the good ol' days. I remember that Metro Conference.. Memphis St, Denny Crum' Louisville, Virginia Tech, etc. Another defunct Southern hoops conference I liked, Sun Belt.. ODU, VCU, Western Kentucky, etc.
I'm totally with you (Metro had some great schools) - it also shows how conferences change (Tulsa in the Missouri Valley, for instance) and smaller conferences getting multiple bids (WCC then, and again now)
North Carolina was the preseason #1 in 1982 and won the championship. Sports Illustrated revealed it by putting 4 of the North Carolina starters on the cover. The 1 starter missing from that Sports Illustrated cover was Michael Jordan
This is 77. Tar heels #1 in east. ? Kentucky playes VMI. Heels play Notre dame. How does #1 seed in east hVE KENTUCKY on top of bracket. Heels vs VMI. IRISH VS CATS.
That's because they didn't play any tough competition all season. Then first round of the tournament they would match up against a team that played a tough schedule and tournament tested and they choked each time.
Coaching, or lack thereof. At least Boston College was a good team, but DePaul had no business losing to St Joe's in 1981. In 1980, DePaul was the #1 overall seed but sent out west. They blew UCLA out in the regular season at Pauley Pavilion but lost to them in the tournament
I'm sure I watched this show as a kid. How things have changed and grown ! By the way, for those top seeds that got first-round byes, they did get knocked off in their first game a bit more often than you would think. Sometimes they were a little rusty, but the opponent was not, because it had just played a couple days earlier.
Part of the reason CBS got the contract for the NCAA tournament from NBC(but not the only reason) was that CBS promised the NCAA they would do a selection show. Prior to this NBC had never done a selection show.
I watched a copy of the final Saturday NBC Broadcast from 1978 (UNLV@Kentucky), and the announcers talked about how the pairings would be announced at halftime of the next day's NBC broadcast between Michigan and UCLA. Also, in 1980 and 81, NBC televised the announcement of the tourney pairings on SportsWorld.
@@jab1289 Right, a separate show called "This is It" (they used the Kenny Loggins song as a theme in '80 and '81) where it was announced. Enberg even teased that both DePaul and ND would get byes in the 1st round. Sportsworld followed it, but really it might as well have been on Sportsworld. Not arguing with you, more clarifying for the original commenter John Paulson that NBC DID announce pairings when they had the tournament
I honestly think that was going to be one of the great tournaments of all time. No North Carolina, San Diego State, Dayton, BYU, all the underdog teams that were highly ranked. Huge disappointment.
When Billy Packer said only Phyllis George can get the question asked of why Kentucky wouldn't beat Louisville, he was referring to Phyllis George who was a beauty queen that worked for CBS Sports. She was married to the then governor of Kentucky. John Brown
Oregon State lost their 1st game 2 years in a row as a 1 seed. One of those years, DePaul and Oregon State lost at the buzzer on the same day, minutes apart
@@mongoslade277 Actually DePaul and Oregon State were about two hours apart. HOWEVER Louisville lost to Arkansas on a half court buzzer beater just before Oregon State and NBC got both of those on the air. That was in 1981.
@paulsonj72 Thanks. 2 hours apart is 120 minutes. Since Oregon State lost at the buzzer to Ronaldo Blackman at Pauley Pavilion the DePaul buzzer beater probably happen first. US Reid with the halfcourt buzzer beater. Danny Ainge beat Notre Dame at the buzzer also. That Saturday was called "March Madness"
Don Monson was the coach at Idaho. He had been an assistant at Michigan State when Magic Johnson was there. He played a significant role in recruiting Magic Johnson. Monson went to Idaho and rode the wave of success he had at Michigan State to put together some great Idaho teams. His son Dan would later help build the Gonzaga Basketball Program with Dan Fitzgerald as the architect from the ground up to a powerhouse that Mark Few took to the next level.
@@deputay Yea, I would also guess that with Nascar racing usually stationed in the southeast that time of year, maybe it was just a short commute for him (maybe with the aforementioned snow too). You see Pat O'brien & Verne Lundquist contributing, they both started with CBS within a year before then. Going back to Squier, I HAVE seen him cover some "CBS Sports Sunday" events such as college volleyball and he was included on the network's winter olympic coverage in the 90's. But he never did any NFL play by play. I do know that some racing announcers did college or arena football pbp. Eli Gold & Bill Weber did both and Allen Bestwick recently did some mountain region college football for ESPN before.
@@deputay No I have not, I do know that he wrote a book (my brother has it) and I guess he mentioned in it that he thought when he hosted "Bowling for Dollars" (I'd assume in his home Dallas/Ft. Worth Market and in the late 70's) that he thought that was going to end his career. So what's this story about this UNLV-SC game?
