Posted on 03/19/2015 11:22:22 AM PDT by C19fan
Welcome back to our 30 for 30 documentary short series.
In 1989, the NCAA mens basketball tournament was at a crossroads. Schools from larger conferences like the SEC and Big East didnt see the need to keep allowing the mid-major teams into the Big Dance. They always lost, so what was the point? When Alonzo Mournings no. 1 seed Georgetown Hoyas entered the tournament, they had their eyes set on the Final Four and a national title. Dealing with the likes of Ivy League champion and no. 16 seed Princeton was more of an afterthought. So when these two teams faced off on March 17, 1989, in Providence, Rhode Island, no one, not even Princeton, expected much of a game. They were all wrong. Pete Carrils Tigers not only played one of the greatest games in college basketball history, they also let the NCAA and the rest of the world know that the mid-majors could play and were here to stay. Without that game, the tournament would not be what it is today a billion-dollar enterprise that stops America for two weeks each year.
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I also remember this game quite well.
That was back when a degree from either institution, even for an athlete, still meant something.
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