1992 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament

See also: 1992 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship Game

1992 NCAA Division I
men's basketball tournament

Season	1991–92
Teams	64
Finals site	H.H.H. Metrodome Minneapolis, Minnesota
Champions	Duke (2nd title, 6th title game, 10th Final Four)
Runner-up	Michigan (Vacated) (4th title game, 5th Final Four)
Semifinalists	Cincinnati (6th Final Four) Indiana (7th Final Four)
Winning coach	Mike Krzyzewski (2nd title)
MOP	Bobby Hurley (Duke)
Attendance	580,462
Top scorer	Christian Laettner (Duke) (115 points)
NCAA Division I men's tournaments «1991 1993»

The 1992 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament involved 64 schools playing in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division I college basketball. It began on March 19, 1992, and ended with the championship game on April 6 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. A total of 63 games were played.

Duke, coached by Mike Krzyzewski, defeated the Michigan Wolverines, coached by Steve Fisher, 71–51 to claim their second consecutive national championship. Bobby Hurley of Duke was named the tournament's Most Outstanding Player. Michigan subsequently vacated its final two tournament games as part of the University of Michigan basketball scandal.

This tournament is best remembered for the East regional final pitting Duke and Kentucky at The Spectrum in Philadelphia. With 2.1 seconds remaining in overtime, Duke trailed 103–102. Grant Hill threw a pass the length of the court to Christian Laettner, who dribbled once, turned, and hit a jumper as time expired for the 104-103 win. Sports Illustrated deemed it the greatest college basketball game of all time, and ESPN included it as number 17 on its list of top 100 sports moments of the past 25 years (see ESPN25). It is number one on the USA Today list of the greatest NCAA tournament games of all time. This tournament also saw darkhorse Cincinnati crash the Final Four en route to returning to national prominence.

The Final Four participants have combined for 36 Final Four appearances and 12 national titles with Michigan enjoying seven Final Fours and a national title; Cincinnati six Final Fours and two national titles; Indiana 8 Final Fours and five national titles; and Duke experiencing 15 Final Fours and five national titles.

Locations

Atlanta

Boise

Cincinnati

Dayton

Greensboro

Milwaukee

Tempe

Worcester

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1992 first and second rounds

Albuquerque

Kansas City

Lexington

Philadelphia

Minneapolis

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1992 Regionals (blue) and Final Four (red)

First and second rounds

• Atlanta (Omni Coliseum)
• Boise, Idaho (BSU Pavilion)
• Cincinnati (Riverfront Coliseum)
• Dayton, Ohio (University of Dayton Arena)
• Greensboro, North Carolina (Greensboro Coliseum)
• Milwaukee (Bradley Center)
• Tempe, Arizona (Arizona State University Activity Center)
• Worcester, Massachusetts (Worcester Centrum)

Later rounds

Region	Site
East	Philadelphia (Spectrum)
Midwest	Kansas City, Missouri (Kemper Arena)
Southeast	Lexington, Kentucky (Rupp Arena)
West	Albuquerque, New Mexico (University Arena)
Finals	Minneapolis, Minnesota (Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome)

