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1965 Men's NCAA Basketball Tournament

75 Years of March Madness (NCAA)

1965 NCAA Tournament | Bracket

Champion: UCLA

Most Outstanding Player: Bill Bradley, Princeton

Final Four: UCLA, Michigan, Wichita State, Princeton

Shining Moments

  • Gail Goodrich put up 42 points in the title game to knock off No. 1 Michigan. We talk of Alcindor and Walton as all-time peak performers for UCLA, but Goodrich and Walt Hazzard were the guys who laid down the foundation in the early years.
  • Bradley was a beast, so much so he earned MOP despite not even reaching the title game. The reason for this: Bradley had an unnatural 58 points in Princeton’s third-place win against Wichita State. Not only that, but he putu p177 points in a five-game span, something that remains a record, though the official “most points in an NCAA tournament” is now held by Glen Rice’s ‘89 showcase over a six-game span. By the way, Princeton making it to the national semis marked the first time in 21 years an Ivy school went so far.
  • Something I’d wish were possible today, but just isn’t: UCLA became the first team to average 100 points in a tournament.
  • Hank Iba coaches in his eighth and final NCAA tournament. He reached the Elite Eight in every year he made the bracket.
- Matt Norlander

Championship Game

Location: College Park, Md.

UCLA (91)
Player FG-A FT-A Reb. PF Pts.
Keith Erickson 1-1 1-2 1 1 3
Edgar Lacey 5-7 1-2 7 3 11
Doug McIntosh 1-2 1-2 0 2 3
Gail Goodrich 12-22 18-20 4 4 42
Fred Goss 4-12 0-0 3 1 8
Kenny Washington 7-9 3-4 5 2 17
Mike Lynn 2-3 1-2 6 1 5
John Lyons 0-0 0-0 0 1 0
John Galbraith 0-0 0-0 0 0 0
Vaughn Hoffman 1-1 0-0 1 0 2
Rich Levin 0-1 0-0 1 0 0
Brice Chambers 0-0 0-1 0 0 0
Totals 33-58 25-33 34 15 91
FG%--.569. FT%--.758. Assists--4.
 
Michigan (80)
Player FG-A FT-A Reb. PF Pts.
Oliver Darden 8-10 1-1 4 5 17
George Pomey 2-5 0-0 2 2 4
Bill Buntin 6-14 2-4 6 5 14
Cazzie Russell 10-16 8-10 5 2 28
Larry Tregoning 2-7 1-1 5 5 5
Jim Myers 0-4 0-0 3 2 0
Dan Brown 0-0 0-0 0 0 0
Tom Ludwig 1-2 0-0 0 0 2
John Thompson 0-0 0-0 0 0 0
Dennis Bankey 0-0 0-0 0 0 0
John Clawson 3-4 0-0 0 2 6
Craig Dill 1-2 2-2 1 1 4
Totals 33-64 14-18 33 24 80
FG%--.516. FT%--.778. Assists--2.
Halftime: UCLA 47-34.

National semifinals

Michigan 93, Princeton 76
MICHIGAN (93): Tregoning 6-9 1-1 13, Darden 6-13 1-3 13, Buntin 7-13 8-10 22, Russell 10-21 8-9 28, Pomey 2-8 2-2 6, Myers 1-4 0-0 2, Thompson 0-1 2-2 2, Dill 0-0 3-4 3, Ludwig 0-0 0-0 0, Clawson 2-2 0-1 4. Team 34-71 (.479) 25-32 (.781) 93.

PRINCETON (76): Bradley 12-25 5-5 29, Haarlow 4-10 1-4 9, Brown 2-6 0-0 4, Walters 5-10 1-2 11, Rodenbach 2-5 2-2 6, Hummer 4-10 4-5 12, Koch 1-4 1-2 3, Kingston 0-1 2-2 2. Team 30-71 (.423) 16-22 (.727) 76.

Halftime: Michigan 40-36.

UCLA 108, Wichita State 89
UCLA (108): Lacey 9-13 6-10 24, Erickson 1-6 0-0 2, McIntosh 4-5 3-4 11, Goodrich 11-21 6-8 28, Goss 8-13 3-3 19, Washington 4-13 2-4 10, Lynn 5-9 0-0 10, Chambers 0-5 0-0 0, Lyons 2-3 0-0 4, Levin 0-1 0-0 0, Galbraith 0-0 0-0 0, Hoffman 0-0 0-0 0. Team 44-89 (.494) 20-29 (.690) 108.

WICHITA STATE (89): Smith 4-11 0-1 8, Thompson 13-19 10-11 36, Leach 6-14 0-1 12, Pete 6-11 5-5 17, Criss 4-13 0-0 8, Reed 2-3 1-1 5, Davis 1-2 0-0 2, Trope 0-1 0-0 0, Nosich 0-0 1-3 1, Reimond 0-1 0-0 0. Team 36-75 (.480) 17-22 (.773) 89.

Halftime: UCLA 65-38.

All-Tournament Team

Player Pos. Yr. School Statistics
Bill Bradley F Sr. Princeton* (87 pts, 24 rebs)
Gail Goodrich G Sr. UCLA (70 pts, 13 rebs)
Edgar Lacey F Soph. UCLA (35 pts, 20 rebs)
Cazzie Russell G Jr. Michigan (56 pts, 15 rebs)
Kenny Washington F Jr. UCLA (27 pts, 12 rebs)
*Named Most Outstanding Player.
  • Scoring Leader: Bill Bradley, Princeton (177 points, 35.4 ppg).
  • Highest Scoring Average: Ollie Johnson, San Francisco (72 points, 36 ppg).
  • Rebounding Leader: Bill Bradley, Princeton (57 rebounds, 11.4 rpg).
  • Highest Rebounding Average: Ollie Johnson, San Francisco (37 rebounds, 18.5 rpg).

    • 1965 Tournament Scores

    FIRST ROUND
    East
    Princeton 60, Penn State 58
    St. Joseph's 67, Connecticut 61
    Providence 91, West Virginia 67

    Mideast
    DePaul 99, Eastern Kentucky 52
    Dayton 66, Ohio University 65

    Midwest
    Houston 99, Notre Dame 98

    West
    Oklahoma City 70, Colorado State 68


    REGIONAL SEMIFINALS
    East
    Princeton 66, North Carolina State 48
    Providence 81, St. Joseph's 73 (OT)

    Mideast
    Vanderbilt 83, DePaul 78 (OT)
    Michigan 98, Dayton 71

    Midwest
    Wichita State 86, Southern Methodist 81
    Oklahoma State 75, Houston 60

    West
    UCLA 100, Brigham Young 76
    San Francisco 91, Oklahoma City 67


    REGIONAL THIRD PLACE
    East
    N.C. State 103, St. Joseph's 81

    Mideast
    Dayton 75, DePaul 69

    Midwest
    SMU 89, Houston 87

    West
    Oklahoma City 112, BYU 102


    REGIONAL FINALS
    East
    Princeton 109, Providence 69

    Mideast
    Michigan 87, Vanderbilt 85

    Midwest
    Wichita State 54, Oklahoma State 46

    West
    UCLA 101, San Francisco 93


    NATIONAL SEMIFINALS
    Michigan 93, Princeton 76
    UCLA 108, Wichita State 89

    NATIONAL THIRD PLACE
    Princeton 118, Wichita State 82

    NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP
    UCLA 91, Michigan 80

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