The players and coaches who flash past your screen are very likely watching the same broadcast as you, some of them too surely still with tears in their eyes as they dream it was just them who was cutting down the nets in front of a cheering crowd. I can’t say whether the song makes me produce tears so easily because I have never seen an Indiana-based team take home the trophy in my lifetime (at least in the men’s tournament, wink, wink), or because while you soak in the song and its lyrics you can begin to imagine the feeling of those players who were defeated. Sure, the lyrics might be some of the corniest stuff you’ve ever heard but throw it behind some highlights and lowlights of an almost month-long tournament that literally combines blood, sweat and tears and you have something really special on your hands. It astounds me every year how well the production crews handle compiling a three-minute compilation of a three-week-long event’s best moments that is to be aired as coverage of the game and the whole tournament comes to a sudden close.Īs a loyal Hoosier, the song is likely to induce tears nearly every time for me. Not to mention the unique glimpse that is granted into the period through the shots of the fans. The coaches losing their minds on the sidelines, the players who were celebrating or who are seen with their heads in their hands defeated and the teams that they compose of all have fascinating backstories behind them. The song is not just a tradition, but it can be an abbreviated history lesson. How do you summarize a three-week-long tournament that combines 64 teams and about double as many storylines surrounding those teams, their players and coaches? For CBS and TBS that job has been pretty self-explanatory for the past 35 years: Dub a montage of all the best moments to the sweet sound of David Barrett’s “One Shining Moment.” It is hands-down the best way to encapsulate the epic stories that we have come to know as March Madness.
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