1984 NAIA Division I football season
The season was played from August to November 1984 and culminated in the 1984 NAIA Champion Bowl, played this year on December 15, 1984 at Estes Stadium in Conway, Arkansas on the campus of the University of Central Arkansas.


1984 NAIA Division I football season
Carson–Newman and Central Arkansas played to a tie, 19–19, in the Champion Bowl and both teams were named co-national champions, Carson–Newman's second NAIA title and Central Arkansas' first.


1984 NAIA Division II football season
The 1984 NAIA Division II football season, as part of the 1984 college football season in the United States and the 29th season of college football sponsored by the NAIA, was the 15th season of play of the NAIA's lower division for football.


1984 NAIA Division II football season
The season was played from August to November 1984 and culminated in the 1984 NAIA Division II Football National Championship, played at Maxwell Field on the campus of Linfield College in McMinnville, Oregon.


1984 NAIA Division II football season
Linfield defeated Northwestern (IA), the defending national champions, in the championship game, 33–22, to win their second NAIA national title.


1984 NAIA Ice Hockey Championship
The 1984 NAIA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament involved four schools playing in single-elimination bracket to determine the national champion of men's NAIA college ice hockey. The 1984 tournament was the 17th men's ice hockey tournament to be sponsored by the NAIA. The tournament began on March 1, 1983 and ended with the championship game on March 2, 1983.


1984 NAIA Ice Hockey Championship
The 1984 tournament marked the last season that the NAIA sponsored the sport of men's ice hockey at the championship level. A mass-exodus of schools to NCAA Division II and the creation of the Division III men's hockey championship further led to the decline of NAIA Hockey in the decade.


1984 NAIA Men's Basketball Tournament
The 1984 NAIA Men's Basketball Tournament was held in March at Kemper Arena in Kansas City, Missouri. The 47th annual NAIA basketball tournament featured 32 teams playing in a single-elimination format.


1984 NAIA Men's Basketball Tournament, 1984 NAIA bracket, 3rd place game
The third place game featured the losing teams from the national semifinalist to determine 3rd and 4th places in the tournament. This game was played until 1988.


1984 NASCAR Winston Cup Series
The 1984 NASCAR Winston Cup Series was the 36th season of professional stock car racing in the United States and the 13th modern-era Cup series season. It began on Sunday February 19 and ended on Sunday November 18. Terry Labonte was crowned champion at the end of the season. This was the final year for Chrysler until Dodge returned in 2001.


1984 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Races, Daytona 500
Cale Yarborough completed a lap of 201.848 mph (324.828 km/h), officially breaking the 200 mph barrier at Daytona. He drafted past Darrell Waltrip on the final lap, winning for the second year in a row, and fourth time in his career. Richard Petty, making his debut with Curb Motorsports, stormed from 34th to lead over 20 laps before a camshaft broke.


1984 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Races, Richmond 400
Ricky Rudd, still sporting swelling in his face from his bad Daytona crash, ran down Darrell Waltrip for his first win with Bud Moore Engineering.


1984 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Races, Carolina 500
Bobby Allison grabbed his first win of the season, while a vicious four-car crash swept up rookie Rusty Wallace on Lap 372; the guardrail was damaged to where it took half an hour to repair it. Before the race controversy erupted between the track and sponsor Warner Hodgdon over late payment of sponsorship fees; the fees were paid in full March 19.


1984 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Races, Atlanta 500
Benny Parsons fought off Dale Earnhardt and Cale Yarborough in a three-car race; the win was Parsons' final Winston Cup win. Darrell Waltrip was dropped from fifth to 10th after the race when NASCAR ruled he'd passed illegally to get a lap back late in the race.


1984 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Races, Valleydale 500
Waltrip passed Tim Richmond with 44 laps to go for his seventh-straight Bristol International Raceway win. He was pressured by Bobby Allison, who led 190 laps to Waltrip's 205; Allison faltered with 57 laps to go and finished 19th.


1984 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Races, Northwestern Bank 400
Ricky Rudd led 290 laps but North Wilkesboro Speedway would not see him win as he faltered in the final 28 laps. Tim Richmond pounced to the win, what would be his last with Raymond Beadle's team.


1984 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Races, TranSouth 500
Two thunderstorms and multiple crashes permeated Darlington's annual spring race as Darrell Waltrip took his fourth Rebel 500 win. Pole-sitter Benny Parsons hit the wall on the opening lap; on Lap Three a three-abreast stack-up for second led to a four-car crash involving Bobby Allison, Richard Petty (who led seven laps and still finished seventh), Geoff Bodine, and Dick Brooks. Around Lap 137 following a Bobby Hillin, Jr. crash Joe Ruttman, Terry Labonte, Buddy Baker, and Rusty Wallace crashed on the backstretch on the yellow. In a later five-car melee in the second turn D. K. Ulrich climbed over Greg Sacks's hood; Tim Richmond crashed twice while Dave Marcis crashed while leading (he still finished 13th) after being sideswiped by Buddy Baker. In all some thirty cars were involved in wrecks.


1984 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Races, Sovran Bank 500
Ricky Rudd led 121 laps and Bobby Allison led 266 laps, but both were knocked out of contention in the final 60 laps as Geoff Bodine took his first career Winston Cup win and gave Charlotte car dealer Rick Hendrick his first win. Ron Bouchard, a longtime adversary of Bodine on NASCAR's Modified Tour, finished second.


1984 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Races, Winston 500
The Winston 500 at Talladega was the 2nd most competitive race in the history of NASCAR Winston Cup. The race had 75 different lead changes, a record that stood until the 2010 Aaron's 499 with 88 changes, which was matched in 2011. Cale Yarborough passed Harry Gant in the final lap to take the win.


1984 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Races, Music City 420
Nashville's Fairgrounds race track had seen numerous controversies over the years, but 1984's controversy may have topped all of them. On lap 418 three cars crashed on the backstretch; Darrell Waltrip led laps 418 and 419 but Junior Johnson teammate Neil Bonnett passed him on the final lap under yellow; Dick Beaty of NASCAR initially ruled Bonnett the race winner; the following Monday, however, NASCAR reversed the decision since the yellow had flown before the last-lap pass.


1984 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Races, Budweiser 500
Richard Petty had not won at Dover Downs International Speedway since 1979 and had not won the track's spring/early summer race since 1969. But he battled Bill Elliott, Tim Richmond, and Harry Gant to the win, his 199th Winston Cup win. Gant led 218 laps but fell out while running in the top five 108 laps from the end, while Elliott cut a tire while running second with 40 to go. It was Petty's first win not with Petty Enterprises since driving a Don Robertson Plymouth to two wins in 1970.


1984 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Races, Budweiser 500
Because of the 1971 Myers Brothers 250 controversy and NASCAR rules regarding combination races of the time (compared to modern rules), there is a dispute if this was his 200th win. (Petty, the highest-placed Grand National car in the combination Grand National and Grand American race, would be credited with a Grand National, or as it is called as of 2017, the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series, win under combination race regulations in play.)


1984 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Races, World 600
Cale Yarborough's engine failure sealed a win for Bobby Allison; it proved to be his final win for DiGard Motorsports


1984 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Races, Budweiser 400
Terry Labonte passed Bobby Allison and led the final 23 laps for his first win of the season and first win at Riverside International Raceway barely two years after a very serious crash there.


1984 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Races, Van Scoy Diamond 500
Cale Yarborough outlasted his competitors to take the win at Pocono Raceway. David Pearson drove Neil Bonnett's Chevrolet in qualifying and won the pole; he relieved Bonnett and finished 14th; ironically David finished just behind arch-rival Richard Petty, who led early before finishing 13th.


1984 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Races, Michigan 400
Yarborough led 67 laps but faltered late as Bill Elliott achieved a breakthrough win, his second career win but first on a superspeedway and first with Coors sponsorship.


1984 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Races, Firecracker 400
Richard Petty's last win. In the 1984 Firecracker 400, Richard Petty edged out Cale Yarborough by about 8 inches to visit Victory Lane for the 200th and what turned out to be the final time.


1984 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Races, Pepsi 420
Geoff Bodine led 327 laps to the win at Nashville - it would turn out to be the final Winston Cup race at the Fairgrounds as Warner Hodgedon's racing empire began cracking. Richard Petty started third but fell out after 212 laps with engine failure; it was his first race having to get engines from suppliers other than the DiGard team after the Gardners ended their engine deal with Curb Motorsports.


1984 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Races, Summer 500
At Pocono Harry Gant burst past pole-sitter Bill Elliott on the opening lap and edged Cale Yarborough and Elliott at the stripe after leading 107 laps. Bobby Allison led one lap but climbed the wall hard in the Tunnel Turn (one of nine yellows during the day) and finished a distant 28th.


1984 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Races, Talladega 500
Dale Earnhardt fought off a ten car pack, passing Terry Labonte on the last lap to win his second consecutive Talladega 500. The race featured 68 lead changes among 16 drivers.


1984 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Races, Champion Spark Plug 400
Terry Labonte led 117 laps as he, Darrell Waltrip, and pole-sitter Bill Elliott led 194 of 200 laps at Michigan International Speedway. With no yellows, pitstops became the key as Waltrip stretch his fuel mileage for the win.


1984 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Races, Busch 500
Darrell Waltrip led 144 laps but after halfway he fell out and finished 12th, ending his win streak at Bristol International Raceway. Terry Labonte led the final 124 laps but had to withstand a challenge from Bobby Allison to grab the win, his fourth career win and first on a short track.


1984 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Races, Southern 500
Amid numerous crashes Harry Gant led 277 laps to an easy win. He thus moved into second place in points behind Terry Labonte.


1984 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Races, Capital City 400
Darrell Waltrip, despite more wins than any other driver, found himself a distant fifth in points; he led 321 laps for the win but was still 185 points out of the lead. Dale Earnhardt grabbed third in the race and second in points behind Labonte (eighth at the end) while Harry Gant finished ninth.


1984 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Races, Delaware 500
Harry Gant and Terry Labonte combined to lead 385 of 500 laps at Dover Downs International Speedway en route to a 1-2 finish, Gant's third win of the season, as numerous crashes thinned the field; among those involved in wrecks were Bill Elliott, Rusty Wallace, Tim Richmond, and defending race champ Bobby Allison. Dale Earnhardt led 35 laps but finished three laps down; Ron Bouchard led 68 laps but finished five laps down. Richard Petty, winner at Dover in May, fell out with oil pump failure.


