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The 1972–73 UCLA Bruins men’s basketball team won another National Championship for UCLA by beating the Memphis Tigers 87–66 in the Final Four. In the NCAA Championship Bill Walton led UCLA to an 87–66 win over Memphis State in which he made 21 of 22 field goal attempts and scored 44 points. Some regard this as the greatest ever offensive performance in American college basketball. The Bruins set a new NCAA record of winning 89 games and losing 1 during a three-year span.