I thought this was a nice touch by The Sporting News.
College basketball history did not begin with the 1984-85 season, but college basketball as we know it did. That’s when the NCAA played its first 64-team tournament, the event that has come to define the game for many. Over the course of the summer, Sporting News will examine some of the bests and worsts of that era.
The sport lost the author of one of the game’s most stunning moments recently, when former N.C. State star Lorenzo Charles was killed in a bus accident. Charles, as everyone remembers, caught an air ball and dunked it as time expired in the 1983 national championship game to give the Wolfpack a shocking upset of heavyweight Houston.
In honor of Charles, let’s take a look at the biggest shots—from close range, just like his bucket—since the NCAA Tournament expanded to 64 teams:
— Ryan Fagan
