Men's NCAA® Basketball Tournament Bracket History

Year	Winner	Score	Runner-Up	Third Place	Fourth Place	Location	Most Outstanding Player	Winning Coach
2025						San Antonio
2024	UConn (37-3)	75-60	Purdue	*Alabama	*NC State	Phoenix	Tristen Newton	Dan Hurley
2023	UConn (31-8)	76-59	San Diego St.	*Miami (FL)	*Florida Atlantic	Houston	Adama Sanogo	Dan Hurley
2022	Kansas (34-6)	72-69	North Carolina	*Villanova	*Duke	New Orleans	Ochai Agbaji	Bill Self
2021	Baylor (28-2)	86-70	Gonzaga	*Houston	*UCLA	Indianapolis	Jared Butler	Scott Drew
2020	Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic
2019	Virginia (35-3)	85-77 (OT)	Texas Tech	*Auburn	*Michigan St.	Minneapolis	Kyle Guy	Tony Bennett
2018	Villanova (36-4)	79-62	Michigan	*Kansas	*Loyola-Chicago	San Antonio	Donte DiVincenzo	Jay Wright
2017	North Carolina (33-7)	71-65	Gonzaga	*Oregon	*South Carolina	Phoenix	Joel Berry II	Roy Williams
2016	Villanova (35-5)	77-74	North Carolina	*Oklahoma	*Syracuse	Houston	Ryan Arcidiacono	Jay Wright
2015	Duke (35-4)	68-63	Wisconsin	*Michigan St.	*Kentucky	Indianapolis	Tyus Jones	Mike Krzyzewski
2014	UConn (32-8)	60-54	Kentucky	*Florida	*Wisconsin	Arlington, TX	Shabazz Napier	Kevin Ollie
2013	†Louisville (35-5)	82-76	Michigan	*Wichita St.	*Syracuse	Atlanta	Luke Hancock	†Rick Pitino
2012	Kentucky (38-2)	67-59	Kansas	Ohio St.	†Louisville	New Orleans	Anthony Davis	John Calipari
2011	UConn (32-9)	53-41	Butler	*Kentucky	*VCU	Houston	Kemba Walker	Jim Calhoun
2010	Duke (35-5)	61-59	Butler	*West Virginia	*Michigan St.	Indianapolis	Kyle Singler	Mike Krzyzewski
2009	North Carolina (34-4)	89-72	Michigan St.	*Villanova	*UConn	Detroit	Wayne Ellington	Roy Williams
2008	Kansas (37-3)	75-68 (OT)	†Memphis	*North Carolina	*UCLA	San Antonio	Mario Chalmers	Bill Self
2007	Florida (35-5)	84-75	Ohio St.	*UCLA	*Georgetown	Atlanta	Corey Brewer	Billy Donovan
2006	Florida (33-6)	73-57	UCLA	*George Mason	*LSU	Indianapolis	Joakim Noah	Billy Donovan
2005	North Carolina (33-4)	75-70	Illinois	*Michigan St.	*Louisville	St. Louis	Sean May	Roy Williams
2004	UConn (33-6)	82-73	Georgia Tech	*Duke	*Oklahoma St.	San Antonio	Emeka Okafor	Jim Calhoun
2003	Syracuse (30-5)	81-78	Kansas	*Texas	*Marquette	New Orleans	Carmelo Anthony	Jim Boeheim
2002	Maryland (32-4)	64-52	Indiana	*Kansas	*Oklahoma	Atlanta	Juan Dixon	Gary Williams
2001	Duke (35-4)	82-72	Arizona	*Maryland	*Michigan St.	Minneapolis	Shane Battier	Mike Krzyzewski
2000	Michigan St. (32-7)	89-76	Florida	*Wisconsin	*North Carolina	Indianapolis	Mateen Cleaves	Tom Izzo
1999	UConn (34-2)	77-74	Duke	Michigan St.	†Ohio St.	St. Petersburg, FL	Richard Hamilton	Jim Calhoun
1998	Kentucky (35-4)	78-69	Utah	*Stanford	*North Carolina	San Antonio	Jeff Sheppard	Tubby Smith
1997	Arizona (25-9)	84-79 (OT)	Kentucky	North Carolina	†Minnesota	Indianapolis	Miles Simon	Lute Olson
