Anybody notice how quickly BOTH teams inbounded the ball after a made basket? I have never seen two teams give less of a shit about the opposing team scoring. Great championship game.
Illinois shot 40 3-pointers that game, they set a record for most attempts in championship game history. With that said I think they were fortunate to get 6 FT's.
this had to been the most memorable year ive ever experienced as a tar heel fan. when they won the title after all those years i had to watch em painfully come up short it felt like for 3 months i was walkin on cloud nine! i mean it literally felt like i began to fly when the clock hit 0:00 and we had won!
After going 8-20 in the 2001/02 season, winning it all 4 seasons later just seemed surreal. I remember jamming to Petey Pablo's "North Carolina" the next day. When that song hit the airwaves, I promised to play it when the Tar Heels won a national championship. Oh, how sweet it is.
No LOL. That Illinois team would beat UNC about 8 times out of 10. Illinois shot 12-40 from deep, while UNC shot 9-16. It took an unlucky game from Illinois and a lucky game from UNC, and Illinois was still able to take it down to the last possession.
Steve Guilford, I think your perception of Illinois was inflated because they played in the weak Big Ten. In 2005, UNC dominated Iowa, Indiana, Wisconsin, Michigan State, and Illinois. I grant that Illinois was better than those other Big Ten teams, but Illinois would not have looked as good if they played in the ACC. UNC was battle-tested by ACC play, and Illinois just couldn't keep up with them.
What I loved most about this win for UNC, was that Jawad Williams, Jackie Manuel, and Melvin Scott got to experience it. These guys suffered through one of the worst seasons in UNC B-ball history in 01,02 when they went 8-20. The last thing you see in this vid is of them with Roy in a huddle, and you know he had to have said something to them about being seniors and how happy he was for them. Those 3 guys were class acts at UNC.
The reason we had no post player was because the refs literally let May do as he pleased with our players. Poor shooting night and less than 10 minutes from our post man is why Illinois lost. Great game, wish the outcome would have been different, will probably have a repeat of this game for the championship in 2010 or 2011. GO ILLINI!
I love the Raymond Felton three, it was way beyond the arch. I loved every min. i have this record on tape. I will purchased this year Championship. I'm proud of my team.
@tfarrell02-At the 4:50 mark in the 2nd half of this gm, this vid bearly misses it, Packer says, and I quote "The refs aren't calling moving screens on Illinois so they might as well keep doing them"
UI was the people's champion, but UNC won that game. We don't have to argue that, it's pretty apparent that most people would rather have a team that did what Illinois did all season win than to watch UNC get stacked teams and blow people out of the water. We Illinois fans just like to argue this because we know if we hadn't played so poorly we would have been able to win this game.
As dominant as Sean May was in this game, the 3-point shot by Raymond Felton when it was 65-65 was the biggest moment in this game. Illinois looked like they were going to pull back ahead after making a great 2nd half run, but then Felton drains that 3 over Deron and Dee. It was an absolutely incredibly and timely shot the Tar Heels needed.
everybody love raymond i cant believe he said dee brown was faster then raymond with the ball in his hands r u crazy man !!raymond was the best PG that year
@spm1021- and Illinois is the only team in championship history to get away with about 6 (if not more) moving screens that got them back into the game the second half.
no, because im a kansas fan and roy was our old coach and it pissed me off that he never won us a title but 6 yrs at unc and he gets 2 titles thats all. but now im glad we have bill self so all is well.
hey man don't forget that the Illini were supposed to have Villanueva that year but he backed out and went to UConn. I'm positive that if Villanueva was playing, things would have turned out a lot differently
You guys can argue all you want, but the 2005 Championship game was awesome and you know it. The 2004-2005 Illini TEAM was awesome. If I were you, I would keep your eyes on Derron Williams. NC coach knows that... ask him. And I would not count Felton out neither.
Augie picked the wrong day to have the worst game of his entire life. He was tight going into this game. The whole team was. I could see it in their body language. And Luther made a boneheaded play at the end he hadn't made all year long. UNC was so damned tough. Just relentless. May absolutely willed them to victory.
