all the other threads were dead, but you know the story. after a disappointing 17-10 regular season 4th place finish, not only did the wolfpack pull off a miracle finish to beat a very tough virginia team in the acc tournament, but they beat all the odds and pulled off arguably one of the biggest upsets in ncaa tournament history against the highly touted phi slamma jamma after beating the same virginia team by one point in the elite 8.

i found the 1983 nc state vs. pepperdine double overtime game in the first round and thought i'd share

part 1:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQQDbGbF5dk
part 2:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QakRcKSx6kQ
part 3:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ure4FNEYqI
part 4:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmeJ_gRePqU
part 5:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wn4A5AO31RA
part 6:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xFniQkoShM
part 7:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBfjd8zeR6Y
part 8:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqSBMSGfvuc
part 9:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqXT5VJ_IgA
part 10:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1LsBbfVSHg
part 11:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2ERHD_YOZs


nothing is impossible. "don't give up, don't ever give up."

[Edited on March 6, 2009 at 1:48 AM. Reason : v]

3/6/2009 1:47:12 AM

i'm pretty sure the quote is 'don't quit, don't ever quit'.

3/6/2009 1:47:39 AM

thanks emmitt

3/6/2009 1:48:35 AM

here's the full espn classic broadcast of the championship game

http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XNTgxMjI4ODA=.html

plz2embed

3/6/2009 2:06:56 AM

here's the WRAL special that I uploaded when it came out for you guys

http://www.veoh.com/search/videos/q/miracle+of+the+cardiac+pack#watch%3Dv6357881b3dzhmDK

3/6/2009 2:30:16 AM

Man watching that is so awesome. Despite all the criticism sid gets as our coach, it makes me feel better after watching that to know that our coach is someone who was a part of something so special. It seems like that should be all he needs to motivate players to achieve and win.

3/6/2009 3:27:13 AM

i didn't realize how ugly that pepperdine game was until watching it. we had so many comebacks in that game. it was cool to see sid doing a little coaching himself after he fouled out in the 1st overtime. here's a nice write up taking about the pepperdine game specifically.

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"The Wolfpack trailed by six with 24 seconds left in overtime and the Waves were at the free throw line when Harrick's dreams were crushed. Pepperdine had 89-percent free-throw shooters missing foul shots, missing one-and-one," In ensuing years, Harrick said he reminded Valvano every chance he got that Pepperdine was responsible for turning Valvano into a legend. Jim Valvano told anyone who would listen that N.C. State's opening-round game against Pepperdine would not be easy. What he failed to mention, however, was just how ugly this might be. The ACC champion and sixth-seeded Wolfpack needed double-overtime for a 69-67 victory over the pesky, 11th-seeded Waves, which gave up a seemingly insurmountable lead in the first overtime. Just as the Wolfpack couldn't hit field-goal attempts in the first half, the Waves couldn't hit free throws in overtime, and their misfires at the line were a life-saver for Valvano and his team in the sparsely filled Gill Coliseum on the campus of Oregon State. In the first overtime, the Waves were celebrating a six-point lead with less than a minute to play and possession of the ball. In the second overtime, they jumped out to an early three-point lead, only to see the Wolfpack pull away with superior shooting from the line. By the time the buzzer sounded, the Wolfpack had completed its fourth consecutive last-second or overtime victory, and the Waves sat shell-shocked at their misfortunes. "I think you need to win a game like this if you expect to go far in the tournament," Valvano said. "You need a little luck if you want to go a long way." The last thing the coach and his charges were thinking in the waning moments of regulation, the first overtime and the second overtime were advancing to Sunday's second-round game against Nevada-Las Vegas. They were simply trying to survive, much of that time with senior point guard Sidney Lowe on the bench after he committed his fifth foul. Lowe went from coach-on-the-floor to another guy hoping on the bench after a desperation reach-in foul with less than a minute remaining in the first overtime, his brilliant career seemingly over. That left the Wolfpack's fate in the hands of its other senior guard, Dereck Whittenburg, who for the second consecutive Saturday (given the late-night finish of the contest) excelled in overtime. Whittenburg hit eight of 10 free throw attempts in the second extra period, similar to his clutch performance last week against North Carolina in the second round of the ACC Tournament, when he scored 11 of his 15 points after regulation."

and then an article from espn 20 years later with cozell mcqueen talkin about signing an autograph for ric flair, lol http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/ncaatourney03/story?id=1525209


thanks for that video WolfAce. i didn't get to see that when it came on.

