Because college basketball just wrapped up this week, I thought this would be a good assignment that would keep one of the most incredible National Championship games ever in your mind.
The article below is about the history of the Villanova basketball program Please remember to put your name on your Blog so that I can give you credit.
Kris Jenkins's buzzer-beating three gives Villanova another perfect ending
Villanova sinks buzzer beater to claim NCAA title
Sports Illustrated's David Gardner and Seth Davis discuss the epic finish to the NCAA national championship game, where the Villanova Wildcats Kris Jenkins hit a buzzer-beating three-pointer to defeat the North Carolina Tar Heels.
HOUSTON — Ryan Arcidiacono streaked over to Rollie Massimino, wrapped his arms around the former Villanova coach’s waist and delivered a hug as violent as it was beautiful. Arcidiacono, a senior guard, pulled the 81-year-old coach more than a foot off the ground, kissed him atop his commemorative NCAA championship hat and whispered into his ear: “I love you, coach.” The moment encapsulated a collision of the ages, the Perfect Game of 1985 meeting the Perfect Ending of 2016. Villanova’s 77–74 victory over North Carolina in the national championship game on Monday night will be prominently featured in countless bar debates for years to come. Was it the best title game ever? Was it the best championship game finish? Was it the greatest buzzer-beater in college basketball history? At the very least, it’s in the conversation for all of those things.
But at the tight-knit Philadelphia school where basketball defines the university’s image and athletic culture, Monday night’s improbable ending will forever be paired with the incredible upset by the 1985 team, a No. 8 seed which toppled No. 1 Georgetown. Thirty-one years later, on Monday night, the No. 2 seeded Wildcats one-upped No. 1 North Carolina’s late-game theatrics to deliver this new Perfect Ending.
Junior forward Kris Jenkins delivered one of the NCAA tournament's definitive Shining Moments when he took a shovel pass from Arcidiacono and nailed a 26-foot buzzer beater that left his hand with .4 seconds remaining. It goes down as the first buzzer-beating three-pointer in NCAA championship game history. That will put Jenkins in the rare clutch air of North Carolina State’s Lorenzo Charles, who dunked home Dereck Whittenburg's 30-foot air ball to win the 1983 NCAA title.
• WATCH: Villanova students on campus celebrate national championship
“In a national championship game, to hit a shot at the buzzer, I mean, I haven’t seen many better than that,” Villanova Coach Jay Wright said of Jenkins.
What made Jenkins’s shot so remarkable is that it somehow managed to top the double-clutch shot from North Carolina guard Marcus Paige, who tied the game with 4.7 seconds remaining. Paige’s three-pointer will redefine the standards of difficulty for late-game heroics. He leapt in the air on the right wing, moved the ball around in the air to avoid an onrushing Arcidiacono, scissored his legs and shot the ball over Villanova’s Mikal Bridges while falling down. The shot going in was so remarkable that dozens of fans hurled orange seat cushions in the air, as if the basketball gods were crying from the heavens in disbelief.
That set up the heroics of Jenkins, the junior forward who North Carolina inexplicably left open. Jenkins inbounded the ball on the opposite baseline and no Tar Heel ever picked him up. No one knew it better than Jenkins, who trailed Arcidiacono up the floor screaming, “Arch! Arch! Arch!” Jenkins’s shot led to another cascade of orange seat cushions and perhaps changed the world order of historic Villanova victories. “This one is No. 1,” Massimino said. “We’re No. 2.”
Massimino, of course, was the coach when Villanova pulled off the seminal title-game upset in NCAA tourney history over Georgetown. It’s remembered as the Perfect Game because the Wildcats shot 78%, and they still remain the lowest seed to ever win the tournament.
The current Villanova players know all about the '85 team. In the foyer of their practice facility there’s a screen where anyone can push a button and see highlights from that fateful night. The song “One Shining Moment” plays in the background as Ed Pinckney runs the floor, Harold Jensen doesn't miss a shot and Dwayne McClain slashes the lane. “Coach is adamant guys understand the history of Villanova basketball,” Wildcats assistant coach Baker Dunleavy said. “They’ve seen those highlights a bunch. They know the guys who played in the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. That’s something we take a ton of pride in.”
That pride became reciprocal on Monday night. Nine of the members from that 1985 Villanova team sat in Section 109. They cheered on improbable hero Phil Booth, a reserve guard who scored 20 points off the bench. They witnessed Arcidiacono join Pinckney as the Final Four's Most Outstanding Player. And they hugged and hollered when Jenkins’s shot went in. “I almost jumped through the roof,” Massimino said.
