1999 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Races, MBNA Platinum 400
The MBNA Platinum 400 was held June 6 at Dover Downs International Speedway. Bobby Labonte won the pole. For the second straight year in this race, fuel strategy did not play out in favor of Jeff Gordon, as he would again have to pit for fuel in the race's closing laps, giving the lead away to Bobby Labonte in this race who would lead the final six laps.


1999 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Races, MBNA Platinum 400
Failed to qualify: Darrell Waltrip (No. 66), Buckshot Jones (No. 00), Hut Stricklin (No. 90)


1999 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Races, Kmart 400
The Kmart 400 was held June 13 at Michigan Speedway. Jeff Gordon won the pole.


1999 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Races, Kmart 400
Failed to qualify: Dave Marcis (No. 71), Hut Stricklin (No. 90), Buckshot Jones (No. 00)


1999 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Races, Pocono 500
The Pocono 500 was held June 20 at Pocono Raceway. Sterling Marlin won the pole. This race is mostly remembered for a hard crash from veteran Dave Marcis on Lap 91 when he got loose at turn two and when trying to correct it, spun hard right and slammed into the wall at a high speed, getting some air and destroying his car. He emerged from the wreck without injury.


1999 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Races, Pocono 500
Failed to qualify: Hut Stricklin (No. 90), Loy Allen Jr. (No. 58), Derrike Cope (No. 30)


1999 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Races, Save Mart/Kragen 350
The Save Mart/Kragen 350 was held June 27 at Sears Point Raceway. Jeff Gordon won the pole.


1999 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Races, Save Mart/Kragen 350
Failed to qualify: R. K. Smith (No. 71), Austin Cameron (No. 89), Sean Woodside (No. 58), John Metcalf (No. 70), Mike Borkowski (No. 09), Boris Said (No. 14), Steve Portenga (No. 96), David Murry (No. 61)


1999 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Races, Pepsi 400
The Pepsi 400 was held July 3 at Daytona International Speedway. Joe Nemechek won the pole.


1999 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Races, Pepsi 400
Failed to qualify: Derrike Cope (No. 30), Hut Stricklin (No. 91), Ken Bouchard (No. 84), Robert Pressley (No. 77), Stanton Barrett (No. 90)


1999 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Races, Jiffy Lube 300
The Jiffy Lube 300 was held July 11 at New Hampshire International Speedway. Jeff Gordon won the pole.


1999 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Races, Jiffy Lube 300
Failed to qualify: Robert Pressley (No. 77), Derrike Cope (No. 30), David Green (No. 41), Dave Marcis (No. 71)


1999 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Races, Pennsylvania 500
The Pennsylvania 500 was held July 25 at Pocono Raceway. Mike Skinner won the pole.


1999 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Races, Pennsylvania 500
Failed to qualify: Derrike Cope (No. 30), Morgan Shepherd (No. 91)


1999 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Races, Brickyard 400
The Brickyard 400 was held August 7 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Jeff Gordon won the pole.


1999 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Races, Brickyard 400
Failed to qualify: Rich Bickle (No. 45), Boris Said (No. 14), Brett Bodine (No. 11), Dick Trickle (No. 91), Steve Grissom (No. 01), Morgan Shepherd (No. 05), Jeff Davis/Lance Hooper (No. 62), Stanton Barrett (No. 90), Mike Wallace (No. 32), Gary Bradberry (No. 80), Buckshot Jones (No. 00), Bob Strait (No. 61)


1999 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Races, Frontier at The Glen
The Frontier at The Glen was held August 13 at Watkins Glen International. Rusty Wallace won the pole. Jeff Gordon would lead 55 of the race's 90 laps on his way to his third straight win at Watkins Glen and his fifth straight win overall on a road course.


1999 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Races, Frontier at The Glen
Failed to qualify: Robert Pressley (No. 77), Derrike Cope (No. 30), Paul Gentilozzi (No. 19), Jack Baldwin (No. 91), Hut Stricklin (No. 58), Dave Marcis (No. 71)


1999 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Races, Pepsi 400 presented by Meijer
The Pepsi 400 presented by Meijer was held August 22 at Michigan Speedway. Ward Burton won the pole.


1999 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Races, Pepsi 400 presented by Meijer
Failed to qualify: Derrike Cope (No. 30), Stanton Barrett (No. 90), Darrell Waltrip (No. 66), Brett Bodine (No. 11), Tom Hubert (No. 19)


1999 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Races, Goody's Headache Powder 500
The Goody's Headache Powder 500 was held August 28 at Bristol Motor Speedway. Tony Stewart won the pole.


1999 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Races, Goody's Headache Powder 500
Failed to qualify: Rich Bickle (No. 45), Dick Trickle (No. 91)


1999 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Races, Pepsi Southern 500
The 50th Pepsi Southern 500 was held September 5 at Darlington Raceway. Kenny Irwin Jr. won the pole.


1999 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Races, Pepsi Southern 500
Failed to qualify: Todd Bodine (No. 30), Stanton Barrett (No. 90)


1999 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Races, Exide NASCAR Select Batteries 400
The Exide NASCAR Select Batteries 400 was held September 11 at Richmond International Raceway. Mike Skinner won the pole.


1999 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Races, Exide NASCAR Select Batteries 400
Failed to qualify: Jack Sprague (No. 45), Dave Marcis (No. 71), Hut Stricklin (No. 58), Stanton Barrett (No. 90), Tom Baldwin (No. 91)


1999 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Races, Dura Lube/Kmart 300
The Dura Lube/Kmart 300 was held September 19 at New Hampshire International Speedway. Rusty Wallace won the pole.


1999 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Races, Dura Lube/Kmart 300
Failed to qualify: Darrell Waltrip (No. 66), Derrike Cope (No. 91), Dick Trickle (No. 41), Andy Belmont (No. 79)


1999 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Races, MBNA Gold 400
The MBNA Gold 400 was held September 26 at Dover Downs International Speedway. Rusty Wallace won the pole.


1999 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Races, MBNA Gold 400
Failed to qualify: Dick Trickle (No. 41), Todd Bodine (No. 30), Darrell Waltrip (No. 66), Derrike Cope (No. 91), Andy Belmont (No. 79)


1999 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Races, NAPA AutoCare 500
The NAPA AutoCare 500 was held October 3 at Martinsville Speedway. Joe Nemechek won the pole.


1999 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Races, NAPA AutoCare 500
Failed to qualify: Ron Hornaday Jr. (No. 01), Dick Trickle (No. 41), Tim Fedewa (No. 91), Morgan Shepherd (No. 05)


1999 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Races, UAW-GM Quality 500
The UAW-GM Quality 500 at Lowe's Motor Speedway was scheduled for October 10 but was held October 11 due to rain. Bobby Labonte won the pole.


1999 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Races, UAW-GM Quality 500
Failed to qualify: Darrell Waltrip (No. 66), Dave Marcis (No. 71), Ed Berrier (No. 90), Gary Bradberry (No. 80), Hut Stricklin (No. 58), Andy Hillenburg (No. 91)


1999 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Races, Winston 500
The Winston 500 was held October 17 at Talladega Superspeedway. Joe Nemechek won the pole.


1999 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Races, Winston 500
Failed to qualify: Bobby Gerhart (No. 89), Robert Pressley (No. 77), Darrell Waltrip (No. 66), Hut Stricklin (No. 58)


1999 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Races, Pop Secret Microwave Popcorn 400
The Pop Secret Microwave Popcorn 400 was held October 24 at North Carolina Speedway. Mark Martin won the pole.


1999 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Races, Pop Secret Microwave Popcorn 400
Failed to qualify: Dave Marcis (No. 71), Rich Bickle (No. 91), Hut Stricklin (No. 58), Ed Berrier (No. 90)


1999 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Races, Checker Auto Parts/Dura Lube 500
The Checker Auto Parts/Dura Lube 500 was held November 7 at Phoenix International Raceway. John Andretti won the pole.


1999 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Races, Pennzoil 400 presented by Kmart
The inaugural Pennzoil 400 presented by Kmart was held November 14 at Homestead-Miami Speedway. David Green won the pole. This was the first NASCAR Cup Series race televised on NBC Sports.


1999 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Races, Pennzoil 400 presented by Kmart
Failed to qualify: Dave Marcis (No. 71), Ed Berrier (No. 90), Derrike Cope (No. 41), Andy Belmont (No. 04), Bob Strait (No. 61)


1999 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Races, NAPA 500
The NAPA 500 was held November 21 at Atlanta Motor Speedway. Kevin Lepage won the pole.


1999 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Races, NAPA 500
Failed to qualify: Darrell Waltrip (No. 66), Derrike Cope (No. 15), Hut Stricklin (No. 75), Ricky Craven (No. 50), Stacy Compton (No. 9), Morgan Shepherd (No. 05)


1999 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Final points standings
Bold - Pole position awarded by time. Italics - Pole position set by owner's points standings. *- Most laps led.


1999 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Rookie of the Year
The 1999 Rookie of the Year battle was expected to be one of the most competitive in years. However, it ended up proving to be a runaway as Tony Stewart won three races and finished fourth in points. Elliott Sadler, who was considered the top favorite for the award during the pre-season, only had one top-ten finish and was the only rookie besides Stewart to complete the full schedule. Buckshot Jones was another favorite, but a long string of DNQs and DNFs forced him to cut back his schedule and abandon his run for the award.


1999 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Rookie of the Year
Stanton Barrett began the year with his own team, then left for Junie Donlavey, only making two races. Dan Pardus hoped to run a part-time schedule with Midwest Transit Racing, but he did not qualify for any of his attempts, and was released after the Coca-Cola 600. Finally, Mike Harmon was scheduled to drive the No. 90, but did not even attempt a race after a sponsorship fallout with Big Daddy's BBQ Sauce.


1999 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Gallery
1999 NASCAR Winston Cup champion Dale Jarrett waves to the fans before the 2007 Sharpie 500


1999 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Gallery
Mark Martin (seen here in 2012 driving for Michael Waltrip Racing) finished third in the championship.


1999 NASCAR Winston Cup Series, Gallery
Tony Stewart (seen here in 2007) had an impressive rookie season, winning three races along with the Rookie of the Year award, and finished fourth in the final point standings.


1999 NBA Finals
The 1999 NBA Finals was the championship round of the shortened 1998–99 NBA season, and the conclusion of the season's playoffs. The Western Conference champion San Antonio Spurs took on the Eastern Conference champion New York Knicks for the title, with the Spurs holding home court advantage. The series was played under a best-of-seven format, with the first team to collect four game victories winning the series. The Spurs defeated the Knicks 4 games to 1 to win their first NBA championship.