1996	Kentucky (34-2)	76-67	Syracuse	Mississippi St.	†UMass	East Rutherford, NJ	Tony Delk	Rick Pitino
1995	UCLA (31-2)	89-78	Arkansas	*Oklahoma St.	*North Carolina	Seattle	Ed O'Bannon	Jim Harrick
1994	Arkansas (31-3)	76-72	Duke	*Arizona	*Florida	Charlotte, NC	Corliss Williamson	Nolan Richardson
1993	North Carolina (34-4)	77-71	†Michigan	*Kansas	*Kentucky	New Orleans	Donald Williams	Dean Smith
1992	Duke (34-2)	71-51	†Michigan	*Indiana	*Cincinnati	Minneapolis	Bobby Hurley	Mike Krzyzewski
1991	Duke (32-7)	72-65	Kansas	*UNLV	*North Carolina	Indianapolis	Christian Laettner	Mike Krzyzewski
1990	UNLV (35-5)	103-73	Duke	*Georgia Tech	*Arkansas	Denver	Anderson Hunt	Jerry Tarkanian
1989	Michigan (30-7)	80-79 (OT)	Seton Hall	*Illinois	*Duke	Seattle	Glen Rice	Steve Fisher
1988	Kansas (27-11)	83-79	Oklahoma	*Duke	*Arizona	Kansas City, MO	Danny Manning	Larry Brown
1987	Indiana (30-4)	74-73	Syracuse	*UNLV	*Providence	New Orleans	Keith Smart	Bob Knight
1986	Louisville (32-7)	72-69	Duke	*LSU	*Kansas	Dallas	Pervis Ellison	Denny Crum
1985	Villanova (25-10)	66-64	Georgetown	St. John's (NY)	†Memphis St.	Lexington, KY	Ed Pinckney	Rollie Massimino
1984	Georgetown (34-3)	84-75	Houston	*Kentucky	*Virginia	Seattle	Patrick Ewing	John Thompson
1983	NC State (26-10)	54-52	Houston	*Georgia	*Louisville	Albuquerque, NM	Akeem Olajuwon	Jim Valvano
1982	North Carolina (32-2)	63-62	Georgetown	*Houston	*Louisville	New Orleans	James Worthy	Dean Smith
1981	Indiana (26-9)	63-50	North Carolina	Virginia	LSU	Philadelphia	Isiah Thomas	Bob Knight
1980	Louisville (33-3)	59-54	†UCLA	Purdue	Iowa	Indianapolis	Darrell Griffith	Denny Crum
1979	Michigan St. (26-6)	75-64	Indiana St.	DePaul	Pennsylvania	Salt Lake City	Earvin Johnson	Jud Heathcote
1978	Kentucky (30-2)	94-88	Duke	Arkansas	Notre Dame	St. Louis	Jack Givens	Joe Hall
1977	Marquette (25-7)	67-59	North Carolina	UNLV	UNC Charlotte	Atlanta	Butch Lee	Al McGuire
1976	Indiana (32-0)	86-68	Michigan	UCLA	Rutgers	Philadelphia	Kent Benson	Bob Knight
1975	UCLA (28-3)	92-85	Kentucky	Louisville	Syracuse	San Diego	Richard Washington	John Wooden
1974	NC State (30-1)	76-64	Marquette	UCLA	Kansas	Greensboro, NC	David Thompson	Norm Sloan
1973	UCLA (30-0)	87-66	Memphis St.	Indiana	Providence	St. Louis	Bill Walton	John Wooden
1972	UCLA (30-0)	81-76	Florida St.	North Carolina	Louisville	Los Angeles	Bill Walton	John Wooden
1971	UCLA (29-1)	68-62	†Villanova	†Western Ky.	Kansas	Houston	†Howard Porter	John Wooden
1970	UCLA (28-2)	80-69	Jacksonville	New Mexico St.	St. Bonaventure	College Park, MD	Sidney Wicks	John Wooden
1969	UCLA (29-1)	92-72	Purdue	Drake	North Carolina	Louisville, KY	Lew Alcindor	John Wooden
1968	UCLA (29-1)	78-55	North Carolina	Ohio St.	Houston	Los Angeles	Lew Alcindor	John Wooden
1967	UCLA (30-0)	79-64	Dayton	Houston	North Carolina	Louisville, KY	Lew Alcindor	John Wooden
