Greatest game of my childhood. The people of Louisville had a parade after and my mother and I rode down Broadway real slow as people rode on top of their cars and honked their horns

Great game. A classic

The "Iceman"...what a game! I was a big time UK fan until this game. U of L grabbed my heart in this game and I have been true Red since then...Go Cards!

Coach Crum. Never too high or low. Great coach!

I honestly told my daddy that Jim masters shouldn't have hit that shot because now they must be punished! I was a huge wrestling fan at that time too. Lol

this game still sends chills down my back

THIS is the Dream Game!! Never gets old. Go CArds!!!

When Louisville won this game in 1983, they should have left that taste in Kentucky's mouth and refused the series. That would have stuck in the crawl of UK fans for eternity.

I was there and it was great!!!!!!!!!!!!! What people don't realize is the fact that UofL has 4 NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS and uk ONLY HAS 5 NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS. The NCAA title was not considered a NATIONAL TITLE the first 2 times that uk won them. REAL college basketball historian know that!

What a game. WOW! Joe B and Denney. Just love reliving the memories.

Thank you so much for putting this back on youtube!

No matter what uk fans want to proclaim, they will never know nor understand the magic in Cardinal Country or the class and poise of the Cardinal nor the fans!!!!!Also, No matter how many win's,Championships, or final 4's Ky has, they will always have that "bad taste" in their widdle mouth's!....For many years the world wondered who was the best, UofK or Uofl and in 1983 the world found out....... It was......The University of Louisville!........Enough said!

This is the best and greatest video in the history of the internet.

Best Louisville team NOT to win a championship, but I will always remember beating UK in the 'Original' Dream Game. Ohhh.....the satisfaction; the memories.

Milt Wagner....I loved that man. lol

@kingadalou -shot clock was expirimental form the 1982-83 through the 1984-85 seasons Meaning it was used for the regular season but not the NCAA tournament. Full use came in 1985-86 for all games including the NCAA tournament. The tree point shot became used full time in 1986-87

Dreams do come True!

One of the greatest moments in CBB right here.

It's sometimes nice to watch games without a shot clock, the decisions whether or not to play against a zone, to push pace or not, etc, in other words, the chess match. Not saying I want no clock today, but I wish they would have left it at 35 seconds, giving the less talented teams a chance to play at a different pace. The 30 second clock has homogenized the game.

I was 14 and watched this game. Still a UofL fan! GO CARDS!!

did they not have a shot clock?

@duvalia yeah. Buddy!

That 1983 LOUISVILLE might have not won the championship, but however they might have won something more important they beat KENTUCKY to advance to the final four and restart a great rivalry. Not many fouls in the overtime, what a lot of dunks in this overtime. This was kharma for JOE B. HALL for being a yellow of a man by not playing louisville.

Louisville needs to do a throwback game with THESE jerseys.

@jcaudill6921 what about when KY lost Middle Tennessee???

that is and will be the best game ever between the 2 schools.

I was there and it was great!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What a win!

Last year's team couldn't hold a candle to 83's version of Louisville Cardinals. This team had NO WEAKNESSES. Far more athletic than 2008-09' squad; had one of best guard tandems in entire country (Milt Wagner & Lancaster Gordon); formidable frontcourt in the McCray Bros. & Charles Jones. It took one of the best, most athletic teams in the 20th century (Houston Cougars) to prevent them from winning it all.

I think last year was.

When Denny Crum puts the clean up crew in its a done deal

Great game.

The ville was just better back in the day.

HISTORY SHALL REPEAT ITSELF THIS SATURDAY.

Best overtime game ever

Now I remember why I didn't like billy packer this game

Go cards #L1C4

there is a category in which ul wins ul is the only team in college basketball to win all three major titles nit ncaa naib and in a few years football

Ahhhh.... oh how I miss those days of the VCR. NOT.

Happy 30th anniversary!

Lancaster, love to have him again

I was there. 12 buck ticket.

I'll always believe that was our greatest team. The only problem was the force called Houston that got in the way. You'll never find a regional final with this kind of rivalry again. I still can't believe it took an NCAA tournament matchup for Kentucky to play us.

Joe Hall should have inserted another ball handler when UofL went to the press in overtime. He should have had Beal, Minnifield, and Master as the ball handlers. Beal, Minnifield, Master, Hord, and Walker should have been the 5 for Kentucky. Louisville just beat them down the court. Joe Hall made a lot of personel mistakes and failed to reconize what Crum was doing before the game got out of hand.

Man I wasn't alive then but omg if I was I would have went f*ckin crazy!! Whata finish!!! GO CARDS!!!!!

crum might have been the second greatest coach of all time, his mentor of course being #1, imo, oh by the way, how good was Houston? They wore this Louisville team to a frazzle and won going away with 13 dunks, I don’t give a damn about the next game

@toddky32 that is why your world is called make believe and UofL won the NAIB and NIT and when UofL won them they were bigger than the NCAA tourny so that would make 4 titles for UofL

That New York connection. Wade Houston used to go to New York and reciut hard.

I saw the classic Cardinal Bird like 3 or 4 times. GO CARDS!

Louisville dominance that I'd love to see this year, even if it's in Rupp Arena.

@OndrausCissell Interesting.

And they ask why we call Denny Crum cool hand Luke

"Louisville is blowing them away right now!"

05:46 Ashton Kutcher?

Joe B. Hall commits coaching malpractice in not using his time out until it was way way way way waaaaaaaay too late.

Louisville needs to throwback to these jerseys with the red-outlined black lettering.

Justin Bowen I uploaded the first round 2007 NCAA tournament game Louisville vs Stanford. Lopez twins

Those kitty cats wish that their crowd could be this loud!!!

Would have been interesting to see how Kentucky would have matched up with Phi Slamma Jamma had they pulled this game out.

Wasn't this the game that Kentucky's governor at the time, John Y. Brown Jr., had a suit made that was half blue, half red since he wouldn't take sides? BTW, I was born in Louisville, and I love both teams but my heart will always bleed blue #BBN

that was a thrashing

milt wagner frm cmd

Wtg Cards. Blew then kitty kats out of the gym

If this game was played today. They would have called a bunch more fouls.

Man! I forgot how bad the Cardinal Birds costume looked back then...sure glad they changed that, but I think there was a female doing the bird at this time and was too small for the suit.

When Louisville could actually beaat UK … Now it’s just a slaughter house GO CATS

You do realize that Louisville is part of Kentucky too right?

That is the worst ball handling I have ever seen. There were a couple of passes that were just thrown directly to a Louisville player without a deflection or another Kentucky player close.

20,908 views on March 24. My guess is this will be increasing very, very soon. Welcome Kentuckians. Welcome.

08:34 ;)

Payback was pretty sweet. GO BIG BLUE!

@jcaudill6921 at least we have a decade to claim.....lmao.....when will the cats ever have one?????lmao...until then, sorry bout ya luck.........

@OndrausCissell What are you smoking hook me up ? besides 80 & 86 what years did Louisville win the title. In my make believe world Kentucky has won 30 championships in a row GO CATS !!!!!!!!!!

Charles Jones from scuba miss iceman Wagner rodney and scooter macry