3/6/2009 4:11:34 AM

living in the past, I'm proud of what NCSU accomplished; but god damn its been too long.

We are a SHADOW of what we once were, no we're just a laughingstock...

3/6/2009 4:36:02 AM

living in the past or not, that team had a good message that we can all live by, even for non-state fans

that wral special is a good one

3/6/2009 5:10:06 AM

while i am certainly proud of our history and accomplishments, i'm flat out sick of remembering 1983 and all that. yea its awesome, but most of the people on this board were not even born. lets get a championship in our generation so that 25 years later i can remember somethign i was alive for.

and i disagree with ^^ about us being a laughing stock. we have the ability to beat any team on any given night and that does not qualify as a "laughing stock"

3/6/2009 8:31:16 AM

Thanks for the vids. It would be nice to have some full length game torrents.

3/6/2009 9:40:24 AM

Great work WolfAce. Enjoying this video.

3/6/2009 10:13:34 AM

I remember.

3/6/2009 11:09:24 AM

I've always thought the 2 shot after ten foul rule was lame. Bring back the one and one no matter the total number of fouls.

3/6/2009 11:38:02 AM

3/6/2009 12:47:52 PM

You know what else is great about this game. Not hearing "oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo"

3/6/2009 1:15:41 PM

You know, Ive always thought someone out there had all of the tourney games from 1983...seems like they should find their way to the internet somehow (although not on YouTube...please not on YouTube).

3/6/2009 2:21:21 PM

^yeah, i was looking for some more on google video, but all i could find was that espn classic tribute on that japanese host that takes so damn long to load.

if anybody does find some torrents or anything else please share. and this doesn't have to be all about the 83 team, if anybody has some good historical material (like maybe marko or Brass Monkey) please share that as well.

i think somebody seriously needs to make a movie about that 1983 team though. who would you choose to play jimmy v?

3/6/2009 3:41:07 PM

al pacino has the look and the exuberance. but he's mailed in every performance he's given in the past ten years.

3/6/2009 3:46:14 PM

and Al's too old now to really look the part

3/6/2009 3:58:57 PM

Joe Pesci as My Cousin Vinny as Jim Valvano

3/6/2009 4:05:00 PM

I hate to say it...but maybe Andy Garcia.

3/6/2009 4:09:11 PM

Keenan thompson for '83 Lowe

and Carl Winslow for '09 Lowe

3/6/2009 4:17:23 PM

they'd probably get some up-and-comer to play the role of jimmy v. all the dynamic italian actors that would fit the part like pacino and garcia are way too old now.

i'm tryin to see what i can do to make this happen. i know a few folks i can talk to that are in the film industry i could possibly get the idea rolling with them. if anybody else has some connects, start putting the bug in their ear. to me, this could potentially be better than all those movies like glory road, remember the titans, facing the giants and dare i say hoosiers. sometimes we forget how good of a story it is because it's been a part of us for so long.

thurl bailey is a motivational speaker now because of this team.



[Edited on March 6, 2009 at 4:43 PM. Reason : i]

3/6/2009 4:35:45 PM

I agree that we need to stop living in the past, but at least we have a past. No one can take that away from us. We can rise to the top again, we just need to believe that we can beat the UNC/DUKE Empires once again. Use the force Lowe.

3/6/2009 4:39:37 PM

The really sad part is that most of us here can't even remember 1983


If it was '93, then yeah it would still be one of our fondest child memories ( at least the ones here who grew up rooting for State before they came here )

but 1983 ? Thats like a fairy tale...might as well by 1953

3/6/2009 4:42:43 PM

the point is, this is bigger than nc state

3/6/2009 4:44:02 PM

disney sports movie!

