What teams went undefeated in the NCAA regular season but did not win the NCAA championship?

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13 teams have finished undefeated in regular season since the advent of the NCAA tourney, none have been national champion since the 1976 Indiana Hoosier team. Seven of 13 have won the championship. 4 that did not that I know of are 78-89 Indiana State, 78-79 Alcorn State, 91 UNLV, 2004 St Joes. I am obviously missing 2. But essentiall 7 of 12 undefeated teams that went to tourney won tourney. 78-79 Alcorn State team was not invited to the tourney.

Story from last season There have been only 12 teams in NCAA major college basketball history to go through the regular season undefeated, and seven which went undefeated all the way to becoming national champions. Those seven teams, the 1956 San Francisco Dons, the 1957 North Carolina Tarheels, The 1964, 1967, 1972, and 1973 UCLA Bruins, and the 1976 Indiana Hoosiers, are widely recognized as some of the best teams in the history of intercollegiate athletics. The 2004 version of Stanford and Saint Joseph's men's basketball squads aren't drawing those comparisons yet, but an undefeated run to a national championship in today's college sports landscape, could definitely change some people's opinions.

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Rutgers 1976

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