That was my junior yr in high school and I remember this game well; Dean Smith said what can u do when a man is hitting shots from outside the galaxy! There's always talk of guys being in a zone, usually for one game here and there! Well Glen Rice was firmly entrenched in a zone and never exited it during that March run! He was locked in all six games! A matchup nightmare!
I remember running home from school to watch the first two days of the tournament college basketball was so intense so amazing you actually knew guys name unlike today because of this one and done crap. Thank you NBA for ruining college basketball.
It was in that tournament that they finally came together and played at their level of expectation! They had been a first weekend exit three of the previous four years!
Grew in Detroit 89 was my junior year in high school!! I remember the days when MR. Basketball all ways stayed in state to play college basketball not all but most! Glen Rice MR. Basketball 1985 put on a display!!!
Daniel, I'm right there with ya! U and I are the same age (Class of 1990)! I still to this day, and I've been keeping up with the tournament since third grade ('81), have yet to see Glen Rice's 1989 March Madness shooting exhibition replicated! And no one has really even come that close! Maybe a couple games by some guys, but not all six! He was flat out ridiculous
And of course this was made even better by the fact he assisted in taking out the despised Tar Holes! Doesn't ever matter who wins when it's at Carolina's expense!
Though this was considereed an "upset" at the time, on this nite there were other games that would be considered the same - Seton hall over Indiana (mild upset) and UVA over Okla and UNLV over AZ (Both MAJOR upsets, half of the previous years final 4 going down).
Moreso in the case of Virginia beating Oklahoma with Stacey King, Mookie Blaylock and Terrence Mullins back from their '88 national runner-up squad! UNLV '89 had talent that could compete (Johnson, Augmon, Hunt, Anthony were already a solid nucleus) while Virginia was a major overachieve!
@@bradlewis6514 Tru but you made on big error - Larry Johnson would not join UNLV until the next (1989-90) season. This UNLV team did have those other players but were a pretty poor shooting team overall. But yeah Id agree UVA over OU was the bigger upset, though some forget that OU barely won their opening game over 16 seed East Tennesse State by ONE point - maybe a sign of things to come. AZ on the other hand blew thru their first 2 games winning them by an average of 30 points.
In the late 1980's, the State of Michigan was absolutely loaded with talent. It was all over the NCAA map. Derrick Coleman (Syracuse) Roy Marble (Iowa) B.J. Armstrong (Iowa) Willie Burton (Minnesota) Dan Majerle (Central Michigan) Doug Smith (Missouri) Grant Long (Eastern Michigan) Anderson Hunt (UNLV) Steve Smith (Michigan State) Victor Alexander (Iowa State) Steve Hondred (Calvin College /Division III National Player of the Year/ D-3 player of the Decade.) Stud. With the exception of Rumeal Robinson and Sean Higgins, these were all Michigan kids. (Rice, Vaught, Mills, Griffin, Hughes, Calip.)
Michigan-Illinois should have been the championship game! Illinois '89 one of my favorite college basketball teams and I firmly believed they were the best team in the tournament! Had the Illini beaten Michigan, I have no doubt they'd have beaten Seton Hall! '89 Illinois one of the 10 best to not win the national championship all-time
@@bradlewis6514 oh please illini couldnt even take michigan to overtime like seton hall did, i think seton hall played dirty undercutting robery brickey on a dunk he almost flipped completely over, its a dirty play and helped seton hall get to the championship since duke beat the big east champs georgetown, and georgetown was better than seton hall, also the 5th foul called on laettner that game was still the worst call ive ever seen to date
Five years later he (Big Dogg) did have a rather productive regional! 44 against Kansas, but they were then eliminated in the Elite 8 by Grant Hill and Duke
As far as career, he was. But remember, he injured his foot while playing for the Olympics, that probably threw him off his stride. Plus he may have been a bit immature at this time. But he kicked ass in this game.
@@americanpatriot7233 Bullshit! Reid was always taking cheap shots from opposing players and never backed down. I'm a Duke fan and have no love for NC, but watched Reid's entire career in the ACC and most teams had no one that could handle him, so they resorted to cheap shit like Rice did in this game.
@@bigdawg7262 brickey never was a cheap shot artist like reid was, he elbowed brickey in the head and got caught in the 89 duke unc game at unc,so you're wrong, and you're no duke fan to be lying like this