NCAA Basketball Quiz: Name North Carolina’s starting five in their 1982 title game win over Georgetown, 63-62. Answer below.
College Basketball
Final AP Poll (Mar. 9) before Selection Sunday
1. Kentucky 31-0 (65)
2. Duke 28-3
3. Virginia 28-2
4. Villanova 29-2
5. Arizona 28-3
6. Wisconsin 28-3
7. Gonzaga 30-2…won WCC final vs. BYU, Tuesday
8. Maryland 26-5
9. Kansas 24-7
10. Northern Iowa 30-3…that comeback, Sunday, was huge
11. Notre Dame 26-5
12. Wichita State 28-4
20. SMU 24-6… Go Paul P.!
24. Davidson 23-6…holy cow! Snuck up on me.
25. Boise State 24-7…if you carry out the votes, SDSU way below
Sad night in Brooklyn on Tuesday as St. Francis failed to capture its first NCAA tournament bid in losing the NEC title game to Robert Morris, 66-63. The Terriers made just 9 of 21 free throws. Hideous. They also had 17 turnovers.
So St. Francis, Army, the Citadel, Northwestern and William & Mary remain the only schools never to reach the NCAA tournament since Division I was formed in 1948.
–I didn’t receive my Sports Illustrated until Monday so just read Seth Davis’ piece on college basketball’s “crisis,” the physical play and plodding pace that is making the sport unwatchable in some instances. Davis has proposed five rules changes.
1) Reduce the shot clock from 35 to 30 – or even 24.
2) Extend the arc under the basket from three feet to four feet.
3) Widen the lane to 14 feet from 12, to “push post players away from the basket and force them to learn to shoot with touch instead of just backing down and powering to the rim.”
4) Move back the three-point line from 20’ to 22’2”, which is still shorter than the NBA’s 23’9”.
5) Limit timeouts. It really is absurd how much time coaches have. Four media timeouts per half, which last 2:15 each, plus a 15-minute halftime. Then one 60-second and four 30-second timeouts, three of which they can carry into the second half.
Mr. Davis adds that one ‘myth’ is “The players aren’t as good as they used to be.”
“The one-and-done rule has been vilified, but don’t forget: Before the NBA established its 19-year-old age minimum in 2005, the rule was none and done, so there are more gifted players in college basketball now, not fewer. Also, just 42 underclassmen entered the 2014 NBA draft. Nine were freshmen.”
Mr. Davis adds that while it’s difficult to judge different eras, since the adoption of the three-point line in 1986-87, one category where it is apples-to-apples is free throw shooting. In 1972-73 – without a shot clock or three-point line – teams converted 68.6% of their foul shots. This season it’s 69.0%. Ergo, “There is nothing wrong with the way today’s players shoot.”
–Phil W. passed along a story from USA TODAY on a different kind of March Madness; the first 48 hours after Selection Sunday and the NCAA’s travel office, which has to scramble to find planes for all the men’s and women’s teams on rather short notice. It’s not just finding space for about 20 players and assistants. You’re talking school administrators, families, pep bands and cheerleaders.
The NCAA usually has 10 to 15 charters at its disposals for this time of year, but major airlines don’t have the availability they did before. For starters, the airlines are a helluva lot more efficient than they used to be, and then you have new FAA regulations on crews and the amount of rest required, so it’s not just about planes, it’s about them, too.
Of course Wake Forest doesn’t have to worry about travel arrangements this year. Hasn’t had to worry for quite a number of years, frankly. And Tuesday, they lost in the first round of the ACC tournament to Virginia Tech, 81-80, in a truly pathetic display of defense on the part of the Demon Deacons. So discouraging. Wake let freshman Jalen Hudson, averaging six points a game, go down the lane time and time again untouched for the Hokies on his way to 32 points.
–The Miami Heat’s Hassan Whiteside has been of the league’s real surprises this year, averaging 10.1 ppg and 9.8 reb. But he’s also proven to be quite a jerk, witness his second ejection in a week on Monday night for hitting the Celtic’s Kelly Olynyk in the head after a routine play. Last week Whiteside was ejected for tackling Phoenix center Alex Len.
After Monday’s game, Miami teammate Dwyane Wade said Whiteside was “not reliable” and that the center needs to stop having so many “selfish moments.”