3/6/2009 4:45:47 PM

I just live through my parents talking about it (staying up into the wee hours of the night watching the games because the first ones were all on the West Coast and broadcast late at night). Them talking about hearing people yelling up and down the street from inside their dens as every game went down to the last second.

Was also nice to hear the grandparents talk about going to the '74 Final Four.

I'm all like..."Well...I went to Columbus and saw us get beat by OSU in triple OT, then went to Tallahassee the same year saw us get beat in OT....and I also saw us beat a shitty Notre Dame in a bowl game."

That's all I got...

3/6/2009 4:46:50 PM

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"disney sports movie!"

in all seriousness, why not?

hearing thurl talk about the woman who was talking about her husband being in a coma and having to choose whether or not to pull the plug or not, but chose to hold on because she saw something in every game state was playing really means something. i think we tend to forget how many people (many who weren't even sports fans) were touched by this team's drive to never give up hope. and who wouldn't like the exposure this would give us?

3/6/2009 4:59:37 PM

When I was in school in the 90's, they did some sort of movie about Valvano or something. I don't remember the details, but I remember my neighbor went to Reynold's to be an extra. There was a crowd shot in the movie where they took a small section of a crowd and duplicated it many times to look like a lot of people.

3/6/2009 5:15:31 PM

this thread is easily the most uplifting and depressing thing on all of tdub.

3/6/2009 5:19:16 PM

Quote :

"Nothing happens unless first we dream"

3/6/2009 5:23:07 PM

^^^Maybe this one: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117166/

3/6/2009 7:17:31 PM

that ~20 min ESPN Classic vid was a pretty good watch.

3/6/2009 7:18:58 PM

Im old. I remember 1983. That was a looooooooooooooong time ago.

3/7/2009 9:58:23 AM

i watched all 11 segments of that pepperdine game last night. wish i could find the others, it was fun to watch.

3/7/2009 10:16:40 AM

here's some post game interviews after the georgia game in the final four if anybody hasn't seen it yet

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXitjnssEPw

3/7/2009 1:23:16 PM

i've always wondered why this hasn't been made into a movie yet

3/7/2009 3:40:39 PM

its 2009, not 1983

3/7/2009 4:41:01 PM

a few years ago on espn classic they played the acct game v. UNC. I knew the outcome but i was nervously thinking, "how the hell are we gonna win this?" hahaha

3/10/2009 9:16:04 AM

^^ yeppp, lets fix the present

3/10/2009 9:28:38 AM

^^^ agree

3/10/2009 9:47:22 AM

^We agree on something. It is, in fact, 2009.

3/10/2009 10:10:41 AM

yes, it is, in fact, 2009.

i see what you guys are going for there, but the thread is about remembering 1983, not forgetting about the present. this is not a thread for giving up, but rather for remembering our crazy run in the acct and ncaat.

there are enough threads here for complaining, don't ruin this one.

3/10/2009 10:17:23 AM

I have the 1983 game in its entirety (with the exception of the starting lineups being introduced) on DVD.

I need to get the DVD that has the 1974 Semis and Final.

3/10/2009 10:29:51 AM

i bet if we had even won a championship 5 years ago, people on here would still complain. what's the point in winning a championship if it's not going to be worth anything to us years later. we have more history than most schools can even dream of, let's celebrate it. you can't know where you're going if you don't know where you've been.

by the way, 1 of the main reasons the players say they came to play here is because of our tradition & history
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nlnJEPHRHA

[Edited on March 10, 2009 at 2:34 PM. Reason : packtalk]

3/10/2009 2:26:06 PM

I will be burning a copy of the 1983 Championship game for d7freestyler. If you want a copy make a request. I will give them out at Ruckus when I go up to Raleigh in the future.

3/10/2009 6:22:57 PM

Bullet, I would really appreciate if you would quit trolling me. Thanks a lot.

3/10/2009 6:28:52 PM

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"its 2009, not 1983"

3/10/2009 7:45:15 PM