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ESPN Classic will air the 1983 national championship game between North Carolina State and Houston from 6 p.m. – 8 p.m. ET on Friday, April 4. At 8 p.m., ESPN Classic will present a half hour original documentary “ESPN Classic Remembers: NC State Upsets Houston”, which will chronicle the 1983 Wolfpack season. The documentary will re-air at 12:30 a.m. ET on Saturday.

ESPN’s Heather Dinich profiles the oft-forgotten reserve freshman, Ernie Myers, who played only a single minute in that 1983 Championship game but was instrumental in the Pack’s run towards the tournament, filling in for the injured Dereck Whittenburg, who had missed 14 games with a fractured foot.

That one second or that one minute, you can affect the game…If the coach puts you in there for 30 seconds, give it the hardest 30 seconds you ever gave in your life.”

That’s the attitude we were missing this season — that exact attitude we had in our 2007 ACC Tournament run but lost somewhere in between. As for right now, nostalgia is all we have.

28 Responses to A Little Nostalgia

Rick 04/04/2008 at 7:33 AM #

“The past is the only thing 20 years of inept leadership at NC State canâ€™t take away from us.”

This is sadly the truth. I cannot bear to watch when we were great because our athletic department has lead us to shambles.
redfred2 04/05/2008 at 12:14 PM #

Rick, I’m the same, except I love to watch anything that’s available about the Wolfpack’s past. OTOH, watching anything about our present, that’s what really turns my stomach.
redfred2 04/06/2008 at 9:32 PM #

Texpack, I wasn’t too much older than yourself in 74, but that entire season was pressure packed. Even going back to 73 when the team was obviously special and playing with a chip on it’s shoulder because of the NCAA sanctions. The excitement and tension just kept building and building, but the team just kept on winning and winning. They lost ONE game in two entire regular seasons, and a NCAA tournament appearance.

If it’s true that Dean Smith was the mastermind who got the NCAA interested in investigating NCSU back then, then that was his lowest point, and also his finest hour at the same time, as the HC of the heels. He effectively hurt his #1 arch rival much more than any one of his basketball teams could have ever done out on the BB court, and he took no flak for it at all.