Teams

Region	Seed	Team	Coach	Finished	Final opponent	Score
East
East	1	Duke	Mike Krzyzewski	Champion	6 Michigan	W 71-51
East	2	Kentucky	Rick Pitino	Regional Runner-up	1 Duke	L 104-103
East	3	Massachusetts	John Calipari	Sweet Sixteen	2 Kentucky	L 87-77
East	4	Seton Hall	P.J. Carlesimo	Sweet Sixteen	1 Duke	L 81-69
East	5	Missouri	Norm Stewart	Round of 32	4 Seton Hall	L 88-71
East	6	Syracuse	Jim Boeheim	Round of 32	3 Massachusetts	L 77-71
East	7	Charlotte	Jeff Mullins	Round of 64	10 Iowa State	L 76-74
East	8	Texas	Tom Penders	Round of 64	9 Iowa	L 98-92
East	9	Iowa	Tom Davis	Round of 32	1 Duke	L 75-62
East	10	Iowa State	Johnny Orr	Round of 32	2 Kentucky	L 106-98
East	11	Princeton	Pete Carril	Round of 64	6 Syracuse	L 51-43
East	12	West Virginia	Gale Catlett	Round of 64	5 Missouri	L 89-78
East	13	La Salle	Speedy Morris	Round of 64	4 Seton Hall	L 78-76
East	14	Fordham	Nick Macarchuk	Round of 64	3 Massachusetts	L 85-58
East	15	Old Dominion	Oliver Purnell	Round of 64	2 Kentucky	L 88-69
East	16	Campbell	Billy Lee	Round of 64	1 Duke	L 82-56
Midwest
Midwest	1	Kansas	Roy Williams	Round of 32	9 UTEP	L 66-60
Midwest	2	USC	George Raveling	Round of 32	7 Georgia Tech	L 79-78
Midwest	3	Arkansas	Nolan Richardson	Round of 32	6 Memphis State	L 82-80
Midwest	4	Cincinnati	Bob Huggins	National Semifinals	6 Michigan	L 76-72
Midwest	5	Michigan State	Jud Heathcote	Round of 32	4 Cincinnati	L 77-65
Midwest	6	Memphis State	Larry Finch	Regional Runner-up	4 Cincinnati	L 88-57
Midwest	7	Georgia Tech	Bobby Cremins	Sweet Sixteen	6 Memphis State	L 83-79
Midwest	8	Evansville	Jim Crews	Round of 64	9 UTEP	L 55-50
Midwest	9	UTEP	Don Haskins	Sweet Sixteen	4 Cincinnati	L 69-67
Midwest	10	Houston	Pat Foster	Round of 64	7 Georgia Tech	L 65-60
Midwest	11	Pepperdine	Tom Asbury	Round of 64	6 Memphis State	L 80-70
Midwest	12	Southwest Missouri State	Charlie Spoonhour	Round of 64	5 Michigan State	L 61-54
Midwest	13	Delaware	Steve Steinwedel	Round of 64	4 Cincinnati	L 85-47
Midwest	14	Murray State	Scott Edgar	Round of 64	3 Arkansas	L 80-69
Midwest	15	Northeast Louisiana	Mike Vining	Round of 64	2 USC	L 84-54
Midwest	16	Howard	Butch Beard	Round of 64	1 Kansas	L 100-67
Southeast
Southeast	1	Ohio State	Randy Ayers	Regional Runner-up	6 Michigan	L 75-71
Southeast	2	Oklahoma State	Eddie Sutton	Sweet Sixteen	6 Michigan	L 75-72
Southeast	3	Arizona	Lute Olson	Round of 64	14 East Tennessee State	L 87-80
Southeast	4	North Carolina	Dean Smith	Sweet Sixteen	1 Ohio State	L 80-73
Southeast	5	Alabama	Wimp Sanderson	Round of 32	4 North Carolina	L 64-55
Southeast	6	Michigan	Steve Fisher	Runner Up	1 Duke	L 71-51
Southeast	7	St. John's	Lou Carnesecca	Round of 64	10 Tulane	L 61-57
Southeast	8	Nebraska	Danny Nee	Round of 64	9 Connecticut	L 86-65
Southeast	9	Connecticut	Jim Calhoun	Round of 32	1 Ohio State	L 78-55
Southeast	10	Tulane	Perry Clark	Round of 32	2 Oklahoma State	L 87-71
Southeast	11	Temple	John Chaney	Round of 64	6 Michigan	L 73-66
Southeast	12	Stanford	Mike Montgomery	Round of 64	5 Alabama	L 80-75
Southeast	13	Miami, Ohio	Joby Wright	Round of 64	4 North Carolina	L 68-63
Southeast	14	East Tennessee State	Alan LeForce	Round of 32	6 Michigan	L 102-90
Southeast	15	Georgia Southern	Frank Kerns	Round of 64	2 Oklahoma State	L 100-73
Southeast	16	Mississippi Valley State	Lafayette Stribling	Round of 64	1 Ohio State	L 83-56
West
West	1	UCLA	Jim Harrick	Regional Runner-up	2 Indiana	L 106-79
West	2	Indiana	Bob Knight	National Semifinals	1 Duke	L 81-78
West	3	Florida State	Pat Kennedy	Sweet Sixteen	2 Indiana	L 85-74
West	4	Oklahoma	Billy Tubbs	Round of 64	13 Southwestern Louisiana	L 87-83
West	5	DePaul	Joey Meyer	Round of 64	12 New Mexico State	L 81-73
West	6	Georgetown	John Thompson	Round of 32	3 Florida State	L 78-68
West	7	LSU	Dale Brown	Round of 32	2 Indiana	L 89-79
West	8	Louisville	Denny Crum	Round of 32	1 UCLA	L 85-69
West	9	Wake Forest	Dave Odom	Round of 64	8 Louisville	L 81-58
West	10	BYU	Roger Reid	Round of 64	7 LSU	L 94-83
West	11	South Florida	Bobby Paschal	Round of 64	6 Georgetown	L 75-60
West	12	New Mexico State	Neil McCarthy	Sweet Sixteen	1 UCLA	L 85-78
West	13	Southwestern Louisiana	Marty Fletcher	Round of 32	12 New Mexico State	L 81-73
West	14	Montana	Blaine Taylor	Round of 64	3 Florida State	L 78-68
West	15	Eastern Illinois	Rick Samuels	Round of 64	2 Indiana	L 94-55
West	16	Robert Morris	Jarrett Durham	Round of 64	1 UCLA	L 73-53

Bracket

* – Denotes overtime period

East Regional – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

	First round					Quarter-finals					Regional Semifinals					Regional Finals
	1	Duke	82
	16	Campbell	56
						1	Duke	75
	Greensboro
						9	Iowa	62
	8	Texas	92
	9	Iowa	98
											1	Duke	81
											4	Seton Hall	69
	5	Missouri	89
	12	West Virginia	78
						5	Missouri	71
	Greensboro
						4	Seton Hall	88
	4	Seton Hall	78
	13	La Salle	76
																1	Duke	104
																2	Kentucky	103*
	6	Syracuse	51
	11	Princeton	43
						6	Syracuse	71
	Worcester
						3	Massachusetts	77
	3	Massachusetts	85
	14	Fordham	58
											3	Massachusetts	77
											2	Kentucky	87
	7	Charlotte	74
	10	Iowa State	76
						10	Iowa St.	98
	Worcester
						2	Kentucky	106
	2	Kentucky	88
	15	Old Dominion	69

