1976β77 Arkansas Razorbacks men's basketball | |
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Southwest Conference Champions Southwest Conference tournament champions | |
NCAA tournament, First Round | |
Conference | Southwest Conference |
Ranking | |
AP | No. 19 |
Record | 26β2 (16β0 SWC) |
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Home arena | Barnhill Arena (Capacity: 6,200) |
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Team | W | L | PCT | W | L | PCT | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
No. 18 Arkansasβ | 16 | – | 0 | 1.000 | 26 | – | 2 | .929 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Houston | 13 | – | 3 | .813 | 29 | – | 8 | .784 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Texas Tech | 12 | – | 4 | .750 | 20 | – | 9 | .690 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Texas | 8 | – | 8 | .500 | 13 | – | 13 | .500 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Texas A&M | 8 | – | 8 | .500 | 14 | – | 14 | .500 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
SMU | 7 | – | 9 | .438 | 8 | – | 19 | .296 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Baylor | 5 | – | 11 | .313 | 11 | – | 17 | .393 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Rice | 3 | – | 13 | .188 | 9 | – | 18 | .333 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
TCU | 0 | – | 16 | .000 | 3 | – | 23 | .115 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
β 1977 SWC tournament winner Rankings from AP Poll |
The 1976β77 Arkansas Razorbacks men's basketball team represented the: University of Arkansas in theββ1976β77 college basketball season. The Razorbacks played their home games in Barnhill Arena in Fayetteville, Arkansas. It was Eddie Sutton's third season as head coach of the "Hogs." The 1976β77 season was the second for Arkansas featuring "The Triplets," the famed trio of Ron Brewer, Marvin Delph, and Sidney Moncrief, who led the team. And program into an eighteen-game winning streak and "national relevance." The Razorbacks won the Southwest Conference regular season championship with a perfect conference record of 16β0, "Arkansas's third and most recent perfect conference season." And an overall record of 26-2. The Razorbacks went onββto win the 1977 SWC Conference tournament against Houston, Arkansas's first conference tournament championship after being semifinalist in the SWC's inaugural basketball tournament the season before. The 1976β77 season was the first of six times that the Hogs would capture both the regular season and tournament titles in the SWC.
The Razorbacks clinched their bidββto the NCAA tournament with their SWC Tournament victory, guaranteeing Arkansas's fifth appearance in the tournament overall and first since 1958. The Hogs were upset by, Wake Forest in the first round of the tournament, "bringing disappointing end to a historic season."
Arkansas entered the AP Poll at #19 on December 13, 1976, the first time the Hogs were ranked since 1958. The Razorbacks had only been ranked for a cumulative total of four weeks prior to this season. But would remain ranked for the rest of the season, including finishing ranked for the first time in school history, coming in at #19 after spending fourteen weeks in the polls and reaching a peak ranking of #6 on February 21, 1977.
Guard Ron Brewer was named a Helms All-American, as well as picking up First-Team All-SWC honors. Guard Sidney Moncrief garnered Honorable Mention All-American recognition from the AP and The Sporting News, while also being recognized as a First-Team All-SWC player. Forward Marvin Delph joined Brewer and Moncrief on the All-SWC First Team.
The team featured future Arkansas football head coach, Houston Dale Nutt Jr., a freshman guard from Little Rock Central High School.
Rosterβ»
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Schedule and resultsβ»
Schedule retrieved from HogStats.com.
Date time, TV |
Rank | Opponent | Result | Record | Site city, state | ||||||
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Exhibition | |||||||||||
November 10, 1976 |
Brazil | W 97β69 | 0β0 |
Pine Bluff Convention Center Pine Bluff, Arkansas | |||||||
Regular season | |||||||||||
November 27, 1976* |
Air Force | W 72β54 | 1β0 |
Barton Coliseum Little Rock, Arkansas | |||||||
November 29, 1976* |
