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THE 1957 CHAMPIONSHIP MARKED A WATERSHED year for the NCAA College Basketball and was, indisputably, one of the two or three most important Tournaments of the North Carolina Tar Heels Men Basketball. It was not just that North Carolina won in perhaps the most exciting final before or since-in triple overtime; North Carolina also won its semifinal in triple overtime of the NCAA College Basketball. North Carolina finished undefeated and became the first team from the old Confederacy to take the title. In a sense, that was the last step in making NCAA college basketball truly national, for before that champions had come from the East, West, Midwest, and Southwest. Perhaps even more significant was where the personnel came from. Carolina, an essentially regional university in a Protestant state, fielded a team of Irish Catholic Yankees land a Jew), while the team it beat in the final, Kansas, featured a black sophomore seven-footer from Philadelphia, the fabled Wilt Chamberlain and the North Carolina Tar Heels Men Basketball. The NCAA College basketball was never the same again. In point of fact, though, the 1957 North Carolina Tar Heels Men Basketball championship did not have the immediate effect all of the foregoing would suggest for the massive North Carolina Tar Heels Men Basketball Tickets selling. For purposes of comparison on the North Carolina Tar Heels Men Basketball, recall that about a year and a half later the National Football League finally went on the map with a similar equivalent showcase the overtime the NCAA College Basketball championship between the Baltimore Colts and the New York Giants. for this. In 1957, even though everyone in college basketball recognized that the NCAA College Basketball Tournament had replaced the NIT as the official championship on the North Carolina Tar Heels Men Basketball Teams, the parochial New York Press-and its first cousin, the National Pressin New York-still looked down on the NCAA college Basketball as a bush-town rival imitation. Even the presence of Chamberlain, who, it is safe to say, was the most ballyhooed athlete ever to enter college, wasn't enough to attract genuine national television coverage on the North Carolina Tar Heels Men Basketball Team.

A few years ago, in searching for photographs to go with an article on the game which attracted millions to go buy North Carolina Tar Heels Men Basketball Tickets, Sports Illustrated discovered, to its amazement, no more than three or four photographers on the floor. Sports Illustrated itself gave the game exactly one page and no photograph-buried deep in the magazine back where there used to be bridge and food articles. Jerry Tax, who covered basketball for the magazine then, managed to get the article in only by pleading that it was, after all, three overtimes, Wilt the Stilt had been upset.and the kids who wore in the North Carolina Tar Heels Men Basketball blue all came from New York.Ironically, even though almost nobody saw the gamethere was, evidently, only one television feed, back to North Carolina-the Kansas loss appears to be what is responsible for Chamberlain being tagged with a loser labe Chamberlain himself was convinced that was so. But in fact he played a terrific game, and Carolina had to be almost picture-perfect to win by a point. In fact, in the last five seconds, Carolina botched defense on Chamberlain, and thF teammate passing the ball to Chamberlain botched the pass Chamberlain was the only one who did it right, but he didn ' get the ball, and he got forever jacketed as a loser. Actually, Carolina had no business even being in the final. Chamberlain had scored 32 to lead Kansas past San Francisco, 80-56, in its semi, but the only reason th~ Tar Heels got past Michigan State was because Bob Cunningham, the fifth man and a defensive specialist, scored a career-high 21 when the others went cold.Michigan State led, 64-62, and had Jumpin' Johnny GrFon the free throw line with six seconds left in the first overtime. But Green missed, and Pete Brennan took the rebound, dribbled up the court, and fired up a 20-footer the buzzer to stay alive. As Chamberlain told Tommy Kearns, the Carolina playmaker, years later after the old rivals became best friends, "Tommy, you were blessed."Frank McGuire, the Tar Heels coach, sent Kearns to jump against Chamberlain at the tip-off. He wanted to the giant; Kearns was the smallest Tar Heel, short of six feet. Chamberlain won theIn the first overtime, each team scored one basket. In the second, nobody scored at all.The Tar Heels especially were exhausted, for their bench was thin, their high scorer was out of the game, and they were entering their sixth overtime-110 minutes of action-in barely 24 hours.

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