1984 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Races, Goody's 500
Despite leading 313 laps to the win, Darrell Waltrip was now 215 points out of the lead following Martinsville's early-autumn race. Terry Labonte finished second and held a 91-point lead over Harry Gant (fourth). Pole-sitter Geoff Bodine led the first 37 laps before his oil pump failed. Joe Ruttman fell out with engine failure and left Ron Benfield's team after two potent but ultimately futile seasons.


1984 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Races, Miller High Life 500
Benny Parsons and Bill Elliott claimed the front row and combined to lead 284 of 334 laps. Cale Yarborough and point leaders Harry Gant and Terry Labonte led 37 laps between them and finished 3-4-5 at the end. Elliott grabbed the lead with 60 to go and pulled away to his second win of the season. Gant finished fourth and stood 86 points behind Labonte.


1984 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Races, Holly Farms 400
Junior Johnson's Chevrolets led 305 of 400 laps as Darrell Waltrip took his seventh win of the season and Neil Bonnett finished fifth. But he was 246 points out of the lead and realistically was eliminated from the championship; the story fell to Harry Gant as he finished a close second in the race; combined with a ninth-place finish by Terry Labonte the finish helped Gant close to 59 points out.


1984 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Races, Warner W. Hodgdon American 500
North Carolina Motor Speedway saw its final race under Warner Hodgdon sponsorship as the racing magnate's business empire was deteriorating more and more. Numerous crashes erupted; a multicar melee on a restart eliminated Geoff Bodine and Tim Richmond. The most spectacular crash came when Jerry Bowman flipped over and slid on his roof down the backstretch.


1984 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Races, Warner W. Hodgdon American 500
Bill Elliott and Harry Gant combined to lead 299 laps; in the final 55 laps Gant ran down Elliott and took the lead with two to go, but Elliott dove back under Gant and the two raced abreast the final two miles; they hit the stripe abreast and Elliott won by less than a wheel. Labonte finished third and held a 49-point lead on Gant with two races to go.


1984 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Races, Atlanta Journal 500
Geoff Bodine stormed into the lead on the opening lap and led 125 laps before his engine failed with 36 laps to go; this put Dale Earnhardt into the lead for his second win of the season, while pole-sitter Bill Elliott finished second. Terry Labonte and Harry Gant fell out with engine failures and the points race stood with Labonte holding a 42-point lead on Gant. Tragedy blackened the event when Terry Schoonover crashed some 200 miles in and was killed.


1984 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Races, Winston Western 500
Geoff Bodine grabbed his third win of the season as Terry Labonte won the pole and finished third, finally clinching the Winston Cup title. Harry Gant finished eighth and finished second in points. Lame duck series champ Bobby Allison led 56 laps but slid off the track with four to go and finished seventh; arch-rival Darrell Waltrip led 33 laps but blew his engine and finished 34th. Bodine referenced budding rumors about Riverside International Raceway's future when he said he was glad to have won as "they're going to tear this place down."


1984 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Rookie of the year
Rusty Wallace a future hall of famer (see Class of 2013 hall of fame) beat out Dean Combs, Clark Dwyer, Tommy Ellis, Doug Heveron, Phil Parsons, and Greg Sacks to win the award in 1984. Only Wallace competed in all 30 races. Dean Combs competed in 12 races. Clark Dwyer competed in 26 races (he skipped rounds 25-27). Tommy Ellis competed in 20 races (he skipped rounds 1-4, 11, 13-14, and 28-30). Doug Heveron competed in 16 races (he failed to qualify for the spring Richmond race and the Southern 500). Phil Parsons competed in 23 races (He skipped rounds 3-4, 10-11, 13, 23-24, and 28). Greg Sacks competed in 29 races only skipping the spring Bristol race.


1984 NBA All-Star Game
The 34th National Basketball Association All-Star Game was played on January 29, 1984, at McNichols Sports Arena in Denver. The East All-Stars defeated the West All-Stars. 154–145. Isiah Thomas of the Detroit Pistons was named the MVP of the game. As of 2021, this is the most recent NBA All-Star Game played during the month of January.


1984 NBA All-Star Game, Slam Dunk Contest
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1984 NBA Finals
The 1984 NBA World Championship Series, also known as Showdown '84, was the championship round of the National Basketball Association (NBA)'s 1983–84 season, and the culmination of the season's playoffs. The Eastern Conference champion Boston Celtics defeated the Western Conference champion Los Angeles Lakers in a seven-game Finals, winning Game 7 111–102. Celtics forward Larry Bird averaged 27 points and 14 rebounds a game during the series, earning the NBA Finals Most Valuable Player (MVP). Bird was also named the league's regular season MVP for that year.


1984 NBA Finals
This series was the long-awaited rematch of the Los Angeles Lakers and Boston Celtics after their rivalry was revived in 1979 with the Magic Johnson–Larry Bird pair entering the league. After the Lakers won Game 1, a crucial steal in Game 2 led to a tie game and the Celtics were able to win in overtime to tie the series. The Lakers won Game 3 easily and almost won Game 4, but were again thwarted.


1984 NBA Finals
Now tied 2-2, the Lakers and Celtics each held serve at their home court to send the series to Boston for Game 7. Game 5 was a classic, with Bird coming up with a huge game in one of the hottest games ever (97 °F (36 °C)) in the non-air conditioned Boston Garden. Game 7 was also contested in hot temperatures that hovered around 91 °F (33 °C). The score was close but the contest eventually went to the Celtics. Cedric Maxwell scored 24 points against the Los Angeles Lakers in the decisive Game 7 victory.


1984 NBA Finals
Los Angeles won all three games played on Sunday afternoons. Boston won the games played on Tuesday night, Wednesday night, Thursday night, and Friday night.


1984 NBA Finals
The Series schedule was odd due to the television schedule. Game One was played on a Sunday afternoon in Boston, about 36 hours after the Lakers had eliminated the Phoenix Suns in the Western Finals. The teams then had three plus days off, not playing until Thursday night. Then, after Game 3 on Sunday afternoon in Los Angeles, the teams had two plus days off, not playing again until Wednesday night. That in turn started a wearying back-and-forth across the country, Wednesday night at LA, Friday night at Boston, Sunday afternoon at LA, and Tuesday night at Boston, to end the series.


1984 NBA Finals
The following year, the Finals format switched to 2-3-2, where Games 1, 2, 6, and 7 were hosted by the team with the best record. The change in format came after Red Auerbach complained about the constant travelling during the finals. The 2-2-1-1-1 format would return for the 2014 NBA Finals.


1984 NBA Finals, Background
The seeds of the 1984 Finals were first sown five years earlier, during the 1979 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament. In the final game of the tournament, Larry Bird and his erstwhile unbeaten Indiana State Sycamores lost to Magic Johnson and his Michigan State Spartans by the score of 75–64. After the tournament, both entered the NBA in the 1979–80 season with high expectations.


1984 NBA Finals, Background
Bird, who was selected 6th in the 1978 NBA draft but committed back to Indiana State for his senior season, was named Rookie of the Year after leading the Celtics to a 32-game turnaround from the previous year, going from 29 to 61 wins. The expected Celtics–Lakers finals, however, never happened. The Philadelphia 76ers defeated the Celtics in the conference finals before losing to the Lakers in the 1980 NBA Finals, with Johnson earning Finals MVP honors for his Game 6 performance. Since then Bird won a championship in 1981, then Magic led the Lakers to the finals in 1982 and 1983, winning in the former.


1984 NBA Finals, Background, Boston Celtics
In the 1983–84 season, the Celtics won 62 games to lead the league. The Celtics were led by Bird, who won his first MVP award, and was complemented by 1981 Finals MVP Cedric Maxwell, first-time all-star and Sixth Man Award winner Kevin McHale, Robert Parish, Gerald Henderson and Danny Ainge. Boston's most crucial addition was Dennis Johnson, whom they acquired from the Phoenix Suns in the offseason in hopes of addressing their porous back-court defense.


1984 NBA Finals, Background, Boston Celtics
In the playoffs, the Celtics defeated the Washington Bullets in four, the New York Knicks in seven, and the Milwaukee Bucks in five.


1984 NBA Finals, Background, Los Angeles Lakers
The Lakers were coming off a four-game sweep by the Philadelphia 76ers in the previous year's finals. Before the season began, the Lakers traded long-time guard Norm Nixon to the San Diego Clippers in exchange for the draft rights to Byron Scott. The trade signaled a transition period, as some of the key players from the first two championships gave way to younger talent. Despite the changes, it did not stop the Lakers from finishing with the best record (54–28) in the Western Conference, powered by their one-two punch of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Magic Johnson.


1984 NBA Finals, Background, Los Angeles Lakers
During the playoffs, the Lakers defeated the Kansas City Kings in three, the Dallas Mavericks in five, and the Phoenix Suns in six. However, the Lakers suffered a key injury when their 3rd leading scorer, Jamaal Wilkes (17 PPG) was ruled out of the finals. This cost the Lakers valuable depth, as James Worthy, a key contributor off the bench, would now have to start in Wilkes' place.


1984 NBA Finals, Background, Regular season series
The Los Angeles Lakers won both games in the regular season series:


1984 NBA Finals, Series summary, Game 1
The Lakers opened the series with a 115-109 victory at Boston Garden.


1984 NBA Finals, Series summary, Game 2
In Game 2, the Lakers led 113-111 with 18 seconds left when Gerald Henderson stole a James Worthy pass to score a game tying layup. The Lakers then inbounded the ball and Magic Johnson inexplicably dribbled the clock out during regulation time. The Celtics eventually prevailed in overtime 124-121, thanks to Scott Wedman's game-winning shot from the baseline with 14 ticks left.


1984 NBA Finals, Series summary, Game 3
In Game 3, the Lakers raced to an easy 137-104 victory as Magic Johnson dished out 21 assists, an NBA Finals record. After the game, Larry Bird said his team played like "sissies" in an attempt to light a fire under his teammates. It was Boston's worst playoff defeat in franchise history to that date.


1984 NBA Finals, Series summary, Game 4
In Game 4, the Lakers had a five-point game lead with less than a minute to play, but made several execution errors, including Magic Johnson's bad pass to Robert Parish late in the fourth quarter, and missing two crucial free throws in OT as the Celtics tied the game and then came away with a 129-125 victory in overtime. Johnson was called "Tragic Johnson" by Celtics fans due to the two crucial errors he committed in Game 4 (the Parish steal, followed by two botched free throws in OT).


