![]() That was the way our Indiana team set things up. We were always taught that after you pass, move to another spot. I was just playing basketball and doing what we were taught. Keith Smart: You know when you are in the heat of the moment, you are really worried about winning the game. Can you step us through the action involving your famous baseline jumper? You trailed Syracuse, 72-73, with four seconds to go. Keith, take us back to that one moment in time in 1987. We asked Bryce about "the shot" and his thoughts about this year's tournament.ġ. We also tracked down Bryce Drew, whose Valparaiso team slew some giants in its own fabled run in 1998. As we celebrate the two-decade anniversary of "One Shining Moment," revisits the game-winning shots of two former college basketball stars that changed their team's journey.įirst, we caught up with Keith Smart, whose 20-foot jumper propelled Indiana over Syracuse in the 1987 NCAA title game. There have been many memorable moments over the past 20 years in college basketball. Ian Eagle, a Syracuse graduate who was hired at CBS in 1998, is set to replace Nantz as the tournament’s lead play-by-play voice in 2024.Each year, the NCAA championship cheers turn into a hushed silence as TV viewers across the country gather around their sets to catch one last glimpse of basketball glory in a collection of clips played against the heartfelt song, "One Shining Moment." San Diego State coach Brian Dutcher was Steve Fisher’s top assistant in the next two title games called by Nantz, Michigan’s 71-51 blowout loss to Hurley’s Duke team in 1992 and the Fab Five’s loss to North Carolina, punctuated by Chris Webber’s infamous timeout call. On Monday night, Hurley’s brother, Dan, was on the sideline as coach of Connecticut’s team. As a student there, Nantz became the public-address announcer for the men’s basketball team and the host of a television show for its coach, Guy Lewis.Īlso, former guard Bobby Hurley was one of the stars for Duke in the first championship game Nantz called: the Blue Devils’ 72-65 win over Kansas in 1991. His final championship game was at NRG Stadium in Houston, Nantz’s onetime home, where he went to school at the University of Houston. In multiple ways, Nantz went full circle. ![]() Throughout these 32 years, Nantz’s silky-smooth voice and near-perfect timing have been the soundtrack to, among many other shining moments, all five of coach Mike Krzyzewski’s national championships at Duke and Dean Smith’s final title at North Carolina in 1993. ![]() During his final broadcast Monday night, Bill Raftery and Grant Hill were on the microphone with him. When Nantz replaced Brent Musburger as the tournament’s lead voice in 1991, he partnered with Billy Packer, who became one of his best friends. A relentless schedule that has him on the road for roughly 40 weeks a year simply is taking him away from them too much, he decided. But he and his wife, Courtney, have a daughter, 9, and a son, 7. Nantz, 63, will continue calling NFL games and the Masters golf tournament. It is not the end of his professional road. It is a job he has held – and excelled at – for 32 years, since assuming the duties for the 1991 tournament. ![]() It was the last shining moment for Jim Nantz on Monday night, at least as it pertains to his indefatigable and indomitable college basketball broadcasting run.Īfter the final horn sounded in the NCAA men’s title game, Connecticut beating San Diego State 76-59, Nantz stepped away as the tournament’s lead play-by-play voice. ![]()
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