Sun Belt	Round of 32	1 Duke	L 89–61
East	9	West Virginia	Gale Catlett	Atlantic 10	Round of 64	8 Old Dominion	L 72–64
East	10	Tulsa	J. D. Barnett	Missouri Valley	Round of 64	7 Navy	L 87–68
East	11	Richmond	Dick Tarrant	Colonial	Round of 64	6 Saint Joseph's	L 60–59
East	12	DePaul	Joey Meyer	Independent	Sweet Sixteen	1 Duke	L 74–67
East	13	Northeastern	Jim Calhoun	ECAC North	Round of 64	4 Oklahoma	L 80–74
East	14	Cleveland State	Kevin Mackey	Mid-Continent	Sweet Sixteen	7 Navy	L 71–70
East	15	Brown	Mike Cingiser	Ivy League	Round of 64	2 Syracuse	L 101–52
East	16		Lafayette Stribling	Southwest Athletic	Round of 64	1 Duke	L 85–78

Bracket

East Regional – East Rutherford, New Jersey

Midwest Regional – Kansas City, Missouri

Southeast Regional – Atlanta, Georgia

Memphis State was forced to vacate its NCAA tournament appearance after a massive gambling scandal and a criminal investigation into head coach Dana Kirk. Unlike forfeiture, a vacated game does not result in the other school being credited with a win, only with Memphis removing the wins from its own record.

West Regional – Houston, Texas

Final Four – Dallas, Texas

Final Four Officials

Joe Forte (LSU-Louisville)
Dick Paparo (LSU-Louisville)
Lenny Wirtz (LSU-Louisville)
Paul Galvan (Kansas-Duke)
John Clougherty (Kansas-Duke)
Tom Fincken (Kansas-Duke)
Hank Nichols (Louisville-Duke)
Pete Pavia (Louisville-Duke)
Don Rutledge (Louisville-Duke)

The 1986 Final Four was the first in which the NCAA assigned a separate three-man crew for the championship game. Previously, three of the six officials from the semifinals were melded into a crew for the championship.

The championship game was the last for future Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame inductee Hank Nichols, who became the NCAA's national supervisor of officials. The Louisville-Duke matchup was Nichols' sixth championship game assignment.

Announcers

Studio Hosts:

CBS: Brent Musburger (First and Second Rounds), and Jim Nantz (Regional Semifinals to National Championship Game)

ESPN: Bob Ley and Dick Vitale

Brent Musburger and Billy Packer – West Regional semifinal (Louisville–North Carolina) and Regional Final at Houston, Texas; Final Four at Dallas, Texas
Gary Bender and Doug Collins – second round at Syracuse, New York and Dayton, Ohio; East Regional at East Rutherford, New Jersey
Dick Stockton and Larry Conley – Southeast Regional at Atlanta, Georgia
Verne Lundquist and James Brown – Midwest Regional semifinal (Kansas–Michigan State) and Regional Final at Kansas City, Missouri
Fred White and Gary Thompson – Midwest Regional semifinal (N.C. State–Iowa State) at Kansas City, Missouri
Tom Hammond and Irv Brown – West Regional semifinal (UNLV–Auburn) at Houston, Texas
Jim Nantz and Bill Raftery – second round at Greensboro, North Carolina
Mike Patrick and James Brown – second round at Charlotte, North Carolina
Dick Stockton and Billy Packer – first round (North Carolina–Utah) at Ogden, Utah; Second Round at Baton Rouge, Louisiana and Minneapolis, Minnesota
Tim Ryan and Lynn Shackleford – second round at Ogden, Utah
Verne Lundquist and Larry Conley – first round (Auburn–Arizona) and Second Round (St. John's–Auburn) at Long Beach, California
Mike Walden and Larry Conley – first round (Maryland–Pepperdine) and Second Round (UNLV–Maryland) at Long Beach, California
Bob Rathbun and Bucky Waters – first round (Oklahoma–Northeastern) at Greensboro, North Carolina
Ralph Hacker and Dan Bonner – first round (Indiana–Cleveland State, Navy–Tulsa) at Syracuse, New York
Mike Patrick and Irv Brown – first round (Illinois–Fairfield, Kentucky–Davidson) at Charlotte, North Carolina
Jim Thacker and Dave Gavitt – first round (Western Kentucky–Nebraska) at Charlotte, North Carolina
Tom Hammond and Billy Cunningham – first round (Georgetown–Texas Tech) at Dayton, Ohio
Frank Herzog and Gary Thompson – first round (N.C. State–Iowa) at Minneapolis, Minnesota
Frank Fallon and Bob Ortegel – first round (Bradley–UTEP) at Ogden, Utah
Bob Carpenter and Joe Dean – first round (LSU-Purdue) at Baton Rouge, Louisiana

References

Wittry, Andy. (May 8, 2020). "1986 NCAA tournament: Bracket, scores, stats, rounds".
Fagan, Ryan. (March 15, 2019). "Ranking the top 80 upsets in March Madness history".
(June 24, 1985). "TROUBLED TIMES AT MEMPHIS STATE". Sports Illustrated.
Mauro, Patrick. (August 22, 2009). "The NCAA's Toothless Punishment Of Memphis".

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