1999 NBA Finals, Background
The 1998-1999 NBA season was shortened due to a labor dispute that led to a lockout, canceling the first 3 months of the season, technically making this the 1999 NBA season and Finals (as all games were played in the year 1999). The NBA schedule consisted of 50 regular season games (61% of regular 82 games), and a normal playoff schedule; many teams never played each other.


1999 NBA Finals, Background, San Antonio Spurs
This was the second year of the "Twin Towers" pairing of David Robinson and second year star forward Tim Duncan, who switched from his natural center position in college to power forward to play alongside Robinson in San Antonio; the two had been teammates since the Spurs drafted Duncan with the first overall pick in the 1997 NBA Draft- a pick they earned through the draft lottery, due to a 62-loss 1996–97 season that saw Robinson suffer an injury very early in the season and the team collapsed from there.


1999 NBA Finals, Background, San Antonio Spurs
As a result of the shaky start, veteran coach Bob Hill was fired and replaced by then-general manager Gregg Popovich. In the first season of the Duncan/Robinson tandem the Spurs won 56 games but were eliminated by the Utah Jazz in the second round of the playoffs. The following year, led by Robinson, Duncan, Sean Elliott, and Avery Johnson, the Spurs recovered from a 6–8 start to the season to win 31 of their last 36 games and qualify as the top seed in the Western Conference, as well as the league's best record.


1999 NBA Finals, Background, San Antonio Spurs
After defeating the Minnesota Timberwolves in four games, San Antonio recorded back-to-back sweeps in the second round and conference finals, defeating the Los Angeles Lakers and Portland Trail Blazers. The victory over Portland gave the Spurs their first ever trip to the NBA Finals.


1999 NBA Finals, Background, New York Knicks
The Knicks had a harder time getting to the playoffs than the Spurs did. Toward the end of the season, with the team teetering on the brink of making the playoffs, rumors had begun to spread in the New York media that head coach Jeff Van Gundy would lose his job before the end of the season if the team did not make the playoffs. Instead, New York fired general manager Ernie Grunfeld and allowed Van Gundy to lead the team to the playoffs, with the team barely qualifying as the #8 seed. They faced the Miami Heat, the top seed, in the first round.


1999 NBA Finals, Background, New York Knicks
Led by an injured Patrick Ewing and relying on contributions from Larry Johnson, Latrell Sprewell, and Allan Houston, as well as a newly acquired Marcus Camby, the Knicks were able to keep pace with the Heat and after Houston hit a shot with 0.8 seconds remaining in Game 5 of that series, the Knicks were victorious and became the second team in NBA history after the Denver Nuggets to win a playoff series as the #8 seed.


1999 NBA Finals, Background, New York Knicks
The Nuggets were led by Dikembe Mutombo in that series, a center who now was playing for the Atlanta Hawks, the Knicks' next opponent. Although the center from Zaire guaranteed a victory, the Knicks won in a four-game sweep to set up a matchup with the Indiana Pacers in the Eastern Conference Finals.


1999 NBA Finals, Background, New York Knicks
Ewing could not continue due to an injury and was lost for the series after the first two games. In the third game, with 11.9 seconds left and the Knicks trailing 91–88, Johnson looked to attempt a three-point shot but was unable to shake the defender. He continued moving, however, and got off the shot while being fouled. He made the basket and converted the subsequent free-throw for a game-winning four-point play and gave his team a 2–1 lead in the series. In Game 6, however, Johnson suffered a knee injury and although the Knicks rallied around him to get the victory and the conference championship, it proved costly as his playing time was limited in the Finals.


1999 NBA Finals, Result
The Spurs won the series 4 games to 1. Spurs forward Tim Duncan was named the Most Valuable Player of the finals. On June 25 with 47 seconds to go in Game 5, Avery Johnson hit the game-winner. Johnson's shot was followed by a Latrell Sprewell miss that would have sent the series back to San Antonio, and TV broadcasts showed that the clock ran out before Sprewell could release the ball.


1999 NBA Finals, Result
This was the first of San Antonio's five NBA Championships, but they did not return to the Finals until 2003. New York has yet to return to the Finals. No #8 seed has advanced to the NBA Finals or as far as the Conference Finals since, but there have been other instances of #8 seeds defeating #1 seeds in the playoffs: in 2007 the Golden State Warriors defeated the Dallas Mavericks; in 2011 the Memphis Grizzlies defeated the Spurs; and in 2012 the Philadelphia 76ers defeated the Chicago Bulls.


1999 NBA Finals, Result
The Spurs were also the first champions since 1986 to not go on to repeat as champions. From 1987 to 1998 every champion either repeated or three-peated.


1999 NBA Finals, Result
Prior to the 2020 NBA Finals which were moved to September and October due to the COVID-19 pandemic, June 25 was the latest date in the calendar year that any NBA Finals game has ever been played. Had a Game 7 been needed, it would have been played on June 30, which was the latest calendar date a Finals game had been scheduled until 2020.


1999 NBA Finals, Result, Regular season series
The Knicks and Spurs did not play each other in the regular season.


1999 NBA Finals, Series summary
The Finals were played using a 2–3–2 site format, where the first two and last two games are held at the team with home court advantage. The NBA, after experimenting in the early years, restored this original format for the Finals between 1985 and 2013. In 2014, the Finals returned to a 2–2–1–1–1 site format.


1999 NBA Finals, Broadcasting
The 1999 NBA Finals was aired in the United States on NBC, with Bob Costas and Doug Collins on play-by-play and color commentary respectively. Hannah Storm served as the studio host while Isiah Thomas, Bill Walton and Peter Vecsey served as studio analysts. Ahmad Rashād and Jim Gray served as sideline reporters.


1999 NBA Finals, Broadcasting
Locally, the Finals also marked the comeback of Marv Albert following his infamous sex scandal two years prior. Albert served as the Knicks' radio play-by-play announcer on WFAN with long-time partner John Andariese. NBC Sports rehired Albert shortly after and he eventually returned to the lead play-by-play role in 2000.


1999 NBA Finals, Aftermath
The Spurs became the first defending champion since the 1985–86 Celtics to not win consecutive championships. They won 53 games that season, but were severely handicapped by Sean Elliott's early season kidney transplant, and Tim Duncan's late-season knee injury. The Spurs were eliminated in the first round of the 2000 NBA Playoffs by the Phoenix Suns. The Spurs also won four more NBA titles in 2003, 2005, 2007 and 2014 and appeared in the 2013 NBA Finals, with Duncan and head coach Gregg Popovich the only members of the team to appear in all of the Spurs' Finals appearances.


1999 NBA Finals, Aftermath
As of the 2018–19 season, the series remains the Knicks' last NBA Finals appearance. The next season, the Knicks won fifty games but fell to the Indiana Pacers in six games in the Eastern Conference Finals. After that season, the Patrick Ewing era came to an end when Ewing was traded to the SuperSonics. Over the fifteen ensuing post-Ewing seasons, the Knicks have been among the least successful NBA franchises, with only three winning seasons and one playoff series win.


1999 NBA draft
The 1999 NBA Draft was held on June 30, 1999, at the MCI Center (now Capital One Arena) in Washington, D.C. It was the first draft in which four players from the same college were picked in the first round, with Elton Brand (1st selection), Trajan Langdon (11th), Corey Maggette (13th) and William Avery (14th) being selected out of Duke University.


1999 NBA draft
It is widely viewed as one of the best draft classes, with a total of nine future NBA All-Stars being chosen, as well as three winners of the NBA Sixth Man of the Year Award—Manu Ginóbili, Jason Terry, and Lamar Odom. Six of the top nine picks were NBA All-Stars. Undrafted Pablo Prigioni made his NBA debut at the 2012–2013 season as the oldest rookie in league history, at age 35.


1999 NBA draft, Notable undrafted players
These players were not selected in the 1999 NBA draft but have played in the NBA with the exception of Theodoros Papaloukas. Papaloukas has not played any game in the NBA, but he has been one of the most iconic players in the Euroleague for Olympiacos and CSKA Moscow.


1999 NBA playoffs
The 1999 NBA playoffs was the postseason tournament of the National Basketball Association’s 1998-99 season. The tournament concluded with the Western Conference champion San Antonio Spurs defeating the Eastern Conference champion New York Knicks 4 games to 1. Tim Duncan was named NBA Finals MVP.


1999 NBA playoffs
The 1999 Playoffs are memorable in that a #8 seed (the Knicks) made it to the Finals for the only time in history, and that it came after a lockout-shortened 50-game season. It also featured the Philadelphia 76ers’ and Milwaukee Bucks’ first trip to the playoffs since 1991 (coincidentally they faced each other in the opening round that year), and it was also the 76ers’ first appearance since drafting Allen Iverson with the #1 overall pick in 1996. Iverson later led the Sixers to the 2001 NBA Finals. The Bulls, despite being defending champions, missed the playoffs for the first time since 1984 (mostly due to the second retirement of Michael Jordan and the departures of Scottie Pippen and Dennis Rodman). They also became the first defending champion since the 1969–70 Boston Celtics to miss the playoffs.


1999 NBA playoffs
Although the Spurs had home-court advantage throughout the playoffs, they played more road games (9) than home games (8), as all their series were won on the road, which included back-to-back sweeps of the Lakers and Blazers (who would meet in next year's West Finals). They won twelve straight games, and finished 15–2 for a postseason record previously equalled by the 1991 Chicago Bulls and beaten only by a 15–1 playoff record with the only loss in overtime from the Los Angeles Lakers in 2001, and by a 16–1 playoff record from the Golden State Warriors in 2017.


1999 NBA playoffs
After losing their Eastern Conference Semifinal series to the Knicks, the Atlanta Hawks did not return to the playoffs until 2008.


1999 NBA playoffs
Game 4 of the Spurs–Lakers series was the last NBA game ever played in the Great Western Forum.


1999 NBA playoffs
Game 5 of the Knicks–Pacers series was the last meaningful NBA game ever played at Market Square Arena.


1999 NBA playoffs
Game 5 of the Hawks–Pistons series is the last NBA playoff game played in a college basketball-specific arena (Georgia Tech's then-named Alexander Memorial Coliseum), and among the final NBA games played in a college basketball-specific arena. Many teams formerly played playoff games on college campuses, especially in the NBA's early days, but the increasing professionalization and ownership of arena times made the practice obsolete.