The story goes that Verne was at ABC Sports at the time and feeling like he wasn't getting any traction there & looking to get out. CBS Sports was willing to give him an on-air tryout, & put him with Irv Brown on the UNLV/SC game which was slotted for the Nevada and South Carolina markets only. (Rest of the country got Louisville/Memphis so the "powers that be" at ABC won't even know about it...right?) The Louisville/Memphis game ends early and the whole country gets the exciting end of the other game with Verne on the call. To top it off, he's on this show, too! ABC was (as you can imagine) not pleased at all, and let him go. CBS, appreciative for the extra duty that day (and his willingness to do the game) picks him up...and the rest is history!
Irish dint make it. Ok. Depaul had Corzine a chicagl and kid. Ramsey south suburban kid. Ponsetto was a old school player that won a state title with the priviso east school that had sswent from 90 white to 90% bla k in 20 year
the good ol' days. I remember that Metro Conference.. Memphis St, Denny Crum' Louisville, Virginia Tech, etc. Another defunct Southern hoops conference I liked, Sun Belt.. ODU, VCU, Western Kentucky, etc.
I'm totally with you (Metro had some great schools) - it also shows how conferences change (Tulsa in the Missouri Valley, for instance) and smaller conferences getting multiple bids (WCC then, and again now)
i realize I am kinda off topic but does anybody know a good site to stream newly released tv shows online?
@Jay Zander Flixportal :P
@Kash Cole Thanks, I signed up and it seems to work :) I appreciate it !!
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First-ever selection show CBS aired. Cool how they used the music that Raycom/JP used during the early days of them airing ACC Basketball
North Carolina was the preseason #1 in 1982 and won the championship. Sports Illustrated revealed it by putting 4 of the North Carolina starters on the cover. The 1 starter missing from that Sports Illustrated cover was Michael Jordan
I was at that St. John's-Penn game at Nassau Coliseum with my brother.
Poor DePaul. Third year in a row they lost their first game in the tournament. They went 26-1 twice and 27-1 in the regular season from 1980-1982.
This is 77. Tar heels #1 in east. ? Kentucky playes VMI. Heels play Notre dame. How does #1 seed in east hVE KENTUCKY on top of bracket. Heels vs VMI. IRISH VS CATS.
That's because they didn't play any tough competition all season. Then first round of the tournament they would match up against a team that played a tough schedule and tournament tested and they choked each time.
@@johnmilton873bs. They were the #1 seed each time and didn't get it by playing a weak schedule.
Coaching, or lack thereof. At least Boston College was a good team, but DePaul had no business losing to St Joe's in 1981. In 1980, DePaul was the #1 overall seed but sent out west. They blew UCLA out in the regular season at Pauley Pavilion but lost to them in the tournament
0:00 "Energy"-Craig Palmer
I like this much better than the overdone modern shows.
overdone? please.
Bradley got snubbed by the NCAA, so they went and dominated the NIT that year!
RIP Billy Packer
RIP Billy Packer 😢
The game vs. Boston College was San Francisco's last until the fall of 1985.
3:37 somewhere in the sea of humanity is pat O'Brien
Kentucky and Louisville didn’t get that first meeting in that season’s tournament, but they would meet in the Sweet 16 the following season.
It was actually the elite 8 in 1983, the "Dream Game"
@@deputay my bad, I knew that
@@deputay and needed bonus basketball to settle it.
@@davidrivera9743 Classic game!
It was set up so perfectly…..everyone would get the Kentucky-Louisville matchup. Then along came Middle Tennessee State. 🙄
I'm sure I watched this show as a kid. How things have changed and grown !
By the way, for those top seeds that got first-round byes, they did get knocked off in their first game a bit more often than you would think. Sometimes they were a little rusty, but the opponent was not, because it had just played a couple days earlier.
1982 UNC TARHEELS CUTTING DOWN THE NETS BABY!!!!!!!!! AIR JORDAN CLUTCH
Kentucky lost to MTSU, so the matchup with Louisville didn't materialize.
Part of the reason CBS got the contract for the NCAA tournament from NBC(but not the only reason) was that CBS promised the NCAA they would do a selection show. Prior to this NBC had never done a selection show.
I watched a copy of the final Saturday NBC Broadcast from 1978 (UNLV@Kentucky), and the announcers talked about how the pairings would be announced at halftime of the next day's NBC broadcast between Michigan and UCLA. Also, in 1980 and 81, NBC televised the announcement of the tourney pairings on SportsWorld.
In 1981 after NBC aired a Notre Dame / DePaul game, they listed all schools & games
@@deputay OK. So, it was in their postgame, not on Sportsworld, correct?
@@jab1289 Right, a separate show called "This is It" (they used the Kenny Loggins song as a theme in '80 and '81) where it was announced. Enberg even teased that both DePaul and ND would get byes in the 1st round. Sportsworld followed it, but really it might as well have been on Sportsworld. Not arguing with you, more clarifying for the original commenter John Paulson that NBC DID announce pairings when they had the tournament
@@deputay OK. Yeah, I know they used that song for their coverage that year.