Wade said: “He’s had enough veteran advice. There comes a time where you have to do it yourself. There’s only so many words people can continue to say to you. You gotta do it. Not for you, you gotta do it for the other guys in here that you see sacrificing. That you see out there playing hurt and all the things that are going on. You’re part of a team. You’re part of an organization. We all have our moments, selfish moments. But you can’t continue to keep having them, because you gotta be reliable and you gotta be able to be counted on. And right now, if he continues to act that way then he’s not reliable.” [Des Bieler / Washington Post]
–Nice piece on the Atlanta Hawks in the current Sports Illustrated, particularly Jeff Teague. I have to admit I learned more about Teague than I knew of him when he was at Wake. He had a nice game Monday, 18 points, 13 assists, in the Hawks’ 130-105 demolition of the Kings to move to 50-13, first NBA team to 50 this year.
NFL…geezuz, it’s hard to keep up!!!
–The Jets did it…Darrelle Revis is back! The sterling cornerback announced he won’t talk to the press for a while but said Tuesday night, “I want to thank the Pats and Pats Nation for an unbelievable year. NEW YORK I’m coming home..” He also tweeted: “I’m happy to be home, I never wanted to leave!”
Jets owner Woody Johnson had to open the bank and Revis is receiving an astounding $39 million guaranteed as part of a five-year, $70 million deal.
Revis is reportedly getting $16 million in base pay this year, $17 million in 2016, and $15 million in 2017. The next-highest paid corner in 2015, according to overthecap.com, is the Cardinals’ Patrick Peterson, who’s due to make $11.7 million this season.
Earlier, the Jets signed cornerback Buster Skrine from Cleveland and are said to be in negotiations with Antonio Cromartie.
So Woody Johnson makes up for his mistake of not re-signing Revis last offseason after he had spent one year in Tampa Bay. Revis ended up in New England after the Jets totally snubbed him.
After the Pats won the Super Bowl, coach Bill Belichick shouted at Darrelle, “This is why you’re here,” but now he’s back…back on Revis Island.
“Now if Darrelle Revis can bring Tom Brady with him from New England, the Jets will really be back in business.
“That’s never happening, of course, but Woody Johnson’s willingness to outbid the Patriots by giving Revis $39 million guaranteed in the first three years of his five-year, $70 million contract has made the Jets relevant again, even if they still don’t have a quarterback.
“If LeBron James can go back to Cleveland, then Revis can come back to the Jets. James won two rings with the Heat. Revis won his first Super Bowl ring last season with the Patriots. For each, it was time to go home. James and Revis have one other thing in common: They are the best at what they do.
“Johnson lost all benefit of the doubt with disgusted Jets fans after two disastrous years of his salary-cap obsessed GM John Idzik refusing to spend Johnson’s money and four straight years out of the playoffs, but one expensive move – bringing back the second-best player in franchise history and stealing him back from the Patriots – does amazing things for his credibility.
“This is a terrific move for the Jets. There is nothing not to like. The Jets were swimming in salary-cap space and Johnson has the cash….
“This is a passing league, and you can’t win without quarterbacks and cornerbacks. The Jets had neither in last year’s 4-12 disaster. Now they have Revis. Rookie GM Mike Maccagnan sure seems like he knows what he’s doing so far, but it’s hard to imagine him going into the season with Geno Smith and perhaps Ryan Fitzpatrick battling it out for the starting job….
“Revis is a great player and even better businessman. He ticked off Johnson by being a mercenary. But Johnson was able to get him back because Revis always follows the money.”
–In a head-scratching move, the Eagles traded quarterback Nick Foles to the St. Louis Rams in exchange for quarterback Sam Bradford, with some 2015-16 draft picks going both ways.
So the Eagles, who just signed Mark Sanchez, have Bradford, who they now may try to trade to move up to land Marcus Mariota. But who would want Bradford? He’s coming off his second ACL injury in as many years. Meanwhile, good move by the Rams in getting Foles.
–Running back Frank Gore, after appearing to agree on a contract with the Eagles, ended up in Indianapolis.
–The Seattle Seahawks traded center Max Unger and a first-round pick to New Orleans for star tight end Jimmy Graham.
–Detroit lost Ndamukong Suh to Miami, but they acquired five-time All-Pro defensive tackle Haloti Ngata from the Ravens in exchange for some draft picks.
–Tennessee quarterback Jake Locker decided to retire rather than test free agency, saying he no longer has the “burning desire” needed to keep playing the game for a living.