1999 NBA playoffs
For the first time since 1991, no series went to seven games.


1999 NBA playoffs
After spending their first thirteen seasons in Sacramento in mediocrity, with no winning record and two playoff appearances in 1986 and 1996, the Kings franchise made the first of eight consecutive playoff appearances, which included a trip to the Western Conference Finals in 2002.


1999 NBA playoffs
Game 4 of the Lakers–Rockets series turned out to be the final postseason appearance in Charles Barkley’s Hall of Fame career.


1999 NBA playoffs
This was the last NBA postseason to feature back-to-backs in the conference semifinals.


1999 NBA playoffs, First Round, Eastern Conference First Round, (1) Miami Heat vs. (8) New York Knicks
This was the third playoff meeting between these two teams, with each team winning one series apiece.


1999 NBA playoffs, First Round, Eastern Conference First Round, (2) Indiana Pacers vs. (7) Milwaukee Bucks
This was the first playoff meeting between the Pacers and the Bucks.


1999 NBA playoffs, First Round, Eastern Conference First Round, (3) Orlando Magic vs. (6) Philadelphia 76ers
This was the first playoff meeting between the Magic and the 76ers.


1999 NBA playoffs, First Round, Eastern Conference First Round, (4) Atlanta Hawks vs. (5) Detroit Pistons
This was the eighth playoff meeting between these two teams, with the Hawks winning four of the first seven meetings.


1999 NBA playoffs, First Round, Western Conference First Round, (1) San Antonio Spurs vs. (8) Minnesota Timberwolves
This was the first playoff meeting between the Timberwolves and the Spurs.


1999 NBA playoffs, First Round, Western Conference First Round, (2) Portland Trail Blazers vs. (7) Phoenix Suns
This was the sixth playoff meeting between these two teams, with the Suns winning three of the first five meetings.


1999 NBA playoffs, First Round, Western Conference First Round, (3) Utah Jazz vs. (6) Sacramento Kings
This was the first playoff meeting between the Kings and the Jazz.


1999 NBA playoffs, First Round, Western Conference First Round, (4) Los Angeles Lakers vs. (5) Houston Rockets
This was the sixth playoff meeting between these two teams, with the Rockets winning three of the first five meetings.


1999 NBA playoffs, Conference Semifinals, Eastern Conference Semifinals, (2) Indiana Pacers vs. (6) Philadelphia 76ers
This was the second playoff meeting between these two teams, with the 76ers winning the first meeting.


1999 NBA playoffs, Conference Semifinals, Eastern Conference Semifinals, (4) Atlanta Hawks vs. (8) New York Knicks
This was the second playoff meeting between these two teams, with the Knicks winning the first meeting.


1999 NBA playoffs, Conference Semifinals, Western Conference Semifinals, (1) San Antonio Spurs vs. (4) Los Angeles Lakers
In Game 2, Tim Duncan hit a game-winning hook shot with 8.4 seconds remaining.


1999 NBA playoffs, Conference Semifinals, Western Conference Semifinals, (1) San Antonio Spurs vs. (4) Los Angeles Lakers
This was the sixth playoff meeting between these two teams, with the Lakers winning four of the first five meetings.


1999 NBA playoffs, Conference Semifinals, Western Conference Semifinals, (2) Portland Trail Blazers vs. (3) Utah Jazz
This was the fifth playoff meeting between these two teams, with each team winning two series apiece.


1999 NBA playoffs, Conference Finals, Eastern Conference Finals, (2) Indiana Pacers vs. (8) New York Knicks
In Game 2 Reggie Miller hit the game winning free throws with 2 seconds remaining


1999 NBA playoffs, Conference Finals, Eastern Conference Finals, (2) Indiana Pacers vs. (8) New York Knicks
In Game 3 Larry Johnson makes a game-winning 4-point play with 5.7 seconds left.


1999 NBA playoffs, Conference Finals, Eastern Conference Finals, (2) Indiana Pacers vs. (8) New York Knicks
This was the fifth playoff meeting between these two teams, with each team winning two series apiece.


1999 NBA playoffs, Conference Finals, Western Conference Finals, (1) San Antonio Spurs vs. (2) Portland Trail Blazers
In Game 2, Sean Elliott hit a game-winning three-pointer with 9 seconds remaining.


1999 NBA playoffs, Conference Finals, Western Conference Finals, (1) San Antonio Spurs vs. (2) Portland Trail Blazers
This was the third playoff meeting between these two teams, with each team winning one series apiece


1999 NBA playoffs, NBA Finals: (W1) San Antonio Spurs vs. (E8) New York Knicks
This was the first playoff meeting between the Knicks and the Spurs.


1999 NC State Wolfpack football team
The 1999 NC State Wolfpack football team represented North Carolina State University during the 1999 NCAA Division I-A football season. The team's head coach was Mike O'Cain. 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 1999 at Carter–Finley Stadium in Raleigh, North Carolina, which has been NC State football's home stadium since 1966.


1999 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament
The 1999 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament was played at the end of the 1999 NCAA Division I baseball season to determine the national champion of college baseball. The tournament was expanded to 64 teams for 1999, adding a Super Regional. The tournament concluded with eight teams competing in the College World Series, a double-elimination tournament in its fifty third year. Sixteen regional competitions were held to determine the participants in the final event, with each winner advancing to a best of three series against another regional champion for the right to play in the College World Series.


1999 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament
Each region was composed of four teams, resulting in 64 teams participating in the tournament at the conclusion of their regular season, and in some cases, after a conference tournament. The fifty-third tournament's champion was Miami (FL), coached by Jim Morris. The Most Outstanding Player was Marshall McDougall of Florida State University.


1999 NCAA Division I Cross Country Championships
The 1999 NCAA Division I Cross Country Championships were the 61st annual NCAA Men's Division I Cross Country Championship and the 19th 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.


1999 NCAA Division I Cross Country Championships
Held on November 22, 1999, the combined meet was hosted by Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. 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).


1999 NCAA Division I Cross Country Championships
The men's team championship was won by Arkansas (58 points), the Razorbacks' second consecutive and eighth overall. The women's team championship was won by BYU (72 points), the Cougars' second title (and second in three years).


1999 NCAA Division I Cross Country Championships
The two individual champions were, for the men, David Kimani (South Alabama, 30:06.6) and, for the women, Erica Palmer (Wisconsin, 16:39.5).


1999 NCAA Division I Field Hockey Championship
The 1999 NCAA Division I Field Hockey Championship was the 19th 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 Maryland Terrapins won their third championship, defeating the Michigan Wolverines in the final. The semifinals and championship were hosted by Northeastern University at Parsons Field in Brookline, Massachusetts. This was the first tournament to feature 16 teams; this format was maintained until 2013 when 19 teams competed.


1999 NCAA Division I Indoor Track and Field Championships
The 1999 NCAA Division I Indoor Track and Field Championships were contested 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 after the 1998–99 season, the 35th annual meet for men and 17th annual meet for women.


1999 NCAA Division I Indoor Track and Field Championships
After serving as host for the previous ten years, the championships were held at the RCA Dome in Indianapolis, Indiana for the last time.


1999 NCAA Division I Indoor Track and Field Championships
Two-time defending champions Arkansas again won the men's team title, the Razorbacks' fifteenth overall and fifteenth in sixteen years.


1999 NCAA Division I Indoor Track and Field Championships
Defending champions Texas won the women's team title, the Longhorns' fifth overall and second consecutive.


1999 NCAA Division I Indoor Track and Field Championships, Qualification
All teams and athletes from Division I indoor track and field programs were eligible to compete for this year's individual and team titles.


1999 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship Game
The 1999 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship Game was the finals of the 1999 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament and it determined the national champion for the 1998-99 NCAA Division I men's basketball season  The 1999 National Title Game was played on March 29, 1999, at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Florida, The 1999 National Title Game was played between the 1999 East Regional Champions, #1-seeded Duke and the 1999 West Regional Champions, #1-seeded Connecticut.


1999 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship Game, Game summary
Duke's Trajon Langdon committed a traveling violation with 5.4 seconds left and his Blue Devils trailing the UConn Huskies by one, 75-74. UConn's Khalid El-Amin was immediately fouled, and he made both free throws to put the Huskies up by three points.


1999 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship Game, Game summary
The Blue Devils, who were out of timeouts, had a final chance to tie the game and force overtime, but Langdon, one of college basketball's best three-point shooters, was unable to get off a shot in the final seconds when he gets triple-teamed and falls to the floor, and UConn escaped with a 77-74 victory, giving Jim Calhoun's Huskies their first national championship.


1999 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament
The 1999 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament involved 64 schools playing in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of men's  NCAA Division I college basketball. It began on March 11, 1999, and ended with the championship game on March 29 at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Florida. A total of 63 games were played. This year's Final Four was the first—and so far, only—to be held in a baseball-specific facility, as Tropicana Field is home to the Tampa Bay Rays (then known as the Devil Rays).


1999 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament
The Final Four consisted of Connecticut, making their first ever Final Four appearance; Ohio State, making their ninth Final Four appearance and first since 1968; Michigan State, making their third Final Four appearance and first since their 1979 national championship; and Duke, the overall number one seed and making their first Final Four appearance since losing the national championship game in 1994.


1999 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament
In the national championship game, Connecticut defeated Duke 77–74 to win their first ever national championship, snapping Duke's 32-game winning streak, and scoring the biggest point-spread upset in Championship Game history. Duke nonetheless tied the record for most games won during a single season, with 37, which they co-held until Kentucky's 38-win seasons in 2011–12 and 2014–15. The 2007–08 Memphis team actually broke this record first, but the team was later forced to forfeit their entire season due to eligibility issues surrounding the team.


1999 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament
Richard "Rip" Hamilton of Connecticut was named the tournament's Most Outstanding Player. This was a significant victory for the program, as it cemented Connecticut's reputation as a true basketball power after a decade of barely missing the Final Four.


1999 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament
This tournament is also historically notable as the coming-out party for Gonzaga as a rising mid-major power. Gonzaga has made every NCAA tournament since then, and is now generally considered to be a high-major program despite its mid-major conference affiliation.


1999 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament
Due to violations committed by Ohio State head coach Jim O'Brien, the Buckeyes were forced to vacate their appearance in the 1999 Final Four.