• WATCH: "One Shining Moment" from 2016 NCAA tourney
The 1985 Wildcats joined the party on the floor after Jenkins’s heroics, two sun-kissed teams exchanging hugs as they waded through confetti. Pinckney wrapped his arms around his old coach, putting to life the trendy Nova T-Shirt spotted around Houston all week: “I Wanna Party Like It’s 1985.” Pinckney smiled at history repeating itself. “This is a beautiful thing to be a part of,” he said. “When we get to the Royal Sonesta Hotel, we’re all going to go crazy.”
It didn’t take long for Wright to find Massimino in the postgame celebration. They walked together on the court to do an interview with former Georgetown coach John Thompson on Westwood One, a fitting nod to the past. Wright then walked Massimino back across the court, one arm of a tailored pin-striped suit plastered over the shoulder of another tailored pin-striped suit. Wright escorted Massimino to the party at the base of the ladder where the Wildcats gathered to wait their turn to cut down the nets. “Somebody has to give you the opportunity,” Wright said of his former boss. “Then they have to spend the time with you to reach you. He did that for me. To share this with him, our Villanova people love him. He’s a magical figure.”
This victory now gives Wright the same status. One historic shot now gives Villanova two shining moments. The biggest upset on Monday night may be that Villanova managed to match its own resplendent history.
1. What was the final school of the NCAA National Championship game?
2. What happened in the 1985 NCAA Championship game that made that game so remarkable to the history of the Villanova's Men's Basketball program?
3. Who was the coach of Villanova's 1985 team?
4. Has there ever been another championship game in the history of the NCAA to have a buzzer beater?
5. Which player from North Carolina hit a three-pointer with 4.7 seconds to go?
6. Do you think this game will be remembered as the greatest NCAA Championship game of all time? Why?
• WATCH: Villanova students on campus celebrate national championship
“In a national championship game, to hit a shot at the buzzer, I mean, I haven’t seen many better than that,” Villanova Coach Jay Wright said of Jenkins.
What made Jenkins’s shot so remarkable is that it somehow managed to top the double-clutch shot from North Carolina guard Marcus Paige, who tied the game with 4.7 seconds remaining. Paige’s three-pointer will redefine the standards of difficulty for late-game heroics. He leapt in the air on the right wing, moved the ball around in the air to avoid an onrushing Arcidiacono, scissored his legs and shot the ball over Villanova’s Mikal Bridges while falling down. The shot going in was so remarkable that dozens of fans hurled orange seat cushions in the air, as if the basketball gods were crying from the heavens in disbelief.
That set up the heroics of Jenkins, the junior forward who North Carolina inexplicably left open. Jenkins inbounded the ball on the opposite baseline and no Tar Heel ever picked him up. No one knew it better than Jenkins, who trailed Arcidiacono up the floor screaming, “Arch! Arch! Arch!” Jenkins’s shot led to another cascade of orange seat cushions and perhaps changed the world order of historic Villanova victories. “This one is No. 1,” Massimino said. “We’re No. 2.”
Massimino, of course, was the coach when Villanova pulled off the seminal title-game upset in NCAA tourney history over Georgetown. It’s remembered as the Perfect Game because the Wildcats shot 78%, and they still remain the lowest seed to ever win the tournament.
That pride became reciprocal on Monday night. Nine of the members from that 1985 Villanova team sat in Section 109. They cheered on improbable hero Phil Booth, a reserve guard who scored 20 points off the bench. They witnessed Arcidiacono join Pinckney as the Final Four's Most Outstanding Player. And they hugged and hollered when Jenkins’s shot went in. “I almost jumped through the roof,” Massimino said.
• WATCH: "One Shining Moment" from 2016 NCAA tourney
The 1985 Wildcats joined the party on the floor after Jenkins’s heroics, two sun-kissed teams exchanging hugs as they waded through confetti. Pinckney wrapped his arms around his old coach, putting to life the trendy Nova T-Shirt spotted around Houston all week: “I Wanna Party Like It’s 1985.” Pinckney smiled at history repeating itself. “This is a beautiful thing to be a part of,” he said. “When we get to the Royal Sonesta Hotel, we’re all going to go crazy.”
1. What was the final school of the NCAA National Championship game?
2. What happened in the 1985 NCAA Championship game that made that game so remarkable to the history of the Villanova's Men's Basketball program?
