Louisville vs UCLA 1980 NCAA Championship (FULL GAME)

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Justin Bowen

11 жыл бұрын

Louisville wins its first National Championship in 1980.

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@michelbriere7362 6 жыл бұрын

Thank you. I was at the game, and this is the first time I've seen it since. Amazing that neither team was ever ahead by more than five points. Great memories--I truly appreciate you making this available.

@seanbush5056 2 жыл бұрын

That's really a remarkable stat...there was never more than a 5 point lead. Talk about a well contested game.

@markbowron8246 4 ай бұрын

4 points or less for 98% of the game. The 3-point play that killed UCLA's 5-point lead packed a major psychological punch that shifted the momentum in Louisville's direction for the rest of the game.

@ncisducky4ever 11 жыл бұрын

I FINALLY GET TO SEE THIS YAYYYY!!!! I was living in West Berlin at the time and was only able to hear the game and because of the huge time difference, my parents let me stay up and listen to the game and then let me stay home from school because the game ended nearly 2 am. Thank you a million times over for posting this :) GO CARDS!!!!

@bradleybourdette528 2 жыл бұрын

Denny Crum the most underrated coach in college basketball history!

@reggieellis7915 4 жыл бұрын

One of the players on Louisville is my history teacher

@brianarbenz7206 Жыл бұрын

Who? Tony Branch, perchance?

@vonskull 10 жыл бұрын

Ah Kenny Loggins with the end theme ... so much better than CBS and their crappy One Shining Moment.

@Mr.56Goldtop 5 жыл бұрын

Every time I hear that song I think of that tournament.

@egojames007 3 жыл бұрын

I thought of that song too!!! oh my gosh. I thought I was the only person who linked that Song to this Game, Glad you guys commented on it. Before I read this comment, I was going to mention that song. Wow!!!! I became a UCLA guy that season. they had players my same age, I was familiar with from High School. 4 freshmen playing. Darren Daye, Michael Holton, Rod Foster, Cliff Pruitt great team.

@ccth22 3 жыл бұрын

I was in 7th grade watching this game. Every time I hear this song I envision Darrell Griffith round the world dunk and Rod Foster crossover dribble.

@mookeychase0907 7 жыл бұрын

Jump ball at the beginning of the second half....real old school...

@Machtyn 3 жыл бұрын

No 3 point shot, means everyone plays inside. Much different game than today.

@capitanfuturo594 Жыл бұрын

Denny Crum and Larry Brown ...two legends of Basketball.

@clintongee1417 4 жыл бұрын

What a championship game between 2 legendary coaches

@timcobos8954 3 жыл бұрын

One legend, one Crum.

@toddhogg9500 8 жыл бұрын

This was my first final 4 I went to and I have been to 20 Final Fours and I have been to all 7 Final Fours here in Indianapolis.

@musicalbro7031 4 жыл бұрын

This is the championship.......???

@znchilly9153 4 жыл бұрын

Fire of the Beast most of the time the final four package includes the championship game.

@musicalbro7031 4 жыл бұрын

Znchilly o Oh sorry

@egojames007 3 жыл бұрын

I thought I was the only person who linked that Song to this Game, Glad you guys commented on it. Before I read this comment, I was going to mention that song. Wow!!!! I became a UCLA guy that season. they had players my same age, I was familiar with from High School. 4 freshmen playing. Darren Daye, Michael Holton, Rod Foster, Cliff Pruitt great team

@StFidjnr 6 жыл бұрын

1:24:27 "The river city of Kentucky is going bananas" Coach Al

@Junkman2008 5 жыл бұрын

Lol! Yes we were! The west end was off the chain!

@bernieudo4399 3 жыл бұрын

Remember this from my junior year in high school. Who doesn't remember the Kenny Logging's theme song? When I compare this Louisville team to the '87 Syracuse team I respect Crum even more since his players nailed down the fundamentals. You got to hit those FTs if you want a fighting chance.

@Jiltedin2007 4 жыл бұрын

Those Baby Bruins of UCLA was “The Impossible Dream”, A True Cinderella Team that miraculously made it all the way to the NCAA Tournament Final especially after finishing 4th in the Pac-10 Conference.

@glennappleman3831 4 жыл бұрын

Watched Louisville’s Friday practice at old Tully Gym at FSU in 1980. I have still never seen better college athletes since.

@Michael-dd6hl 11 ай бұрын

Houston 5 slammed jamma was better athletically!

@Michael-dd6hl 11 ай бұрын

Slamma

@ynp1978 5 жыл бұрын

Kiki Vandeweghe......greatest name in the history of basketball!