1999 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Schedule and venues
The following are the sites that were selected to host each round of the 1999 tournament:


1999 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Schedule and venues
St. Petersburg became the 27th host city, and Tropicana Field the 32nd host venue, for the Final Four. Tropicana Field, the home of baseball's Tampa Bay Rays, was the sixth different domed stadium to host a Final Four, and the only one designed specifically for baseball; given its inability to be converted to a center court arena, it is unlikely to host one again. There were four new venues in the 1999 tournament, two in completely new host cities for the tournament.


1999 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Schedule and venues
For the first time, the tournament came to Boston at the FleetCenter, which had replaced the Boston Garden in 1995. Despite the original Garden's rich college and NBA history, it never had hosted any NCAA tournament games. The tournament also came to downtown Phoenix for the first time, at the NBA home of the Phoenix Suns. Previous games in the metropolitan area were played in suburban Tempe at Arizona State University.


1999 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Schedule and venues
For the second straight year, the Midwest Regional games were held in a new venue in St. Louis, this time at the Trans World Dome, then home to the NFL's St. Louis Rams. The tournament also returned to Seattle, this time at KeyArena, the downtown home to the Seattle SuperSonics. This tournament would be the last held at McNichols Sports Arena, which was scheduled to close later in the year and is now the site of parking for Empower Field at Mile High; subsequent games in Denver have moved to the Ball Arena. It is also the last tournament to date to include Tropicana Field and Thompson–Boling Arena, as neither has hosted since. Any future tournament games to be held in Tampa would be played at the Amalie Arena.


1999 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Additional notes
North Carolina lost to Weber State which marked the first time the Tar Heels had lost in the first round of the expanded field era with 64 or more teams.


1999 NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championship
The 1999 NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championships were contested at the 61st 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.


1999 NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championship
The tournament was held at the Hazeltine National Golf Club in Chaska, Minnesota.


1999 NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championship
Georgia won the team championship, the Bulldogs' first NCAA title.


1999 NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championship, Qualifying
The NCAA held three regional qualifying tournaments, with the top ten teams from each event qualifying for the national championship.


1999 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament
The 1999 NCAA Men's Division I Ice Hockey Tournament involved 12 schools in playing in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of NCAA Division I. It began on March 26, 1999. The second round was on March 27 and March 28. The semifinals were on April 1. The National Championship Game was on April 3, 1999. A total of 11 games were played, the final 3 at the Arrowhead Pond (now the Honda Center) in Anaheim, CA. The University of Maine defeated New Hampshire by a score of 3–2 in overtime, to claim their second national championship.


1999 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Qualifying teams
The at-large bids and seeding for each team in the tournament were announced after the conference tournaments concluded on March 20, 1999. The Central Collegiate Hockey Association (CCHA) had four teams receive a berth in the tournament, Hockey East and Western Collegiate Hockey Association (WCHA) each had three teams receive a berth in the tournament, while the ECAC had two berths.


1999 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship
The 1999 NCAA Division I tournament championship game was played at University of Maryland's Byrd Stadium with an attendance of 24,135.


1999 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship, Tournament overview
In the tournament finals, the Virginia Cavaliers built a 9-3 lead by the third quarter, and held off the Syracuse Orange, the number eight seed, 12-10. This was Virginia's first NCAA title since 1972 and fourth overall including two pre-NCAA tournament Wingate Trophies in 1952 and 1970.


1999 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship, Tournament overview
Syracuse was the first number eight seed to make it to the title game.


1999 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship, Tournament overview
Virginia's Conor Gill was named the most outstanding player of the tournament, the first freshman ever to win that honor. Other notable players included Virginia's Jay Jalbert, Syracuse's Ryan Powell, and Delaware's player of the year, John Grant, Jr.


1999 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship, Tournament overview
Grant, Jr. led the Delaware Blue Hens to a number six national ranking and their first ever tournament win. Grant Jr. was the tournament's leading scorer along with Ryan Powell, with 14 points in just two games.


1999 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship, Tournament overview
Up until this final, Virginia had lost its last three championship game appearances in overtime. Syracuse made it close, scoring five unanswered goals to climb back to within 10-9 with 6:30 left.


1999 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship, Tournament overview
The All-Tournament Team included Conor Gill, Derek Kenney, Ryan Curtis, Jay Jalbert, Court Weisleder, Tucker Radebaugh, Marshall Abrams, Ryan Powell, Dan Denihan and Georgetown’s Scott Urick.


1999 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship, Tournament boxscores
Caione 2, Josh Coffman 2, Devin Darcangelo 1, Brian Solliday 1


1999 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Tournament
The 1999 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Tournament was the 40th organized men's college soccer tournament by the National Collegiate Athletic Association, to determine the top college soccer team in the United States. The Indiana Hoosiers won their fifth national title by defeating the Santa Clara Broncos in the championship game, 1–0. The semifinal matches on December 10, 1999, and the final match on December 12 were played in Charlotte, North Carolina at Ericsson Stadium. All first, second, and third round matches were played at the home field of the higher seeded team.


1999 NCAA Division I Men's Swimming and Diving Championships
The 1999 NCAA Division I Men's Swimming and Diving Championships were contested in March 1999 at the Indiana University Natatorium in Indianapolis, Indiana at the 76th 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.


1999 NCAA Division I Men's Swimming and Diving Championships
Auburn topped the team standings, finishing 53 points ahead of defending champions Stanford. It was the Tigers' second overall title, second title in three years, and the second for coach David Marsh.


1999 NCAA Division I Men's Tennis Championships
The 1999 NCAA Division I Men's Tennis Championships were the 53rd annual championships to determine the national champions of NCAA Division I men's singles, doubles, and team collegiate tennis in the United States.


1999 NCAA Division I Men's Tennis Championships
Hosts Georgia defeated UCLA in the championship final, 4–0, to claim the Bulldogs' third team national title.


1999 NCAA Division I Men's Tennis Championships, Host sites
This year's tournaments were played at the Dan Magill Tennis Complex at the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia.


1999 NCAA Division I Men's Tennis Championships, Host sites
The men's and women's tournaments would not be held at the same site until 2006.


1999 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships
The 1999 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships were held June 2−5 at Albertsons Stadium at Boise State University in Boise, Idaho 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.


1999 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships
These were the 77th annual men's championships and the 18th annual women's championships. Arkansas topped the men's team standings, and Texas finished atop the women's team standings.


1999 NCAA Division I Softball Tournament
The 1999 NCAA Division I Softball Tournament was the eighteenth annual tournament to determine the national champion of NCAA women's collegiate softball. Held during May 1999, forty-eight Division I college softball teams contested the championship. The tournament featured eight regionals of six teams, each in a double elimination format. The 1999 Women's College World Series was held in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma from May 25 through May 31 and marked the conclusion of the 1999 NCAA Division I softball season. UCLA won their ninth NCAA championship and tenth overall by defeating Washington 3–2 in the final game. It was the first final game since 1990 to not feature Arizona. UCLA infielder Julie Adams was named Women's College World Series Most Outstanding Player.


1999 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament
The 1999 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament began on March 12, 1999, and concluded on March 28, 1999, when Purdue won its first national championship in any women's sport. The Final Four was held at the San Jose Arena in San Jose, California, on March 26–28, 1999. Purdue defeated Duke 62-45 in Carolyn Peck's final game as head coach for the Boilermakers. She had previously announced her intention of leaving Purdue after two seasons to coach the expansion WNBA Orlando Miracle.


1999 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament
The two finalists had recent "off the court" history. Duke's coach, Gail Goestenkors, was a former assistant coach at Purdue under Lin Dunn until becoming the Blue Devils' head coach in 1992. Dunn's firing from Purdue in 1996 and the subsequent player defections resulted in the unusual scenario that two Blue Devil players in the championship game had formerly transferred from Purdue. Purdue's Ukari Figgs was named Most Outstanding Player.


1999 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Notable events
Tennessee, which had won the prior three national championships,  was selected as a 1 seed, and started out strongly, beating Appalachian State 113–54. They continued on easily through the second and third rounds, then faced Duke in the easy regional final. Duke was the 3 seed, but had upset Old Dominion 76–63 to reach the regional final. Tennessee and Duke had met in the regular season, with the Lady Vols winning by 14. The game was played in North Carolina, but Tennessee fans outnumbered Duke fans.


1999 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Notable events
Tennessee's Chamique Holdsclaw, generally considered the top player in the college game, missed her first ten shots, and ended up with only eight points, her lowest point total of the year. Duke reached an eleven-point lead in the first half, but Tennessee started out the second half strong, hitting four baskets in a row, and cut the lead to four points. Duke went over five minutes without scoring a basket, but Tennessee could only cut the lead to a single point. Duke's Georgia Schweitzer tied her career high with 22 points, and the Blue Devils advanced to the Final Four for the first time in their history.


1999 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Notable events
Connecticut was the 1 seed in the mideast regional, and hosted the first two rounds at their home court, Gampel Pavilion. The Huskies won their first game easily, beating St. Francis (PA) by 51 points. The second game, against Xavier, would prove to be very different. Xavier led by as many as ten points in the second half, and with just over two minutes to play, the Musketeers had an eight-point lead, 84–76. UConn scored six consecutive points to tie the game at 84 points each.


1999 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Notable events
With 37 second left in the game Xavier's Nikki Kremer was fouled, and headed to the line, having hit all eight free throw attempts on the day. She missed both attempts. After Shea Ralph missed a jumper, Tamika Williams snared the rebound and was fouled. With seven seconds left in the game she hit both free throws. Xavier tried two desperation shots, but missed both, and UConn narrowly escaped an upset on their own court.


1999 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Notable events
Georgia faced Duke in one of the national semi-finals. Georgia hit nine of their sixteen three point attempts, and held the Miller twins, who have been averaging 37 points per game, to only 31. Duke lead at halftime, then went on a 14–5 run the extend the lead. Georgia later responded with a 13–4 run, but could not take, the lead. Duke went on to win the game 81–69 and advance to their first championship game.


1999 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Notable events
Louisiana Tech returned to the Final Four, a year after reaching the championship game. However, Purdue came into the game riding a 30-game winning streak. Purdue's Ukari Figgs scored 18 points in the first half, leading to a 40–27 lead at halftime. The Lady Techsters fought back in the second half, and cut the lead to three points, but Purdue's Stephanie White-McCarty stole the ball for a score, and followed it with a shot-clock beating basket to extend the led back to seven points. Louisiana Tech would not get closer again, and the Boilermakers extended their winning streak to 31 games, and a place in the championship match with a 77–63 win.