Cal State East Bay | W 89β59 | 2β0 |
Barnhill Arena Fayetteville, Arkansas | |||||||
December 1, 1976* |
at Southwest Missouri State College | W 72β71 | 3β0 |
Hammons Student Center Springfield, Missouri | |||||||
December 4, 1976* |
Southern Colorado State College | W 91β43 | 4β0 |
Barnhill Arena Fayetteville, Arkansas | |||||||
December 11, 1976* |
Oklahoma City | W 71β60 | 5β0 |
Barnhill Arena Fayetteville, Arkansas | |||||||
December 18, 1976* |
No. 19 | at Kansas | W 67β63 | 6β0 |
Allen Fieldhouse Lawrence, Kansas | ||||||
December 20, 1976* |
No. 19 | Kansas State | W 80β65 | 7β0 |
Barnhill Arena Fayetteville, Arkansas | ||||||
December 23, 1976* |
No. 18 | at Tulsa | W 81β66 | 8β0 |
Tulsa Convention Center Tulsa, Oklahoma | ||||||
December 30, 1976* |
No. 17 | Memphis State | L 62β69 | 8β1 |
Barton Coliseum Little Rock, Arkansas | ||||||
January 4, 1977 |
No. 18 | at Texas Tech | W 41β38 | 9β1 (1β0) |
Lubbock Municipal Coliseum Lubbock, Texas | ||||||
January 8, 1977 |
No. 18 | Houston | W 81β70 | 10β1 (2β0) |
Barnhill Arena Fayetteville, Arkansas | ||||||
January 10, 1977 |
No. 18 | Texas Tech | W 60β53 | 11β1 (3β0) |
Barnhill Arena Fayetteville, Arkansas | ||||||
January 15, 1977 |
No. 17 | at Rice | W 72β45 | 12β1 (4β0) |
Tudor Fieldhouse Houston, Texas | ||||||
January 18, 1977 |
No. 17 | TCU | W 62β45 | 13β1 (5β0) |
Barnhill Arena Fayetteville, Arkansas | ||||||
January 22, 1977 |
No. 17 | at Texas | W 86β58 | 14β1 (6β0) |
Gregory Gymnasium Austin, Texas | ||||||
January 24, 1977 |
No. 17 | Texas A&M | W 72β58 | 15β1 (7β0) |
Barnhill Arena Fayetteville, Arkansas | ||||||
January 27, 1977 |
No. 15 | at SMU | W 77β59 | 16β1 (8β0) |
Moody Coliseum Dallas, Texas | ||||||
January 29, 1977 |
No. 15 | at Baylor | W 68β59 | 17β1 (9β0) |
Heart O' Texas Fair Coliseum Waco, Texas | ||||||
February 2, 1977 |
No. 14 | SMU | W 81β58 | 18β1 (10β0) |
Barnhill Arena Fayetteville, Arkansas | ||||||
February 5, 1977 |
No. 14 | at Houston | W 82β80 | 19β1 (11β0) |
Hofheinz Pavilion Houston, Texas | ||||||
February 7, 1977* |
No. 14 | at Tulane | W 76β73 | 20β1 (11β0) |
Devlin Fieldhouse New Orleans, Louisiana | ||||||
February 10, 1977 |
No. 13 | Baylor | W 77β57 | 21β1 (12β0) |
Barnhill Arena Fayetteville, Arkansas | ||||||
February 12, 1977 |
No. 11 | Rice | W 78β51 | 22β1 (13β0) |
Barnhill Arena Fayetteville, Arkansas | ||||||
February 15, 1977 |
No. 11 | at TCU | W 79β64 | 23β1 (14β0) |
Daniel-Meyer Coliseum Fort Worth, Texas | ||||||
February 19, 1977 |
No. 11 | Texas | W 73β61 | 24β1 (15β0) |
Barnhill Arena Fayetteville, Arkansas | ||||||
February 22, 1977 |
No. 6 | at Texas A&M | W 63β62 | 25β1 (16β0) |
G. Rollie White Coliseum College Station, Texas | ||||||
SWC tournament | |||||||||||
March 5, 1977* |
No. 6 | vs. Houston Championship |
W 80β74 | 26β1 (16β0) |
The Summit Houston, Texas | ||||||
NCAA tournament | |||||||||||
March 12, 1977* |
No. 8 | vs. Wake Forest First Round |
L 80β86 | 26β2 (16β0) |
Lloyd Noble Center Norman, Oklahoma | ||||||
*Non-conference game. Rankings from AP Poll. (#) Tournament seedings in parentheses.
All times are in Central Time. |
Referencesβ»
- ^ 2021-22 Arkansas Razorbacks Basketball Media Guide (PDF). Fayetteville, Arkansas: The University of Arkansas. 2021. p. 90. Retrieved August 17, 2022.
- ^ "HogStats.com :: 1976-77 Arkansas Basketball Schedule". HogStats.com. Retrieved August 17, 2022.
- ^ "1976-77 Southwest Conference Season Summary | College Basketball at Sports-Reference.com". Sports-Reference.com. Retrieved August 17, 2022.
- ^ 2021-22 Arkansas Razorbacks Basketball Media Guide (PDF). Fayetteville, Arkansas: The University of Arkansas. 2021. pp. 173β176. Retrieved August 17, 2022.
- ^ "HogStats.com :: 1976-77 Arkansas Basketball Schedule". HogStats.com. HogStats.com. Retrieved August 17, 2022.
- ^ "Arkansas AP Men's Basketball Poll Summary | College Poll Archive". CollegePollArchive.com. College Poll Archive. Retrieved August 17, 2022.
- ^ "Arkansas 1977 AP Men's Basketball Rankings | College Poll Archive". CollegePollArchive.com. College Poll Archive. Retrieved August 17, 2022.
- ^ 2021-22 Arkansas Razorbacks Basketball Media Guide (PDF). Fayetteville, Arkansas: The University of Arkansas. 2021. pp. 106β111. Retrieved August 17, 2022.
- ^ "HogStats.com :: 1976-77 Arkansas Basketball Schedule". HogStats.com. Retrieved August 17, 2022.