The event expanded to 32 teams in 1975, to 40 in 1979, and to 48 in 1980. The NCAA was slow to realize its event was growing in popularity, but it did appreciate the need to sell tickets.

Here's where the members of the 1980 Miracle on Ice Olympic hockey team played college hockey. ... helping North Dakota reach the 1979 NCAA championship game after registering 46 points as a ...

Yet, Alcorn State's tournament drought would only last one year, returning to the NCAA tournament in 1982 as SWAC regular season and tournament champions. The 11th-seeded Braves lost to sixth ...

Mackey Arena served as springboard for Purdue's 1980 Final Four run “It was exciting, but it also brought pressure playing at home with the format of the NCAA tournament knowing you’re out if ...

Darrell Griffith, waving to KFC Yum! Center fans during a game in December of 2019, promised fans of the program a national championship when he signed in 1976, and delivered on that promise in 1980.

To this day, Rudy Woods loves to drop a "thank you" from nowhere. It doesn't necessarily derive from the former Texas A&M center being a southern gentleman. That was just a little something Woods ...