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College basketball has never seen a game carry more weight. Indiana State arrived undefeated, carrying Larry Bird, the "Hick from French Lick." Michigan State and Magic Johnson answered with a 75-64 win in the national championship, holding Bird to 19 points and 13 rebounds.
Played in Salt Lake City, that matchup still ranks as the highest rated televised college basketball game ever. It launched a Bird-Magic rivalry that kept the sports world hooked for a decade in the NBA, and it's widely credited with starting the "modern era" of the college game.
"We were a mid-major school playing in the Missouri Valley for the first time, and we didn't dream we'd go undefeated. We never thought about it, and we just played, but when we got to around 17-0, that's when we started thinking, 'Hey, could we go undefeated?' But you still didn't think so until the season ended and you look back and go, 'Wow, 33 in a row? That's a lot of games.' " -Larry Bird
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