1984 NBA Finals, Series summary, Game 4
The Lakers took an early lead in overtime, but a controversial foul call foul on Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, with 16 seconds remaining in regulation, had been his 6th foul, and he was out of the game. The Laker momentum was stalled, and Larry Bird came up with a crucial jumper over Magic Johnson with 16 seconds remaining in overtime, then M.L. Carr stole James Worthy's inbounds pass followed by a dunk to seal the win.


1984 NBA Finals, Series summary, Game 4
The game was also marked by Celtic forward Kevin McHale's clothesline take-down of Laker forward Kurt Rambis on a breakaway layup which triggered the physical aspect of the rivalry. Larry Bird would go after Kareem Abdul-Jabbar later on in the third quarter, and 1981 Finals MVP Cedric Maxwell further antagonized the Lakers by following a missed James Worthy free throw by crossing the lane with his hands around his own neck, symbolizing that Worthy was "choking" under pressure. Also, Bird pushed Michael Cooper to the baseline following the inbound play during the second quarter.


1984 NBA Finals, Series summary, Game 4
Game 4 of the 1984 Finals marked the last Finals game to go into overtime until Game 2 of the 1990 NBA Finals.


1984 NBA Finals, Series summary, Game 5
In Game 5, the Celtics took a 3-2 series lead with a 121-103 victory, as Larry Bird scored 34 points and grabbed 17 rebounds. The game was known as the "Heat Game", as it was played under 97 °F (36 °C) heat, and without any air conditioning, at Boston Garden. The Celtics did not warm up with their sweat pants on because of extreme heat, and an oxygen tank was provided to give air to an aging Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Referee Hugh Evans became dehydrated and fainted at one point in the first half.


1984 NBA Finals, Series summary, Game 5
He worked the first half, but was replaced by John Vanak for the second half. It was also the last time that a team with home court advantage in the NBA finals played Game 5 on its own floor until 2014. The next year, the NBA Finals switched to the 2-3-2 format with Game 5 going to the team without home-court advantage, which continued through 2013.


1984 NBA Finals, Series summary, Game 6
In Game 6, the Lakers evened the series with a 119-108 victory. In the game the Lakers answered the Celtics' rough tactics when Laker forward James Worthy shoved Cedric Maxwell into a basket support. After the game a Laker fan threw a beer at Celtics guard M.L. Carr as he left the floor, causing him to label the series "all-out-war."


1984 NBA Finals, Series summary, Game 7
In Game 7, the heat that was an issue in Game 5 was not as bad (indoor temperatures hovered around 91 °F (33 °C) during the game, due to additional fans being brought in to try to cool the air). The Celtics were led by Cedric Maxwell who had 24 points, eight rebounds and eight assists as they came away with a 111-102 victory. In the game, the Lakers rallied to cut a 14-point-deficit to three with one minute remaining when Cedric Maxwell knocked the ball away from Magic Johnson. Dennis Johnson responded by sinking two free throws to seal the victory. Larry Bird was named MVP of the series.


1984 NBA Finals, Series summary, Game 7
The series was the eighth time in NBA history that the Celtics and Lakers met in the NBA finals, with Boston winning each time, and the first championship that the Celtics claimed at home since 1966.


1984 NBA Finals, Television coverage
The 1984 championship series scored high TV ratings. All the playoff action was documented on the 1984 NBA Season documentary Pride and Passion, narrated by Dick Stockton. During that year Lesley Visser, Stockton's wife, became the first woman to cover the NBA Finals for CBS. She reported on the Celtics' sideline while Pat O'Brien reported on the Lakers' sideline. Stockton, the play-by-play announcer for the series, was joined by Tom Heinsohn, and the duo would call the next four NBA finals until 1987.


1984 NBA Finals, Aftermath
Reflecting back on the series, Magic Johnson said ". . . (the Lakers) learned a valuable lesson. Only the strong survive. . . talent just don't get it. That's the first time the (80's) Lakers ever encountered that, someone stronger minded." The teams met again in the 1985 finals, which the Lakers won 4–2.


1984 NBA draft
The 1984 NBA draft was the 37th annual draft of the National Basketball Association (NBA). It was held at the Felt Forum at Madison Square Garden in New York City, New York, on June 19, 1984, before the 1984–85 season. The draft is generally considered to be one of the greatest in NBA history, with four Hall of Famers being drafted in the first sixteen picks and five overall. It included first pick Akeem Olajuwon, Michael Jordan, Charles Barkley, John Stockton, and Oscar Schmidt. The draft was broadcast in the United States on the USA Network.


1984 NBA draft
In this draft, 23 NBA teams took turns selecting amateur U.S. college basketball players and other eligible players, including international players. The Houston Rockets won the coin flip and were awarded the first overall pick, while the Portland Trail Blazers, who obtained the Indiana Pacers' first-round pick in a trade, were awarded the second pick. The remaining first-round picks and the subsequent rounds were assigned to teams in reverse order of their win–loss record in the previous season.


1984 NBA draft
The Cleveland Cavaliers were awarded an extra first-round draft pick as compensation for the draft picks traded away by their previous owner, Ted Stepien. A player who had finished his four-year college eligibility was automatically eligible for selection. Before the draft, five college underclassmen announced that they would leave college early and would be eligible for selection. Prior to the draft, the San Diego Clippers relocated to Los Angeles and became the Los Angeles Clippers. The draft consisted of 10 rounds comprising the selection of 228 players. This draft was the last to be held before the creation of the draft lottery in 1985. It was also the first NBA draft to be overseen by David Stern, who would continue as the commissioner of the league for the following 30 years.


1984 NBA draft, Trades involving draft picks, Draft-day trades
The following trades involving drafted players were made on the day of the draft.


1984 NBA draft, Trades involving draft picks, Pre-draft trades
Prior to the day of the draft, the following trades were made and resulted in exchanges of picks between the teams.


1984 NBA draft, Legacy
The Houston Rockets used their first pick to draft Akeem Olajuwon, a junior center from the University of Houston. The Nigerian-born Olajuwon became the second foreign-born player to be drafted first overall, after Mychal Thompson from the Bahamas in 1978. The Portland Trail Blazers used the second overall pick to draft Sam Bowie from the University of Kentucky. The Chicago Bulls used the third pick to draft Naismith and Wooden College Player of the Year Michael Jordan from the University of North Carolina.


1984 NBA draft, Legacy
Jordan went on to win the Rookie of the Year Award and was also selected to the All-NBA Second Team in his rookie season. Jordan's teammate at North Carolina, Sam Perkins, was drafted fourth by the Dallas Mavericks. Charles Barkley, a junior forward from Auburn University, was drafted fifth by the Philadelphia 76ers. Olajuwon, Jordan and Barkley, along with the 16th pick John Stockton and the 131st pick Oscar Schmidt, have been inducted to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. The first four mentioned players were also named in the 50 Greatest Players in NBA History list announced at the league's 50th anniversary in 1996.


1984 NBA draft, Legacy
Olajuwon's achievements include two NBA championships, two Finals Most Valuable Player Awards, one Most Valuable Player Award, two Defensive Player of the Year Awards, twelve All-NBA Team selections, twelve All-Star Game selections and nine All-Defensive Team selections. Olajuwon retired as the all–time league leader in total blocked shots with 3,830 blocks.


1984 NBA draft, Legacy
The third pick, Jordan, achieved even greater success than Olajuwon. He won six NBA championships, six Finals Most Valuable Player Awards, five Most Valuable Player Awards, one Defensive Player of the Year Award, eleven All-NBA Team selections, fourteen All-Star Game selections, three NBA All Star Game MVP Awards, and nine All-Defensive Team selections.


1984 NBA draft, Legacy
Barkley and Stockton never won an NBA championship, but both players received numerous awards and honors. Barkley won the Most Valuable Player in 1993 and was selected to eleven All-NBA Teams, eleven All-Star Games, and was the MVP of the 1991 All Star Game. Stockton was selected to eleven All-NBA Teams, ten All-Star Games and five All-Defensive Teams before retiring as the all–time league leader in assists and steals and was co-MVP of the 1993 All Star Game along with his Utah Jazz teammate Karl Malone. Jordan, Barkley and Stockton would later play as teammates for the 1992 "Dream Team".


1984 NBA draft, Legacy
Alvin Robertson, the seventh pick, is the only other player from this draft who has won annual NBA awards as a player; he won both the Defensive Player of the Year Award and the Most Improved Player Award in 1986. He was also selected to one All-NBA Team, four All-Star Games, six consecutive All-Defensive Teams. Both Robertson and Olajuwon are among only four players in NBA history who have ever achieved the extremely rare feat of recording a quadruple double.


1984 NBA draft, Legacy
Two other players from this draft, ninth pick Otis Thorpe and eleventh pick Kevin Willis, were also selected to one All-Star Game each. Willis also had one selection to the All-NBA Team. Rick Carlisle, the 70th pick, became a coach after ending his playing career and won the Coach of the Year Award in 2002 while coaching the Detroit Pistons. In 2011, he coached the Dallas Mavericks to an NBA Championship.


1984 NBA draft, Legacy
The 1984 draft class is considered to be one of the best in NBA history as it produced five Hall of Famers and seven All-Stars. However, it was also marked by the Blazers' selection of Sam Bowie, considered one of the biggest draft busts in NBA history. It is believed that the Blazers picked Bowie over Michael Jordan because they already had an All Star shooting guard in Jim Paxson and a young shooting guard in Clyde Drexler, whom they drafted in the 1983 draft.


1984 NBA draft, Legacy
Although Drexler went on to have a successful career, Bowie's career was cut short by injuries; he had missed two of the past three seasons in his college career as well. Despite having a 10-year career in the NBA and averaging 10.9 points and 7.5 rebounds per game, Bowie's career was interrupted by five leg surgeries, which limited him to 139 games in five years with the Blazers.


1984 NBA draft, Legacy, Other notable selections
Brazilian Oscar Schmidt was drafted with the 131st pick in the sixth round by the New Jersey Nets. However, Schmidt turned down the offers to play in the NBA and stayed to play in Italy and later in Brazil. He played in five Olympics and was the top scorer in three of them. He finished his career with 49,703 points with various clubs and the Brazilian national team, more than the NBA's career scoring leader, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, who scored 38,387 points in his NBA career. In 2010, International Basketball Federation (FIBA) honored Schmidt with an induction to the FIBA Hall of Fame, and Schmidt was inducted by the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2013.


