Indiana vs Syracuse - 3/30/1987 - NCAA Title game 

The debut of a little song that aired at the end of the broadcast called One Shining Moment. The rest is history.

This is the basketball I miss watching

Classic 1 min drill by IU score, timeout, ice shooter., get ball back, score.. Boeheim asleep on his bench..OUTCOACHED by Knight!!!

I was a senior in high school when the Orangemen & the Hoosiers played this game. Both teams played great and Indiana won fairly.

It is funny how things turn out. Keith Smart, the hero of this game and a good NBA prospect, could only manage to play two games in the NBA. I'm happy for his coaching career there though.

Free throw shooting win championships & so many guys today struggle from the line. Coleman played very well great performance but brilliant strategy by Bob Knight knowing who to foul.

Syracuse was stunned. Loved watching this game again!

I’m an IU fan, but it’s still gotta hurt for Syracuse players and coaches, knowing that they were the infinity more talented team (two NBA lottery picks and another that played ten years in the League) and lost that game because they couldn’t hit free throws. RIP Daryl Thomas.

Bobby Knight was great at getting a group of players who weren't the best in terms of raw talent and getting them to beat teams with a deeper bench by genius teamwork. Here's a perfect example. None of the IU players in this game had great careers in the NBA but on Syracuse's side. You have The Rony Seikaly who had a great 10 year career in the pros. Granted IU had players that went pro but they had short lackluster terms there.

I was in the Marines stationed in Camp Pendleton CA, waiting for my honorable discharge. What a great game, IU.

I remember watching this game as a kid. Syracuse had such a good chance to win. They just couldn't hit free throws in the final minutes. That was their undoing. Indiana's Keith Smart also took over in the end and refused to lose. I think Boeheim was a little out coached also. Knight saved his timeouts and used them effectively late. SU had better individual players but IU played together and played smart.

Looks like Jimmy Boeheim didn't have his team drilled well as far as calling a time-out when the bucket went through at 5 seconds on the clock. Didn't see one player motion correctly. Boeheim was expecting his players to do that, he didn't do it either, lol. 5 seconds is an eternity. Syracuse could have won a title but it still would have taken a hero.

One Shining Moment! At first, I didn't think they had it yet!

A bit older now, I still greatly enjoy seeing IU win, but I now pay more attention to the Syracuse pain.

28:52 One of my favorite of all times. As a SU fan in the 80's I remember watching this live and jumping out of my seat.

I was fascinated in how Jim Boheim talked about man-to-man D. Today, they are DEFINED by their 2-3 zone.

I will always wonder why Syracuse let 2 or 3 precious seconds churn off the clock after Smart’s basket. Not quite as bad as Chris Webber’s infamous Technical when he called a time out with no time outs left, but this comes close. Having 3 or 4 seconds on the clock could have resulted in a different outcome. Having said that I’m very glad IU won!!

Some observations. Smart’s shot really reminded me of Jordan’s shot 5 years earlier-boy could Smart leap. Seems like Syracuse should have had 3-4 seconds on the last play not one. Might have made a difference. Lastly, with 3 future nba players, Syracuse got outplayed by a team with significantly less talent. I’m sure at the time people thought Smart and Alford would be future NBA stars-even watching now I’m kinda surprised they didn’t have better pro careers.

Thank you for the upload of this game. Never understood the deletion of the Smart play in the final minute on the official video.

I was in 5th grade and we were gathered around our little TV watching. My dad kept out of his chair jumping up and down like he’d just won the lottery.

What most don't understand is that this game really showed the true greatness of Bobby Knight as a coach. Syracuse was loaded with future NBA players. They had the true edge in talent. But the fundamentally sound motion offense that Indiana ran along with their tenacious defense won the day. The mental toughness of Steve Alford along with the great game played by the underrated Keith Smart were something to behold. People like to talk about John Wooden. His teams were so incredibly stacked it was ridiculous. Let's not even talk about how UCLA got alot those players to join their program. That's a whole different discussion. No way John Wooden wins if he had to take the same team Knight had and play against a Syracuse team stacked with future NBA players Absolutely no way. Lastly people have to remember that Wooden coached at UCLA for 17 years before he won a national championship. Alot of the teams Wooden had early on resembled the team Knight had on the floor that night against Syracuse. Only when Wooden got the 2 greatest players in the history of college basketball along with several other undeniably great players did he win.

This is always awesome… Jim Nantz would take over 4 years later

i grew up an illini fan and of course we beat indiana that season and fell apart by march due to injuries and whatever else!!!! i was so pissed syracuse blew this game but what a moment for keith smart in his hometown i believe!!!

Thank you, Galen!

The agony of defeat.

Thanks Galen Clavio. Love this game. @ 1:23:02 The Shot heard around the world.

The very short halftime conversation at around 46:00 is pertinent in relation to the events of this week.

34 years later, as a big Orange fan, it pained me forever to think about this game, let alone watch it. Oh well, remember 2003!!!

1:36:00 HERE WE GO WITH THE VERY FIRST "ONE SHINING MOMENT"!

Hoosiers!!!!

I was a 14 year old in the second semester of my freshman watching this game. I was pulling for Syracuse and was crushed when Smart hit that shot. Great game.

If it wasn't for their free throw suckability and Keith Smart, the Orangemen would have won it.

Spoiler alert. Everybody who watched this remembers Smart hitting the last shot to win. I had forgotten Alford hitting a shot to end the first half. Tough play by a good, as opposed to great, group of players.

That's what decides big games mostly pure chance just whatever way the ball bounces but a big factor is free throws they're a little thing that makes a big difference

Surprised Syracuse stuck around on the court. Usually the losing team is long gone.

Indiana people we say, when IU was a beast lol

the game wasn't just about free throws..su had 10 point lead in 2nd half and 5-6 point lead multiple times but Iu kept defending and Alford 3s kept IU in game. keeping it close for a chance to win!!! WIN THEY DID TEAM BASKETBALL 101

Knight got more from.IU than Jimmy B did at Syracuse..

1:04:00 one of my favorite blocks too

1:27:37

Syr should have won this game by 10-15 points, but such is life.

they will never win another one I'm afraid to say... IU Forever

Boeheim was a D-bag in the 80’s too

Indians got very lucky Pearl Washington left after his JR year.

Keith Smart singlehandedly won this game in the 2nd half and hit the game winner while Steve Alford wanted no part of that last shot. To add insult to injury, Bobby Knight, a future Trump supporter, reaches right past Smart to grab Alford 1:30:06

nothing bothers me more than the better team losing a free throw shooting contest!!! the worse team jus does the hack a shaq and feels great they won

NEVER NOTICED THIS BEFORE! ... Isn't it a technical foul to interfere when your opponent is proceeding to inbound the ball after a basket? Watch what Alford does after Smart's basket ... Seikaly takes the ball and Alford (12) swats it out his hands as seconds tick away ... I'm pretty sure that's a technical foul on Alford, giving SYR at least one FT and maybe two! ... What Alford did was completely unnecessary and could have gone down as THE most stupid play in NCAA history ... IU could have lost!