3. Who was the coach of Villanova's 1985 team?
4. Has there ever been another championship game in the history of the NCAA to have a buzzer beater?
5. Which player from North Carolina hit a three-pointer with 4.7 seconds to go?
6. Do you think this game will be remembered as the greatest NCAA Championship game of all time? Why?
27 comments:
Ben Blutstein
1. 77-74 Villanova
2. They upset the #1 seed Georgetown in the championship to win their first ever national title
3. Rollie Massimino
4. Yes, when NC State made a buzzer beater to win the national championship over Houston
5. Marcus Paige
6. No, because it wasn't as much of a cinderella story as previous champs.
1.villanova
2. Won there first title
3.rollie massamino
4.yeah
5.marcus Paige
6.no because Jordan's game winner was better
John Billingsley
1.villinova
2. They won there second championship
3. Rollin
4. Yes
5.paige
6.yes becuAse there was 2 almost buzzer beaters
-Garrett
1.villanova
2.they were the 8th seed and beat the 1st seed team
3.
4.yes
Shiva Choudhary
5.marcus Paige
6. Because the amount less changes and the buzzer beater
1)The final was Villanova vs North Carolina
2)They won an amazing victory that should have happened a long time ago.
3)Rollie Massimino
4)Yes
5)Page
6)Yes because of the way that the game ended couldn't have been any better and with so much on the line, it made the victory so much sweeter.
Samat Borbiev
Pd 3
PE Basketball
Alex Zhang
1.Philadelphia
2.The game was close 73 to 74, North Carolina winning and at the buzzer Villanova Wildcats Kris Jenkins shot a three-pointer and won 77-74
3.Rollie Massimino
4.Yes in 1985
5.Marcus Paige
6.No, because there are other great things that will acquire in the future of NCAA Championship, but this match will be remembered as one of the greatest moments of NCAA Championship
1. The final score was 77-74, Villanova.
2. The 1985 team which was a No. 8 seed, beat No. 1 seed Georgetown.
3. The coaches name was Rollie Massimino.
4. This was the first NCAA Basketball Championship to end with a Game-Winning 3-Pointer.
5. Marcus Paige
6. For the time-being, I think this will go down as one of the best NCAA Championship Games of all time, because of UNC's Marcus Paige making a crazy 3-Pointer, and then Kris Jenkins' buzzer-beater as time expired.
-Brett Godsick
1. 77 - 74
2. Because it was also a very close and perfect game. They won 66 - 64.
3. Rollie Massimino
4. Yes
5. Marcus Paige
6. Yes because the buzzer beater was way too insane and way too clutch. It was such a close game, both teams played their asses off and Villanova just came through and made the most crazy clutch shot ever.
Sean Liang
1.Villanova
2.The incredible upset by the 1985 team, a No. 8 seed which toppled No. 1 Georgetown
3. Rollie Massimino
4.Yes The last national championship to be won at the buzzer was North Carolina State over Houston in 1983, on Lorenzo Charles’ rebound of an air ball, and dunk
5.Marcus Paige
6.I think it will be remembered as the greatest NCCA championship game because this game ended with a buzzer beater and Nova surprised most people winning the game cuz they were the 2 seed and UNC was the 1st seed. And most people thought UNC was going to win the game
Egid Mills
Gelia Yimam Period 3
1-The final score of the NCAA National Championship game was 77-74 with Villanova taking the win.
2-Villanova, an 8-seed, beat Georgetown, a first-seed, and they were the lowest seed to ever win the championship.
3-Rollie Massimino
4-Yes, this was not the first buzzer beater shot to win the championship but it was the first buzzer beater 3 to win the championship.
5-Marcus Paige
6-Yes because it had the first ever 3-point buzzer beater shot to win a championship game.
1. What was the final school of the NCAA National Championship game?
Villanova
2. What happened in the 1985 NCAA Championship game that made that game so remarkable to the history of the Villanova's Men's Basketball program?
incredible upset by the 1985 team, a No. 8 seed which toppled No. 1 Georgetown.
3. Who was the coach of Villanova's 1985 team?
Rollie Massimino
4. Has there ever been another championship game in the history of the NCAA to have a buzzer beater?
nope
5. Which player from North Carolina hit a three-pointer with 4.7 seconds to go?
Marcus Paige
6. Do you think this game will be remembered as the greatest NCAA Championship game of all time? Why?
Yes since it is the only game in history to end in a buzzer beater
1. Villanova 77-74
2. the 1985 team, a No. 8 seed which toppled No. 1 Georgetown
3.Rollie Massimino
4. yes
5. Kris Jenkins
6.No because there are many more championships to come and there are so many people with amazing talent that are yet to be shown
Katie Gillick
1. 77-74 villanova
2.what was remarkable was that an 8-seed team(Villanova) beat a 1-seed team(Georgetown) in the championship. and they hold the record for being the lowest seed to ever win the championship
3. Rollie Massimino
4.there has been a buzzer beater shot before but not a 3 pointer
5. Marcus Paige
6. it will be remembered as the greatest bc it's the first ever buzzer beater 3 in a championship game.