1999 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Qualifying teams – automatic
Sixty-four teams were selected to participate in the 1999 NCAA Tournament. Thirty conferences were eligible for an automatic bid to the 1999 NCAA tournament.


1999 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Qualifying teams – at-large
Thirty-four additional teams were selected to complete the sixty-four invitations.


1999 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Bids by conference
Thirty conferences earned an automatic bid. In seventeen cases, the automatic bid was the only representative from the conference. Thirty-four additional at-large teams were selected from thirteen of the conferences.


1999 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, First and second rounds
In 1999, the field remained at 64 teams. The teams were seeded, and assigned to four geographic regions, with seeds 1-16 in each region. In Round 1, seeds 1 and 16 faced each other, as well as seeds 2 and 15, seeds 3 and 14, seeds 4 and 13, seeds 5 and 12, seeds 6 and 11, seeds 7 and 10, and seeds 8 and 9. In the first two rounds, the top four seeds were given the opportunity to host the first-round game. In all cases, the higher seed accepted the opportunity.


1999 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, First and second rounds
The following table lists the region, host school, venue and the sixteen first and second round locations:


1999 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Regionals and Final Four
The Regionals, named for the general location, were held from March 20 to March 22 at these sites:


1999 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Regionals and Final Four
Each regional winner advanced to the Final Four held March 26 and March 28 in San Jose, California at the San Jose Arena


1999 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Bids by state
The sixty-four teams came from thirty-one states. California had the most teams with six bids. Nineteen states did not have any teams receiving bids.


1999 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Record by conference
Fourteen conferences had more than one bid, or at least one win in NCAA Tournament play:


1999 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament, Record by conference
Sixteen conferences went 0-1: Big Sky Conference, Big South Conference, Big West Conference, Ivy League, MAAC, MAC, Mid-Continent, MEAC, Midwestern Collegiate, Northeast Conference, Ohio Valley Conference, Patriot League, Southern Conference, Southland, SWAC, and Trans America


1999 NCAA Division I Women's Golf Championship
The 1999 NCAA Division I Women's Golf Championships were contested at the 18th annual NCAA-sanctioned golf tournament to determine the individual and team national champions of women's Division I collegiate golf in the United States.


1999 NCAA Division I Women's Golf Championship
The tournament was held at the Tulsa Country Club in Tulsa, Oklahoma.


1999 NCAA Division I Women's Golf Championship
Due to rain, only the first three rounds of play were completed.


1999 NCAA Division I Women's Lacrosse Championship
The 1999 NCAA Division I Women's Lacrosse Championship was the 18th annual single-elimination tournament to determine the national champion of Division I NCAA women's college lacrosse. The championship game was played at Homewood Field in Baltimore, Maryland during May 1999. All NCAA Division I women's lacrosse programs were eligible for this championship. Ultimately, 12 teams were invited to the tournament.


1999 NCAA Division I Women's Lacrosse Championship
Maryland defeated Virginia, 16–6, to win their seventh and fifth consecutive, national championship. This was a rematch of the previous year's final, also won by the Terrapins. This would subsequently become the fifth of Maryland's record seven straight national titles (1995–2001). Furthermore, Maryland's win secured an undefeated season (21–0) for the team.


1999 NCAA Division I Women's Lacrosse Championship
The leading scorer for the tournament, with 16 goals, was Jen Adams from Maryland. Adams was also named the tournament's Most Outstanding Player.


1999 NCAA Division I Women's Soccer Tournament
The 1999 NCAA Division I Women's Soccer Tournament (also known as the 1999 Women's College Cup) was the 18th annual single-elimination tournament to determine the national champion of NCAA Division I women's collegiate soccer. The semifinals and championship game were played at Spartan Stadium in San Jose, California during December 1999. This remains the Women's College Cup tournament with the highest total attendance, with over 72,219 people attending all tournament matches.


1999 NCAA Division I Women's Soccer Tournament
North Carolina defeated Notre Dame in the final, 2–0, to win their fifteenth national title. The Tar Heels (24–2) were coached by Anson Dorrance.


1999 NCAA Division I Women's Soccer Tournament
The Most Outstanding Offensive Player was Susan Bush from North Carolina, and the Most Outstanding Defensive Player was Lorrie Fair, also from North Carolina. Bush and Fair, along with ten other players, were named to the All-Tournament Team.


1999 NCAA Division I Women's Soccer Tournament
The tournament's leading scorer, with 4 goals, was Kim Patrick from North Carolina.


1999 NCAA Division I Women's Soccer Tournament, Qualification
All Division I women's soccer programs were eligible to qualify for the tournament. The tournament field remained fixed at 48 teams.


1999 NCAA Division I Women's Soccer Tournament, Qualification, Format
Just as before, the final two rounds, deemed the Women's College Cup were played at a pre-determined neutral site. All other rounds were played on campus sites at the home field of the higher-seeded team. The top sixteen teams were given a bye to the Second Round while the remaining thirty-two teams played in the preliminary First Round.


1999 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships
The 1999 NCAA Women's Division I Swimming and Diving Championships were contested at the 18th 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.


1999 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships
This year's events were hosted at Gabrielsen Natatorium at the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia.


1999 NCAA Division I Women's Swimming and Diving Championships
Hosts Georgia topped the team standings for the first time, finishing 63.5 points ahead of defending champion  Stanford, and claimed the Bulldogs' first women's team title.


1999 NCAA Division I Women's Tennis Championships
The 1999 NCAA Division I Women's Tennis Championships were the 18th annual championships to determine the national champions of NCAA Division I women's singles, doubles, and team collegiate tennis in the United States.


1999 NCAA Division I Women's Tennis Championships
Stanford defeated hosts, and defending champions, Florida in the team final, 5–2, to claim their tenth national title.


1999 NCAA Division I Women's Tennis Championships, Host
This year's tournaments were hosted by the University of Florida at the Linder Stadium in Gainesville, Florida.


1999 NCAA Division I Women's Tennis Championships, Host
The men's and women's NCAA tennis championships would not be held jointly until 2006.


1999 NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Tournament
The 1999 NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Tournament began on December 2, 1999, with 64 teams and ended December 18 when Penn State defeated Stanford in Honolulu, Hawaii, for the program's first NCAA title.


1999 NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Tournament
Penn State, appearing in their third straight title match, crushed Stanford in three games to claim the school's first ever national championship. The Lions had fallen short in five games the previous two years, falling to Stanford in 1997 and Long Beach State in 1998.


1999 NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Tournament, Records
The tournament field remained steady at 64 teams for a second straight year. The Big Ten led the way with eight bids in the 1999 NCAA Tournament, followed by the Big 12 with six bids and the Pac-10 with five bids. This was the last year to feature teams regionally seeded from 1-4. Bracket-wide seeding from 1-16 would begin in 2000. The Final Four was held in Hawaii for the first time since 1989, and has not been held outside the 48 contiguous states since.


1999 NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Tournament, National Semifinals, Penn State vs. Pacific
Penn State reached their third consecutive final after outlasting Pacific in five games. The Nittany Lions were paced by senior All-American Lauren Cacciamani with 26 kills, six blocks and a .304 attack percentage. Pacific was led by Elsa Stegemann who had a match high 31 kills. Pacific ended their season 32-3.


1999 NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Tournament, National Semifinals, Stanford vs. Long Beach State
Behind freshman Logan Tom's 27 kills, Stanford downed defending national champion Long Beach State in three games.


1999 NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Tournament, National Semifinals, Stanford vs. Long Beach State
Long Beach State opened the match scoring the first two points of game 1, but Stanford would control it from there, scoring eight straight points. In game 2, Stanford trailed 6-3 but took six of the next seven points to take the 9-7 lead. A service ace would seal game two for the Cardinal. Stanford dominated game 3, scoring the first 13 points before taking it 15-3.


1999 NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Tournament, National Championship: Penn State vs. Stanford
Appearing in the program's third straight title match, the top ranked Penn State Nittany Lions crushed second ranked Stanford in three sets to claim the school's first national title.


1999 NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Tournament, National Championship: Penn State vs. Stanford
In game 1, Penn State jumped out to the 8-0 lead, before taking the first game 15-2. The Lions had 10 team blocks in game 1 alone, and hit .258 in game 1. Stanford had 19 hitting errors in the opening game.


1999 NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Tournament, National Championship: Penn State vs. Stanford
Stanford jumped out to the 3-1 lead in game 2, but Penn State tied the game up at 6. After that, Penn State scored six straight points to take the 12-6 lead. Stanford would get no closer than three points, as Penn State took game 2 15-10.


1999 NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Tournament, National Championship: Penn State vs. Stanford
Penn State lead 7-6 in game 3, and eventually stretched the lead to 11-6. Stanford scored their last point on a Lion hitting error, as Penn State scored the final four points. A Stanford hitting error that sailed wide sealed the national championship for Penn State, 15-7.


1999 NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Tournament, National Championship: Penn State vs. Stanford
Penn State's Lauren Cacciamani, the co-AVCA National Player of the Year with Kerri Walsh, had 20 kills and hit .344, while Walsh hit .000 with 11 kills and 11 errors. As a team, Stanford hit negative .008 (39 kills, 40 errors) while Penn State hit .240 (48 kills, 19 errors).


1999 NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Tournament, National Championship: Penn State vs. Stanford
After losing their first match of the season, the Nittany Lions reeled off 36 consecutive wins. The win gave Russ Rose his first NCAA title as the Penn State head coach after three previous runner-up finishes, while Stanford finished as NCAA runners-up for the fourth time in school history.


1999 NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Tournament, NCAA Tournament records
There is one NCAA tournament record that was set in the 1999 tournament that still stands.


1999 NCAA Division I baseball rankings
The following polls make up the 1999 NCAA Division I baseball rankings. USA Today and ESPN began publishing the Coaches' Poll of 31 active coaches ranking the top 25 teams in the nation in 1992. Each coach is a member of the American Baseball Coaches Association. Baseball America began publishing its poll of the top 20 teams in college baseball in 1981. Beginning with the 1985 season, it expanded to the top 25. 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.


1999 NCAA Division I baseball rankings, USA Today/ESPN Coaches' Poll
Currently, only the final poll from the 1999 season is available.


1999 NCAA Division I baseball rankings, Baseball America
Currently, only the final poll from the 1999 season is available.


