Broadcast: Dick Enberg, play-by-play (died Dec. 21, 2017); Bob Pettit, color analyst (alive; photo from 2016 unveiling of statue in his honor); Eddie Einhorn, producer (died Feb. 24, 2016)
UCLA
| John Wooden (Coach) | Died June 4, 2010 |
| Kenny Heitz | Died July 9, 2012 |
| Gene Sutherland | Listed as attending 2017 reunion of 1967 team |
| Neville Saner | 2017 reunion |
| Lew Alcindor/Kareem Abdul-Jabbar | Author |
| Jim Nielsen | 2017 reunion (2007 article on career as educator and coach) |
| Mike Lynn | 2017 reunion |
| Lucius Allen | Video of visit to 2017 UCLA practice; member of coaching service |
| Mike Warren | Actor |
| Bill Sweek | Retired teacher (quoted in Wooden retrospective) |
| Lynn Shackelford | Retired, former broadcaster (2016 article); UPDATE: Appeared in CBS Sports Network special |
| Edgar Lacey | Died March 22, 2011 |
Houston
| Guy V. Lewis (Coach) | Died Nov. 26, 2015 |
| Vern Lewis | Referenced toward bottom of this recent article; UPDATE: Appeared in CBS Sports Network special |
| Ken Spain | Died Oct. 11, 1990 |
| Tom Gribben | Died Jan. 22, 2014 |
| Niemer Hamood | Unable to find anything recent |
| Don Chaney | Nov. 2017 photo |
| Larry Cooper | Retired coach and school principal; UPDATE: Appeared in CBS Sports Network special |
| Billy Bane | UPDATE: Appeared in CBS Sports Network special |
| Theodis Lee | Died 1979; tournament named in his honor |
| George Reynolds | Unable to find anything recent |
| Elvin Hayes | Nov. 2017 photo |
| Bobby Van Landingham | Unable to find anything recent |
| Carlos Bell | UPDATE: Appeared in CBS Sports Network special |
Other passings I would like to acknowledge include Ted Nance (died August 14, 2015), the longtime UH Sports Information Director, who sent me nice e-mails with information about the Game of the Century; and Bobby Scott (died Jan. 30, 2010), one of the officials that night.
If you know what became of any other major figures in the game, please e-mail me via my faculty webpage at Texas Tech.