1968 NCAA University Division basketball tournament

Lew Alcindor of UCLA was named the tournament's Most Outstanding Player for the second of three consecutive years.

This UCLA team, composed of three All-Americans, Player of the Year Alcindor, Lucius Allen, and Mike Warren, along with dead eye pure shooter Lynn Shackleford (most of his shots would be 3 pointers today) and burly senior power forward Mike Lynn is considered to be one of the greatest teams in college basketball history.

The match was historic, the first nationally syndicated college basketball game and the first to play in a domed stadium before more than 52,000 fans.

In the March NCAA Tournament Final 4, the Bruins at full strength avenged that loss with a 101–69 drubbing of that same Houston team, now ranked #1, in UCLA's home city at the Memorial Sports Arena.

Bruins coach John Wooden credited his assistant, Jerry Norman, for devising the diamond-and-one defense that contained Hayes.