1971–72 UCLA Bruins men's basketball team

1971–72 UCLA Bruins men's basketball
NCAA tournament National champions
Pac-8 champions
Bruin Classic champions
National Championship Game,
W 81–76 vs. Florida State
ConferencePacific-8 Conference
Ranking
CoachesNo. 1
APNo. 1
Record30–0 (14–0 Pac-8)
Head coach
Assistant coachGary Cunningham
1971–72 Pacific-8 Conference men's basketball standings
Conf. Overall
Team W   L   PCT W   L   PCT
No. 1 UCLA 14 0   1.000 30 0   1.000
Washington 10 4   .714 20 6   .769
Oregon State 9 5   .643 18 10   .643
USC 9 5   .643 16 10   .615
California 6 8   .429 13 16   .448
Stanford 5 9   .357 10 15   .400
Washington State 3 11   .214 11 15   .423
Oregon 0 14   .000 6 20   .231
As of April 15, 1972
Rankings from AP Poll

The 1971–72 UCLA Bruins men's basketball team won the National Collegiate Championship on March 25, 1972, in the Los Angeles Sports Arena with an 81–76 victory over Florida State. It was the sixth consecutive championship (and eighth in nine years) under John Wooden, in his 25th year as head coach at UCLA. This was the final year that the national championship game was played on Saturday.

The 1971–72 Bruins had an undefeated record of 30–0, winning by an average margin of over thirty points. They won all 26 games in the regular season (fourteen in Pac-8 play), then four in the NCAA tournament. This was the 45th consecutive victory in a winning streak that reached 88 games, an NCAA record.