1999 NCAA Division I baseball rankings, Collegiate Baseball
The Preseason poll ranked the top 40 teams, while all remaining weeks ranked the top 30. Numbers 31–40 were: 31. Texas 32. Oklahoma 33. Houston 34. Loyola Marymount 35. Oral Roberts 36. FIU 37. Northeast Louisiana 38. Ohio State 39. Mississippi State 40. Notre Dame


1999 NCAA Division I baseball season
The 1999 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 1999. The season progressed through the regular season and concluded with the 1999 College World Series. The College World Series, held for the fifty third time in 1999, consisted of one team from each of eight super regional competitions and was held in Omaha, Nebraska at Johnny Rosenblatt Stadium as a double-elimination tournament. Miami (FL) claimed the championship for the third time.


1999 NCAA Division I baseball season, Conference winners
This is a partial list of conference champions from the 1999 season. The NCAA sponsored regional and super regional competitions to determine the College World Series participants. Each of the sixteen regionals consisted of four teams competing in double-elimination tournaments, with the winners advancing to eight best of three Super Regionals. The winners of each Super Regional advanced to Omaha. 29 teams earned automatic bids by winning their conference championship while 35 teams earned at-large selections.


1999 NCAA Division I baseball season, College World Series
The 1999 season marked the fifty third 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 Miami (FL) claiming their third championship with a 6–5 win over Florida State in the final.


1999 NCAA Division I softball season
The 1999 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 1999. The season progressed through the regular season, many conference tournaments and championship series, and concluded with the 1999 NCAA Division I Softball Tournament and 1999 Women's College World Series. The Women's College World Series, consisting of the eight remaining teams in the NCAA Tournament and held in Oklahoma City at ASA Hall of Fame Stadium, ended on May 31, 1999.


1999 NCAA Division I softball season, Women's College World Series
The 1999 NCAA Women's College World Series took place from May 27 to May 31, 1999 in Oklahoma City.


1999 NCAA Division I softball season, Records
NCAA Division I season consecutive scoreless innings streak:105.0 – Danielle Henderson, UMass Minutewomen; March 16-May 2, 1999


1999 NCAA Division I softball season, Records
NCAA Division I single game hits:8 – Carrie Moreman, Alabama Crimson Tide; March 21, 1999


1999 NCAA Division I-A football rankings
Two human polls and one formulaic ranking make up the 1999 NCAA Division I-A football rankings. Unlike most sports, college football's governing body, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), does not bestow a National Championship title for Division I-A football. That title is primarily bestowed by different polling agencies. There are several polls that currently exist. The main weekly polls are the AP Poll and Coaches Poll. About halfway through the season the Bowl Championship Series (BCS) Standings are released.


1999 NCAA Division I-A football rankings, BCS Standings
The Bowl Championship Series determined the two teams that competed in the BCS National Championship Game, the 2000 Sugar Bowl.


1999 NCAA Division I-A football season
The 1999 NCAA Division I-A football season saw Florida State named national champions, defeating Virginia Tech in the BCS Sugar Bowl.


1999 NCAA Division I-A football season
Florida State became the first team in history to start out preseason No. 1 and remain there through the entire season. Their 12–0 season gave them 109 victories in the '90s, the most for any decade. Virginia Tech also had a remarkable season behind freshman quarterback Michael Vick, who was being touted as college football's best player.


1999 NCAA Division I-A football season
Vick was outshone in the national championship game by Florida State wide receiver Peter Warrick. Warrick had early problems with the law, charged with a misdemeanor he sat out two games early in the season. But he scored three touchdowns in the title game, earning MVP honors.


1999 NCAA Division I-A football season
The BCS adopted a new rule after the previous season, nicknamed the "Kansas State Rule," which stated that any team ranked in the top four in the final BCS poll is assured of an invitation to a BCS bowl game.


1999 NCAA Division I-A football season
Many teams faced debacles. East Carolina faced Hurricane Floyd, and in that same week, faced the No. 9 Miami Hurricanes. The Pirates were down, 23–3, but scored 24 unanswered points to win the football game, 27–23.


1999 NCAA Division I-A football season
Kansas State finished 6th in the BCS standings but again received no BCS bowl invitation, this time being passed over in favor of Michigan (ranked eighth). Kansas State's predicament demonstrated early on the problem of trying to balance historic bowl ties and creating a system which gives top bowl bids to the most deserving teams. In addition, for a second straight season, a team from outside the BCS Automatic Qualifying conferences (Marshall) went undefeated but did not receive a bid to a BCS bowl game, which illustrated the problem of BCS Non-Automatic Qualifying conference teams being shut out of the BCS bowls.


1999 NCAA Division I-A football season, Rule changes
The NCAA Rules Committee adopted the following changes for the 1999 season:


1999 NCAA Division I-A football season, Conference and program changes
Two teams upgraded from Division I-AA, thus increasing the number of Division I-A schools from 112 to 114.


1999 NCAA Division I-A football season, Conference and program changes, Program changes
Two programs, each playing as independents, changed their names prior to the season:


1999 NCAA Division I-A football season, Regular season top 10 matchups
Rankings reflect the AP Poll. Rankings for Week 9 and beyond will list BCS Rankings first and AP Poll second. Teams that failed to be a top 10 team for one poll or the other will be noted.


1999 NCAA Division I-A football season, Heisman Trophy voting
The Heisman Memorial Trophy Award is given to the Most Outstanding Player of the yearWinner:Ron Dayne, Wisconsin, Running Back (2,042 points)


1999 NCAA Division I-AA Football Championship Game
The 1999 NCAA Division I-AA Football Championship Game was a postseason college football game between the Georgia Southern Eagles and the Youngstown State Penguins. The game was played on December 18, 1999, at Finley Stadium, home field of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. The culminating game of the 1999 NCAA Division I-AA football season, it was won by Georgia Southern, 59–24.


1999 NCAA Division I-AA Football Championship Game, Teams
The participants of the Championship Game were the finalists of the 1999 I-AA Playoffs, which began with a 16-team bracket.


1999 NCAA Division I-AA Football Championship Game, Teams, Youngstown State Penguins
Youngstown State finished their regular season with a 9–2 record (5–1 in conference); one of their losses had been to Western Michigan of Division I-A. Seeded ninth in the playoffs, the Penguins defeated eight-seed Montana, 16-seed North Carolina A&T, and 13-seed Florida A&M to reach the final. This was the sixth appearance for Youngstown State in a Division I-AA championship game, having won four titles (1991, 1993, 1994, and 1997) against one loss (1992).


1999 NCAA Division I-AA Football Championship Game, Teams, Georgia Southern Eagles
Georgia Southern finished their regular season with a 9–2 record (7–1 in conference); one of their losses had been to Oregon State of Division I-A. The Eagles, seeded second, defeated 15-seed Northern Arizona, 10-seed UMass, and sixth-seed Illinois State to reach the final. This was the seventh appearance for Georgia Southern in a Division I-AA championship game, having four prior wins (1985, 1986, 1989, 1990) and two prior losses (1988, 1998).


1999 NCAA Division I-AA football rankings
The 1999 NCAA Division I-AA football rankings are from the Sports Network poll of Division I-AA head coaches, athletic directors, sports information directors and media members. This is for the 1999 season.


1999 NCAA Division I-AA football season
The 1999 NCAA Division I-AA football season, part of college football in the United States organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) at the Division I-AA level, began in August 1999, and concluded with the 1999 NCAA Division I-AA Football Championship Game on December 18, 1999, at Finley Stadium in Chattanooga, Tennessee. The Georgia Southern Eagles won their fifth I-AA championship, defeating the Youngstown State Penguins by a score of 59−24.


1999 NCAA Division I-AA football season, Conference champions
Atlantic 10 Conference – James Madison and MassachusettsBig Sky Conference – MontanaGateway Football Conference – Illinois StateIvy League – Brown and YaleMetro Atlantic Athletic Conference – DuquesneMid-Eastern Athletic Conference – North Carolina A&TNortheast Conference – Robert MorrisOhio Valley Conference – Tennessee StatePatriot League – Colgate and LehighPioneer Football League – DaytonSouthern Conference – Appalachian State, Furman, and Georgia SouthernSouthland Football League – Stephen F. Austin and Troy StateSouthwestern Athletic Conference – Southern


1999 NCAA Division I-AA football season, Postseason, NCAA Division I-AA playoff bracket
* By team name denotes host institution* By score denotes overtimeSource:


1999 NCAA Division II Men's Basketball Tournament
The 1999 NCAA Division II Men's Basketball Tournament was the 43rd annual single-elimination tournament to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division II college basketball in the United States.


1999 NCAA Division II Men's Basketball Tournament
Officially culminating the 1998–99 NCAA Division II men's basketball season, the tournament featured forty-eight teams from around the country.


1999 NCAA Division II Men's Basketball Tournament
The Elite Eight, national semifinals, and championship were again played at the Commonwealth Convention Center in Louisville, Kentucky.


1999 NCAA Division II Men's Basketball Tournament
Kentucky Wesleyan (35–2) defeated Metro State in the final, 75–60, to win their record seventh Division II national championship. This title came one year after the Panthers' loss to UC Davis in the 1998 championship.


1999 NCAA Division II Men's Basketball Tournament
Kentucky Wesleyan was coached by Ray Harper. For the second consecutive year, KWC's Antonio Garcia was the Most Outstanding Player.


1999 NCAA Division II Men's Ice Hockey Tournament
The 1999 NCAA Men's Division II Ice Hockey Tournament involved 2 schools playing in a best of three game series to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division II college ice hockey. A total of 2 games were played, hosted by Saint Michael's College.


1999 NCAA Division II Men's Ice Hockey Tournament
Saint Michael's, coached by Lou DiMasi, won the national title over New Hampshire College, with one win and one tie.


1999 NCAA Division II Men's Ice Hockey Tournament
Chuck Croteau and Jason harrington, were the tournament's leading scorers with four points each.


1999 NCAA Division II Men's Ice Hockey Tournament
After the championship the tournament was discontinued due to lack of interest from schools at the Division II level.


1999 NCAA Division II Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Tournament Format
Two teams were invited to play a modified best-of-three tournament. In the first two games the teams would be awarded points (2 points for a win, one point for a tie) and whichever team had the most points would be the champion. If the teams were tied after two games then a 20-minute mini-game would be played to determine the champion.