Illinois had an AWESOME team that year! They were really really good, and was almost evenly matched in regards to talent. My Tar Heels had a "slight" edge with Sean May, who was a beast in the paint. But Illinois was definitely "for real". And yeah, the Illini beat UNC the following year, but not when it counted - in the NATIONAL TITLE GAME. Plus, we unloaded our top-7 scorers to the NBA and graduation. It's all good though...THE CAROLINA SHOW ROLLED ON!!!
I'd have to say I pretty much entirely agree with u. Finally a ILL fan that actually don't cry and moan and talks sense. THANK YOU!!! LOL but yea, these were two great teams no doubt. I'm a UNC fan living in ILL
Bottomline, the game featured many future NBA and professional basketball players. Illinois lacked size; however, their guards were better. The best player to come out of the game was Deron Williams. North Carolina has no one even close to his talent today. Goes to show that basketball is a team game.
that was the problem with this game, the NCAA tournament is turning into a popularity contest, especially in "underdog" games. I know Illinois was a 1 seed but it was their first year being great.
@tarheels2005champs I agree our post were ridiculouly soft and Sean May was way too strong for them. But living by the three is what got us 37 wins that year.
Sean May is un-signed I belive, Rashaad McCants is a bench plyr on Minnesota, Raymond Felton is the starting PG on the Bobcats, Jawad Williams is a reserve on the Cavaliers, and the only one doing good is Marvin Williams who is a budding star on the ATL Hawks
I think Illinois was more of a versatile team then Carolina, mainly because there big's could shoot threes.. Other than that Carolina was more relaxed and played there game. I was rooting for Illinois though. I've always like Bruce Weber's coaching style.
i mean first of all it doesn't matter how they're doing this isn't the nba. plus felton's doing pretty good.. 12 pts and 5 assists as a starting PG. may's not doing much but that's jsut cause he needs to get his a** in shape.
We "claim we won that game?" "Tar Heels did not win?" come on over to the dean dome anytime and i'm sure someone will show you around, even point out the2005 championship banner we earned after, wait for it... BEATING Illinois Hey if you go this fall you could get a sneak peak of our 2009 banner as well. HEELS!
Illinois's lack of post talent finally showed that night. People can argue otherwise, but it's the truth. You're probably right about the guards, although Felton and McCants was no laughing matter. They were still pretty close.
how about jordan, james worthy, vince carter, antawn jamison how are they doing in the nba? not to mention jerry stackhouse when he was young, and rasheed wallace. how are you doing in the nba?
the only thing that gives me solace about the illini loss years later is that deron williams is an nba all-star. mccants, sean may they all flamed out of the nba...even felton isn't anything more than a decent point guard. nevertheless, no point in being bitter. illinois lost to the better team that day
UNC did NOT deserve the 2005 final. The foul calling was favoring heavily UNC in the first half (similar case as the 2001 Elite 8 game of Illinois vs Arizona). The best trio of guards to have EVER played in NCAA basketball (Luther Head, Deron Williams, Dee Brown) deserved just the 3 of them the entire UNC team.Coming back twice from 15 and 13 points behind in the 2nd half, UNC shot LUCKY shots and improbable tips to just watch the ILLINI miss open looks in the last 2 1/2 minutes.
The BCS started in 1998. So 1 BCS appearance in football = 2 Nat'l Championships & 4 FInal Four's in B-Ball...not to mention u got smoked 49-17 in that 1 appearance.
@iDominatemkwii Bo buy this DVD for this game. Listen to Billy Packer, a man who hates the Tar Heels, scream over and over about how Illinois is getting away with moving screens and he encourages them to continue doing it because the refs are calling them. End of debate about the moving screens. Sean May went beast mode. You're not Duke so you were never going to get that many charge calls. The better team won.