1984 NBA draft, Legacy, Other notable selections
University of Houston track and field Olympic Champion Carl Lewis, who had never played college basketball, was drafted by the Chicago Bulls with the 208th pick in the 10th round. Lewis would dominate the Olympic Games in Los Angeles in the summer of 1984. Lewis, who had also been drafted in NFL draft of the same year by the Dallas Cowboys, stayed with his athletics career and went on to win nine Olympic gold medals and eight World Championships gold medals.


1984 NBA draft, Legacy, Other notable selections
In the fifth round, the Portland Trail Blazers drafted Mike Whitmarsh, who starred for the University of San Diego in both basketball and volleyball, with the 111th pick. Whitmarsh played professional basketball in Germany for three years, but never played in the NBA. He then left basketball to play beach volleyball, where he achieved greater success, including a silver medal in the Olympics.


1984 NBA draft, Legacy, Other notable selections
The final pick in the 1984 Draft, number 228 by the Boston Celtics, was Dan Trant of Clark University. Trant never played in a regular season game for the Celtics. Trant was working in his office at the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001 and was killed in the terrorist attacks that day.


1984 NBA draft, Legacy, Other notable selections
This draft would be the last of the NBA that would be without any undrafted players entering the NBA. Starting from 1985 onward, multiple undrafted players from each year would enter the NBA, with more of them coming after the league decreased the number of rounds from the draft from 10 to the current two.


1984 NBA draft, Notes
^ 1: When Hakeem Olajuwon first arrived to the United States in 1981, his first name was incorrectly spelled as "Akeem". He used that spelling until March 9, 1991, when he announced that he would add an H and changed it to "Hakeem", the original Arabic spelling of his name. ^ 2: Hakeem Olajuwon was born in Nigeria, but became a naturalized United States citizen in 1993. He has represented the United States national team.


1984 NBA draft, Notes
^ 3: As compensation for the first-round draft picks traded away by the previous owner, Ted Stepien, the Cleveland Cavaliers were awarded extra first-round draft picks in the 1983, 1984, 1985 and 1986 drafts in exchange for cash. ^ 4: Even though Tim McCormick was a senior, he had one year of college eligibility remaining and thus had to apply for early entry. ^ 5: Stuart Gray was born in the Panama Canal Zone which was controlled by the United States. He has represented Panama national team.


1984 NBA playoffs
The 1984 NBA playoffs was the postseason tournament of the National Basketball Association's 1983–84 season. The tournament concluded with the Eastern Conference champion Boston Celtics defeating the Western Conference champion Los Angeles Lakers 4 games to 3 in the NBA Finals. Larry Bird was named NBA Finals MVP.


1984 NBA playoffs
This was the first postseason allowing 16 teams to qualify, a format still in use. The first round format was also changed from best-of-3 to best-of 5.


1984 NBA playoffs
It was the first NBA Finals meeting between the Celtics and Lakers since 1969; they met 7 times in the Finals from 1959 to 1969, with Boston coming out on top each year. Going into the 1984 playoffs, the Lakers had already won 2 titles in the 1980s and the Celtics 1, making the revival of the Celtics–Lakers rivalry arguably inevitable and certainly highly anticipated.


1984 NBA playoffs
Two teams made their playoff debuts and won their first playoff series: the Utah Jazz (who joined the NBA for the 1974–75 season as the New Orleans Jazz) and Dallas Mavericks, a 1980 expansion team. The Jazz did not miss the playoffs again until 2004.


1984 NBA playoffs
The Detroit Pistons made the playoffs for the first time since 1977, starting a string of nine consecutive appearances that included five straight Conference Finals appearances (1987-1991), three consecutive NBA Finals appearances (1988, 1989, and 1990) and two NBA Championships. They did not miss the playoffs again until 1993.


1984 NBA playoffs
The New Jersey Nets won a playoff series for the first time in their NBA history, upsetting the defending champion Philadelphia 76ers in 5. This was also the only time the road team won every game in a five-game playoff series. The Nets would not win a playoff series again until 2002.


1984 NBA playoffs
This was the final postseason appearance for the Kansas City Kings, as the team moved to Sacramento, California two seasons later. Kemper Arena hosted its final NBA playoff game.


1984 NBA playoffs
The Kingdome also hosted its final NBA playoff game, as the Seattle SuperSonics moved back full-time to the Seattle Center Coliseum two years later. However, the Kingdome continued to host Sonics regular season games on occasion until 1994.


1984 NBA playoffs
The 1984 playoffs also involved two of the hottest games in NBA history. Game 5 of the First Round between the Knicks and Pistons was played at Joe Louis Arena, as the Pontiac Silverdome was unavailable, with temperatures reaching as high as 120°. Game 5 of the NBA Finals between the Celtics and Lakers at Boston Garden reached temperatures as high as 100°, as the Garden lacked air-conditioning, coupled with the sweltering outdoors conditions in Boston.


1984 NBA playoffs, First Round, Eastern Conference First Round, (1) Boston Celtics vs. (8) Washington Bullets
This was the third playoff meeting between these two teams, with each team winning one series apiece.


1984 NBA playoffs, First Round, Eastern Conference First Round, (2) Milwaukee Bucks vs. (7) Atlanta Hawks
This was the first playoff meeting between the Hawks and the Bucks.


1984 NBA playoffs, First Round, Eastern Conference First Round, (3) Philadelphia 76ers vs. (6) New Jersey Nets
This was the second playoff meeting between these two teams, with the 76ers winning the first meeting.


1984 NBA playoffs, First Round, Eastern Conference First Round, (4) Detroit Pistons vs. (5) New York Knicks
This was the first playoff meeting between the Pistons and the Knicks.


1984 NBA playoffs, First Round, Western Conference First Round, (1) Los Angeles Lakers vs. (8) Kansas City Kings
This was the seventh playoff meeting between these two teams, with the Lakers winning five of the first six meetings. All previous series took place while the Lakers franchise were in Minneapolis and the Royals/Kings franchise in Rochester.


1984 NBA playoffs, First Round, Western Conference First Round, (2) Utah Jazz vs. (7) Denver Nuggets
This was the first playoff meeting between the Nuggets and the Jazz.


1984 NBA playoffs, First Round, Western Conference First Round, (3) Portland Trail Blazers vs. (6) Phoenix Suns
This was the second playoff meeting between these two teams, with the Suns winning the first meeting.


1984 NBA playoffs, First Round, Western Conference First Round, (4) Dallas Mavericks vs. (5) Seattle SuperSonics
This was the first playoff meeting between the Mavericks and the SuperSonics.


1984 NBA playoffs, Conference Semifinals, Eastern Conference Semifinals, (1) Boston Celtics vs. (5) New York Knicks
This was the 11th playoff meeting between these two teams, with each team winning five series apiece.


1984 NBA playoffs, Conference Semifinals, Eastern Conference Semifinals, (2) Milwaukee Bucks vs. (6) New Jersey Nets
This was the first playoff meeting between the Bucks and the Nets.


1984 NBA playoffs, Conference Semifinals, Western Conference Semifinals, (1) Los Angeles Lakers vs. (4) Dallas Mavericks
This was the first playoff meeting between the Mavericks and the Lakers.


1984 NBA playoffs, Conference Semifinals, Western Conference Semifinals, (2) Utah Jazz vs. (6) Phoenix Suns
This was the first playoff meeting between the Suns and the Jazz.


1984 NBA playoffs, Conference Finals, Eastern Conference Finals, (1) Boston Celtics vs. (2) Milwaukee Bucks
This was the third playoff meeting between these two teams, with each team winning one series apiece.


1984 NBA playoffs, Conference Finals, Western Conference Finals, (1) Los Angeles Lakers vs. (6) Phoenix Suns
This was the fourth playoff meeting between these two teams, with the Lakers winning the first three meetings.


1984 NBA playoffs, NBA Finals: (E1) Boston Celtics vs. (W1) Los Angeles Lakers
This was the eighth playoff meeting between these two teams, with the Celtics winning the first seven meetings.


1984 NBL Finals
The 1984 NBL Finals was the postseason tournament of the National Basketball League's 1984 season, which began in February. The finals began on 22 June. The tournament concluded with the Canberra Cannons defeating the Brisbane Bullets in the NBL Grand Final on 1 July.


1984 NBL Finals, Format
The NBL finals series in 1984 consisted of the divisional finals, two semi-final games, and one championship-deciding grand final. The finals were contested between the top four teams of the regular season in each division, with the final four weekend split between the AIS Arena and The Glass House.


1984 NBL Finals, Qualification, Ladder
The NBL tie-breaker system as outlined in the NBL Rules and Regulations states that in the case of an identical win-loss record, the results in games played between the teams will determine order of seeding.


1984 NBL Finals, Divisional Finals, Playoffs bracket
The top four teams in each division competed in a 1v2/3v4 elimination finals fixture between 22 June and 23 June, with the loser of 1v2 playing the winner of 3v4 for a spot in the Semi Finals, while the winner of 1v2 qualified through to the Semi Finals as well. The result2 were as follows:


1984 NBL season
The 1984 NBL season was the fifth season of the National Basketball League (NBL). With the Melbourne Tigers joining the competition, the league's number of teams increased to 17, with nine teams in the Eastern Division and eight teams in the Western Division. The regular season began on 3 February and ended on 17 June. The finals began on 22 June with the divisional finals before concluding on 1 July with the NBL Grand Final.


1984 NBL season, Ladder
The home-and-away regular season took place over 17 rounds between 3 February and 17 June, with nine teams in the Eastern Division and eight teams in the Western Division. Each team would play the other teams in their division twice and the teams in the opposing division once. This meant that Western Division teams played 23 games and Eastern Division teams played 24.


1984 NBL season, Ladder
The NBL tie-breaker system as outlined in the NBL Rules and Regulations states that in the case of an identical win-loss record, the results in games played between the teams will determine order of seeding.


1984 NBL season, Ladder
1Head-to-Head between Coburg Giants and Newcastle Falcons (1-1). Coburg Giants won For and Against (+4).


1984 NBL season, Ladder
2Head-to-Head between Melbourne Tigers and West Adelaide Bearcats (1-1). Melbourne Tigers won For and Against (+9).


1984 NBL season, Ladder
3Head-to-Head between Bankstown Bruins and Frankston Bears (1-1). Bankstown Bruins won For and Against (+13).


1984 NBL season, Ladder
4Head-to-Head between Canberra Cannons and Adelaide 36ers (1-1). Canberra Cannons won For and Against (+7).


1984 NBL season, Ladder
5Head-to-Head between Hobart Devils and Devonport Warriors (1-1). Hobart Devils won For and Against (+1).


