The Billion Dollar Game

In 1989, the NCAA men’s basketball tournament was at a crossroads. Schools from larger conferences like the SEC and Big East didn’t see the need to keep allowing the mid-major teams into the Big Dance. They always lost, so what was the point? When Alonzo Mourning’s no. 1 seed Georgetown Hoyas entered the tournament, they had their eyes set on the Final Four and a national title. Dealing with the likes of Ivy League champion and no . 16 seed Princeton was more of an afterthought. So when these two teams faced off on March 17, 1989, in Providence, Rhode Island, no one, not even Princeton, expected much of a game. They were all wrong. Pete Carril’s Tigers not only played one of the greatest games in college basketball history, they also let the NCAA and the rest of the world know that the mid-majors could play and were here to stay . Without that game, the tournament would not be what it is today — a billion-dollar enterprise that stops America for two weeks each year.

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The Billion Dollar Game är en dokumentärfilm från 2015, regisserad av Nick Guthe.

Med en speltid på 0 timmar och 14 minuter är The Billion Dollar Game en produktion från United States of America. Originalspråket är engelska. På Filmotek uppdaterar vi löpande var du kan streama, hyra eller köpa The Billion Dollar Game i Sverige.