Yea u cud say that. But UNC fans cud also say that cuz Illinois had no one near big, strong, or as dominate a post plyr as May they just flopped all over the place. And Illinois also got away with A TON of ILLEGAL moving screens. So if May was getting the calls, those screens evened the gm out
let me be clear, where was I comparing Illini ball players to UNC ball players? I simply was telling jimvrpaze not to be a jerk and discredit U of I based on the failures of one player (Dee Brown) and to see that there have been good players who came out of U of I (Harper, Anderson, Gill)
People don't realize Sean May was about to sign with Louisville. His daddy played for IU. He was close to home. Yet Roy Williams gets him last minute. If Louisville signs him and not worry about Sebastian Telfair and go for May and sign this other guy. Maybe you know him, Rajon Rondo. Can you imagine, May, Rondo, Dean, Garcia, Myles. I guarantee Louisville wins this title. Pitino is quoted as saying those were two of his biggest mistakes ever. Oh well 2013 Champions and Illinois & UNC are nothin
I'm sorry that this reply is 3 years late, but I'm just seeing your comment today. Actually, it was Matt Doherty who recruited Sean May to North Carolina. Sean May just didn't want go to IU, even though he's from Bloomington; and like you said, his dad played for IU. Roy Williams was still at Kansas during this time, so he had nothing to do with May's recruitment. Sebastian Telfair was in the 2004 recruiting class, and not 2002, which May was a part of. Rick Pitino still has very strong ties in the NYC area because of his stint as the Knicks coach, and that's why he was able to secure a verbal commitment from Telfair. Pitino also tried to recruit Rajon Rondo (Louisville native, and also part of the '04 recruiting class), and planned to form a back court combo of Rondo and Telfair. So the 2004-05 Louisville would have featured Sean May, Sebastian Telfair, and Rajon Rondo, in addition to Taquan Dean, Francisco Garcia, and the other players you mentioned. "Oh well 2013 Champions and Illinois & UNC are nothin" Keep in mind that UNC has more national titles than Louisville.
Anybody notice how quickly BOTH teams inbounded the ball after a made basket? I have never seen two teams give less of a shit about the opposing team scoring. Great championship game.
Illinois shot 40 3-pointers that game, they set a record for most attempts in championship game history. With that said I think they were fortunate to get 6 FT's.
I like how they contrast Augustine's called charge vs May's no call charge.
this had to been the most memorable year ive ever experienced as a tar heel fan. when they won the title after all those years i had to watch em painfully come up short it felt like for 3 months i was walkin on cloud nine! i mean it literally felt like i began to fly when the clock hit 0:00 and we had won!
After going 8-20 in the 2001/02 season, winning it all 4 seasons later just seemed surreal. I remember jamming to Petey Pablo's "North Carolina" the next day. When that song hit the airwaves, I promised to play it when the Tar Heels won a national championship. Oh, how sweet it is.
this was such a well played game. I think this Illinois team could be the best team to not win a national title. Man, I dont know how we beat them
We beat them because we were better than they were.. and that's even after letting them back in the game.
No LOL. That Illinois team would beat UNC about 8 times out of 10. Illinois shot 12-40 from deep, while UNC shot 9-16. It took an unlucky game from Illinois and a lucky game from UNC, and Illinois was still able to take it down to the last possession.
Steve Guilford, I think your perception of Illinois was inflated because they played in the weak Big Ten. In 2005, UNC dominated Iowa, Indiana, Wisconsin, Michigan State, and Illinois. I grant that Illinois was better than those other Big Ten teams, but Illinois would not have looked as good if they played in the ACC. UNC was battle-tested by ACC play, and Illinois just couldn't keep up with them.
esp. considering all the no calls on their moving screens...lol
@@tim55lincecum but they didn't, so.....
What I loved most about this win for UNC, was that Jawad Williams, Jackie Manuel, and Melvin Scott got to experience it. These guys suffered through one of the worst seasons in UNC B-ball history in 01,02 when they went 8-20. The last thing you see in this vid is of them with Roy in a huddle, and you know he had to have said something to them about being seniors and how happy he was for them. Those 3 guys were class acts at UNC.
Great NCAA final. One of the best.
They had no answer for Sean May that night.
This game was a lot closer than I remember it being.
i can watch this over and over again, and if this video is some how removed, i have it on tape.
The man proves a point. The whole game Illinois was jacking up jumpers.
Hey thanks for this, and for putting the 09 game up as well. I'm a massive Tar Heel fan and enjoyed both :).