@joeschmo5021 3 жыл бұрын

Maryland had a good player about 15 yrs ago named Exree Hipp.

@furnitureconsortium 2 жыл бұрын

Kiki is a great name…..my vote for best basketball name will always be God Shammgod, with World B. Free a close second

@denisemasterson8349 8 жыл бұрын

I love these!!!.... Thanks Hellbilly Billy😀

@Machtyn 3 жыл бұрын

They really concentrated on Larry Brown the whole game. Denny Crum got barely any screen time comparatively.

@velocity92c 11 жыл бұрын

Justin, just wanted to thank you for your many Louisville uploads. As a Cards fan born in '86, I obviously never got to see many of these games. I've watched a ton of your videos and just wanted to post a comment and thank you for them. Go Cards!

@jbocardfan 4 жыл бұрын

You're welcome, growing up I lived in the country and didn't have cable tv so I would record all the Louisville games I could to watch again over the summer. Had a huge collection at one point. That's where moat of these games come from.

@armyvet8279 Ай бұрын

@jbocardsfan-Yeah I didn't get to watch this game either because I lived a couple miles from you lol. But the 1986 game was on regular TV I believe. Me and Jerry Amick watched that game and cheered on the CARDS!!

@armyvet8279 Ай бұрын

1986 championship game I meant

@glennappleman3831 4 жыл бұрын

Watched this game with my big bro at Brinkmans in Jacksonville.

@milart12 8 жыл бұрын

Wow, cant believe Larry Brown is still at it(well, until today that is)

@curtismcneil8695 3 жыл бұрын

Remember watching this game back when Basketball was fun to watch. Great Game, man makes you wonder what would have happened if Vanderweige makes that lay up near the end, it would have put UCLA up 56-50 instead he misses and UCLA doesn't score another point.

@Biggdoom344 2 жыл бұрын

That was critical because there was no shot clock. If they go up 6 they can start running down the clock by not shooting.

@kevinbutler3699 Жыл бұрын

RIP to Louisville Legend Denny Crum

@adrianwalsh6053 Жыл бұрын

I watch this game when I lived on Glendale Ave 1232 east kaler

@Itsnoahscott Жыл бұрын

I need to make a Time Machine to travel back here.

@TheSmarq17 7 жыл бұрын

I remember these "baby Bruins" and the surprise that they made it to the finals. I was heartbroken when they lost and hated Louisville with a teenage passion (until I found out that Denny Crum played and coached at UCLA), lucky for me that the Lakers (with rookie Magic Johnson) won the NBA championship a couple months later to bring me back to sanity. I still hate Larry Brown though, first, for leaving after the next season and, second, for leaving UCLA in probation. It took the Bruins several years before they recovered from that and set an embarrassing future pattern for Brown. Thanks for the upload. Many memories came back after watching it.

@kingsports1113 4 жыл бұрын

LMAO 😂 LMAO😂 LMAO😂 LMAO😂 LMAO😂 LMAO😂 LMAO😂 LMAO😂 LMAO😂 LMAO😂 LMAO it not Larry brown fault he gave denny crum n UCLA a title n plus Louisville KY show him love with kanas 1988 college basketball title

@mongoslade277 2 жыл бұрын

Same pattern. Larry brown goes to the title game with Kansas. Leaves them the next year on probation

@mongoslade277 2 жыл бұрын

Denny Crum with his High Low offense that's the "UCLA Cut". The defense with the 2-2-1 full court. That's the UCLA Press

@Biggdoom344 2 жыл бұрын

@@mongoslade277 this UCLA team had to forfeit some wins due to ineligible players including Kiki.

@weldonwenturine3395 2 ай бұрын

@@Biggdoom344would love to know the whole story on that ! Do u have a link to something?

@NobodyTouchesJordan 7 жыл бұрын

1:14:10 is the play that caused Larry Brown to avoid using zone defense at all costs during his NBA career, in favor of an exclusive man to man scheme that he would use to build the greatest defense of all-time in the 2004 Pistons. Larry Brown's dislike of zone defenses goes back to his first season as a collegiate coach, at UCLA. Clinging to a second-half lead in the 1980 national title game against Louisville, Brown instructed the Bruins to play zone, only to watch Jerry Eaves, the Cardinals' point guard, bury a jumper that spurred Louisville to a 59-54 win. "We might have lost the national championship my first year because we went zone that one trip against Louisville," Brown said last week at the 76ers' training camp at Penn State. "That kind of busted our bubble a little bit." ... "I think it's important we're a great man-to-man team, and rebounding team, because I think if you do those things, you can do anything defensively," (Larry) Brown said. "I don't like zones because I think it's a sign of weakness for us, and I worry about rebounding out of zones." - Philadelphia Inquirer, 2001 The Pistons emphasized that aspect of Brown's coaching after he left the team. "We never played zone and we hardly even double-teamed," Billups said. "In a zone you are guarding space. It's tough to get used to. Larry (Brown, former coach) tried to do it a couple of times last year, but we never really worked on it. This year, we are going to work on it. It's going to be a change-up type thing for us." - Chris McCosky, The Detroit News, 2005

