One word: Awesome.
Consider this your break from the tediousness of reading internet tea leaves about what the NCAA is going to do to UNC football.
For those of us who remember this game, this probably rates as one of our top five favorite regular season games. In fact George Lynch’s steal and dunk to give UNC the lead was included in UNC’s 100 years of Tar Heel basketball video shown last September at the Pro Alumni Game. For me it is right there with the 2005 UNC-Duke game in Chapel Hill. That game was a watershed moment signaling that UNC was indeed back. This game in 1993 was simply epic.
The game is broken into four parts which can be found here. I am only posting the fourth part covering the final ten minutes of the game which is the best part. It picks up around the point UNC goes down 73-54. What followed was a 28-4 run by UNC to close out the game and give the Heels an 82-77 win. Also, given the recent news about Dean Smith this is a nice moment to relive since this comeback was classic Dean Smith basketball. Heck, they even go Four Corners at one point once they got the lead back. I still remember the timeout Dean Smith called with around 10 minutes left(not shown in video) and at that point my late father said: “Here we go, UNC is going try and comeback now.” Good call Daddy.
One other note: As epic as this was, it clearly took a lot out of the Heels. The very next game UNC went to Winston-Salem and got the ever living crap beat out of them by Wake Forest then went to Duke four days later and lost by 13. Those two losses would be the last in the regular season with the ACC title game loss to Georgia Tech the only remaining blemish as UNC went on to win the national championship.
Had wrong link in the video embed. It has been fixed now.
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I watched the second half alone. My wife went to bed, all my buddies left at the half and even my dog went upstairs.
I have to say that was one of the best halves of Carolina BB that I have seen.
Although the dook game 73′-74′ season, 8 points in 17 seconds as I sat with my dookie neighbor and watched, was darn good.
THF, Thank you
One of my favorite comebacks. I think my fav was the Calabria put back while falling down in the lane. I think it was also against FS. Could be wrong.
I was 10 years old and went to this game with my dad. The first half was so bad that I actually thought that we might leave at halftime. Needless to say, I’m glad we stayed. That game is without a doubt the most memorable game that I have ever had the pleasure of attending. The Dean Dome was rocking that evening.
Fantastic basketball and nice quality video and audio. The DES was really loud right after that second three and from then on deafening. I’ve only heard it at stun levels when we cam back against Clemson and that was not at full volume as so many people had left and during a few Duke games. Fantastic, thank you THF.
Good times! That was my freshmen year. I sitting in the section directly behind the backboard… until the game ended – then I was down on the court with about 10,000 other students. Thanks for posting that!
2 of my all time fav heels on that squad . Pure shooting Donald, and the Warrior George Lynch.
Loved Donald but all time great HEEL shooter is Big Game (Sorry James) Wayne.
One of my favorite comebacks — I was a junior at the time and couldn’t make the game, so I had to listen to Woody & Mick in the dorm as the game was on ESPN and there was no cable in the dorms then.
This was the first FSU-UNC game in Chapel Hill since the infamous Sam Cassell “wine-and-cheese crowd” quote. At the half, with the Noles up big, he’s strutting big time on the way to the locker room in a very quiet Smith Center.
However, toward the end of the game, after the comeback, Lynch’s steal and dunk, and right after Donald gets fouled and sent to the line, with the Heels up 3 and the crowd going wild for several seconds on the radio, Mick makes one of my favorite all-time quotes in broadcasting:
“I’d like a rose (wine), and maybe some cheddar.”
And after the final horn, says Woody:
“Miracles don’t just happen in Chapel Hill…they USUALLY happen.”
Classic.
man, what an awesome game.
in just 10 minutes of that game there were more carolina guys diving on the floor, more crisp passes and cutting, more clutch shooting, more…everything positive, than all last year.
This was a great game. One of the best in a national championship season. Lynch, Phelps, Williams. It doesn’t get any better than this! I remember watching it on TV and almost turning it off.
I was a spohmore in high school during that game. Things got so bad in the first half that I stopped watching the game with my dad and started working on a history paper due in a month. After I got fed up with researching the Confederate presidency of Jefferson Davis, I turned the game on with about 10:00 left. I’m glad I did.
Another favorite memory about this game was that with about 7:00 left, my dad tells me “if Carolina comes back to win this, I’ll let you have a beer.” So it was the first time I ever tasted a beer thanks to the comeback, although it was a Pabst Blue Ribbon, so can’t really say I won in that regard. =)