The Dome itself was an attraction for the NCAA tournament to come to Houston, but it also proved not be the ideal basketball facility. Here's why.
NRG Stadium may be the center of college basketball in 2023, but 52 years ago, the Astrodome was the focus when Houston hosted the National Collegiate Basketball Championships for the first time in 1971.
Billy Hawkins, a professor at the University of Houston, says having these high-caliber teams of the time in town showed Houston was a big player in college basketball.UH vs. UCLA in 1968: Elvin Hayes remembers leading Cougars in first big college basketball game In the end, UCLA won the championship, winning 68-62. The Bruins once again raised the trophy on the Astrodome floor.
"When you think about basketball, intimacy is very important, so how the stadium had to be converted to accommodate, that was unusual," Hawkins said.
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