@JoseTwitterFan 4 жыл бұрын

1:33:59 "NBC: Network of the 1980 Olympics" LMAO 😂😂😂

@stevenmandl4920 4 жыл бұрын

ABC carried the summer Olympics since NBC backed out

@JoseTwitterFan 4 жыл бұрын

@@stevenmandl4920 *Highlights along with NBC, which also aired them on the Today Show.

@markofly76 3 жыл бұрын

Had to wait 8 more years.

@paulsonj72 3 жыл бұрын

@@stevenmandl4920 Stateside NO one covered the 1980 Olympics in great detail due to the US led boycott of those games.

@tarheelking2515 Жыл бұрын

@@paulsonj72 this is the sad reality these american athletes were robbed of that chance to go to the summer olympics in moscow

@Biggdoom344 Жыл бұрын

The baby bruins played with no fear. They really only got in because of their name..but with house.money they ran all the way to the finals and had Louisville on the ropes. At that point the pressure got em. They didn’t score a bucket the final four minutes despite seven possessions.

@007ndc 2 жыл бұрын

I really liked that UCLA kiddie corps team. Pretty amazing and ironic that a UCLA team in 1980 could be considered an underdog lol

@bcole96024 11 жыл бұрын

how did you find this?

@weldonwenturine3395 2 ай бұрын

Hey any chance you could get the NIT championship game on from 1985 UCLA beating Indiana???

@JulianWavy 5 жыл бұрын

I wish I was alive to see these cards #L1C4

@jamesgross5954 5 жыл бұрын

I guarantee it you wish you were alive when these cars are playing this was cutting edge basketball cards or one of the first college teams to run and Gun dunk fast break it was amazing to watch man I was in the fourth grade that your I was the only kid in my school that was a Louisville fan right smack-dab in the middle of Louisville Kentucky to white kids were all UK fans they hated U of L I wonder where that I wasn't supposed to like black people thank God cuz I was U of L fan and I won with the best memories that year was going to the airport to visit the cards when they came off the plane after the LSU game I should say the l s w h o is Magic Man I got to stay it would have stayed up to 4:00 in the morning go to the CDL she gave me was a school day we got a bunch of autographs and Darrell Griffith Jerry autograph from Darrell Griffith what a lucky moment I was 10 years old a year what the best years of my life still to this day but sleeps Louisville Cardinals in the end of the early 80s nobody could touch and we got robbed of being able to play in the championship against Georgetown we should have won that game but I say that back when I it was bad when I watched it when I was older and I watched it we just we should have put Charles Jones in the game a lot more we would have won that we would have won the game but we didn't hatch Hite I was 20 20 but the cards were magic team to be reckoned with in the early 80s. 1980 team is special man Darrell Griffith still my favorite player to this day I got to speak to him for about 25-30 minutes at the U of L Michigan State game with t will & Company lost when the best moments of my life he's still my hero great role model for the community some of them Louisville cards man in 1980 1986 I remember my dad drop me off at school gosh we just went to rest for games I go well let me see first the brackets had just come out that morning news on a Monday and they should actually just win the rest of our games I said then we'll win the championship! he realized what he said and starts laughing really hard and said you're right! It was unbelievable team that year we lost like seven or eight games as matter fact I was one of the first teams that lost that many games in a regular season and won a championship and it was not an easy road to today at final I leave way to play North Carolina I believe we had to play shoot who was my turn Kentucky even in the final four are in the final NCAA tournament not the final four but yes great U of L teams back then I was born in 1970 thank God I got to see all them U of L players are being great Champions

