With a final score of 63-62 in the 1982 national championship game, college basketball was lower-scoring than it is today but just four years earlier, Kentucky beat Duke by the score of 94-88 and ...

North Carolina fans fill the seats to watch the Tar Heels practice for the NCAA East Regional basketball tournament Wednesday, March 14, 2007, in Winston-Salem, N.C. North Carolina will play ...

FILE - Michael Jordan fires the game-winning shot in the final seconds against Georgetown in the championship game of the NCAA tournament in New Orleans on March 29, 1982. Jordan has made nearly ...

Whether it was Michael Jordan's game-winning shot or James Worthy's game-sealing steal, the 1982 North Carolina Tar Heels went on a magical run to win the national championship over Georgetown.

The 1981-82 North Carolina basketball team won Dean Smith his first ring and brought Chapel Hill its first National Championship trophy in 25 years. The talented roster featured the likes of ...

UPDATED: July 15, 2021 at 6:29 a.m. Editor’s note: A panel of Associated Press sports writers voted in March 2020 on the top 10 men’s basketball games in the history of the NCAA Tournament.

As Newman pointed out, the 1982 women’s basketball team captured the last national championship that Rutgers has won — in any sport. “In a lot of ways, it's one chapter ending,” he said.

The first of many game winners for MJ was also the biggest shot of the 1982 NCAA tournament. This article, written by Issue Editor Tim Baker, was excerpted from Newsweek's Special Edition: Jordan ...