1979 NCAA Division I Basketball Tournament
Teams

1979 NCAA Division I Basketball Tournament

Section Title: Teams
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Region	Seed	Team	Coach	Finished	Final Opponent	Score

East

East	1	North Carolina	Dean Smith	Round of 32	9 Penn	L 72–71

East	2	Duke	Bill E. Foster	Round of 32	10 St. John's	L 80–78

East	3	Georgetown	John Thompson	Round of 32	6 Rutgers	L 64–58

East	4	Syracuse	Jim Boeheim	Sweet Sixteen	9 Penn	L 84–76

East	5	Connecticut	Dom Perno	Round of 32	4 Syracuse	L 89–81

East	6	Rutgers	Tom Young	Sweet Sixteen	10 St. John's	L 67–65

East	7	Temple	Don Casey	Round of 40	10 St. John's	L 75–70

East	8	Iona	Jim Valvano	Round of 40	9 Penn	L 73–69

East	9	Penn	Bob Weinhauer	Fourth Place	2 Michigan State	L 101–67

East	10	St. John's	Lou Carnesecca	Regional Runner-up	9 Penn	L 64–62

Mideast

Mideast	1	Notre Dame	Digger Phelps	Regional Runner-up	2 Michigan State	L 80–68

Mideast	2	Michigan State	Jud Heathcote	Champion	1 Indiana State	W 75–64

Mideast	3	LSU	Dale Brown	Sweet Sixteen	2 Michigan State	L 87–71

Mideast	4	Iowa	Lute Olson	Round of 32	5 Toledo	L 74–72

Mideast	5	Toledo	Bob Nichols	Sweet Sixteen	1 Notre Dame	L 79–71

Mideast	6	Appalachian State	Bobby Cremins	Round of 32	3 LSU	L 71–57

Mideast	7	Detroit	Smokey Gaines	Round of 40	10 Lamar	L 95–87

Mideast	8	Tennessee	Don DeVoe	Round of 32	1 Notre Dame	L 73–67

Mideast	9	Eastern Kentucky	Ed Byhre	Round of 40	8 Tennessee	L 97–81

Mideast	10	Lamar	Billy Tubbs	Round of 32	2 Michigan State	L 95–64

Midwest

Midwest	1	Indiana State	Bill Hodges	Runner Up	2 Michigan State	L 75–64

Midwest	2	Arkansas	Eddie Sutton	Regional Runner-up	1 Indiana State	L 73–71

Midwest	3	Louisville	Denny Crum	Sweet Sixteen	2 Arkansas	L 73–62

Midwest	4	Texas	Abe Lemons	Round of 32	5 Oklahoma	L 90–76

Midwest	5	Oklahoma	Dave Bliss	Sweet Sixteen	1 Indiana State	L 93–72

Midwest	6	South Alabama	Cliff Ellis	Round of 32	3 Louisville	L 69–66

Midwest	7	Weber State	Neil McCarthy	Round of 32	2 Arkansas	L 74–63

Midwest	8	Virginia Tech	Charles Moir	Round of 32	1 Indiana State	L 86–69

Midwest	9	Jacksonville	Tates Locke	Round of 40	8 Virginia Tech	L 70–53

Midwest	10	New Mexico State	Ken Hayes	Round of 40	7 Weber State	L 81–78

West

West	1	UCLA	Gary Cunningham	Regional Runner-up	2 DePaul	L 95–91

West	2	DePaul	Ray Meyer	Third Place	1 Indiana State	L 76–74

West	3	Marquette	Hank Raymonds	Sweet Sixteen	2 DePaul	L 62–56

West	4	San Francisco	Dan Belluomini	Sweet Sixteen	1 UCLA	L 99–81

West	5	BYU	Frank Arnold	Round of 32	4 San Francisco	L 86–63

West	6	Pacific	Stan Morrison	Round of 32	3 Marquette	L 73–48

West	7	USC	Bob Boyd	Round of 32	2 DePaul	L 89–78

West	8	Utah	Jerry Pimm	Round of 40	9 Pepperdine	L 92–88

West	9	Pepperdine	Gary Colson	Round of 32	1 UCLA	L 76–71

West	10	Utah State	Rod Tueller	Round of 40	7 USC	L 86–67

Sentence(s)

In the East, in Round of 32 Penn's upset of #1 North Carolina and St. John's upset of #2-seeded Duke.

final_sentence: In the East, in Round of 32 Penn's upset of #1 North Carolina and St. John's upset of #2-seeded Duke.