College basketball fans divided as March Madness tradition ‘One Shining Moment’ is revealed after NCAA Tournament | 2KQV0JK | 2024-04-12 02:08:01
College basketball fans divided as March Madness tradition 'One Shining Moment' is revealed after NCAA Tournament | 2KQV0JK | 2024-04-12 02:08:01
March Madness officially got here to an in depth on Monday following UConn's 75-60 win towards Purdue.
THE annual One Shining Moment tradition has returned to combined evaluations.
March Madness officially got here to an in depth on Monday following UConn's 75-60 win towards Purdue.
Within the closing levels of the printed, as has been customary since 1987, David Barrett's 'One Shining Second' was performed alongside a spotlight reel from this yr's Men's event.
The three-minute video together with clips of event stars reminiscent of Zach Edey and DJ Burns shortly made an impression on X, formerly often known as Twitter, hitting one million views in beneath 12 hours.
Nevertheless, the feedback from followers was finally combined.
"Worst shining moment in years," commented one fan.
"This was one among if not the worst one shining second it just feels off," stated a second.
By comparison, a third replied, "This will provide you with the feels."
Whereas one other stated, "Even in years like this the place my workforce acquired bounced within the 2nd and have been shown like once in this video, I LOVE the One Shining Second!!!"
Barrett was inspired to write down 'One Shining Second' in 1986 whereas admiring Corridor of Famer Larry Fowl play for the Boston Celtics.
After making an attempt, and failing, to catch the interest of a waitress at a Michigan bar that night time by discussing "the poetry of basketball," Barrett as an alternative wrote his ideas down, as per The Athletic.
"I leaned to my proper, obtained a serviette and wrote down the title for the track – as a result of I assumed that's exactly where Mr. Fowl is true now," Barrett stated.
<!-- End of Brightcove Player --> "I played plenty of basketball rising up, so every on occasion, you understand what it's whenever you get in the zone.
"So I assumed there's a music, and that's the way it received began."
Barrett's track ultimately made its method to CBS, and the remaining is historical past.
"A lot of the gamers will play in the NBA, and that's their glory second," he stated.
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"The best way CBS handles it with nice respect and the sense that they're freezing (school players) in time, in a poetic approach … it's nice, truthfully.
"Vainness apart, I beloved the event earlier than, and now, figuring out that folks determine with my track and that event could be very gratifying."
The newest school stars to have fun their 'Shining Second' have been the Huskies, profitable their second consecutive title underneath head coach Dan Hurley.
And talking after the sport, Hurley made a bold claim about how their back-to-back titles in comparison with those of Florida in 2006 and 2007, and Duke in 1991 and 1992 – a group on which his brother Bobby performed.
"I simply assume it's one of the best two-year run in a really very very long time, just due to the whole lot we lost from final yr's workforce," he stated.
"To lose that much and, once more, to do what we did, once more, it obtained to be as spectacular a two-year run as a program [has] had since previous to whoever did it before Duke."
"To me, it is extra spectacular than what Florida and Duke did because they introduced back their whole teams and we lost some main players."
Sadly for UConn, they face dropping quite a few star players again this yr, with Donovan Clingan, Stephon Citadel, and Tristen Newton all in line to be drafted into the NBA this yr.
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