1989 NCAA Sweet Sixteen Michigan vs North Carolina

[@lloydkline6946]

One of my favorite Michigan basketball teams

[@bradlewis6514]

That was my junior yr in high school and I remember this game well; Dean Smith said what can u do when a man is hitting shots from outside the galaxy! There's always talk of guys being in a zone, usually for one game here and there! Well Glen Rice was firmly entrenched in a zone and never exited it during that March run! He was locked in all six games! A matchup nightmare!

[@schoolcraft2850]

Great game...I was a high school senior and watch this game on a blk and white tv in my parents kitchen !!!

[@danielking9252]

Grew in Detroit 89 was my junior year in high school!! I remember the days when MR. Basketball all ways stayed in state to play college basketball not all but most! Glen Rice MR. Basketball 1985 put on a display!!!

[@bradlewis6514]

Daniel, I'm right there with ya! U and I are the same age (Class of 1990)! I still to this day, and I've been keeping up with the tournament since third grade ('81), have yet to see Glen Rice's 1989 March Madness shooting exhibition replicated! And no one has really even come that close! Maybe a couple games by some guys, but not all six! He was flat out ridiculous

[@bradlewis6514]

And of course this was made even better by the fact he assisted in taking out the despised Tar Holes! Doesn't ever matter who wins when it's at Carolina's expense!

[@shanetrimble9265]

​@@bradlewis6514 class of 1991 here. I can watch these games on YT all day every day.

[@nathankaiser3245]

Lebo and Rice wow!!! One of the most entertaining games of a great tournament in 89. Everyone knew Michigan was for real after this game.

[@cardphins68]

Glen Rice had that jump shot pumping like a Boxer hitting a Speed Bag. Talk about locked in!

[@broaddusmarines]

Man that Michigan team was LOADED!!!! I counted five players on that team that ended up in the League.

[@bradlewis6514]

It was in that tournament that they finally came together and played at their level of expectation! They had been a first weekend exit three of the previous four years!

[@andyraphael]

I remember running home from school to watch the first two days of the tournament college basketball was so intense so amazing you actually knew guys name unlike today because of this one and done crap. Thank you NBA for ruining college basketball.

[@ssimmonsbsmi]

This is the game the got M rolling in the tournament that year...

[@demetriuslester]

FLINT TOWN...STAND UP! HOMETOWN HERO G. RICE #41 #FLINTSTONE

[@SchiltShots]

!!

[@danielking9252]

Flint always had ballers!

[@javontaylor46]

Yes we do flint baby

[@lousanto1054]

Fire comes from a flint...that is exactly what Glen Rice was...FIRE from a Flint 🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@michaelangelo9024]

This should've been the Final game on Monday night for the Title.

[@bradlewis6514]

Michigan-Illinois should have been the championship game! Illinois '89 one of my favorite college basketball teams and I firmly believed they were the best team in the tournament! Had the Illini beaten Michigan, I have no doubt they'd have beaten Seton Hall! '89 Illinois one of the 10 best to not win the national championship all-time

[@charlesmurphy3222]

In the late 1980's, the State of Michigan was absolutely loaded with talent. It was all over the NCAA map. Derrick Coleman (Syracuse) Roy Marble (Iowa) B.J. Armstrong (Iowa) Willie Burton (Minnesota) Dan Majerle (Central Michigan) Doug Smith (Missouri) Grant Long (Eastern Michigan) Anderson Hunt (UNLV) Steve Smith (Michigan State) Victor Alexander (Iowa State) Steve Hondred (Calvin College /Division III National Player of the Year/ D-3 player of the Decade.) Stud. With the exception of Rumeal Robinson and Sean Higgins, these were all Michigan kids. (Rice, Vaught, Mills, Griffin, Hughes, Calip.)

[@joe3times503]

Im from Romulus and got to see Mills regularly. Great time in HS hoops in MI

[@charlesmurphy3222]

@@joe3times503 Out of all those names (and they'll tell you), Steve Hondred from Calvin had game. Was a regular at St. Cecilia's.

[@joe3times503]

Id add in Demetrius Gore at Pitt and Willie Burton at Minn. Ive been to a Hope-Calvin game. Those guys can play

[@BAYAREA-kd1ig]

Dear Michigan, go back to wearing these Uniforms please.

[@rawn4203]

Though this was considereed an "upset" at the time, on this nite there were other games that would be considered the same - Seton hall over Indiana (mild upset) and UVA over Okla and UNLV over AZ (Both MAJOR upsets, half of the previous years final 4 going down).

[@BAYAREA-kd1ig]

This was such a fun night of basketball for a impressionable 12 year old.

[@bradlewis6514]

Moreso in the case of Virginia beating Oklahoma with Stacey King, Mookie Blaylock and Terrence Mullins back from their '88 national runner-up squad! UNLV '89 had talent that could compete (Johnson, Augmon, Hunt, Anthony were already a solid nucleus) while Virginia was a major overachieve!

[@rawn4203]

@@bradlewis6514 Tru but you made on big error - Larry Johnson would not join UNLV until the next (1989-90) season. This UNLV team did have those other players but were a pretty poor shooting team overall. But yeah Id agree UVA over OU was the bigger upset, though some forget that OU barely won their opening game over 16 seed East Tennesse State by ONE point - maybe a sign of things to come. AZ on the other hand blew thru their first 2 games winning them by an average of 30 points.

[@phnelson033]

Back when teams would ave 90+ ppg -- with a 45 sec clock.

[@xiangyunmeng7346]

man michigan were crazy

[@SchiltShots]

Yes they werr

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[@reginaldperson9848]

Boo Yah!!!!!!! 35:11

[@SchiltShots]

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[@Andrew_P777]

Glen Rice looking like Nate Dogg

[@Xx-po1fu]

Glen Robinson was the best 3 pt shooter in the tournament.

[@Robespierre7]

Glen Rice

[@bradlewis6514]

Five years later he (Big Dogg) did have a rather productive regional! 44 against Kansas, but they were then eliminated in the Elite 8 by Grant Hill and Duke

[@SchiltShots]

Yep. You guys might like my new video about him

[@damienkirksey7026]

Jr Reid was the biggest appointment

[@americanpatriot7233]

jr reid was a thug.he was always throwing elbows at players heads.i seen him do that on 3 other occasions and he did it in this game too.dirty player.

[@Belburg]

As far as career, he was. But remember, he injured his foot while playing for the Olympics, that probably threw him off his stride. Plus he may have been a bit immature at this time. But he kicked ass in this game.

[@bigdawg7262]

@@americanpatriot7233 Bullshit! Reid was always taking cheap shots from opposing players and never backed down. I'm a Duke fan and have no love for NC, but watched Reid's entire career in the ACC and most teams had no one that could handle him, so they resorted to cheap shit like Rice did in this game.

[@americanpatriot7233]

@@bigdawg7262 brickey never was a cheap shot artist like reid was, he elbowed brickey in the head and got caught in the 89 duke unc game at unc,so you're wrong, and you're no duke fan to be lying like this