1966	Texas Western (28-1)	72-65	Kentucky	Duke	Utah	College Park, MD	Jerry Chambers	Don Haskins
1965	UCLA (28-2)	91-80	Michigan	Princeton	Wichita St.	Portland, OR	Bill Bradley	John Wooden
1964	UCLA (30-0)	98-83	Duke	Michigan	Kansas St.	Kansas City, MO	Walt Hazzard	John Wooden
1963	Loyola-Chicago (29-2)	60-58 (OT)	Cincinnati	Duke	Oregon St.	Louisville, KY	Art Heyman	George Ireland
1962	Cincinnati (29-2)	71-59	Ohio St.	Wake Forest	UCLA	Louisville, KY	Paul Hogue	Edwin Jucker
1961	Cincinnati (27-3)	70-65 (OT)	Ohio St.	†St. Joseph's	Utah	Kansas City, MO	Jerry Lucas	Edwin Jucker
1960	Ohio St. (25-3)	75-55	California	Cincinnati	NYU	San Francisco	Jerry Lucas	Fred Taylor
1959	California (25-4)	71-70	West Virginia	Cincinnati	Louisville	Louisville, KY	Jerry West	Pete Newell
1958	Kentucky (23-6)	84-72	Seattle	Temple	Kansas St.	Louisville, KY	Elgin Baylor	Adolph Rupp
1957	North Carolina (32-0)	54-53 (3OT)	Kansas	San Francisco	Michigan St.	Kansas City, MO	Wilt Chamberlain	Frank McGuire
1956	San Francisco (29-0)	83-71	Iowa	Temple	SMU	Evanston, IL	Hal Lear	Phil Woolpert
1955	San Francisco (28-1)	77-63	La Salle	Colorado	Iowa	Kansas City, MO	Bill Russell	Phil Woolpert
1954	La Salle (26-4)	92-76	Bradley	Penn. St.	USC	Kansas City, MO	Tom Gola	Kenneth Loeffler
1953	Indiana (23-3)	69-68	Kansas	Washington	LSU	Kansas City, MO	B.H. Born	Branch McCracken
1952	Kansas (28-3)	80-63	St. John's (NY)	Illinois	Santa Clara	Seattle	Clyde Lovellette	Forrest Allen
1951	Kentucky (32-2)	68-58	Kansas St.	Illinois	Oklahoma A&M	Minneapolis	Bill Spivey	Adolph Rupp
1950	CCNY (24-5)	71-68	Bradley	NC State	Baylor	New York	Irwin Dambrot	Nat Holman
1949	Kentucky (32-2)	46-36	Oklahoma A&M	Illinois	Oregon St.	Seattle	Alex Groza	Adolph Rupp
1948	Kentucky (36-3)	58-42	Baylor	Holy Cross	Kansas St.	New York	Alex Groza	Adolph Rupp
1947	Holy Cross (27-3)	58-47	Oklahoma	Texas	CCNY	New York	George Kaftan	Alvin Julian
1946	Oklahoma A&M (31-2)	43-40	North Carolina	Ohio St.	California	New York	Bob Kurland	Hank Iba
1945	Oklahoma A&M (27-4)	49-45	NYU	*Arkansas	*Ohio St.	New York	Bob Kurland	Hank Iba
1944	Utah (21-4)	42-40 (OT)	Dartmouth	*Iowa St.	*Ohio St.	New York	Arnie Ferrin	Vadal Peterson
1943	Wyoming (31-2)	46-34	Georgetown	*Texas	*DePaul	New York	Ken Sailors	Everett Shelton
1942	Stanford (28-4)	53-38	Dartmouth	*Colorado	*Kentucky	Kansas City, MO	Howie Dallmar	Everett Dean
1941	Wisconsin (20-3)	39-34	Washington St.	*Pittsburgh	*Arkansas	Kansas City, MO	John Kotz	Harold Foster
1940	Indiana (20-3)	60-42	Kansas	*Duquesne	*USC	Kansas City, MO	Marv Huffman	Branch McCracken
1939	Oregon (29-5)	46-33	Ohio St.	*Oklahoma	*Villanova	Evanston, IL	Jimmy Hull	Howard Hobson

* denotes teams tied for third place (consolation games were held only from 1946 to 1981)
† denotes team's participation was vacated

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