1984 NBL season, Finals, Playoff bracket
The NBL finals series in 1984 consisted of the elimination-style divisional finals, two semi-final games, and one championship-deciding grand final.


1984 NBL season, Finals, Divisional Elimination Finals
The top four teams in each division competed in a 1v2/3v4 elimination finals fixture, with the loser of 1v2 playing the winner of 3v4 for a spot in the Semi Finals, while the winner of 1v2 qualified through to the Semi Finals as well.


1984 NC State Wolfpack football team
The 1984 NC State Wolfpack football team represented North Carolina State University during the 1984 NCAA Division I-A football season. The team's head coach was Tom Reed. NC State has been a member of the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) since the league's inception in 1953. The Wolfpack played its home games in 1984 at Carter–Finley Stadium in Raleigh, North Carolina, which has been NC State football's home stadium since 1966.


1984 NC State Wolfpack football team, Schedule
Clemson was under NCAA probation, and was ineligible for the ACC title. Therefore, this game did not count in the league standings.


1984 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament
The 1984 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament was played at the end of the 1984 NCAA Division I baseball season to determine the national champion of college baseball. The tournament concluded with eight teams competing in the College World Series, a double-elimination tournament in its thirty eighth year. Eight regional competitions were held to determine the participants in the final event. Six regions held a four team, double-elimination tournament while two regions included six teams, resulting in 36 teams participating in the tournament at the conclusion of their regular season, and in some cases, after a conference tournament. The thirty-eighth tournament's champion was Cal State Fullerton, coached by Augie Garrido. The Most Outstanding Player was John Fishel of Cal State Fullerton.


1984 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament, Regionals
The opening rounds of the tournament were played across eight regional sites across the country, six consisting of four teams and two of six teams. The winners of each Regional advanced to the College World Series.


1984 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament, College World Series, Tournament Notes
Gary Green and Bill Swift appear in their fourth College World Series. Michigan's appearance was the last for the Big Ten until 2013 when Indiana made the College World Series.


1984 NCAA Division I Cross Country Championships
The 1984 NCAA Division I Cross Country Championships were the 46th annual NCAA Men's Division I Cross Country Championship and the 4th annual NCAA Women's Division I Cross Country Championship to determine the team and individual national champions of NCAA Division I men's and women's collegiate cross country running in the United States. In all, four different titles were contested: men's and women's individual and team championships.


1984 NCAA Division I Cross Country Championships
Held on November 19, 1984, the combined meet was hosted by Penn State University at the Penn State Golf Courses in State College, Pennsylvania. The distance for the men's race was 10 kilometers (6.21 miles) while the distance for the women's race was 5 kilometers (3.11 miles).


1984 NCAA Division I Cross Country Championships
The men's team national championship was won by Arkansas, their first national title. The individual championship was won by Ed Eyestone, from BYU, with a time of 29:28.8.


1984 NCAA Division I Cross Country Championships
The women's team national championship was won by Wisconsin, their first national title. The individual championship was won by Cathy Branta, from Wisconsin, with a time of 16:15.6.


1984 NCAA Division I Field Hockey Championship
The 1984 NCAA Division I Field Hockey Championship was the fourth women's collegiate field hockey tournament organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association, to determine the top college field hockey team in the United States. The Old Dominion Lady Monarchs won their third consecutive championship, defeating the Iowa Hawkeyes in the final. The championship rounds were held at Stagg Field in Springfield, Massachusetts.


1984 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship Game
The 1984 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship Game was the finals of the 1984 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament and it determined the national champion for the 1983-84 NCAA Division I men's basketball season  The 1984 National Title Game was played on April 2, 1984 at the Kingdome in Seattle, Washington. The 1984 National Title Game was played between the 1984 West Regional Champions, Georgetown and the 1984 Midwest Regional Champions, Houston.


1984 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship Game
Georgetown reached the Final Four for the third time in school history and second time in three years to face Kentucky, a team which had never lost a national semifinal game and was led by the "Twin Towers," Sam Bowie and Melvin Turpin. Bowie and Turpin managed to get Ewing into foul trouble early, and with him on the bench and Reggie Williams shooting only 1-for-7 (14.3%) from the field during the game, the Wildcats raced out to a 27–15 lead with 3:06 left in the first half.


1984 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship Game
After that however, the Hoyas made a defensive stand still unequalled in college basketball: Kentucky scored only two more points in the first half; the Wildcats also did not score in the first 9 minutes 55 seconds of the second half, missing their first 12 shots and after that shooting 3-for-21 (14.3%) during the remainder of the game. Overall, Kentucky shot 3-for-33 (9.1 percent) from the field during the second half. Although he played for only 17 minutes and suffered a season-ending foot injury in the second half, Gene Smith had one of the best defensive games of his career.


1984 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship Game
Bowie and Turpin finished the game a combined 0-for-12, Wingate scored 12 points and held Kentucky's Jim Master to 2-for-7 (28.6%) shooting from the field, Michael Jackson scored 12 points and pulled down a career-high 10 rebounds, and Georgetown won 53–40 to advance to the national final for the third time in school history and second time in three years.


1984 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship Game
In the NCAA final, Georgetown faced Houston on April 2, 1984. Reggie Williams demonstrated his true potential for the first time, putting in a strong defensive performance and shooting 9-for-18 (50.0%) from the field with 19 points and seven rebounds in the game, while Wingate scored 16 points and Ewing managed 10 points and nine rebounds. Jackson scored 11 points and had six assists, two of which set up Ewing and Graham for decisive baskets late in the game. The game was decided well before the final whistle, and the Hoyas won the school's first national championship 84–75.


1984 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship Game
Late in the game, with Georgetown enjoying a comfortable lead, Thompson began to pull starters out and give bench players some time on the court; the game's enduring image came when senior guard Fred Brown came out of the game.


1984 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship Game
Two years earlier at the same stage in New Orleans against North Carolina, after Michael Jordan had given the Tar Heels the lead, Brown had mistakenly passed the ball to James Worthy with less than 15 seconds to go, ruining Georgetown's chances for a final game-winning shot and allowing North Carolina to take the national championship, and cameras had captured Thompson consoling a devastated Brown with a hug as the Tar Heels celebrated. As Brown left the 1984 championship game, cameras caught Brown and Thompson again embracing on the sideline, this time to celebrate a victory.


1984 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament
The 1984 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament involved 53 schools playing in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division I college basketball. It began on March 13, 1984, and ended with the championship game on April 2 in Seattle. A total of 52 games were played. This was the last tournament in which some teams earned first-round byes as the field expanded to 64 teams beginning in the 1985 tournament when each team played in the first round. It was also the second year with a preliminary round; preliminary games would not be played again until 2001.


1984 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament
Georgetown, coached by John Thompson, won the national title with an 84–75 victory in the final game over Houston, coached by Guy Lewis. Patrick Ewing of Georgetown was named the tournament's Most Outstanding Player. Thompson became the first African-American head coach to lead his team to any NCAA Division I title.


1984 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament
Georgetown reached the Final Four for the third time in school history and second time in three years to face Kentucky, a team which had never lost a national semifinal game and was led by the "Twin Towers", Sam Bowie and Melvin Turpin. Bowie and Turpin managed to get Ewing into foul trouble early, and with him on the bench and Reggie Williams shooting only 1-for-7 (14.3%) from the field during the game, the Wildcats raced out to a 27–15 lead with 3:06 left in the first half.


1984 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament
After that, however, the Hoyas made a defensive stand still unequalled in college basketball: Kentucky scored only two more points in the first half; the Wildcats also did not score in the first 9 minutes 55 seconds of the second half, missing their first 12 shots and after that shooting 3-for-21 (14.3%) during the remainder of the game. Overall, Kentucky shot 3-for-33 (9.1 percent) from the field during the second half. Although he played for only 17 minutes and suffered a season-ending foot injury in the second half, Gene Smith had one of the best defensive games of his career.


1984 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament
Bowie and Turpin finished the game a combined 5-for-21, Wingate scored 12 points and held Kentucky's Jim Master to 2-for-7 (28.6%) shooting from the field, Michael Jackson scored 12 points and pulled down a career-high 10 rebounds, and Georgetown won 53–40 to advance to the national final for the third time in school history and second time in three years.


1984 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament
In the first national semifinal, Houston, playing in its third consecutive Final Four, edged Virginia, which reached the Final Four as a No. 7 seed in the East region, 49–47. The Cavaliers reached the national semifinals despite the graduation of four-time All-American Ralph Sampson the previous season. Coincidentally, Houston's All-America center, Akeem Olajuwon, would soon become Sampson's teammate with the Houston Rockets.


1984 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament
In the NCAA final, Georgetown faced Houston on April 2. Reggie Williams demonstrated his true potential for the first time, putting in a strong defensive performance and shooting 9-for-18 (50.0%) from the field with 19 points and seven rebounds in the game, while David Wingate scored 16 points and Ewing managed 10 points and nine rebounds. Jackson scored 11 points and had six assists, two of which set up Ewing and Michael Graham for decisive baskets late in the game. The game was decided well before the final whistle, and the Hoyas won the school's first national championship 84–75.


1984 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament
Late in the game, with Georgetown enjoying a comfortable lead, Thompson began to pull starters out and give bench players some time on the court; the game's enduring image came when senior guard Fred Brown came out of the game. Two years earlier, Brown had mistakenly passed the ball to North Carolina's James Worthy in the last seconds of the 1982 championship game, ruining Georgetown's chances for a final game-winning shot and allowing North Carolina to take the national championship, and cameras had captured Thompson consoling a devastated Brown with a hug as the Tar Heels celebrated. As Brown left the 1984 championship game, cameras caught Brown and Thompson again embracing on the sideline, this time to celebrate a victory.


1984 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Schedule and venues
The following are the sites that were selected to host each round of the 1984 tournament:


1984 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Schedule and venues
Seattle was the host city for the Final Four for the first time since 1952, and the first time in the Kingdome, then home to the NBA's Seattle SuperSonics, as well as the MLB's Mariners and NFL's Seahawks. The Kingdome became the third domed multipurpose stadium to host a Final Four, after the Astrodome and the Superdome. Three cities—East Rutherford, Memphis, and Milwaukee—hosted for the first time. East Rutherford, located between New York City and Newark, was the fourth site to host games in the New York metropolitan area.