Hannah Johnston
Jerry Krieger
1. 77-74 villanova
2. They were the lowest seed (8) to ever win the championship and it was villanova's first championship
3. Rollie Massimino
4. Yes, nc state in 1983 and loyola of chicago in 1963 but never a three pointer
5. Marcus Paige
6. No. One of the greatest but the championship is about more than just one shot and villanova was still highly seeded coming into the game. Definitly the greatest i've seen though.
Jason Li
1. Villanova
2. it was another perfect ending for Villanova, the coach hugging thing
3. Rollie Massimino
4. no, this is the first game winner buzzer beater with a 3
5. Marcus Paige
6. Very close game, very good plays from both teams, buzzer beater was amazing
1. Villanova
2. 8th seed Villanova beat 1st seed Georgetown
3. Rollie Massismino
4. Lorenzo Charles had a game winning dunk off a air ball, but Jenkins is the only one with a 3 point buzzer beater for the game.
5 Marcus Paige
6. I believe so, but not only with the game being so back and forth, but because not only with Marcus Paige's desperation 3 while being guarded by two guys tied the game, Jenkins had the game winning dagger from way outside the three, the only guy to ever hit a 3 point winning shot for the championship
Nima Kaffi
77-74
it was the last time that team won the national champonship
Barker dunleavy
yes
Marcuos Page
yes because of the atmoshphere of the game and the 2 shots yes it will be
Zachary Nannen
Young Cho
1.77:74 villanova
2.it was their first ncaa title
3.Rollie Massimino
4.yes
5.Marcus Paige
6.This game will be remembered by a lot of fans because this game was very intense from the beginning to end. Both team made incredible three point in the last five seconds of the game.
1 Villanova wins 77-74
2 8 seed villanova beat 1 seed georgetown
3 massimino
4 yes nc state
5 marcus paige
6 yes it was not only a buzzer beater it was a game winning buzzer beater
Ethan Cohen
1 Villanova 77 74
2 it was an upset
3 Rollie Massimino
4 yes
5 Marcus Paige
6 yes because there was a huge buzzer beater after there was a 3 to tie the game
Costa Borsas
1. 77-74
2. That was the last time Nova won the national championship.
3. Rollie Massimino
4. Yes, there has.
5. Marcus Paige (Cuz hes a bucket!)
6. I mean probably. TBH I was disappointed that the UNC dude was so far off Kris Jenkins when the shot went up so. Still, what a way to win the National Championship.
Nicholas John
P-3
1.) Villanova
2.) The incredible upsets which allowed them to make it far
3.) Ed Pinckney
4.) no
5.) Marcus Paige
6.)Yes because there were so many amazing plays that will be recorded as some of the top plays
Drew Shager
1. Villanova
2. They were the first 8 seed to win
3. Rollie Massimino
4. No
5. Marcus Paige
6. Yes because it was so close and was a great game
Derrick Daoust
1. The final score was 77-74, Villanova.
2. The 1985 team which was a No. 8 seed, beat No. 1 seed Georgetown.
3. The coaches name was Rollie Massimino.
4. This was the first NCAA Basketball Championship to end with a Game-Winning 3-Pointer.
5. Marcus Paige
6. I believe this will go down as one of the best NCAA Championship Games of all time, because of UNC's Marcus Paige making a crazy 3-Pointer, and then Kris Jenkins' buzzer-beater as time expired.
Supreme (Saucy) Velazquez
1. The final score was 77-74, in favor of Villanova.
2. Villanova's basketball team(8th seed) beat Georgetown which was a 1 seed team. This was remarkable due to the huge gap between the teams.
3. Rollie Massimino
4. Yes
5. Marcus Paige
6. Yes, due to the fact that he scored a buzzer beater 3 in the grand championship of the NCAA
Adith Maheshwari, Period:3
1) 77-74 Villanova
2) They were an 8th seed team and won
3) Rolli Massimino
4) Nah
5) Marcus Paige
6) Yes there were so many clutch shots
Eric Liu
1. The final score was 77-74, Villanova.
2. The 1985 team which was a No. 8 seed, beat No. 1 seed Georgetown.
3. The coaches name was Rollie Massimino.
4. This was the first NCAA Basketball Championship to end with a Game-Winning 3-Pointer.
5. Marcus Paige
6. it was a really close score at the end and the last shot won the game at the buzzer
dane meddings
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