@jamesgross5954 5 жыл бұрын

Hey I had no idea that Ted Bundy coached UCLA Bruins no wonder young women trusted him LOL I always used to say that back then! Tell me Larry Brown was not a Ted Bundy clone!You know that he thought he looked like him just for the fact that look at his look now he's doesn't look anything like that you should man ever to change my looks around I look like a fucken serial killer. Here's a fact for you there's nothing to do with what I just said but the Larry Brown Calipari mentor just recently got his accolades taking away for the championship game for violations he got in trouble for violation doing Danny Manning won a championship 4A Kansas he gave his Dad a job looks like Calipari wherever he goes and hanging banners never he leaves a must take him down LOL I got news for everybody when Kentucky Wonder Championship run Louisville beat him in that final four if you take all the walks they let Kentucky away with that game and they only supposedly foul Louisville twice State game in the second half it's a joke did everyone get away with walking when they you know one or two and then we'll call it when they don't want them too easily I don't think about athletes are built to be able to play the game with in the legal parameters they're too big or something but almost every one of them walk when I go to make a run for the basket it's supposed to be one step and then up in the air not to stab to the walk spin jump Heather's three violations explaining in that one very move I don't see if I had he did a double spin jump hop Baskin they didn't call anything on that one it's ridiculous! That's why you have to love Dr dunkenstein he did it he could ever palm a basketball a lot of people don't know that he could not palm the ball with one hand which way does dunks that much more spectacular than amazing what he would do if he would cuff it with his forearm and his hand and get up so high and do whatever he needs to do with it when he was in the air !all of his dunks especially the one in the final stretches of that tournament against LSU he did there around the world dunk he did it in one and a half staffed legal is to be I don't see one player in today's world being able to do that in one and a half steps they take two and three and four steps it's ridiculous some of them take it from the 3-point line without dribbling it and the rest just sit there and don't do anything and when it's convenient for him Ocala walk like when it ain't even walk pretty pathetic these days I remember back in the day you had to be able to do it in one half step shows the difference between you making it on the team and not making it on the team if you might think that's no big deal but it was it may you were a better player when you can do those things within the rules it must be very difficult to do because I don't see one player that does it anymore I could call walk just about every fast break everytime it makes me laugh it's pitiful I've always laughed about people not having a 100% free throw shooting percentage eater nobody's in front of you if you just practice it you'll drill it every time at least 90% I don't think since high school have missed a fucken free throw! Anyway Go Cards

@ccth22 Жыл бұрын

Rod Foster was blazing fast...

@darenthroneberry1810 3 жыл бұрын

Al Maguire a true cbb legend in all capacities. Dr Dunkenstein was too good for the Bruins . If I remember DePaul was the top team and 1980 and got upset

@mongoslade277 2 жыл бұрын

DePaul and/or Oregon State. Depends on what poll you liked

@Biggdoom344 2 жыл бұрын

@@mongoslade277 they both lost their first tournament game.

@mongoslade277 2 жыл бұрын

@@Biggdoom344 The next year in 1981 they both lost their 1st tournament games again. Both as number 1 seeds again. Both on last second shots. Both on the same day

@Biggdoom344 2 жыл бұрын

@@mongoslade277 I remember. DePaul lost to St Joseph. Then OSU lost to Kansas St right after Arkansas beat Louisville on that half court shot. I think that de Paul loss is the biggest tournament upset of all time.

@mongoslade277 2 жыл бұрын

@@Biggdoom344 That loss to St Joe's made no sense. That was Mark Aguirre last game with DePaul. He was the #1 pick in the draft that year. Aguirre. Terry Cummings. Skip Dillard. I'm still shaking my head 40 years later. I think that first round bye hurt some of those great teams

@brianbullard8291 3 жыл бұрын

Because of Covid they may have to play the final four in arenas like this again.

@Jiltedin2007 3 жыл бұрын

How appropriate that you would say that considering that This Year’s Final Four(In 2021) is also being played in Indianapolis, where this NCAA Final Four was being played back in 1980.

@dougtroklus8552 Жыл бұрын

1:13:25 Eaves steps in front and saved the game for the Cards, great play!

@Biggdoom344 Жыл бұрын

Griff got the credit and he should have but in the last 4 minutes Eaves saved the cardinals. If UCLA makes that layup..they go up 6 and could go into the 4 corners and run down the clock forcing Louisville to foul. He also hit two consecutive shots to tie the game. UCLA took three consecutive bad shots and that doomed them in a game they had control throughout.

@weldonwenturine3395 2 ай бұрын

You may be right

@pnutbutrncrackers 2 жыл бұрын

3:24 -- I think Foster's basket should've counted. And one.

@mrtit1964 10 жыл бұрын

The Cards were in 3 final fours in 4 years...

@Biggdoom344 2 жыл бұрын

Louisville is the hoops dynasty nobody talks about. From 1980-1986 they won two nattys and went to 4 final fours.