–The Broncos lost Pro Bowl tight end Julius Thomas, who reportedly signed with Jacksonville, but signed Virgil Green and Owen Daniels.
–The Giants agreed to a contract with free agent running back Shane Vereen, a critical cog in the Patriots’ Super Bowl victory, where he totaled 11 receptions. Vereen had 99 receptions over the last two seasons and rushed for 391 yards in 2014. A very solid pickup for the Giants.
–Barry Svrluga / Washington Post…on the difference between NFL and MLB contracts.
Ndamukong Suh signed a six-year, $114 million contract with the Miami Dolphins, with $60m of it guaranteed.
“But this business about it being worth $56 million on top of that: Hogwash. The Dolphins owe him the guaranteed portion, and nothing more.
“Albert Haynesworth, you may remember, was a $100-million man in Washington, the total value of the contract the Redskins granted him over seven years. But he played just two punchline-worthy seasons here, collected $41 million guaranteed – and never saw that $59 million leftover. Was he even worth the $41 million? Of course not. But were the Redskins on the hook for the whole thing? Not even close….
“In baseball, dollars are dollars and contracts are contracts, and it’s generally not necessary to employ a team of actuaries to sort it all out. Less than two months ago, Max Scherzer signed a seven-year, $210 million contract with the Washington Nationals that was, in the world of baseball deals, described as ‘complicated’ because the money will be paid over 14 years. Yet the amount of guaranteed money: $210 million. No mystery whatsoever.
“ ‘At some point,’ Nationals General Manager Mike Rizzo said that day, ‘it’s like Monopoly money.’
“Except in baseball, it’s real, and in football, it’s not. Or most of the time it’s not.
“The vagaries of the NFL’s salary structure aren’t for the mathematically disinclined or those with attention deficit disorder. Because there are ‘cap hits’ and ‘dead money’ and other terms for ‘we’ll never pay this,’ teams must employ salary cap specialists to manage it all. The contracts that are expected to be announced Tuesday – five years and $40 million for linebacker Pernell McPhee in San Diego, five years and $47.5 million for safety Devin McCourty in New England, five years and $40 million for running back LeSean McCoy with Buffalo, running back Marshawn Lynch with $24 million of ‘new money’ to stay with Seattle – will be trumpeted as franchise-altering or stabilizing or whatever.
“But they’re largely fraudulent. McPhee is reportedly guaranteed $16 million of his deal, McCourty $28.5 million of his, McCoy $26.5 million of his, and Lynch just $12 million of his.
“Think about that: Marshawn Lynch, who carried his team into the Super Bowl and was one lousy play call away from winning it for the second straight season – a guy who has led the league in rushing touchdowns each of the past two seasons – isn’t guaranteed anything more than $12 million for 2015. If the year goes awry and the Seahawks find the remainder of his deal unpalatable, off he goes – cut, and owed nothing more.
“By comparison, some baseball contracts issued this offseason: Pat Neshek, 34-year-old reliever, $12.5 million for two seasons with Houston; Yovani Gallardo, $13 million for just 2015 with Milwaukee, who then traded him to Texas; Michael Cuddyer, two years and $21 million with the Mets; Jake Peavy, two years and $24 million in San Francisco; Adam LaRoche, two years and $25 million with the White Sox; J.J. Hardy, three years and $40 million with Baltimore.
“Casual sports fans are familiar with Lynch, even if he doesn’t conduct normal interviews. Only ardent sports fans have heard of any of those baseball players, even though there are all-stars and batting champs and Gold Glove winners among them.
This was written before the Revis contract was announced.
Golf Balls
–As reported by Golf World, Commissioner Tim Finchem and Phil Mickelson remain at odds over the selection process for making the Ryder Cup team. Mickelson doesn’t like that the five fall tournaments count for points toward qualifying; Mickelson believing that since the top players seldom play in these wraparound events that they fall behind in the standings, potentially keeping the U.S. team from being as strong as it should be. “The Ryder Cup isn’t about accommodating everyone,” Mickelson said. But Finchem believes all events should count toward the point system. [Mickelson doesn’t want the five fall events counting for the FedEx Cup either.]
–I forgot to note last Sunday that Alex Cejka won the concurrent PGA Tour event in Puerto Rico, his first tour victory after 286 starts and parts of 19 seasons. Cejka, 44, won a five-man playoff on the first hole that included Arnold Palmer’s grandson, Sam Saunders, who was also looking for his first win.