1984 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Schedule and venues
The Mid-South Coliseum and MECCA Arena hosted this time only, with future games in Memphis at The Pyramid and FedExForum and in Milwaukee at the now-defunct BMO Harris Bradley Center or Fiserv Forum. The games at the MECCA Arena were the first tournament games in Wisconsin since Madison hosted the Mideast regionals in 1969. This tournament marked the last time the Palestra, the "Cathedral of College Basketball", hosted an NCAA Tournament game; future games in Philadelphia were at the Spectrum or the Wells Fargo Center.


1984 NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championship
The 1984 NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championships were contested at the 46th annual NCAA-sanctioned golf tournament for determining the individual and team national champions of men's collegiate golf at the Division I level in the United States.


1984 NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championship
The tournament was held at the Bear Creek Golf World in Houston, Texas.


1984 NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championship
Houston won the team championship, the Cougars' then-record fifteenth NCAA title.


1984 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament
The 1984 NCAA Men's Division I Ice Hockey Tournament was the culmination of the 1983–84 NCAA Division I men's ice hockey season, the 37th such tournament in NCAA history. It was held between March 16 and 24, 1984, and concluded with Bowling Green defeating Minnesota-Duluth 5-4 in quadruple overtime. All Quarterfinals matchups were held at home team venues, while all succeeding games were played at the 1980 Olympic Arena in Lake Placid, New York.


1984 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament
As of 2021 the final game is the longest match to determine a champion in NCAA history.


1984 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Qualifying teams
The NCAA permitted 8 teams to qualify for the tournament and divided its qualifiers into two regions (East and West). Each of the tournament champions from the three Division I conferences (CCHA, ECAC and WCHA) received automatic invitations into the tournament with At-large bids making up the remaining 5 teams, an additional 2 western and 3 eastern schools.


1984 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Format
The tournament featured three rounds of play. The two odd-number ranked teams from one region were placed into a bracket with the two even-number ranked teams of the other region. The teams were then seeded according to their ranking. In the Quarterfinals the first and fourth seeds and the second and third seeds played two-game aggregate series to determine which school advanced to the Semifinals. Beginning with the Semifinals all games were played at the 1980 Olympic Arena and all series became Single-game eliminations. The winning teams in the semifinals advanced to the National Championship Game with the losers playing in a Third Place game.


1984 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship
The 1984 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Tournament was the 14th annual Division I NCAA Men's Lacrosse Championship tournament, involving twelve NCAA Division I college men's lacrosse teams.


1984 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship, Tournament overview
The championship game was hosted by University of Delaware and was played in front of 17,253 fans at Delaware Stadium. The game saw Johns Hopkins University defeat previously unbeaten Syracuse University by the score of 13–10. This was the third finals where two undefeated champions met for the title and the last time this has occurred.


1984 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship, Tournament overview
The Bluejays snapped Syracuse's 22-game winning streak holding the Orange top offensive guns Brad Kotz and Tim Nelson in check. Hopkins caught a break early in the finals when Tim Nelson was injured by his own teammate and did not play for the remainder of the game. Hopkins scored the first six goals of the contest.


1984 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship, Tournament overview
Hopkins was led by goaltender Larry Quinn, attackman  with three goals and senior attackman Peter Scott with two goals and three assists. Hopkins compiled a perfect 14 and 0 mark, and won its fifth NCAA title under the direction of first-year head coach Don Zimmerman. The Blue Jays returned to the NCAA Championship game for the eighth straight season. This would turn out to be the last undefeated season for Johns Hopkins until 2005.


1984 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship, Tournament overview
This game is notable for several outstanding saves from goaltender Larry Quinn who was named the tournament outstanding player. Quinn made one of the most famous stops in NCAA lacrosse history, with Hopkins holding an 11-9 lead in the 4th quarter of the finals and Syracuse gaining momentum. On a fast break, Quinn dove across the goal to save a point blank shot by Tom Nelson. Inspired, Hopkins took control of the game from that point.


1984 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship, Tournament overview
, considered one of the best lacrosse players to come out of the Pennsylvania school system, finished his career with four straight NCAA final appearances, made three All-American teams and is currently among the top Johns Hopkins Career Points leaders.


1984 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Tournament
The 1984 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Tournament was the 25th organized men's college soccer tournament by the National Collegiate Athletic Association, to determine the top college soccer team in the United States.


1984 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Tournament
The Clemson Tigers won their first national title by defeating two-time defending champion Indiana Hoosiers in the championship game, 2–1.


1984 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Tournament
The final was held on 16 December 1984, at the Kingdome in Seattle, Washington. All the other games were played at the home field of the higher seeded team.


1984 NCAA Division I Men's Swimming and Diving Championships
The 1984 NCAA Division I Men's Swimming and Diving Championships were contested in March 1984 at the CSU Natatorium at Cleveland State University in Cleveland, Ohio at the 61st annual NCAA-sanctioned swim meet to determine the team and individual national champions of Division I men's collegiate swimming and diving in the United States. The men's and women's titles would not be held at the same site until 2006.


1984 NCAA Division I Men's Swimming and Diving Championships
Florida again topped the team standings, the Gators' second men's title.


1984 NCAA Division I Men's Tennis Championships
The 1984 NCAA Division I Men's Tennis Championships were the 38th annual championships to determine the national champions of NCAA Division I men's singles, doubles, and team collegiate tennis in the United States. This year's tournaments were played in Athens, Georgia, hosted by the University of Georgia.


1984 NCAA Division I Men's Tennis Championships
The men's team championship was won by UCLA, their 15th team national title. The Bruins defeated defending national champion Stanford in the final round, 5–4.


1984 NCAA Division I Men's Tennis Championships
The men's singles title was won by Mikael Pernfors (a Swedish national) from Georgia, and the men's doubles title was won by Kelly Jones and Jerome Jones from Pepperdine.


1984 NCAA Division I Men's Tennis Championships, Host site
The tournaments were played at the Dan Magill Tennis Complex at the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia. The men's and women's tournaments would not be held at the same venue until 2006.


1984 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships
The 1984 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships were contested May 28−June 2, 1984 at Hayward Field at the University of Oregon in Eugene, Oregon in order to determine the individual and team national champions of men's and women's collegiate Division I outdoor track and field events in the United States.


1984 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships
These were the 62nd annual men's championships and the third annual women's championships. This was the Ducks' fifth time hosting the event and the first since 1978.


1984 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships
Oregon and Florida State topped the men's and women's team standings, respectively; it was the Ducks' fifth men's team title and the first for the Seminole women.


1984 NCAA Division I Softball Tournament
The 1984 NCAA Division I Softball Tournament was the third annual tournament to determine the national champion of NCAA women's collegiate softball for the 1984 NCAA Division I softball season. Held during May 1984, sixteen Division I college softball teams contested the NCAA tournament's first round. Featuring eight regionals with two teams each, the winner of each region, a total of eight teams, advanced to the 1984 Women's College World Series in Omaha, Nebraska. The 1984 Women's College World Series was the third NCAA-sponsored championship in the sport of college softball at the Division I level. The event was held in Omaha, Nebraska from May 23 through May 29 and marked the conclusion of the 1984 NCAA Division I softball season. UCLA won the championship by defeating Texas A&M 1–0 in the final game.


1984 NCAA Division I Tennis Championships
The 1984 NCAA Division I Tennis Championships refer to one of two NCAA-sponsored events held during May 1984 to determine the national champions of men's and women's collegiate tennis in the United States:


1984 NCAA Division I Tennis Championships
The men's and women's tournaments would not be held at the same site until 2006.


1984 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament
The 1984 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament began on March 16 and ended on April 1. It featured 32 teams, four fewer than the previous year. Tennessee, Louisiana Tech, Cheyney, and Southern California were the Final Four, with Southern California defeating Tennessee, 72-61, for its second straight title. USC's Cheryl Miller was named the Most Outstanding Player of the tournament. The semi-finals and finals were held in Pauley Pavilion on the campus of UCLA in Los Angeles, California.


1984 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Notable events
Three of the four team earning a bid to the Final Four did so winning the Regional game on their own floor. The exception, the East Regional was held at a neutral site, the Norfolk Scope, but that was the home town of Old Dominion, who had won 45 consecutive home games, before meeting Cheyney State in the East Regional Final. Cheyney State won by a score of 80–71. The win matched them up against the three seed Tennessee, who upset Georgia to win the Mideast Regional. The score of the semi-final was also 80–71, but this time the Lady Vols were the victor.


1984 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Notable events
In 1983, USC and Louisiana Tech met in the National Championship game, with USC prevailing. The two teams next played in the regular season in January 1984, with Louisiana Tech beating USC 75–66 in at the home court of La Tech.. In the 1984 Tournament, USC advanced to the Final Four by beating Long Beach State 90–74, in the West Region, while Louisiana Tech beat Texas 85–60, to win the Midwest Regional. This set up a rematch, in the national semifinal. The game was close, and tied at 57 points apiece with under three minutes to go, when Cheryl Miller scored the last five points of the game to help USC advance to the championship game 62—57.


1984 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Notable events
The score of the championship game was reasonably close, 72–61, but according to Sports Illustrated, "USC outscored, out-passed, outdanced and just plain outflashed Tennessee". Led by Cheryl Miller and the McGee twins, Pamela and Paula, USC won its second consecutive National Championship. Helped by the school's proximity to the media outlets, Women's basketball received considerable media coverage, with the three stars of the team participating in many print interviews and almost 75 television appearances.


1984 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Records
Mary Ostrowski hit nine of nine attempted free throws, the second most for an individual player in a Final Four game, the National Semi-final.


1984 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Records
Over the two games of the Final four, she hit 15 of 15, the only player to hit every free throw (minimum 12 attempts) in Final Four games.


1984 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Records
Tennessee, as a team, hit nine of nine attempted free throws, the second most for team in a Final Four game, in the National Championship game.


1984 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Records
Long Beach State scored 22 points in an overtime period, in the West Regional semi-final, the most ever scored in an NCAA Tournament overtime period.


1984 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Qualifying teams - automatic
Thirty-two teams were selected to participate in the 1984 NCAA Tournament. Seventeen conferences were eligible for an automatic bid to the 1984 NCAA tournament. (Not all conference records are available for 1984)


1984 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Qualifying teams - at-large
Fifteen additional teams were selected to complete the thirty-two invitations.


1984 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Bids by conference
Seventeen conferences earned an automatic bid. In eleven cases, the automatic bid was the only representative from the conference. Twelve at-large teams were selected from six of the conferences. In addition, three independent (not associated with an athletic conference) teams earned at-large bids.


