A winner being topped from the 2024 males’s NCAA Match delivered the most recent rendition of “One Shining Second.”
No. 1 UConn comfortably topped No. 1 Purdue 75-60 within the nationwide championship sport on Monday, cementing itself as uncommon repeat champions.
The win meant certainly one of many issues, however for event traditionalists, it paved the best way for “One Shining Second” that relived the insanity from the 2024 event.
Written and carried out by David Barrett, “One Shining Second” has been an annual custom on the finish of CBS’s and TBS’s championship protection relationship again to 1987. The track is performed whereas the gamers and coaches minimize the nets, with the video broadcast alongside.
The 2024 event had its share of surprising moments, comparable to upsets involving No. 14 Oakland over No. 3 Kentucky and No. 13 Yale over No. 4 Auburn within the first spherical, No. 6 Clemson reaching the Elite Eight and No. 11 NC State advancing to the Remaining 4, amongst others.
It culminated with the Huskies routing Zach Edey and the Boilermakers to grow to be simply the eighth males’s basketball program to go back-to-back within the Massive Dance. UConn, as a No. 4 seed, beat No. 5 San Diego State within the 2023 title sport.
The win in 2024 marked UConn’s fifth time reducing the nets in males’s basketball. The Huskies additionally gained the title in 1999, 2004, 2011, 2014 and 2023.