–But as for the WGC event at Doral, many said after there wasn’t any buzz, despite all the perks (the elite field, the huge purse, the three-year exemption for a win, no cut, Donald Trump). Part of the reason is the tickets were very expensive and filtered out the grassroots South Florida golf fans who helped make Doral raucous in the past. Commissioner Finchem acknowledged the tournament was lacking something.
The consensus seems to be to expand the field from 74 to 120 and have a 36-hole cut, and that Doral should drop the WGC affiliation and go back to its roots…a very popular tour stop with an enhanced golf course, owing to the improvements Trump initiated when he acquired the resort.
Your editor’s family members, including yours truly, are major bird lovers and marvel at their intelligence. The term “bird brain” really needs to be retired. I’ve told you before of how my office of the last five years is kind of like its own aerie, top of a large building where birds sit above me, swooping down from time to time (including hawks), and I’m across from some great trees where they alight.
So I see this article on crows at BBC News and it starts like this:
“A recent (BBC) Magazine story reported how an eight-year-old girl in the U.S. regularly receives gifts from crows – they seem to be thanking her for feeding them. It inspired readers to email us with details of their own remarkable relationships with birds.
“In the original story Gabi Mann explained how crows have brought her a hoard of presents including colored glass, paper clips, buttons and pieces of jewelry. It turns out she isn’t the only person to receive gifts from wild birds.
“Lynn Witte, U.S.: I am the adopted mother of a baby crow that had been injured. I affectionately call her Sheryl Crow. I interacted with her constantly, hand fed her, encouraged her recovery and in the process I fell in love with this beautiful and intelligent creature. Over the summer she grew and eventually she learned to fly. Sheryl brings me gifts. My first was presented to me with her wings splayed open and head bowed. I was very ceremoniously handed a yellow foam dart from a toy gun! She refused to take the dart back as she does when we play games. I felt truly honored. She has continued to surprise me with gifts that she finds….
“Katie Ross, Mukilteo, Washington, US: I feed our backyard crows every day. When they get something they really love, like leftover ribs with bits of meat still on them, I often find a gift on our porch railing. We’ve received everything from shiny polished rocks from our neighbor’s landscaping to bright red bits of yard to dead bugs. We love our crows!
“Alison Alcoba, Seattle, Washington, US: I have a collection of bits from our crows – toys mostly: a smashed Hot Wheels car, a plastic toy spinning top, a bright Cracker Jack token, a Donald Duck PEZ dispenser head, all left for us in the bird bath. We feed our crows peanuts, and our cat Black Bart used to play with the local crows. When Bart was killed by a coyote one early morning, it was the distress call of the crows that alerted us to what was left of his body. A week to the day after Bart died, we were awakened by a similar racket. When we went outside to see what the noise was about, there were about 40 crows in our yard, and below them, right on the spot where we found Bart’s body the week before, was the collar he had been wearing, complete with name tag. That was the kindest gift of all and it gave us closure.
“Guenther Lenske, Germany: I raised a baby crow from May 2013 to September 2014. When I got him he could not fly due to broken wing feathers so I kept him in a big cage in the garden directly by my bedroom window and let him out in the garden every day. It took about a year for the broken feathers to be replaced by new, stronger ones enabling him to fly. Before he left, he put a few little stones in my living room.”
“Diane Cooper, High Wycombe: Many years ago, while on holiday in a cottage in Kent with our cousin (then about five), we noticed a crow-typed bird visiting. It paid particular interest to my cousin (we think because of her high pitched voice). It followed her every day, accepted food from her hand and was photographed on her shoulder. One day she sat on her when it landed on an open window sill and dropped a shiny coin on to her bed. We worked out afterwards that the bird was a jackdaw. Sadly we never saw it again on any other visit to this family cottage but then our cousin never visited again.”
So my brother, who has a great back yard for bird viewing, said he had 11 squirrels the other day hang down and chomp on this block of suet he puts out.
The suet has all kinds of nuts and seeds in it. So he bought a new brand “that has hot peppers. Birds don’t mind peppers. But the squirrels have come down, take a bite, then raced up and down the tree wiping their mouths on the bark. Problem solved.”
–Nice to see that Major League Soccer is here to stay, having started its 20th season last weekend. With the addition of new franchises, New York City and Orlando City, the league now has 20 teams, 14 of which have soccer-specific stadiums, with two more on the way. MLS set a league record with an average attendance of 19,151 last season which is darn good.
