1971 NCAA Championships
Champions, team standings, and brackets for all 10 weights.
The 1971 NCAA championships had 10 weights and 366 bouts. Oklahoma State won the team title with 94 points; Iowa State was second with 66. Oklahoma State had three of the 10 individual champions.
Most falls in the least time: Larry Laush, Oklahoma · 3 falls in 17:47
Individual champions
Team standings
Scoring details →Published standings · Source: NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships Records Book, All-Time Team Results, 1971
Head coach for the 1971 tournament, from the coaching record; a dash where none is established yet.
| Rank | Program | Head coach | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Oklahoma State | Tommy Chesbro | 94 |
| 2 | Iowa State | Harold Nichols | 66 |
| 3 | Michigan State | Grady Peninger | 44 |
| T4 | Oregon State | Dale Thomas | 43 |
| T4 | Penn State | Bill Koll | 43 |
| 6 | Oklahoma | Tommy Evans | 39 |
| 7 | Lehigh (PA) | Thad Turner | 32 |
| 8 | Washington (WA) | Jim Smith | 30 |
| T9 | Navy (MD) | Ed Peery | 26 |
| T9 | Portland State (OR) | Howard Westcott | 26 |
| 11 | Ohio | Harry Houska | 24 |
| 12 | Air Force (CO) | Karl Kitt | 21 |
| 13 | Toledo (OH) | Dick Wilson | 17 |
| 14 | Michigan | Rick Bay | 14 |
| T15 | Brigham Young (UT) | Fred Davis | 13 |
| T15 | Colorado | Shelby Wilson | 13 |
| T15 | Lock Haven (PA) | Ken Cox | 13 |
| T15 | Syracuse (NY) | Ed Carlin | 13 |
| T19 | California-Los Angeles | Dave Hollinger | 10 |
| T19 | Northwestern (IL) | Ken Kraft | 10 |
Show all 58 teams
37 more programs that entered but are not in the published standings
* Calculated from the bouts under the 1971 scoring rules.
Cite this page: “1971 NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships”, March Matness, NCAA Division I championship record, release affad6e7. https://www.marchmatness.app/tournaments/1971/