The reason we had no post player was because the refs literally let May do as he pleased with our players. Poor shooting night and less than 10 minutes from our post man is why Illinois lost. Great game, wish the outcome would have been different, will probably have a repeat of this game for the championship in 2010 or 2011. GO ILLINI!
I love the Raymond Felton three, it was way beyond the arch. I loved every min. i have this record on tape. I will purchased this year Championship. I'm proud of my team.
@tfarrell02-At the 4:50 mark in the 2nd half of this gm, this vid bearly misses it, Packer says, and I quote "The refs aren't calling moving screens on Illinois so they might as well keep doing them"
"The shutdown man" hahahahah I will never forget that as long as I live.
Shut down man on Felton.....1.5 sec later the net is on 🔥 lol
You right. Can't forget about Manual. To bad he hasn't really been steady in the NBA. Same goes for Jawad, but at least he played this season.
This is coming from a carolina fan. I thought Illinois was the better team overall, but we outplayed them for pretty much the entire game.
UI was the people's champion, but UNC won that game. We don't have to argue that, it's pretty apparent that most people would rather have a team that did what Illinois did all season win than to watch UNC get stacked teams and blow people out of the water. We Illinois fans just like to argue this because we know if we hadn't played so poorly we would have been able to win this game.
Man this win felt good! Go heels!
This was a championship game that was worthy of a great tournament in 2005.
As dominant as Sean May was in this game, the 3-point shot by Raymond Felton when it was 65-65 was the biggest moment in this game. Illinois looked like they were going to pull back ahead after making a great 2nd half run, but then Felton drains that 3 over Deron and Dee. It was an absolutely incredibly and timely shot the Tar Heels needed.
everybody love raymond i cant believe he said dee brown was faster then raymond with the ball in his hands r u crazy man !!raymond was the best PG that year
I love the shot at the end of Shad and someone just puts the folded hat on his head
@spm1021- and Illinois is the only team in championship history to get away with about 6 (if not more) moving screens that got them back into the game the second half.
no, because im a kansas fan and roy was our old coach and it pissed me off that he never won us a title but 6 yrs at unc and he gets 2 titles thats all. but now im glad we have bill self so all is well.
Illinois held there own
not only in this game, buh in the whole tournmant, no deny'n that
well this would be a good year to start watchin em.. sox will be tough this year.. hate to admit it.
hey man don't forget that the Illini were supposed to have Villanueva that year but he backed out and went to UConn. I'm positive that if Villanueva was playing, things would have turned out a lot differently
Illinois had a record for most uncalled moving screens ever. Even the guys calling the game were talking about it.
AMEN
And Illinois got away with a ton of moving screens to set up those 3's, idk if i put it in there but at 1 point even the announcers said that!
thats possible man. I live out west, and I see gonzaga a lot, and they are very talented.
You guys can argue all you want, but the 2005 Championship game was awesome and you know it. The 2004-2005 Illini TEAM was awesome. If I were you, I would keep your eyes on Derron Williams. NC coach knows that... ask him. And I would not count Felton out neither.
This game was the biggest ROB JOB I ever seen. Every time Illinois made a run, the refs helped the tar heels
@Tarheelfan55- so true. I'm sick of Illini fans bitching about it. UNC won FAIR and SQUARE
Haha he said deron Williams was the shut down man. Lol Felton nailed a huge three in his face!
i cried after Illinois loost. :( We were so close.
Augie picked the wrong day to have the worst game of his entire life. He was tight going into this game. The whole team was. I could see it in their body language. And Luther made a boneheaded play at the end he hadn't made all year long. UNC was so damned tough. Just relentless. May absolutely willed them to victory.
Illinois had an AWESOME team that year! They were really really good, and was almost evenly matched in regards to talent. My Tar Heels had a "slight" edge with Sean May, who was a beast in the paint. But Illinois was definitely "for real". And yeah, the Illini beat UNC the following year, but not when it counted - in the NATIONAL TITLE GAME. Plus, we unloaded our top-7 scorers to the NBA and graduation. It's all good though...THE CAROLINA SHOW ROLLED ON!!!