–We note the passing of Sam Simon, 59, co-creator of The Simpsons. He died after a long battle with colon cancer.
The Simpsons first aired in 1989 and Simon led the show’s writing staff and is credited with developing the characters that are featured. He left the show after just four seasons, but continued to receive between $20 million and $30 million each year after cutting a deal that gave him a share of future profits.
In a 2007 interview with Morley Safer on “60 Minutes,” Simon said the television industry had turned him into a “monster.”
“I wasn’t enjoying it anymore. Not just talking about ‘The Simpsons.’ I would say every show I’ve ever worked on… I go crazy. I hate myself,” in explaining why he left.
Co-developer Matt Groening once said that Simon was “brilliantly funny and one of the smartest writers” he had ever worked with, but that he could also be “unpleasant and mentally unbalanced.”
At 530 episodes and counting, The Simpsons is the longest running sitcom in American television history. Without The Simpsons there is also no “Beavis & Butt-head,” “King of the Hill,” “South Park,” or “Family Guy.”
Simon was born in Los Angeles, attended Beverly Hills High School and then went to Stanford, where he studied psychology. It was at age 23, though, that he became a runner for the ABC sitcom “Taxi,” which was co-created by James L. Brooks, and it was Brooks who approached Simon with the idea of developing The Simpsons into a full-blown series from its series of shorts that were part of the “The Tracey Ullman Show.”
Simon would later give away most of his money to charity, including animal welfare issues.
In 2002, he founded the non-profit Sam Simon Foundation which is devoted to rescuing dogs from shelters and training them to assist the disabled. It was the foundation that announced his passing.
Fellow Simpsons producer Al Jean tweeted, “a great man; I owe him everything.”
Simon also worked as a writer for hit sitcoms including “Taxi” and “Cheers.” [Jessica Gelt / Los Angeles Times; BBC News]
–What a tragedy in Argentina as two helicopters collided in midair, claiming ten lives, including eight French citizens in the country to film a French reality television show called “Dropped.”
The other two victims were the Argentinian pilots, while the French dead included Olympic swimmer Camille Muffat, Olympic boxer Alexis Vastine and sailor Florence Arthaud.
For whatever reason, despite perfect flying conditions, the two choppers touched and exploded in midair.
Muffat won gold, silver and bronze Olympic medals; Vastine a bronze.
—95-year-old Charles Eugster of Britain broke the world record for a 200-meter indoor race, doing it in 55.48 seconds at a British Masters Athletics meeting in London on Sunday, 2.4 seconds faster than the previous record, held by Dallas resident Orville Rogers.
As reported by Abby Phillip of the Washington Post, Eugster’s “secret boils down to three things: work, diet and exercise. ‘In that order!’”
“The continuing ageing of the population is one of the most remarkable success stories of the human race in modern history,” Eugster said. “But man has destroyed the wonder of aging, by transforming it into an age of degeneration and disease!”
Abby Phillip adds: “Remarkably, Eugster actually took up exercise relatively recently. When he was 87, he realized that he was tired of looking old so he started exercising seriously. (We’re not making that up.)”
Eugster, at 87, joined a bodybuilding club. When you see a video of the guy, he looks remarkable.
–So I was reading a story on a current exhibition of Impressionists at The National Gallery in London and did you know that without French art dealer Paul Durand-Ruel, there may have never really been such an era, at least in terms of the public consciousness?
As noted in a story in The Economist: “He was the first person to promote the artists; he supported them financially through the bad times; and he eventually found an audience that embraced their works as keenly as he did himself. ‘Without him,’ said Claude Monet, ‘we wouldn’t have survived.’”
It was in the early 1870s, that Durand-Ruel, “the successful, art-dealing son of an art dealer, first fell for (the works of the likes of Monet, Pissarro, Manet, Degas and Renoir, even as) such works were reviled, practically unsellable. He scooped them up, buying some 12,000 Impressionist works in total, including 1,000 Monets and 1,500 Renoirs. He used other stock as collateral to raise the capital needed to pay these struggling artists monthly stipends, produce illustrated catalogues, engage the press, and stage what were at the time very unusual one-man shows.”
But it still took decades before his commitment was reflected in strong sales.
–The boxing match between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao is just around the corner, May 2. So there’s no shortage of folks trying to ride the PR train surrounding the fight.
