Utah/BYU basketball history

Posted By: DC Ute
Date: Wednesday, 29 March 2000, at 12:23 p.m.

Someone on Uterunner's board asked for this information. I'm more familiar with this board, so I thought I would post it here. I'm not drawing any conclusions about the following information, I'm just posting it as information of interest:

BYU BASKETBALL HISTORY:

CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIPS:

State of Utah Championships:

1911, 1912, 1913, 1915, 1916, 1918, 1923, 1925

Rocky Mountain Conference Championships:

1926, 1933, 1934, 1935

Skyline Conference Championships:

1951, 1952, 1957

Western Athletic Conference Championships:

1965, 1967 (with Wyoming), 1969 (with Wyoming), 1971, 1972, 1979, 1980, 1983 (with Utah and UTEP), 1988, 1990 (with Colorado State), 1992 (with UTEP), 1993 (with Utah)

NCAA TOURNAMENT HISTORY

1952

1st Rd: BYU 68 San Jose State 61
Reg. Final: Kansas St. 64 BYU 54
1957
Reg. Semi.: California 86 BYU 59
1965
Reg. Semi.: UCLA 100 BYU 76
1969
1st Rd.: New Mexico State 74 BYU 62
1971
1st Rd.: BYU 91 Utah State 82
Reg. Semi.: UCLA 91 BYU 73
1972
1st Rd.: Long Beach St. 95 BYU 90 (ot)
1979
2d Rd.: #4 San Francisco 86 #5 BYU 63
1980
2d Rd.: #6 Clemson 71 #3 BYU 66
1981
1st Rd.: #6 BYU 60 #11 Princeton 51
2d Rd.: #6 BYU 78 #3 UCLA 55
Reg. Semi: #6 BYU 51 #2 Notre Dame 50
Reg. Final: #1 Virginia 74 #6 BYU 60
1984
1st Rd.: #8 BYU #9 UAB 68
2d Rd.: #1 Kentucky 93 #8 BYU 68
1987
1st Rd.: #7 New Orleans 86 #10 BYU 79
1988
1st Rd.: #4 BYU 98 #13 UNC Charlotte 92 (ot)
2d Rd.: #5 Louisville 97 #4 BYU 76
1990
1st Rd.: #5 Clemson 48 #4 BYU 47
1991
1st Rd.: #10 BYU 61 #7 Virginia 48
2d Rd.: #2 Arizona 76 #10 BYU 61
1992
1st Rd. #7 LSU 94 #10 BYU 83
1993
1st Rd. #7 BYU 80 #10 SMU 71
2d Rd. #2 Kansas 90 #7 BYU 76
1995
1st Rd. #9 Tulane 76 #8 BYU 70

(note: I did not include consolation games in list)

UTAH BASKETBALL HISTORY:

CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIPS:

State of Utah Championships:

1914, 1917, 1920, 1922, 1924

Rocky Mountain Conference Championships:

1932, 1937 (with Montana State)

Skyline Conference Championships:

1939 (with Colorado), 1955, 1956, 1959, 1960, 1961 (with Colorado State), 1962

Western Athletic Conference Championships:

1966, 1977, 1981 (with Wyoming), 1983 (with BYU and UTEP), 1986 (with UTEP and Wyoming), 1991, 1993 (with BYU), 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999

Mountain West Conference Championships:

2000 (with UNLV)

NCAA TOURNAMENT HISTORY:
1944
1st Rd.: Utah 45 Missouri 65
Reg. Final: Utah 40 Iowa State 31
National Final: Utah 42 Dartmouth 40 (ot)
1955
Reg. Semi.: San Francisco 78 Utah 59
1956
Reg. Semi.: Utah 81 Seattle 72
Reg. Final: San Francisco 92 Utah 77
1959
Reg. Semi.: California 71 Utah 53
1960
1st Rd.: Utah 80 USC 73
Reg. Semi.: Oregon 65 Utah 54
1961
Reg. Semi.: Utah 91 Loyola (CA) 75
Reg. Final: Utah 88 Arizona State 80
Nat. Semi.: Cincinnati 82 Utah 67
1966
Reg. Semi.: Utah 83 Pacific 74
Reg. Final: Utah 70 Oregon State 64
Nat. Semi.: Texas Western 85 Utah 78
1977
1st Rd.: Utah 72 St. John's 68
Reg. Semi.: UNLV 88 Utah 83
1978
1st Rd.: Utah 86 Missouri 79 (2ot)
Reg. Semi.: Notre Dame 69 Utah 56
1979
1st Rd.: #9 Pepperdine 92 #8 Utah 88 (ot)
1981
2d Rd.: #3 Utah 94 #11 Northeastern 69
Reg. Semi.: #2 North Carolina 61 #3 Utah 56
1983
1st Rd.: #10 Utah 52 #7 Illinios 49
2d Rd.: #10 Utah 67 #2 UCLA 61
Reg. Semi.: #6 N.C. State 75 #10 Utah 56
1986
1st Rd.: #3 North Carolina 84 #14 Utah 72
1991
1st Rd.: #4 Utah 82 #13 South Alabama 72
2d Rd.: #4 Utah 85 #5 Michigan State 84 (2ot)
Reg. Semi.: #1 UNLV 83 #4 Utah 66
1993
1st Rd.: #8 Utah 86 #9 Pitt 65
2d Rd.: #1 Kentucky 83 #8 Utah 62
1995
1st Rd.: #4 Utah 76 #13 Long Beach St. 64
2d. Rd.: #5 Mississippi State 78 #4 Utah 64
1996
1st Rd.: #4 Utah 72 #13 Canisius 43
2d Rd.: #4 Utah 73 #5 Iowa State 67
Reg. Semi.: #1 Kentucky 101 #4 Utah 70
1997
1st Rd.: #2 Utah 75 #15 Navy 61
2d Rd.: #2 Utah 77 #10 UNC-Charlotte 58
Reg. Semi.: #2 Utah 82 #6 Stanford 77 (ot)
Reg. Final: #1 Kentucky 72 #2 Utah 59
1998
1st Rd.: #3 Utah 85 #14 San Francisco 68
2d Rd.: #3 Utah 75 #6 Arkansas 69
Reg. Semi.: #3 Utah 65 #10 West Virginia 62
Reg. Final: #3 Utah 76 #1 Arizona 51
Nat. Semi.: #3 Utah 65 #1 North Carolina 59
Nat. Final: #2 Kentucky 78 #3 Utah 69
1999
1st Rd.: #2 Utah 80 #15 Arkansas State 58
2d Rd.: #10 Miami (OH) 66 #2 Utah 58
2000
1st Rd.: #8 Utah 48 #9 St. Louis 45
2nd Rd.: #1 Michigan State 73 #8 Utah 61

There you have it. The only thing I found particularly interesting about this history, is how many times Utah has lost to the eventual national champion in the tournament. Of Utah's 21 NCAA tournament appearances, they have lost to the national champions 8 times: 1955, 1956, 1959, 1961, 1966, 1983, 1996, and 1998. If Michigan State wins this year, it will make it 9 times.

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