In what year was the first NCAA Basketball Championship played on Monday night?

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there's not much around, it could be 1973, the way this is phrased In 1973, the NCAA tournament had not yet become the show it is today. Tickets were only {$10.} Television rights cost NBC {$1.16} million -- not much more than a Final Four 30-second commercial costs now. Rules were different too. Three-pointers and a shot-clock were still more than a decade away. Dunking was strictly prohibited. But one could argue that the 1973 championship game marked the beginning of the modern era of college hoops. At the very least, it was a milestone. The game between UCLA and Memphis State was the first NCAA championship televised in prime time, bringing it a record national viewing audience. Nearly 20,000 fans crowded into the St. Louis Arena, then the second-largest crowd ever to see a game. ... and the Tigers had the misfortune of being on the losing end of one of the greatest single-game performances in history. Walton went 21-for-22 from the field, scored 44 points, and pulled down 13 rebounds. The Tigers held on as long as they could, but with 10 minutes left in the game the Bruins pulled away for good, winning 87-66. But Walton, now an NBC commentator and recently named one of the NBA's Top 50 players, shares the limelight. 'A lot of credit came my way because it was the first Monday-night game, and visibility was unprecedented,' Walton told the San Diego Union-Tribune in 1993. 'Personally, I'd had better games. My man %5BKenon%5D was scoring too. I was in foul trouble most of the night.' www.memphisflyer.com/backissues/issue421/cvr421.htm Mar 18 02, 3:56 AM

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