Case in point, Déjà vu Showgirls, a Vegas strip club. Marketing director Megan Swartz announced that the winner of the bout will receive “couch dances for life, in addition to a $500,000 bottle of Dom Perignon.”
“Swartz is also ponying up four strippers who’ve offered to tattoo the winner’s name on their bodies, a specialty drink creation to be christened either ‘Mayweather Mayhem’ or ‘Pacquiao Punch-Out,’ a topless boxing match at the club in the winner’s honor and a life-sized portrait of the winner and assembled strippers that’ll be displayed in the club lobby for posterity.”
Well if that doesn’t get the two champions fired up, I don’t know what will.
—Lew Soloff, a trumpet player who was an early member of the group Blood, Sweat and Tears, died. He was 71. He was walking down a New York City street Saturday night with his daughter when he suffered an apparent heart attack.
Soloff played on virtually all of the band’s top hits. He was born in Brooklyn and grew up in Lakewood, N.J. Soloff entered the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, N.Y., and later did graduate work at Juilliard in NYC.
He played in the studio and on stage with Tony Bennett, Elvis Costello, Marianne Faithfull, Aretha Franklin, Lou Reed, Frank Sinatra, Paul Simon and Barbra Streisand. As Ronald Reagan would have said, ‘Not bad, not bad at all.’ [Steve Chawkins / Los Angeles Times]
–Finally got around to reading Kid Rock’s Rolling Stone interview, where he dissed Beyonce, and I liked this bit.
“Days after 2007’s Rock N Roll Jesus came out, Rock and some of his entourage were arrested for getting into a brawl with a customer (at a Waffle House). ‘The judge said, ‘What were you doing at the Waffle House at five in the morning?’ and I’m like, ‘We’re drinking. Who goes to Waffle House sober?’”
–A federal jury awarded the family of Marvin Gaye $7.4 million, finding the 2013 hit song “Blurred Lines” infringed on Gaye’s 1977 chart-topper “Got To Give It Up.” The suit was against singer-songwriters Pharrell Williams and Robin Thicke.
The children of Gaye contended they recognized similarities between the two songs immediately and a musicologist called to the stand analyzed them and concluded there was a “constellation” of eight similar elements. Others had talked of similarities, including reviewers and fans.
Thicke, in interviews about the writing process, had suggested to Williams they write something like “Got to Give It Up,” and Williams said he was “trying to pretend” he was Gaye when he wrote it.
But on the stand, Williams said he alone wrote the song without any input from Thicke, and that neither Gaye nor his song were discussed in the song’s creation. Williams said it was wholly original.
What we learned in the trial is that the song brought in $5.6 million for Thicke, $5.2 million for Williams and another $5 million to $6 million for the record company, as well as an additional $8 million in publishing revenue, as reported by the Los Angeles Times’ Victoria Kim.
The song has sold more than 7.3 million copies in the U.S. alone, according to Nielsen SoundScan figures.
The verdict could tarnish the legacy of Williams, who has won numerous Grammys and appears on NBC’s “The Voice.”
Top 3 songs for the week 3/8/75: #1 “Have You Never Been Mellow” (Olivia Newton-John) #2 “Black Water” (The Doobie Brothers) #3 “My Eyes Adored You” (Frankie Valli…this one has aged well…)…and…#4 “Lady Marmalade” (LaBelle…voulez-vous coucher avec moi, ce soir?…) #5 “Lonely People” (America) #6 “Lady” (Styx) #7 “Best Of My Love” (The Eagles…popular slow dance in those days…cough cough….cough…) #8 “Lovin’ You” (Minnie Riperton…tweet tweet…chirp chirp…) #9 “Pick Up The Pieces” (AWB) #10 “Can’t Get It Out Of My Head” (Electric Light Orchestra)
NCAA Basketball Quiz Answer: North Carolina starting five in 1982 title game…James Worthy, Michael Jordan, Sam Perkins, Matt Doherty and Jimmy Black. Worthy had 28 points on 13 of 17 shooting, but he was just 2 of 7 from the foul line. Michael Jordan, who had the winning 16-foot jumper with seconds left (after which Georgetown’s Fred Brown mistakenly threw it to Worthy), had 16 and 9 rebounds.
Georgetown’s starting five was Patrick Ewing, Sleepy Floyd, Eric Smith, Fred Brown and Anthony Jones, though in the case of Jones, Ed Spriggs ended up playing 30 minutes.