West Regional – Albuquerque, New Mexico

	First round					Quarter-finals					Regional Semifinals					Regional Finals
	1	UCLA	73
	16	Robert Morris	53
						1	UCLA	85
	Tempe
						8	Louisville	69
	8	Louisville	81
	9	Wake Forest	58
											1	UCLA	85
											12	New Mexico St.	78
	5	DePaul	73
	12	New Mexico St.	81
						12	New Mexico St.	81
	Tempe
						13	Southwest Louisiana	73
	4	Oklahoma	83
	13	Southwest Louisiana	87
																1	UCLA	79
																2	Indiana	106
	6	Georgetown	75
	11	South Florida	60
						6	Georgetown	68
	Boise
						3	Florida St.	78
	3	Florida St.	78
	14	Montana	68
											3	Florida St.	74
											2	Indiana	85
	7	LSU	94
	10	BYU	83
						7	LSU	79
	Boise
						2	Indiana	89
	2	Indiana	94
	15	Eastern Illinois	55

Southeast Regional – Lexington, Kentucky

	First round					Quarter-finals					Regional Semifinals					Regional Finals
	1	Ohio St	83
	16	Mississippi Valley St.	56
						1	Ohio State	78
	Cincinnati
						9	Connecticut	55
	8	Nebraska	65
	9	Connecticut	86
											1	Ohio St.	80
											4	North Carolina	73
	5	Alabama	80
	12	Stanford	75
						5	Alabama	55
	Cincinnati
						4	North Carolina	64
	4	North Carolina	68
	13	Miami-OH	63
																1	Ohio St.	71
																6	Michigan	75
	6	Michigan	73
	11	Temple	66
						6	Michigan	102
	Atlanta
						14	East Tennessee St.	90
	3	Arizona	80
	14	East Tennessee St.	87
											6	Michigan	75
											2	Oklahoma St.	72
	7	St. John's	57
	10	Tulane	61
						10	Tulane	71
	Atlanta
						2	Oklahoma St.	87
	2	Oklahoma St.	100
	15	Georgia Southern	73

Midwest Regional – Kansas City, Missouri

	First round					Quarter-finals					Regional Semifinals					Regional Finals
	1	Kansas	100
	16	Howard	67
						1	Kansas	60
	Dayton
						9	UTEP	66
	8	Evansville	50
	9	UTEP	55
											9	UTEP	67
											4	Cincinnati	69
	5	Michigan St.	61
	12	Southwest Missouri St.	54
						5	Michigan St.	65
	Dayton
						4	Cincinnati	77
	4	Cincinnati	85
	13	Delaware	47
																4	Cincinnati	88
																6	Memphis St.	57
	6	Memphis St.	80
	11	Pepperdine	70
						6	Memphis St.	82
	Milwaukee
						3	Arkansas	80
	3	Arkansas	80
	14	Murray St.	69
											6	Memphis St.	83
											7	Georgia Tech	79
	7	Georgia Tech	65
	10	Houston	60
						7	Georgia Tech	79
	Milwaukee
						2	USC	78
	2	USC	84
	15	Northeast Louisiana	54

Final Four @ Minneapolis, Minnesota

	National Semifinals					National Championship Game
	E1	Duke	81
	W2	Indiana	78
						E1	Duke	71
						S6	Michigan#	51
	S6	Michigan#	76
	M4	Cincinnati	72

# signifies Michigan's final two games, in the 1992 Final Four, were vacated on November 7, 2002, as part of the settlement of the University of Michigan basketball scandal. Unlike forfeiture, a vacated game does not result in the other school being credited with a win, only with the removal of any Michigan wins from all records.

Announcers

• Jim Nantz and Billy Packer – Southeast Regional at Lexington, Kentucky; Final Four at Minneapolis
• Dick Stockton and Al McGuire or Greg Kelser (afternoon session of first round only) – First & Second Round at Milwaukee; Midwest Regional at Kansas City, Missouri
• Verne Lundquist and Len Elmore – First & Second Round at Cincinnati; East Regional at Philadelphia
• Greg Gumbel and Quinn Buckner – First & Second Round at Atlanta, Georgia; West Regional at Albuquerque, New Mexico
• James Brown and Bill Raftery – First & Second Round at Worchester, Massachusetts
• Tim Ryan and Digger Phelps – First & Second Round at Dayton, Ohio
• Sean McDonough and Bill Walton – First & Second Round at Boise, Idaho
• Brad Nessler and Ann Meyers – First & Second Round at Tempe, Arizona
• Mel Proctor and Dan Bonner – First & Second Round at Greensboro, North Carolina