north carolina won the final four basketball game last year.
who won the final four basketball game last year?
north carolina
held in elizabethtown, pennsylvania, the 1982 women's final four basketball tournament was the first sponsored by the ncaa. featuring host elizabethtown college, clark college (massachusetts), pomona college (california) and the university of north carolina at greensboro, the tournament was played in a classic field house over a three-day period. in the first game of the national semi-final elizabethtown took control right from the tip-off against clark and easily cruised to a 71-51 victory. in the second game of the final four pomona took the lead early in the game, but unc greensboro battled back to tie the game at 56 with six minutes to play. unc greensboro then went on a run and pulled away for a 77-66 win. elizabethtown and unc greensboro turned the championship game into an epic battle of lead changes and shifts in momentum. last second heroics by unc greensboro sent the game into overtime, but elizabethtown came up with the final stop in overtime to win 67-66 in overtime. television coverage was provided by a fledgling espn while exclusive radio coverage was provided by kspc radio - pomona college's tiny kspc sports broadcasting group with geoff willis (pomona '83) and james timmerman (pomona '82) providing the play by play and color. espn was so embryonic that the game was broadcast multiple times during the following two weeks and espn hired the kspc radio staff to help with background and color research about the players and the teams.
ncaa division iii women's basketball tournament
the sports broadcasting department of kspc was started in 1981 when the fcc suggested that the station needed to expand its community-based programming. geoff willis ('83) sat in the stands for a pre-season pomona pitzer women's basketball game and created an audition tape by doing play-by-play into a small hand held dictaphone. kspc began broadcasting home basketball games for both men's and women's pomona pitzer basketball games during the 1981–1982 season, including the women's team's remarkable run to the ncaa division iii final four. james timmerman ('82) covered the play-by-play while willis provided color commentary. after the sagehens advanced to the final four with a thrilling 62–53 overtime victory over scranton (http://www.d3hoops.com/archives/women/1982), a frantic fundraising effort allowed the embryonic sports broadcasting department to travel to harrisburg, pennsylvania to provide its first remote sports broadcast live from the final four. kspc covered both the final four game and the consolation game. of historical interest was that the only two electronic media covering the 1982 women's division iii final four basketball tournament were kspc and a very young espn. also of significance in its first season of existence, kspc's sports broadcasting department aired willis' pre-game interview of pomona pitzer men's head basketball coach gregg popovich – the first radio interview ever given by coach popovich as a head coach at any level. popovich went on to win five nba titles as the head coach of the san antonio spurs.
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