1999 NCAA Division II Men's Soccer Championship
The 1999 NCAA Division II Men's Soccer Championship was the 28th annual tournament held by the NCAA to determine the top men's Division II college soccer program in the United States.


1999 NCAA Division II Men's Soccer Championship
Undefeated defending champions Southern Connecticut State (20-0) defeated Fort Lewis, 2–1, in the tournament final, after two overtime periods. This was the second consecutive and sixth overall national title for the Owls, who were coached by Tom Lang.


1999 NCAA Division II Women's Basketball Tournament
The 1999 NCAA Division II Women's Basketball Tournament was the 18th annual tournament hosted by the NCAA to determine the national champion of Division II women's  collegiate basketball in the United States.


1999 NCAA Division II Women's Basketball Tournament
Two-time defending champions North Dakota defeated Arkansas Tech in the championship game, 80–63, to claim the Fighting Sioux's third consecutive and third overall NCAA Division II national title.


1999 NCAA Division II football rankings
The 1999 NCAA Division II football rankings are from the NCAA Division II football committee. This is for the 1999 season.


1999 NCAA Division II football season
The 1999 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 on August 28, 1999, and concluded with the NCAA Division II Football Championship on December 11, 1999, at Braly Municipal Stadium in Florence, Alabama, hosted by the University of North Alabama.


1999 NCAA Division II football season
Northwest Missouri State defeated Carson–Newman in the championship game, 58–52 after four overtimes, to win their second Division II national title.


1999 NCAA Division II football season
The Harlon Hill Trophy was awarded to Corte McGuffey, quarterback from Northern Colorado.


1999 NCAA Division II football season, Conference summaries
Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association – Winston-Salem StateColumbia Football Association – Western WashingtonEastern Collegiate Football Conference – American InternationalGreat Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference – Ferris State and NorthwoodGulf South Conference – Arkansas TechLone Star Conference – Central Oklahoma, Northeastern State, and Southeastern Oklahoma StateMid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association – Northwest Missouri StateNorth Central Conference – North Dakota and Northern ColoradoNorthern Sun Intercollegiate Conference – Northern StatePennsylvania State Athletic Conference – West Chester (East), Slippery Rock (West)Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference – Chadron State and New Mexico HighlandsSouth Atlantic Conference – Carson-NewmanSouthern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference – Fort Valley State and TuskegeeWest Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference – Shepherd


1999 NCAA Division II football season, Postseason
The 1999 NCAA Division II Football Championship playoffs were the 26th single-elimination tournament to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division II college football. The championship game was held at Braly Municipal Stadium in Florence, Alabama, for the 13th time.


1999 NCAA Division III Baseball Tournament
The 1999 NCAA Division III Baseball Tournament was played at the end of the 1999 NCAA Division III baseball season to determine the 24th national champion of college baseball at the NCAA Division III level. The tournament concluded with eight teams competing at Salem Memorial Ballpark in Salem, Virginia for the championship. Eight regional tournaments were held to determine the participants in the World Series. Regional tournaments were contested in double-elimination format, with four regions consisting of six teams and four regions consisting of four teams, for a total of 40 teams participating in the tournament. The tournament champion was N.C. Wesleyan, who defeated St. Thomas for the championship.


1999 NCAA Division III Men's Basketball Tournament
The 1999 NCAA Division III Men's Basketball Tournament was the 25th 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.


1999 NCAA Division III Men's Basketball Tournament
The field contained sixty-four teams, and each program was allocated to one of four sectionals. All sectional games were played on campus sites, while the national semifinals, third-place final, and championship finals were contested at the Salem Civic Center in Salem, Virginia.


1999 NCAA Division III Men's Basketball Tournament
Defending champions Wisconsin–Platteville defeated Hampden-Sydney, 76–75 (in two overtimes), in the final, clinching a fourth overall title and a second consecutive championship.


1999 NCAA Division III Men's Basketball Tournament
The Pioneers (30–2) were coached by Bo Ryan, who claimed his fourth title at Platteville (1991, 1995, and 1998). Ryan departed for Division I Milwaukee after this season before eventually becoming the head coach for Wisconsin in 2001.


1999 NCAA Division III Men's Basketball Tournament
Merrill Brunson, also from Platteville, was named Most Outstanding Player.


1999 NCAA Division III Men's Ice Hockey Tournament
The 1999 NCAA Division III Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the culmination of the 1998–99 season, the 16th such tournament in NCAA history. It concluded with Middlebury defeating Wisconsin-Superior in the championship game 5-0. All Quarterfinals matchups were held at home team venues, while all succeeding games were played in Norwich, Vermont.


1999 NCAA Division III Men's Ice Hockey Tournament
The championship marked the fifth in a row for Middlebury.


1999 NCAA Division III Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Qualifying teams
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.


1999 NCAA Division III Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Format
The tournament featured three rounds of play. In the Quarterfinals, teams played a two-game series where the first team to reach 3 points was declared a winner (2 points for winning a game, 1 point each for tying). If both teams ended up with 2 points after the first two games a 20-minute mini-game used to determine a winner. Mini-game scores are in italics. 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.


1999 NCAA Division III football season
The 1999 NCAA Division III football season, part of the college football season organized by the NCAA at the Division III level in the United States, began in August 1999, and concluded with the NCAA Division III Football Championship, also known as the Stagg Bowl, in December 1999 at Salem Football Stadium in Salem, Virginia. The Pacific Lutheran Lutes won their first Division III championship by defeating the Rowan Profs, 42−13.


1999 NCAA Division III football season
The Gagliardi Trophy, given to the most outstanding player in Division III football, was awarded to Danny Ragsdale, quarterback from Redlands.


1999 NCAA Division III football season, Postseason
The 1999 NCAA Division III Football Championship playoffs were the 27th 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 Salem Football Stadium in Salem, Virginia for the seventh time. This was the first bracket to feature 28 teams after expanding from the previous format of 16 teams in place from 1985 to 1998. With the new format, four teams were given byes to the second round.


1999 NCAA Division III football season, Final AFCA Top 25 Poll
Others receiving votes: Buffalo St 118, Alma 109, Washington (Mo.) 85,  Wilmington 13, McMurry 9, Redlands 9, Union 9, Pomona-Pitzer 5, Aurora 5, Millikin 4, Williams 3, John Carroll 3, Otterbein 1.


1999 NCAA Division III football season, Awards
AFCA Regional Coach of the Year: Region 1: Peter Mazzaferro, Bridgewater State Region 2: Frank Girardi, Lycoming Region 3: Steve Mohr, Trinity (TX) Region 4: Larry Kehres, Mount Union Region 5: Rick Willis, Wartburg


1999 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans
The Consensus 1999 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 Sporting News and the National Association of Basketball Coaches.


1999 NCAA Men's Volleyball Tournament
The 1999 NCAA Men's Volleyball Tournament was the 30th annual tournament to determine the national champion of NCAA men's collegiate volleyball. The single elimination tournament was played at Pauley Pavilion in Los Angeles, California during May 1999.


1999 NCAA Men's Volleyball Tournament
BYU defeated Long Beach State in the final match, 3–0 (15–9, 15–7, 15–10), to win their first national title. The Cougars (30–1) were coached by Carl McGown. BYU won the title in just their first appearance in the NCAA men's volleyball tournament.


1999 NCAA Men's Volleyball Tournament
BYU's Ossie Antonetti was named the tournament's Most Outstanding Player. Antonetti, along with five other players, comprised the All-Tournament Team.


1999 NCAA Men's Volleyball Tournament, Qualification
Until the creation of the NCAA Men's Division III Volleyball Championship in 2012, there was only a single national championship for men's volleyball. As such, all NCAA men's volleyball programs, whether from Division I, Division II, or Division III, were eligible. A total of 4 teams were invited to contest this championship.


1999 NCAA Men's Water Polo Championship
The 1999 NCAA Men's Water Polo Championship was the 31st annual NCAA Men's Water Polo Championship to determine the national champion of NCAA men's collegiate water polo. Tournament matches were played at Canyonview Pool in La Jolla, San Diego, California during December 1999.


1999 NCAA Men's Water Polo Championship
UCLA defeated Stanford in the final, 6–5, to win their sixth national title. The Bruins (22–3) were coached by Guy Baker and Adam Krikorian.


1999 NCAA Men's Water Polo Championship
The Most Outstanding Player of the tournament was Sean Kern from UCLA. Kern, along with seven other players, comprised the All-Tournament Team.


1999 NCAA Men's Water Polo Championship
Kern was also the tournament's leading scorer, with 8 goals.


1999 NCAA Men's Water Polo Championship, Qualification
Since there has only ever been one single national championship for water polo, all NCAA men's water polo programs (whether from Division I, Division II, or Division III) were eligible. A total of 4 teams were invited to contest this championship.


1999 NCAA Rifle Championships
The 1999 NCAA Rifle Championships were contested at the 20th annual NCAA-sanctioned competition to determine the team and individual national champions of co-ed collegiate rifle shooting in the United States. The championship was hosted by Norwich University in Northfield, Vermont.


1999 NCAA Rifle Championships
Alaska topped the team standings, finishing 108 points (6,276–6,168) points ahead of Navy. This was the Nanooks' second team title.


1999 NCAA Rifle Championships
First the first time since 1980, one shooter, Kelly Mansfield (Alaska), captured the individual national championship for both the smallbore and air rifle events.


1999 NCAA Rifle Championships, Qualification
With only one national collegiate championship for rifle shooting, all NCAA rifle programs (whether from Division I, Division II, or Division III) were eligible. A total of nine teams ultimately contested this championship (an increase of two teams from 1998).


1999 NCAA Skiing Championships
The 1999 NCAA Skiing Championships were contested at the Sunday River ski area, near the town of Newry, Maine, at the 46th annual NCAA-sanctioned ski tournament to determine the individual and team national champions of men's and women's collegiate slalom and cross country skiing in the United States.


1999 NCAA Skiing Championships
Defending champions Colorado, coached by Richard Rokos, won the team championship, the Buffaloes' fifteenth title overall and fourth as a co-ed team.


1999 NCAA Skiing Championships, Venue
This year's championships were contested at the Sunday River ski area, in Newry, Maine.


1999 NCAA Skiing Championships, Venue
These were the second championships held at Sunday River and the third in the state of Maine (1967, 1976, and 1999).


1999 NCAA Women's Gymnastics Championship
The 1999 NCAA Women's Gymnastics championship involved 12 schools competing for the national championship of women's NCAA Division I gymnastics. It was the eighteenth NCAA gymnastics national championship and the defending NCAA Team Champion for 1998 was Georgia. The competition took place in Salt Lake City, Utah, hosted by the University of Utah in the Jon M. Huntsman Center. The 1999 Championship was won by defending champion Georgia.


