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| Date | March 29, 1976 | ||||||||||||
| Venue | The Spectrum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | ||||||||||||
| Referees | Irv Brown, Bob Wortman[2] | ||||||||||||
| Attendance | 17,540 | ||||||||||||
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| Network | NBC[3] | ||||||||||||
| Announcers | Curt Gowdy and Dick Enberg[3] | ||||||||||||
The 1976 NCAA Division I Basketball Championship Game was the final of the 1976 NCAA Division I basketball tournament and determined the national champion for the 1975–76 season. The game was held at the Spectrum in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on March 29, 1976. In a matchup of two Big Ten Conference teams, the Indiana Hoosiers defeated the Michigan Wolverines 86–68 to earn the university's third championship. The Hoosiers' victory concluded the last undefeated season in Division I men's college basketball.
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