Stan "Ramrod" Simpson of MTSU was hilarious.
ugh so sad that we couldn't have a selection show for the 2020 tournament 😭🙌🎉💚
Not only that...to have the tournament, too! March isn't the same without it!
@@deputay yeah for sure sadly
Ikr
I honestly think that was going to be one of the great tournaments of all time. No North Carolina, San Diego State, Dayton, BYU, all the underdog teams that were highly ranked. Huge disappointment.
2020 => The year of worldwide human stupidity
Northeastern beat St. Joe’s and then lost to Villanova in 3 OT’s. A classic game!
Wow !!!
When Billy Packer said only Phyllis George can get the question asked of why Kentucky wouldn't beat Louisville, he was referring to Phyllis George who was a beauty queen that worked for CBS Sports. She was married to the then governor of Kentucky. John Brown
So DePaul really choked come tournament time back then. I didn't realize it was that bad. 3 years in a row first round exits. Ouch
Yup, and all years where, during the regular season, they were at the top or near the top of the rankings
How many times did a 1 seed bow out in their first game in the 48-team bracket?
Oregon State lost their 1st game 2 years in a row as a 1 seed. One of those years, DePaul and Oregon State lost at the buzzer on the same day, minutes apart
@@mongoslade277 Actually DePaul and Oregon State were about two hours apart. HOWEVER Louisville lost to Arkansas on a half court buzzer beater just before Oregon State and NBC got both of those on the air. That was in 1981.
@paulsonj72 Thanks. 2 hours apart is 120 minutes. Since Oregon State lost at the buzzer to Ronaldo Blackman at Pauley Pavilion the DePaul buzzer beater probably happen first. US Reid with the halfcourt buzzer beater. Danny Ainge beat Notre Dame at the buzzer also. That Saturday was called "March Madness"
And DePaul will go down again in the first round losing the BC
Big BC fan !! What a day for the Eagles. They had a great team in 82
Idaho a 3 seed? Haven't heard of them ever.
Coming into the tournament that year, they were in the Top 10. They had a good run in the early 80s
Don Monson was the coach at Idaho. He had been an assistant at Michigan State when Magic Johnson was there. He played a significant role in recruiting Magic Johnson. Monson went to Idaho and rode the wave of success he had at Michigan State to put together some great Idaho teams. His son Dan would later help build the Gonzaga Basketball Program with Dan Fitzgerald as the architect from the ground up to a powerhouse that Mark Few took to the next level.
Great info
Didn't ne Louisiana went to the big dance?!
Yes! 15:19
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Ken Squier?!
I know! It really was an "all hands on deck" moment
@@deputay Yea, I would also guess that with Nascar racing usually stationed in the southeast that time of year, maybe it was just a short commute for him (maybe with the aforementioned snow too). You see Pat O'brien & Verne Lundquist contributing, they both started with CBS within a year before then. Going back to Squier, I HAVE seen him cover some "CBS Sports Sunday" events such as college volleyball and he was included on the network's winter olympic coverage in the 90's. But he never did any NFL play by play. I do know that some racing announcers did college or arena football pbp. Eli Gold & Bill Weber did both and Allen Bestwick recently did some mountain region college football for ESPN before.
@@ryanstrnad1852 you're right. By the way, have you heard the story of Verne Lundquist & the game (UNLV/SC) he called? It changed his career!
@@deputay No I have not, I do know that he wrote a book (my brother has it) and I guess he mentioned in it that he thought when he hosted "Bowling for Dollars" (I'd assume in his home Dallas/Ft. Worth Market and in the late 70's) that he thought that was going to end his career. So what's this story about this UNLV-SC game?
The story goes that Verne was at ABC Sports at the time and feeling like he wasn't getting any traction there & looking to get out. CBS Sports was willing to give him an on-air tryout, & put him with Irv Brown on the UNLV/SC game which was slotted for the Nevada and South Carolina markets only. (Rest of the country got Louisville/Memphis so the "powers that be" at ABC won't even know about it...right?) The Louisville/Memphis game ends early and the whole country gets the exciting end of the other game with Verne on the call. To top it off, he's on this show, too! ABC was (as you can imagine) not pleased at all, and let him go. CBS, appreciative for the extra duty that day (and his willingness to do the game) picks him up...and the rest is history!
Irish dint make it. Ok. Depaul had Corzine a chicagl and kid. Ramsey south suburban kid. Ponsetto was a old school player that won a state title with the priviso east school that had sswent from 90 white to 90% bla k in 20 year
Parang Saksi Theme
Yes!!
Do you have like 2010-2015 selection show?
I'm sorry I'm just seeing this now, but no I don't
like?
Unc just eaked by alabama.in the 2nd round
And James Madison the game before that. Looking back, a lot of tournament victors (and those who make the championship game) go on similar runs
@@deputayThat statement would be truly prophetic for the 1983 tournament.
Wait. Heels win Acc #1 seed in east Cavs get #1 seed in ? So how does Kentucky get on too of bracket? Vmi. Princton. Bottom heels irish purdue