We’re a week away from Selection Sunday, so why not callback one of the most fantastic finishes in NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament history?
It was a slam dunk that led to this iconic photo of North Carolina State Wolfpack head coach, Jim Valvano, and Lorenzo Charles (to Valvano’s left).
Charles famously dunked an errant, desperation shot by Dereck Whittenburg just before the buzzer to allow the sixth-seeded Wolfpack the, 54-52, upset win over the heavily favored University of Houston (led by Clyde Drexler and Akeem [now Hakeem] Olajuwon)
Sadly, both principal subjects in this photo were gone too soon.
Valvano following a bout with cancer barely 10 years after this shining moment and Charles in 2011, as the driver of an empty motor coach that was in a single-vehicle accident.
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