8/10/2023 0 Comments One shining moment first year![]() ![]() Follow the website on Twitter and Instagram. He regularly appears on NTD News and WGN News Now. He’s written for numerous publications, including the New York Daily News, Sports Illustrated and the Chicago Tribune. He’s also the author of “ Transatlantic Passage: How the English Premier League Redefined Soccer in America,” and “No, I Can’t Get You Free Tickets: Lessons Learned From a Life in the Sports Media Industry. Banks is the owner/manager of The Sports Bank. In 2016, NE-YO became the fifth artist to perform “One Shining Moment,” joining its composer David Barrett, Teddy Pendergrass, Jennifer Hudson and Vandross. The celebrated version of the song performed by the late Luther Vandross will be shown as usual after the title game concludes tonight. At that moment, Nantz and Sullivan saved One Shining Moment from the sword of Damacles, and forever made it a college hoops “tradition unlike any other.” Here with Dean Smith and Billy Packer, congratulations on another national championship and all of a sudden he starts singing and as soon as Dean finished, I said hey, Pat Sullivan what is that you’re singing?” Nantz explained. “Waiting for the cue, back in five and go. “Absolutely! Yeah Yeah Yeah,” Sullivan and his teammates exclaimed. While the broadcast was cut to commercial, Nantz asked Sullivan if he would sing a lyric or two, if he were to stick a microphone in front of him upon returning from commercial. I heard a kid from North Carolina, his name was Pat Sullivan, singing One Shining Moment over my shoulder as the players were all huddled around,” Jim Nantz explained. “In ’92 we already ran credits over One Shining Moment, so it was already bastardized, if you will, but as I was on the floor with Billy Packer and we were interviewing Dean Smith after the Championship win over Michigan. “There’s a whole audience out there that waits to see that at the end- you can’t dispense with it. And I said guys, I beg to differ,” Nantz continued. They thought it was getting stale already. “The sixth year it ran, it was going to be the last time we were going to run it. In 1992, a Tar Heel state duo (Nantz was born in Charlotte) saved the emotionally inspiring montage from the cutting room floor. The building still has thousands of people lingering, standing still for those three minutes,” he continued. ![]() “I’ve led to it on a number of occasions, Greg Gumbel now leads to it and it brings closure to a three week festival. The One Shining Moment of that year is embedded below: ![]() “Doug heard it and thought this could be our going off-the-air piece in the Final Four, and we’ve played it every year since,” Jim Nantz exclusively told The Sports Bank in 2014. Then CBS Sports Creative Director, the late Doug Towey, first decided to use “One Shining Moment” as a way to close the network’s broadcast of the 1987 Tournament. It’s astonishing that CBS was once dangerously close to giving it the axe. These days, you just can’t conclude the NCAA Tournament without it. If it weren’t for the combined efforts of broadcaster Jim Nantz and former UNC Tar Heel Pat Sullivan, the March Madness staple would have been cut entirely. When you watch the iconic “One Shining Moment” video montage a week from tonight, after the 2023 national title game, take a minute or two to think about how it nearly disappeared. According to ESPN Stats & Information data, teams down 15+ points at halftime are now 9-452 (.980) in NCAA tournament history.(Editor’s note: in honor of Final Four weekend coming, we are now re-publishing this exclusive that originally ran in 2014.) Kansas is the first team in Final Four history to overcome a 15-point halftime deficit to win the title game. KU's comeback win puts them in rare (read: non-existent) company. Barrett is the creator of One Shining Moment, the song and highlight-reel package played after each year’s national championship game. The song, originally written by David Barrett, was first used for the 1987 NCAA Tournament, with the late, great Vandross the preeminent singer of the song. UNC's Bacot finished the night with 15 points and 15 rebounds before re-injuring his ankle in the final minute while going for what would've been a potential game-winning layup attempt. David McCormack came up clutch for Kansas with 15 points and 10 rebounds. The Jayhawks, who trailed by 15 at halftime, went on a 31-10 run in the first 10 minutes of the second half. The second half? That was an entirely different story as Kansas came back with a vengeance. He had 12 points and 10 rebounds in the first half. UNC'sArmando Bacot, who entered the matchup with an injured ankle, refused to be deterred. It was just the third time this season that Kansas has trailed by double figures. In a six-minute stretch to end the first half, UNC rattled off 16 unanswered points. The Jayhawks scored the first seven points of the game before the Heels took off.
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