1984 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, First round
In 1984, the field returned to 32 teams, in the same format as in 1982. The teams were seeded, and assigned to four geographic regions, with seeds 1-8 in each region. In  Round 1, the higher seed was given the opportunity to host the first-round game. In most cases, the higher seed accepted the opportunity. The exceptions:


1984 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, First round
The following table lists the region, host school, venue and the 15 first round locations.


1984 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Regionals and Final Four
The Regionals, named for the general location, were held from March 22 to March 25 at these sites:


1984 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Regionals and Final Four
Each regional winner advanced to the Final Four, held March 30 and April 1  in Los Angeles, California at Pauley Pavilion.


1984 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Bids by state
The thirty-two teams came from twenty-two states. California and Louisiana had the most teams with three each. Twenty-eight states did not have any teams receiving bids.


1984 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Record by  conference
Ten conferences had more than one bid,  or at least one win in NCAA Tournament play:


1984 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Record by  conference
Eight conferences  went 0-1: Atlantic 10, Big East, Big Ten, High Country, Metro, MAC,  Missouri Valley Conference, and Ohio Valley Conference


1984 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships
The 1984 NCAA Women's Division I Swimming and Diving Championships were contested at the third annual NCAA-sanctioned swim meet to determine the team and individual national champions of Division I women's collegiate swimming and diving in the United States.


1984 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships
This year's events were hosted by Indiana University at the Indiana University Natatorium in Indianapolis, Indiana.


1984 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships
Texas topped the team standings, finishing 68 points ahead of defending champions Stanford, claiming the Longhorns' first women's team title.


1984 NCAA Division I Women's Tennis Championships
The 1984 NCAA Division I Women's Tennis Championships were the third annual championships to determine the national champions of NCAA Division I women's singles, doubles, and team collegiate tennis in the United States.


1984 NCAA Division I Women's Tennis Championships
The women's team championship was won by Stanford, their second title in three years. The Cardinal defeated defending national champion, USC, in the final round, 6–0.


1984 NCAA Division I Women's Tennis Championships
The women's singles title was won by Lisa Spain from Georgia, and the women's doubles title was won by Elise Burgin and Linda Gates from Stanford.


1984 NCAA Division I Women's Tennis Championships
This was the first time the men's and women's singles titles were won by players from the same school (Georgia).


1984 NCAA Division I Women's Tennis Championships, Host site
This year's tournaments were hosted by the University of California, Los Angeles at the Los Angeles Tennis Center in Los Angeles, California. The men's and women's tournaments would not be held at the same site until 2006.


1984 NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Tournament
The 1984 NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Tournament was the fourth year of the NCAA Women's Volleyball Championship. It began with 28 teams and ended on December 16 when UCLA defeated Stanford 3 games to 2 in the NCAA championship match.


1984 NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Tournament
UCLA claimed the program's first NCAA national title after two previous runner-up finishes. In the deciding fifth game against Stanford, UCLA was down 12-4, but with heroics from Liz Masakayan, the Bruins scored 11 straight points and eventually won the game 15-13.


1984 NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Tournament
In the consolation match, Pacific defeated San Jose State to claim third place.


1984 NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships
The 1984 NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships were the 54th NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships to be held. Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey hosted the tournament at Jadwin Gymnasium.


1984 NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships
Iowa took home the team championship with  123.75 points and having one individual champion.


1984 NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships
Jim Zalesky of Iowa was named the Most Outstanding Wrestler and Tab Thacker of North Carolina State received the Gorriaran Award.


1984 NCAA Division I baseball rankings
The following polls make up the 1984 NCAA Division I baseball rankings. Baseball America began publishing its poll of the top 20 teams in college baseball in 1981. Collegiate Baseball Newspaper published its first human poll of the top 20 teams in college baseball in 1957, and expanded to rank the top 30 teams in 1961.


1984 NCAA Division I baseball rankings, Baseball America
Currently, only the final poll from the 1984 season is available.


1984 NCAA Division I baseball rankings, Collegiate Baseball
Currently, only the final poll from the 1984 season is available.


1984 NCAA Division I baseball season
The 1984 NCAA Division I baseball season, play of college baseball in the United States organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) began in the spring of 1984. The season progressed through the regular season and concluded with the 1984 College World Series. The College World Series, held for the thirty eighth time in 1984, consisted of one team from each of eight regional competitions and was held in Omaha, Nebraska at Johnny Rosenblatt Stadium as a double-elimination tournament. Cal State Fullerton claimed the championship for the second time.


1984 NCAA Division I baseball season, Conference winners
This is a partial list of conference champions from the 1984 season. The NCAA sponsored regional competitions to determine the College World Series participants. Six regionals of four teams and two of six each competed in double-elimination tournaments, with the winners advancing to Omaha. 25 teams earned automatic bids by winning their conference championship while 11 teams earned at-large selections.


1984 NCAA Division I baseball season, College World Series
The 1984 season marked the thirty eighth NCAA Baseball Tournament, which culminated with the eight team College World Series. The College World Series was held in Omaha, Nebraska. The eight teams played a double-elimination format, with Cal State Fullerton claiming their second championship with a 3–1 win over Texas in the final.


1984 NCAA Division I softball season
The 1984 NCAA Division I softball season, play of college softball in the United States organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) at the Division I level, began in February 1984. The season progressed through the regular season, many conference tournaments and championship series, and concluded with the 1984 NCAA Division I Softball Tournament and 1984 Women's College World Series. The Women's College World Series, consisting of the eight remaining teams in the NCAA Tournament and held in Omaha, Nebraska at Seymour Smith Park, ended on May 29, 1984.


1984 NCAA Division I softball season, Women's College World Series
The 1984 NCAA Women's College World Series took place from May 23 to May 29, 1984 in Omaha, Nebraska.


1984 NCAA Division I softball season, Records
NCAA Division I single game putouts:35 – Laura Meyers, Cal Poly Pomona Broncos; May 24, 1984 (25 innings)


1984 NCAA Division I softball season, Records
Junior class single game runs:6 – Terri Tucker, Adelphi Panthers; April 9, 1984


1984 NCAA Division I softball season, Records
Freshman class single game innings pitched:25.0 – Shawn Andaya, Texas A&M Aggies; May 24, 1984


1984 NCAA Division I softball season, Records
Junior class scoreless innings streak:102.0 – Debbie Doom, UCLA Bruins; February 24-April 6, 1984


1984 NCAA Division I softball season, Records
Freshman class WHIP:0.39 (30 H+15 BB/115.0 IP) – Shelley Berube, Florida State Seminoles


1984 NCAA Division I softball season, Records
Junior class ERA:0.10 (3 ER/215.1 IP) – Debbie Doom, UCLA Bruins


1984 NCAA Division I-A football rankings
Two human polls comprised the 1984 National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I-A football rankings. Unlike most sports, college football's governing body, the NCAA, does not bestow a national championship, instead that title is bestowed by one or more different polling agencies. There are two main weekly polls that begin in the preseason—the AP Poll and the Coaches' Poll.


1984 NCAA Division I-A football season
The 1984 NCAA Division I-A football season was topsy-turvy from start to finish. It ended with the BYU Cougars being bestowed their first and only national championship by beating Michigan in the Holiday Bowl. While the Cougars finished with a perfect 13–0 record and were the consensus National Champions, some commentators maintain this title was undeserved citing their weak schedule (none of their conference opponents in the WAC finished with fewer than four losses, and even Michigan finished the season at 6–6 after the bowl loss) and argue that the championship should have gone to the 11–1 Washington Huskies.


1984 NCAA Division I-A football season
Despite this the Cougars were voted No. 1 in the final AP and UPI polls. The Huskies (and five other teams) declined an invitation to play BYU in the Holiday Bowl; they decided instead to play Oklahoma in the more prestigious 1985 Orange Bowl. All subsequent national champions have come from what are now known as the Power Five conferences + Notre Dame.


1984 NCAA Division I-A football season, Heisman Trophy voting
The Heisman Memorial Trophy Award is given to the Most Outstanding Player of the year.


1984 NCAA Division I-AA Football Championship Game
The 1984 NCAA Division I-AA Football Championship Game was a postseason college football game between the Montana State Bobcats and the Louisiana Tech Bulldogs. The game was played on December 15, 1984, at Johnson Hagood Stadium in Charleston, South Carolina. The culminating game of the 1984 NCAA Division I-AA football season, it was won by Montana State, 19–6.


1984 NCAA Division I-AA Football Championship Game
The championship game was televised on the Satellite Program Network (SPN), as the NCAA paid SPN to broadcast some playoff contests following a Supreme Court ruling (NCAA v. Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma) that halted the NCAA's practice of negotiating television contracts for its members.


1984 NCAA Division I-AA Football Championship Game, Teams
The participants of the Championship Game were the finalists of the 1984 I-AA Playoffs, which began with a 12-team bracket.


1984 NCAA Division I-AA Football Championship Game, Teams, Montana State Bobcats
Montana State finished their regular season with a 9–2 record (6–1 in conference); two wins came over Division II opponents (Mesa State and Portland State) and one win came over a Division I-A program (Fresno State). Tied for second in the final NCAA I-AA in-house poll and seeded third in the tournament, the Bobcats received a first-round bye then defeated Arkansas State and second-seed Rhode Island to reach the final. This was the first appearance for Montana State in a Division I-AA championship game.


1984 NCAA Division I-AA Football Championship Game, Teams, Louisiana Tech Bulldogs
Louisiana Tech finished their regular season with a 7–4 record (5–1 in conference); three of their losses were to Division I-A programs (Southwestern Louisiana, Southern Miss, and Ole Miss). Ranked ninth in the final NCAA I-AA in-house poll and unseeded in the tournament, the Bulldogs defeated Mississippi Valley State, top-seed Alcorn State, and Middle Tennessee State to reach the final. This was also the first appearance for Louisiana Tech in a Division I-AA championship game.


1984 NCAA Division I-AA football rankings
The 1984 NCAA Division I-AA football rankings are from the NCAA Division I-AA football committee. This is for the 1984 season.


1984 NCAA Division I-AA football rankings
Tennessee State was ranked number 1 in the next to last poll of the year and was unranked in the last poll. This was the result of 14 players being declared ineligible prior to the Division I-AA final poll and playoffs. Tennessee State finished 11–0, but was not invited to the post-season.


