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In men's college basketball, the Game of the Century was a historic National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) game between the Houston Cougars and the UCLA Bruins played on January 20, 1968, at the Astrodome in Houston, Texas.It was the first NCAA regular season game broadcast nationwide in prime time. It established college basketball as a sports commodity on television and paved the ...

This 1982 segment for Houston's KPRC-TV asks former University of Houston men's basketball players and coaching staff to reflect on the "Game of the Century....

Coach Guy V. Lewis talks with UCLA coach John Wooden prior to the Game of the Century on Jan. 20, 1968. Share HOUSTON – The Eighth Wonder of the World – or so it was once called -- sits ...

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BY THE NUMBERS. 47. UCLA's win streak entering the game. 52,693. Attendance, the mostto see a college basketball game at the time. 39. Points for Houston's Elvin Hayes.

When he looked across from the sideline, UCLA’s All-American center saw the stands, where a record-setting 52,693 packed the first domed sports stadium in the world to catch a glimpse of the two ...

The "Game of the Century" between UCLA and Houston transformed college basketball from a regional to national sport, opened the way for multi-billion dollar television contracts to broadcast March ...

Today in 1968, the University of Houston beat UCLA in the Game of the Century, 71-69. 52,693 people were in the Astrodome to see the Coogs beat the defending national champs and end their 47-game winning streak. Elvin Hayes scored 39 in the upset. The nationally-televised game, the first-ever in primetime, helped make college […]

The Los Angeles Times recently (July 16) published an article on the Game of the Century, part of the newspaper's retrospective on impactful events of 1968. Writer Nathan Fenno sees the UCLA-Houston contest as having major effects over the ensuing five decades: The game transformed college basketball from a regional to national sport, opened the way for multibillion-dollar television contracts ...

The college basketball 'Game of the Century' between No. 1 UCLA and No. 2 UH proved the TV audience potential for the sport and helped launch March Madness.

The Houston-UCLA game, as an historical icon, is transitioning from something that large numbers of basketball fans could connect to personally (whether having actually watched the game in '68 or seeing Elvin Hayes and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar play during their NBA careers) to an entity that people will know about purely via history books and video ...

Description On January 20, 1968, the Cougars faced No. 1 UCLA inside the Houston Astrodome in the Game of the Century. Played in front of more than 52,000 fans and broadcast to millions, it was the first nationally televised regular-season college basketball game in prime time, setting the stage for how today’s NCAA Tournament fans enjoy the games every year.

University of Houston basketball coach Guy V. Lewis is carried by happy fans after the Cougars beat the UCLA Bruins on Jan. 20, 1968, in the Astrodome. The Cougars played NCAA basketball in the ...

1969 Final Four UCLA vs Drake : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id2JskNTmDY&list=PLC1i--iuyabo2yWmiTqGPmED_tWSa6rCA&index=3On 20th January 1968, National Col...

“The Game of the Century,” it was called. An audacious claim, considering there were still 32 years of basketball to play. The UCLA-Houston clash in the Houston Astrodome on Jan. 20, 1968--30 ...

RIP Dick Enberg. This was his breakout performance on national television and it belongs online. This is not the entire game, but it's a remarkably intact recording from late in the first half to the finish. Billed as the "Game of the Century", the January 20, 1968 men's basketball game between UCLA and Houston was a landmark event in the history of television in several ways, including ...

The UCLA Bruins were the dominant program of the era, winning NCAA titles in 1964, 1965, and 1967. The game which featured the Cougar's Elvin Hayes against the Bruin's Lew Alcindor, was the first prime-time national telecast of a college basketball game.

On Jan. 20, 1968, No. 2 Houston and No. 1 UCLA battled it out in the Astrodome. In what became known as the "Game of the Century," the Cougars ended the Brui...

In what most basketball experts consider "The Game of the Century," the University of Houston met UCLA in front of the largest audience ever to see a college basketball game. It was a game of many firsts. This was the first regular-season game ever to be seen on national television.

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