| Mode: | Basketball |
| Year: | 1976–77 |
| Team: | UCLA Bruins |
| Conference: | Pacific-8 |
| Short Conf: | Pac-8 |
| Coachrank: | 4 |
| Aprank: | 2 |
| Record: | 24–5 |
| Conf Record: | 11–3, 1st |
| Head Coach: | Gene Bartow (2nd year) |
| Asst Coach2: | Lee Hunt |
| Champion: | Pac-8 champions |
| Bowl: | NCAA tournament |
| Bowl Result: | Sweet Sixteen |
The 1976–77 UCLA Bruins men's basketball team represented the University of California, Los Angeles in the NCAA Division I men's basketball season. In his second and final year as head coach, Gene Bartow and the Bruins began the season ranked fourth in the AP Poll and won the Pac-8 regular season with an 11–3 record. The Bruins were swept by and also lost
Ranked second and 23–4 UCLA accepted a bid to the NCAA tournament; they defeated fourteenth-ranked Louisville in the first round in Pocatello, Idaho, and remained at second in the In the West Regional semifinals (Sweet Sixteen) at Provo, Utah, the Bruins were upset by a point by unranked Failing to make the Final Four broke a record streak of these appearances going back to 1966.[1]
Senior forward Marques Johnson was a consensus
| No. | Position | Player | Class | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 54 | F | Sr. | ||
| 34 | F | David Greenwood | So. | |
| 32 | C | Bret Vroman | Jr. | |
| 24 | G | Roy Hamilton | So. | |
| 44 | G | Jim Spillane | Sr. |
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Regular Season|-!colspan=12 style="background:#;"| NCAA TournamentSource:[2] [3]