Has an NCAA Men's Basketball game ever ended 96-74?
It has. 96-74 has been a NCAA Men's Basketball final 22 times in 136,843 games. The first was Fairleigh Dickinson Knights beat Long Island University Sharks on February 9, 2006; the latest was Virginia Tech Hokies beat Western Carolina Catamounts on December 11, 2025.
That makes 96-74 the 1196th most common final score out of 3,845 that have ever occurred in NCAA Men's Basketball. One point away, 97-74 has happened 16 times and 96-75 has happened 25 times. Nearly all of its occurrences fall between 2010 and 2039.