Big Ten Conference
NCAA tournament champions, runners-up and locations
Participation vacated due to major NCAA violations. Participation and title vacated due to major NCAA violations.

Big Ten Conference

Section Title: NCAA tournament champions, runners-up and locations
Table Section Text: Participation vacated due to major NCAA violations. Participation and title vacated due to major NCAA violations.

Year	Champion	Runner-up	Venue and city

1939	Oregon	46	Ohio State	33	Patten Gymnasium	Evanston, Illinois

1940	Indiana	60	Kansas	42	Municipal Auditorium	Kansas City, Missouri

1941	Wisconsin	39	Washington State	34	Municipal Auditorium	Kansas City, Missouri (2)

1953	Indiana (2)	69	Kansas	68	Municipal Auditorium	Kansas City, Missouri (4)

1956	San Francisco (2)	83	Iowa	71	McGaw Hall	Evanston, Illinois (2)

1960	Ohio State	75	California	55	Cow Palace	Daly City, California

1961†	Cincinnati	70	Ohio State	65	Municipal Auditorium	Kansas City, Missouri (8)

1962	Cincinnati (2)	71	Ohio State	59	Freedom Hall	Louisville, Kentucky (3)

1965	UCLA (2)	91	Michigan	80	Memorial Coliseum	Portland, Oregon

1969	UCLA (5)	92	Purdue	72	Freedom Hall	Louisville, Kentucky (6)

1976	Indiana (3)	86	Michigan	68	The Spectrum	Philadelphia

1979	Michigan State	75	Indiana State	64	Special Events Center	Salt Lake City

1981	Indiana (4)	63	North Carolina	50	Spectrum	Philadelphia (2)

1987	Indiana (5)	74	Syracuse	73	Louisiana Superdome	New Orleans (2)

1989†	Michigan	80	Seton Hall	79	Kingdome	Seattle (4)

1992	Duke (2)	71	Michigan	51	Metrodome	Minneapolis

1993	North Carolina (3)	77	Michigan	71	Louisiana Superdome	New Orleans (3)

2000	Michigan State (2)	89	Florida	76	RCA Dome	Indianapolis (4)

2002	Maryland	64	Indiana	52	Georgia Dome	Atlanta (2)

2005	North Carolina (4)	75	Illinois	70	Edward Jones Dome	St. Louis (3)

2007	Florida (2)	84	Ohio State	75	Georgia Dome	Atlanta (3)

2009	North Carolina (5)	89	Michigan State	72	Ford Field	Detroit

2013	Louisville	82	Michigan	76	Georgia Dome	Atlanta (4)

2015	Duke (5)	68	Wisconsin	63	Lucas Oil Stadium	Indianapolis (7)

2018	Villanova (3)	79	Michigan	62	Alamodome	San Antonio (4)

Sentence(s)

Ohio State played in the first NCAA tournament national championship game in 1939, losing to Oregon.

final_sentence: Ohio State played in the first NCAA tournament national championship game in 1939, losing to Oregon.