I'd have to say I pretty much entirely agree with u. Finally a ILL fan that actually don't cry and moan and talks sense. THANK YOU!!! LOL but yea, these were two great teams no doubt. I'm a UNC fan living in ILL
To Illinois fans there was no BS calls if I recall we had one of the best officiating crews that year. Get over it.
James Augustine had what was possibly the worst night of his basketball career.
McCants throwin' up the Illuminati sign
Bottomline, the game featured many future NBA and professional basketball players. Illinois lacked size; however, their guards were better. The best player to come out of the game was Deron Williams. North Carolina has no one even close to his talent today. Goes to show that basketball is a team game.
that was the problem with this game, the NCAA tournament is turning into a popularity contest, especially in "underdog" games. I know Illinois was a 1 seed but it was their first year being great.
UNC TARHEELS BABY!!!!!!!#23 & Marvin Williams get the Job Done!!!!!!!
this is bill self's team, he would have done this at illinois if he didnt leave, unfortunately they are stuck with bruce wber now.
Yea man. I'm a huge Jawad fan, plus he's on my fav team, CLE
whatever makes you feel better
@tarheels2005champs I agree our post were ridiculouly soft and Sean May was way too strong for them. But living by the three is what got us 37 wins that year.
Best game I've ever been to
6:55 look whos on Felton.. the shut down man!!! WET!!!
indeed, if you look at the scoreline it is clear who had a more talented team and a bench. GO HEELS!!!!!!!!
illinois was beast that year
Sean May is un-signed I belive, Rashaad McCants is a bench plyr on Minnesota, Raymond Felton is the starting PG on the Bobcats, Jawad Williams is a reserve on the Cavaliers, and the only one doing good is Marvin Williams who is a budding star on the ATL Hawks
i feel bad for roy williams and the tar heels this year, they didnt even make it to the acc tourney better yet the ncaa tourney :(
Not likely they wouldn't have called the fouls on May in such a critical game. The big man with the respect gets the calls.
ty will take it to them
I think Illinois was more of a versatile team then Carolina, mainly because there big's could shoot threes.. Other than that Carolina was more relaxed and played there game. I was rooting for Illinois though. I've always like Bruce Weber's coaching style.
UNC National Champs-2005
NOW...
UNC National Champs-2009
GO HEELS!!!!
+2017, + 1993, + 1982...
The ceiling is the roof.go.tarheels.
louisville basketball its up there 3 championships history , tradition !
the tradition continues
Ya, I think they also got free cars, there are a lot of perks to it.
Can't believe it's been 8 years. Go Heels!!!
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i love your endless rationalizations for being outclassed.. almost comical. good luck getting back to the sweet sixteen in the next decade. LOL
Brown was with the Jazz for a few years, but I no this past year he was in Europe, and I think he's still there
pretty line up there for unc... marvin williams raymon felton sean may... i like marvin wiliams the best personally out of those 3
best tar heels team ever hands down.....
@CockySumBitch- Thank you! For some reason illini fans seem to not hear Packer when he makes that comment
And people wanted UNC to win as well. Is there some official poll that said that Illinois was the people's champion?
that turnover at the end screwed illinois.... dang.
i mean first of all it doesn't matter how they're doing this isn't the nba. plus felton's doing pretty good.. 12 pts and 5 assists as a starting PG. may's not doing much but that's jsut cause he needs to get his a** in shape.
We "claim we won that game?" "Tar Heels did not win?" come on over to the dean dome anytime and i'm sure someone will show you around, even point out the2005 championship banner we earned after, wait for it...
BEATING Illinois
Hey if you go this fall you could get a sneak peak of our 2009 banner as well.
HEELS!
and they started Manual sometimes at SG instead of Scott.
no this team. im not talking about individual players im talking overall team...jordan best player ever but this is the best TEAM feel me....
Illinois's lack of post talent finally showed that night. People can argue otherwise, but it's the truth. You're probably right about the guards, although Felton and McCants was no laughing matter. They were still pretty close.