1984 NCAA Division I-AA football season
The 1984 NCAA Division I-AA football season, part of college football in the United States organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association at the Division I-AA level, began in August 1984, and concluded with the 1984 NCAA Division I-AA Football Championship Game on December 15, 1984, at Johnson Hagood Stadium in Charleston, South Carolina. The Montana State Bobcats won their first I-AA championship, defeating the Louisiana Tech Bulldogs by a score of 19−6.


1984 NCAA Division I-AA football season, Conference champions
Big Sky Conference – Montana StateIvy League – PennMid-Eastern Athletic Conference – Bethune-CookmanOhio Valley Conference – Eastern KentuckySouthern Conference – ChattanoogaSouthland Conference – Louisiana TechSouthwestern Athletic Conference – Alcorn StateYankee Conference – Boston University and Rhode Island


1984 NCAA Division I-AA football season, Postseason
The top four teams were seeded, and received first-round byes. Undefeated Tennessee State was disqualified from the postseason due to the use of ineligible players.


1984 NCAA Division II Men's Basketball Tournament
The 1984 NCAA Division II Men's Basketball Tournament involved 32 schools playing in a single-elimination tournament to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division II college basketball as a culmination of the 1983-4 NCAA Division II men's basketball season. It was won by Central Missouri State (now known as the University of Central Missouri) and Central Missouri State's Ron Nunnally was the Most Outstanding Player.


1984 NCAA Division II Men's Basketball Tournament
San Francisco State's participation in the tournament was later vacated by the NCAA.


1984 NCAA Division II Men's Ice Hockey Tournament
The 1984 NCAA Men's Division II Ice Hockey Tournament involved 8 schools playing in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division II college ice hockey. A total of 6 games were played, hosted by Bemidji State.


1984 NCAA Division II Men's Ice Hockey Tournament
Bemidji State, coached by Bob Peters, won the national title with a 14-4 two-game aggregate victory in the finals over Merrimack.


1984 NCAA Division II Men's Ice Hockey Tournament
Joel Otto, of Bemidji State, was named the Most Outstanding Player and Drey Bradley, of Bemidji State, was the high scorer of the tournament with ten points (2 goals, 8 assists).


1984 NCAA Division II Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Tournament Bracket
Each round were two-game total-goals series played at the tournament host.


1984 NCAA Division II Soccer Championship
The 1984 NCAA Division II Soccer Championship was the 13th annual tournament held by the NCAA to determine the top men's Division II college soccer program in the United States.


1984 NCAA Division II Soccer Championship
Florida International defeated defending champions Seattle Pacific in the final, 1–0 (after one overtime period), to win their second Division II national title. The Golden Panthers (14-4-3), who previously won in 1982, were coached by former NFL player Karl Kremser.


1984 NCAA Division II Soccer Championship
The final match was played on December 8 at Memorial Stadium in Seattle, Washington.


1984 NCAA Division II Women's Basketball Tournament
The 1984 NCAA Division II Women's Basketball Tournament was the third annual tournament hosted by the NCAA to determine the national champion of women's collegiate basketball among its Division II membership in the United States.


1984 NCAA Division II Women's Basketball Tournament
Central Missouri State defeated defending champions Virginia Union in the championship game, 80–73, claiming the Jennies' first Division II national title.


1984 NCAA Division II Women's Basketball Tournament
The championship rounds were contested at the Springfield Civic Center in Springfield, Massachusetts.


1984 NCAA Division II football rankings
The 1984 NCAA Division II football rankings are from the NCAA Division II football committee. This is for the 1984 season.


1984 NCAA Division II football season
The 1984 NCAA Division II football season, part of college football in the United States organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association at the Division II level, began in August 1984, and concluded with the NCAA Division II Football Championship on December 8, 1984, at McAllen Veterans Memorial Stadium in McAllen, Texas. During the game's five-year stretch in McAllen, the "City of Palms", it was referred to as the Palm Bowl.


1984 NCAA Division II football season
Troy State defeated North Dakota State in the championship game, 18–17, to win their first Division II national title.


1984 NCAA Division II football season, Conference summaries
Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association – Norfolk StateGreat Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference – Saginaw Valley StateGulf South Conference – Troy StateLone Star Conference – Angelo StateMissouri Intercollegiate Athletic Association – Northwest Missouri StateNorth Central Conference – Nebraska–Omaha and North Dakota StateNorthern California Athletic Conference – UC DavisNorthern Intercollegiate Conference – Minnesota–Morris and Minnesota State–MoorheadPennsylvania State Athletic Conference – California (PA)Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference – Fort LewisSouth Atlantic Conference – Carson-NewmanSouthern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference – Albany State


1984 NCAA Division II football season, Postseason
The 1984 NCAA Division II Football Championship playoffs were the 12th single-elimination tournament to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division II college football. The championship game was held at McAllen Veterans Memorial Stadium in McAllen, Texas, for the fourth consecutive time.


1984 NCAA Division III Baseball Tournament
The 1984 NCAA Division III Baseball Tournament was played at the end of the 1984 NCAA Division III baseball season to determine the ninth national champion of college baseball at the NCAA Division III level. The tournament concluded with six teams competing at Pioneer Park in Marietta, Ohio for the championship. Six regional tournaments were held to determine the participants in the World Series.


1984 NCAA Division III Baseball Tournament
Regional tournaments were contested in double-elimination format, with one region consisting of six teams, four regions consisting of four teams, and one region consisting of two teams, which was played as best-of-five, for a total of 24 teams participating in the tournament. The tournament champion was Ramapo, who defeated Marietta for the championship.


1984 NCAA Division III Men's Basketball Tournament
The 1984 NCAA Division III Men's Basketball Tournament was the tenth annual single-elimination tournament to determine the national champions of National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) men's Division III collegiate basketball in the United States.


1984 NCAA Division III Men's Basketball Tournament
Held during March 1984, the field included 32 teams and the final championship rounds were contested at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan.


1984 NCAA Division III Men's Basketball Tournament
Wisconsin–Whitewater defeated Clark (MA), 103–86, to claim their first NCAA Division III national title.


1984 NCAA Division III Men's Ice Hockey Tournament
The 1984 NCAA Division III Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the culmination of the 1983–84 season, the 1st such tournament in NCAA history. It concluded with Babson defeating Union 8-0. All Quarterfinals matchups were held at home team venues, while all succeeding games were played in Rochester, New York.


1984 NCAA Division III Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Qualifying teams
Because neither of the two western conferences held a conference tournament the NCAA had all western schools play collectively in the Western Intercollegiate Hockey Association. At the conclusion of the regular season the top 8 teams, regardless of their conference, were invited to play in the WIHA tournament. Though the tournament was arranged by the NCAA it is not considered as part of the NCAA tournament and is displayed here for reference. This tournament had been used to determine the Division II tournament invitees but, with the majority of bids being submitted to the Division III tournament, the regional tournament was now used for this championship.


1984 NCAA Division III Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Qualifying teams, NCAA Qualifiers
The following teams qualified for the tournament. There were no automatic bids, however, conference tournament champions were given preferential consideration. No formal seeding was used while quarterfinal matches were arranged so that the road teams would have the shortest possible travel distances.


1984 NCAA Division III Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Format
The tournament featured three rounds of play. In the Quarterfinals, teams played two-game aggregate series to determine which school advanced to the Semifinals. Beginning with the Semifinals all games became Single-game eliminations. The winning teams in the semifinals advanced to the National Championship Game with the losers playing in a Third Place game. The teams were seeded according to geographic proximity in the quarterfinals so the visiting team would have the shortest feasible distance to travel.


1984 NCAA Division III Women's Basketball Tournament
The 1984 NCAA Division III Women's Basketball Tournament was the third annual tournament hosted by the NCAA to determine the national champion of Division III women's collegiate basketball in the United States.


1984 NCAA Division III Women's Basketball Tournament
Rust defeated Elizabethtown in the championship game, 51–49, to claim the Bearcats' first Division III national title.


1984 NCAA Division III football season
The 1984 NCAA Division III football season, part of college football in the United States organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association at the Division III level, began in August 1984, and concluded with the NCAA Division III Football Championship, also known as the Stagg Bowl, in December 1984 at Galbreath Field in Kings Island, Mason, Ohio. The Augustana (IL) Vikings won the second of their four consecutive Division III championships by defeating the Central (Iowa) Dutch by a final score of 21−12.


1984 NCAA Division III football season, Postseason
The 1984 NCAA Division III Football Championship playoffs were the 12th annual single-elimination tournament to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division III college football. The championship Stagg Bowl game was held at Galbreath Field at the College Football Hall of Fame in Kings Island, Mason, Ohio for the second consecutive time. This was the final tournament to feature eight teams before expanding to sixteen in 1985.


1984 NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships
The 1984 NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships were contested March 9−10, 1984 at the Carrier Dome at Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York to determine the individual and team national champions of men's and women's NCAA collegiate indoor track and field events in the United States. These were the 20th annual men's championships and the 2nd annual women's championships.


1984 NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships
On the men's side, Arkansas claimed the team title, the Razorbacks' first. This would ultimately be the first of twelve straight titles for Arkansas. For the women's title, Nebraska prevailed for the second straight year, the Cornhuskers' second title.


1984 NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships
This was the first year the championship event was not held Michigan and the last combined event before the establishment of separate Division II and Division III titles in 1985.


1984 NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships, Qualification
Unlike other NCAA-sponsored sports, there were not separate Division I, Division II, and Division III championships for indoor track and field until 1985. As such, all athletes and teams from University and College Division programs were eligible to compete.


1984 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans
The Consensus 1984 College Basketball All-American team, as determined by aggregating the results of four major All-American teams. To earn "consensus" status, a player must win honors from a majority of the following teams: the Associated Press, the USBWA, The United Press International and the National Association of Basketball Coaches.


1984 NCAA Men's Volleyball Tournament
The 1984 NCAA Men's Volleyball Tournament was the 15th annual tournament to determine the national champion of NCAA men's collegiate volleyball. The tournament was played at Pauley Pavilion in Los Angeles, California during May 1984.


1984 NCAA Men's Volleyball Tournament
UCLA defeated Pepperdine in the final match, 3–1 (15–10, 15–13, 16–18, 15–7), to win their eleventh national title. This was a rematch of the previous year's final, also won by UCLA. The undefeated Bruins (38–0) were coached by Al Scates.


1984 NCAA Men's Volleyball Tournament
UCLA's Ricci Luyties was named the tournament's Most Outstanding Player. Luyties, along with six other players, comprised the All-tournament team.