@johnrileyjr.9722 Жыл бұрын

@@Biggdoom344 The Doctors of Dunk!

@Biggdoom344 Жыл бұрын

@@johnrileyjr.9722 yep. Dr Dunkenstein

@juanguevara4231 3 жыл бұрын

8 seed vs 2 seed

@mrtit1964 10 жыл бұрын

Come see the Cardinals win it all in 'Nap town....

@StFidjnr 2 жыл бұрын

In UCLA's final time out Larry Brown said something funny might happen

@glennappleman3831 4 жыл бұрын

UCLA forced to vacate their 2nd place finish due to a scandal.

@bradlewis6514 4 жыл бұрын

Yes true to an extent! But as I've always said u can't truly vacate something that physically and competitively occured live! The players played in the game and it provided an outcome! So regardless of it maybe being left blank in a history book, the game was still decided between Louisville and UCLA! UCLA will always be the runner-up because they actually lost on the court! Louisville earned that title against a team, not a ghost or five invisible men

@StFidjnr 2 жыл бұрын

1:13:39 the turning point of the game

@dylanlauder5827 7 жыл бұрын

The game that basically ended UCLA

@MrDodger3222 7 жыл бұрын

He also won a national championship 8 years later at Kansas.

@MrDodger3222 7 жыл бұрын

What?

@drewnogy 5 жыл бұрын

The 1980's were a bad decade for the Bruins, probation and NIT bids......

@damienkirksey7026 2 жыл бұрын

No!!! It was 1976 between Ucla vs Indiana in the Final four

@davidmeredith4561 3 жыл бұрын

Al McGuire at 1:16:18 on leaving school early for the NBA.

@tomloft2000 3 жыл бұрын

even then many coaches were against players leaving school early.

@jamesgross5954 5 жыл бұрын

What a great year Louisville won the National Championship in basketball in the 1980 American hockey team won the gold medal having so exciting I tell you what were the best years of my life man number 7 too young for me some exciting shippers stir up here pretty soon does 10 years old can't be the fucken best year of my life can it I guess it most certainly can it was so far what a great year and Life Is So Exciting back then it's not that it's not exciting now but man special times back then special times wasn't no internet wasn't not any Kate you know we're just now getting cable TV nothing was 24 hours a day every woman's off Saturday and Sunday Reagan end up destroying that does that you 1980 get it office no more 9255 days a week Saturday spend the day with your family going to ball games or something Sunday you went to church Monday you went back to school or work those days ended abruptly with Reagan he made the economy seem like it was being with a J to get two jobs to do it lot of latchkey kids during that time. He lab drugs to run rampant a lot of lot of people lost in our neighborhood over drugs terrible terrible man the Republican Party back then destroyed America White America anyway nobody reproduced no reason to have anybody working to build more washers and dryers nobody having anymore kids all the sudden kids became too expensive to have so families limited to only one and two kids in that new generation in the worst thing that possibly could have happened to other countries waged War on Drugs with us they knew it work at reading on their own people first and they destroyed a generation Americans of Americans by getting them all around dope and wasting all their money and their lies and you're just now being able to see that full force it also separated the poor from the wealthy even further and pretty much I'm worried we're just now getting ready to suffer the consequences of that through Automation in a lot of job losses would be lots of rides in the next year or so they will change the way the Earth is believed to be depopulated depopulation or destruction of computers will find out which wins it's not good computers pretty powerful already it's looking like the humans will be the ones to lose the battle between computers and humans because too many humans when their public computers not understanding it and they'll take out the humans you thinking that they won't be taking that either but it's not looking good I drive a truck for a living couple years ago the truck auto drove from St Louis to her somewhere to St Louis was 125 miles how we start our dispatchers would be replaced before truck drivers boy was I wrong they're trying to make America the Executive Park to the rest of the world I'm trying to make the rest of the world the industrial park I travel all over the country man deliver to all kinds of assembly lines is further manufacturing cars in just any other there ain't nobody there it's just f****** robots running the ship what are depressing way to end a such a positive time. In life but that's why I was positive the economy is doing well family was important the cards were awesome Santa Claus give me gifts the Easter Bunny he was kicking it back then the tooth fairy pretty much ended her reign with me back then because I still have all my teeth LOL amazing right being from Kentucky and all we have the most people the least amount of teeth LOL

@XxTheSitDownKidxX 4 жыл бұрын

James Gross this was a great read 👍🏻

@furnitureconsortium 2 жыл бұрын

Paragraph breaks are your friend, use them every seven to eight sentences.