1999 NEBL Promotion Cup
NEBL Promotion Cup 1999 was the first test run tournament of the North European Basketball League. The tournament was held during the 1998-99 basketball season on 23 January – 5 April 1999. The tournament included 8 teams from Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Sweden and Finland.


1999 NEBL Promotion Cup
BC Žalgiris won the tournament by defeating ASK/Brocēni/LMT in the final. BC Lietuvos rytas finished in third place by defeating Plannja Basket.


1999 NEBL Promotion Cup
The Prize fund for the Final Four competitions equaled $100,000. The winner of the NEBL Promotion Cup was awarded with $45,000 cheque, the other finalist received $25,000, 3rd-place winner - $20,000 and 4th best team got $10,000.


1999 NEBL Promotion Cup, Group stage
During the group stage, each team played 10 games. A team faced opponents in own group twice (6 games) and each team from the other group once (4 games).


1999 NEBL Promotion Cup, All-NEBL Team'99
Coaches of all teams, which participated in the 1999 NEBL Promotion Cup, selected All-NEBL Team'99:


1999 NECBL season
The 1999 NECBL season was the sixth season of the New England Collegiate Baseball League. The league expanded to eight franchises with the addition of the Rhode Island Gulls, the league's second franchise in the New England state of Rhode Island.


1999 NECBL season
In the semifinal playoff rounds, Danbury defeated Keene 2-1, and Middletown defeated Rhode Island (Reds) 2-1. In the final round, Middletown defeated Danbury 3-1 to win their third consecutive NECBL championship.


1999 NFL Draft
The 1999 NFL draft was the procedure by which National Football League teams selected amateur college football players. It is officially known as the NFL Annual Player Selection Meeting. The draft was held April 17–18, 1999, at the Theater at Madison Square Garden in New York City, New York. The league also held a supplemental draft after the regular draft and before the regular season.


1999 NFL Draft
Five quarterbacks were selected in the first round — Tim Couch, Donovan McNabb, Akili Smith, Daunte Culpepper, and Cade McNown — the second most (along with the 2018 and 2021 drafts) after the 1983 NFL Draft. The draft also marked the second time after 1971 that the first three selections (Couch, McNabb, and Smith) were quarterbacks. Only McNabb and Culpepper, however, would have successful careers, while Couch, Smith, and McNown are generally regarded as draft busts. McNabb, the most successful of the five, was also the only first-round quarterback from the draft to appear in the Super Bowl.


1999 NFL Draft
In addition to the quarterback selections, the draft is noted for the Ricky Williams trade, which saw the New Orleans Saints trade all six of their draft picks to the Washington Redskins to select running back Ricky Williams fifth overall. New Orleans finished with a 3–13 record following the trade and Williams struggled as a rookie, resulting in the firing of Saints head coach Mike Ditka and general manager Bill Kuharich.


1999 NFL Draft, Trades
In the explanations below, (PD) indicates trades completed prior to the start of the draft (i.e. Pre-Draft), while (D) denotes trades that took place during the 1999 draft.


1999 NFL Draft, Supplemental draft
A supplemental draft was held in the summer of 1999. For each player selected in the supplemental draft, the team forfeits its pick in that round in the draft of the following season. The New England Patriots were the only team to select a player, selecting cornerback J'Juan Cherry from Arizona State in the 4th round.


1999 NFL Europe season
The 1999 NFL Europe season was the 7th season in 9 years of the American Football league that started out as the World League of American Football. The Berlin Thunder replaced the England Monarchs for the 1999 season.


1999 NFL Europe season, World Bowl '99
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1999 NFL expansion draft
The Cleveland Browns had spent three years with its operations suspended after Art Modell had relocated the Browns' organization and players to Baltimore, Maryland to form the Baltimore Ravens at the end of the 1995 NFL season. Upon returning to the league, in order to become competitive with existing teams, the Browns were awarded the first pick in the 1999 NFL Draft, and the league gave the Browns the opportunity to select current players from the other teams. That selection was provided by the 1999 National Football League expansion draft, held on February 9, 1999. 150 players were left unprotected by their teams for the Browns to draft.


1999 NFL expansion draft, Format
Each of the 30 existing teams were required to expose five players to the draft. Cleveland was allowed to select between 30 and 42 players. No more than two players could be drafted from a single team; after drafting one player from a team, that team had the option to remove up to two of the remaining four players from the draft pool.


1999 NFL expansion draft, Reception
Three years later The New York Times said that the Houston Texans would use the 1999 draft as an example of what not to do in the 2002 NFL expansion draft: "The Browns went for the usual mix of promising young players and veterans who were not over the hill. Apparently, Cleveland did not draft much of either. Only three of the 37 players the Browns took are still with the team and they all play on special teams." The team had the opportunity to draft quarterback Kurt Warner, who at that point had not yet started a game and only had four completions in 11 passing attempts in the NFL, but declined to do so.


1999 NFL season
The 1999 NFL season was the 80th regular season of the National Football League. The Cleveland Browns returned to the field for the first time since the 1995 season, while the Houston Oilers changed their name to "Tennessee Titans," with the league retiring the name “Oilers.”


1999 NFL season
The return of the Browns increased the number of teams to 31, the first time the league had played with an odd number of teams since  1966. This required the NFL to give at least one team a bye each week; previously, barring extreme circumstances, a club never received a bye during the first two weeks or last seven weeks of the season.


1999 NFL season
Under a new system, for ten weeks of the season (Week #1, Week #2 and Week #10 to Week #17), one team received a bye, and for seven weeks of the season (Week #3 to Week #9), three teams received a bye. This format would continue until the Houston Texans joined the NFL in 2002, returning the league to an even number of teams.


1999 NFL season
The start of the 1999 NFL Season was pushed back one week and started the weekend after Labor Day, a change from the previous seasons: due to the Y2K concerns, the NFL did not want to hold the opening round of the playoffs on Saturday January 1, 2000, and did not want teams traveling on that day. This was also done to avoid competing against college football's New Years Day bowl games.


1999 NFL season
Week 17 games were held on January 2, 2000, and the opening round of the playoffs would be scheduled for January 8 and 9, with the bye week before the Super Bowl removed to accommodate the one-week adjustment. The start of the season after Labor Day would become a regular fixture for future seasons, beginning in 2001.


1999 NFL season
The final spot in the NFC playoffs came down to an exciting final day of the season. The Green Bay Packers and Carolina Panthers were both at 7–8, tied for the last spot in the playoffs with the Dallas Cowboys and tied in other tiebreakers. The Packers/Panthers tie would be broken by best net point differential in conference games. With both the Packers and Panthers playing at 1:00 PM Eastern on January 2, the two teams tried to outscore the other. The Packers beat the Arizona Cardinals 49–24, and the Panthers beat the New Orleans Saints 45–13, with the result that the Packers finished ahead of the Panthers by 11 points. Nevertheless, Dallas defeated the New York Giants later that night to claim the final playoff spot.


1999 NFL season
The St. Louis Rams, who have had losing records for each of the past nine seasons dating back to their first tenure in Los Angeles (and had finished in last place in their division the previous season), surprised the entire league by defeating the Tennessee Titans 23–16 in Super Bowl XXXIV at the Georgia Dome.


1999 NFL season, Transactions, Draft
The 1999 NFL Draft was held from April 17 to 18, 1999 at New York City's Theater at Madison Square Garden. With the first pick, the Cleveland Browns selected quarterback Tim Couch from the University of Kentucky.


1999 NFL season, Transactions, Expansion Draft
Held on February 9, 1999, 150 players were left unprotected by their teams for the Browns to select in the 1999 NFL expansion draft. With the first overall pick, the Browns selected Center Jim Pyne from the Detroit Lions.


1999 NFL season, Referee changes
Jerry Markbreit retired prior to the 1999 season. He joined the NFL in 1976 as a line judge before being promoted to the referee in just his second year. To date, he is the only NFL referee to officiate four Super Bowl games: Super Bowl XVII, Super Bowl XXI, Super Bowl XXVI, and Super Bowl XXIX. Jeff Triplette was promoted to referee to replace Markbreit.


1999 NFL season, Major rule changes
The league also added the following then-minor rule change that became significant in the playoffs a few years later:


1999 NFL season, Major rule changes
This new interpretation of a forward pass would later be commonly known as the “Tuck Rule”, and was repealed in 2013.


1999 NFL season, Regular season, Scheduling formula
Inter-conferenceAFC East vs NFC EastAFC Central vs NFC WestAFC West vs NFC Central


1999 NHK Trophy
The 1999 NHK Trophy was the final event of six in the 1999–2000 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating, a senior-level international invitational competition series. It was held at the Rainbow Ice Arena in Nagoya on December 2–5. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing. Skaters earned points toward qualifying for the 1999–2000 Grand Prix Final.


1999 NHL Entry Draft
The 1999 NHL Entry Draft was the 37th NHL Entry Draft. It was held on June 26 at the FleetCenter in Boston. According to Sports Illustrated and other sports news agencies, at the time the 1999 draft was considered one of the deepest in talent in years, headed by Patrik Stefan and the Sedin twins, Daniel and Henrik.


1999 NHL Entry Draft
As a result of the draft lottery, the first three picks going into draft day were held by the Tampa Bay Lightning, the Atlanta Thrashers expansion team, and the Vancouver Canucks, respectively. The Canucks were determined to select both Sedins and therefore initiated a trading carousel involving multiple teams. After the trading was done, the Lightning had traded out of the first round altogether while the Thrashers held the first overall pick. However, Atlanta had also agreed not to draft either of the Sedin twins. The Thrashers therefore selected Stefan while the Canucks used the second and third picks to select the Sedins.


1999 NHL Entry Draft
The overall impact in the NHL of players selected has not matched that of the neighboring drafts. An example is how many first round picks have played the equivalent of an entire regular season ten seasons after the 1999 draft; only 16 out of 28 first round picks in 1999 have played 82 NHL games, while the same statistic applies to 23 out of 27 players in 1998 and 21 out of 30 players in 2000. In addition, while the Sedin twins have excelled in the NHL, only Barret Jackman and Martin Havlat were still active players of the other 26 first-round picks in the NHL 15 years after the draft.


1999 NHL Entry Draft, Selections by round
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