The only thing rigged about this game was the fact that Illinois never had to get on a plane to be in this game.
how about jordan, james worthy, vince carter, antawn jamison how are they doing in the nba? not to mention jerry stackhouse when he was young, and rasheed wallace. how are you doing in the nba?
this was a great game i still think illinois was the better team throughout the season u cant say unc is better based on one game that was so close
this was my fav unc team, too bad alot of their NBA careers are mediocre
the only thing that gives me solace about the illini loss years later is that deron williams is an nba all-star. mccants, sean may they all flamed out of the nba...even felton isn't anything more than a decent point guard.
nevertheless, no point in being bitter. illinois lost to the better team that day
he put up 30 points last night.
UNC did NOT deserve the 2005 final. The foul calling was favoring heavily UNC in the first half (similar case as the 2001 Elite 8 game of Illinois vs Arizona). The best trio of guards to have EVER played in NCAA basketball (Luther Head, Deron Williams, Dee Brown) deserved just the 3 of them the entire UNC team.Coming back twice from 15 and 13 points behind in the 2nd half, UNC shot LUCKY shots and improbable tips to just watch the ILLINI miss open looks in the last 2 1/2 minutes.
@Akronsfinest21 It's Cuz he was an NBA prospect in high school but he decided to go to college for a year
9:53 somebody just lays the championship hat on mccants head lol
The BCS started in 1998. So 1 BCS appearance in football = 2 Nat'l Championships & 4 FInal Four's in B-Ball...not to mention u got smoked 49-17 in that 1 appearance.
also luther head was actually the leading scorer on illinois
could not agree with you more
@iDominatemkwii
Bo buy this DVD for this game. Listen to Billy Packer, a man who hates the Tar Heels, scream over and over about how Illinois is getting away with moving screens and he encourages them to continue doing it because the refs are calling them. End of debate about the moving screens. Sean May went beast mode. You're not Duke so you were never going to get that many charge calls. The better team won.
Yea u cud say that. But UNC fans cud also say that cuz Illinois had no one near big, strong, or as dominate a post plyr as May they just flopped all over the place. And Illinois also got away with A TON of ILLEGAL moving screens. So if May was getting the calls, those screens evened the gm out
let me be clear, where was I comparing Illini ball players to UNC ball players? I simply was telling jimvrpaze not to be a jerk and discredit U of I based on the failures of one player (Dee Brown) and to see that there have been good players who came out of U of I (Harper, Anderson, Gill)
This was the best team!
Hey, Bill Self, why couldn't you do this at Illinois?
@ChainGangSoulja266
Felton didn't amount to anything? Before he was traded to Denver Felton was playing at an All-star level for the Knicks.
People don't realize Sean May was about to sign with Louisville. His daddy played for IU. He was close to home. Yet Roy Williams gets him last minute. If Louisville signs him and not worry about Sebastian Telfair and go for May and sign this other guy. Maybe you know him, Rajon Rondo. Can you imagine, May, Rondo, Dean, Garcia, Myles. I guarantee Louisville wins this title. Pitino is quoted as saying those were two of his biggest mistakes ever. Oh well 2013 Champions and Illinois & UNC are nothin
I'm sorry that this reply is 3 years late, but I'm just seeing your comment today. Actually, it was Matt Doherty who recruited Sean May to North Carolina. Sean May just didn't want go to IU, even though he's from Bloomington; and like you said, his dad played for IU. Roy Williams was still at Kansas during this time, so he had nothing to do with May's recruitment.
Sebastian Telfair was in the 2004 recruiting class, and not 2002, which May was a part of. Rick Pitino still has very strong ties in the NYC area because of his stint as the Knicks coach, and that's why he was able to secure a verbal commitment from Telfair. Pitino also tried to recruit Rajon Rondo (Louisville native, and also part of the '04 recruiting class), and planned to form a back court combo of Rondo and Telfair. So the 2004-05 Louisville would have featured Sean May, Sebastian Telfair, and Rajon Rondo, in addition to Taquan Dean, Francisco Garcia, and the other players you mentioned.
"Oh well 2013 Champions and Illinois & UNC are nothin" Keep in mind that UNC has more national titles than Louisville.
Moving screen after moving screen by Illinois, and UNC still took home the goods.
i bleed unc blue but i got a bad feeling that the zags will beat us this year