The UNC Tar Heels won their third national title in 1993, defeating Michigan's Fab Five 77-71 in the national title game. With Michigan trailing 73-71, Chris Webber was issued a technical for calling a timeout with none remaining.
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My favorite tarheel team with my favorite tarheel player. Eric Montross was a giant of a guy with a heart to match and he will be missed. 😢
RIP BIG MAN! ❤️
So sad to hear that news…
Yes he will tar heel forever
One of my favorite Tarheel teams ripower big man😢
😢yes sir Montross was the " silent assassin" that vertical three in , one hand dunk, rim hanging to the ground lol, in their face, he got laitner in dean dome
Rest in Peace Eric Montross. A shining moment for you sir. You wil be missed.
Here for #OO. Reliving the beautiful memories. I never tire of this game
oh my I did not know he had passed.
93 Tar Heels probably the least talked about ncaa champs ever
Because it was about what the best player on the court did on the opposing team. NC played good enough to win the game without Webb's infamous TO when they didn't have any left. but the 93 NC title will always be most remembered for Webber's unforgettable blunder at the worst possible time.
RIP Eric Montross....UNC will forever love you!!
I was a senior at UNC when this game was played. 16 people and 2 half gallons of Everclear in my dorm room at Avery but I didn't drink a drop as the game was too intense. I screamed when Webber called that timeout because i knew it was a technical foul. As soon as the game ended everyone poured out of the room, then onto the balcony at Avery, and then all of us ran the mile to Franklin Street where 20K people were celebrating. Great times!
God these were the golden years of college ball. You had to really know how to play and you needed heart back in the 90s. It just had a different vibe. Miss da 90s
80s was better.
In the 80s and 90s at least we got to know the player's. The one and done has ruined that aspect players know longer have loyalty to their schools or the fans, sadly only to the almighty dollar.
George Lynch saved UNC all season long. As solid as Montross was, Lynch was the real inside stalwart and post playmaker of that season - even when Montross was featured. Crucial rebounds, 2nd chance points, defensive stops, steals, and assists - he did whatever it took to win the play and the game. Time and again he came through....
Lynch is one of my favorite tar Heels of all time. Each time I watch tape of this 93 team I learn something new. They were such a high I.Q. basketball team--especially Phelps.
Probably the most underrated player in UNC history. His 1st game as a freshman against Georgetown was a sign of good things to come.
I remember this game like it was yesterday!
Rest in Peace North Carolina Player Eric Montross
Donald Williams was a beast doing his tournament
A scoring machine Donald Williams
@@michaelbowles925yes he was just on fire
Donald's 2 three pointers with under 5 minutes left really won the game for UNC.
@@richardshermanjr1899 that whole tournament he was killing them
Michigan doesn't even get there without Chris Weber. A great college player.
all the fab 5 were great tbh
Time out!!!
Looking back I don't agree with the rules for calling a timeout if you don't have a time out - (the player calling the time out should be ignored by the refs if that team doesn't have a timeout left) - in football if you don't have a time it is just ignored by the refs without a penalty - in baseball a team can call a timeout or call for a break at any point of the game - a catcher and pitcher can call timeout a couple times during the same at bat and talk to each other - the manager can call timeout and talk to his pitcher or switch pitchers multiple times during the same at bat - but I understand the ball is live more often in basketball than it is in football or baseball so calling a timeout really does stop the action unlike a timeout in football or baseball where the times are not being called during a live action - (unless you are playing against Ole Miss in football where the offense runs 50 plays in 2 minutes) 🤣🤣
I was in college in 1993 and had UNC picked to win it all, and when C-Webb called the timeout he didn't have I started jumping up and down because I'd won some money in our dorm floor's pool. In fairness, he should never have been in that position because the ref missed Webber traveling about 4 seconds before the phantom TO.
The ref didn't "miss" it, he ignored it. He admitted it later.
@@WildwoodClaire1 if the ref makes the right call which was traveling, UNC takes the ball out of bounds instead of shooting technical foul shots. The outcome of the game could have very well been different.
@@WildwoodClaire1ref also ignored Brian Reese traveling in the 1st half (at 13.45 of the video footage)
Eric Montross, RIP 😭💔, respect 💪.
I did not know he had passed until I watched this video.
G Lynch was a real team leader. Go NC Go
RIP Eric Montross
I’ve been saying this for over 25 years: Rhis was no fluke. If UNC and Michigan played ten times, North Carolina wins eight of those games. Talent wise, Michigan was better (but it’s not like UNC didn’t also have a roster of high school All Americans on that roster), but North Carolina had the better team, more experienced, more battle tested, was way more disciplined, and lastly was INFINITELY better coached. This is the same Michigan team that never beat Duke and was Bobby Knight’s personal punching bag that whole year. So yeah, the better team won that game.
Better TEAM and better coached team won.
I agree but I wish they would have beaten Duke the previous year. You let coach K or Smith coach that Michigan team and they win 3 in a row.
Except Michigan actually beat UNC in the regular season that year…
Why is everyone saying Michigan was out coached? How so? What could have Steve Fisher done better / differently?
@@LeonardStauffer He could have taught his players to count timeouts.
This was the first game after a three year semi lull that the national title game went back to being a tight nail biter. Every game from 1985-1989 went down to the very end. Kansas/Duke was the only competitive game from 1990-1992, then 1993 and 1994 gave us two more barnburners. Might've been the best decade for the title game overall.
It took me 30 years to watch this game, I was a small boy in tears watching this I had to come back and shake off the demons...go blue forever
Webber should have been called for traveling on the rebound prior to the time out call.
Where is the travel on the rebound 😂
Man this game broke my heart... Fab Five was everything to me back then...
@Robert Mills;living down in southwest Detroit off of Fort Street and Schaefer,I was following the careers of Jalen Rose,Anderson Hunt and VoshonLenard when they were still Prospectors at Southwestern High!! Rumor has it that coach Perry Watson was"recruiting" Webber for Southwestern,but he ended up at( far north of the City/suburban) Detroit Country Day anyway,because his parents didn't want him "down in the city"playing prep ball,with Jalen,Voshon and Howard Eisly. Southwestern would've been a MONSTR with Webber!!
Webber is such a smart player huh? 😂
@@SuperDetroit9 I grew up here in the city too, I remember watching them play at the Saint on Saturdays. Webber parents definitely wanted him out of the city. His mom was huge on education... I thought Vo Leonard was going to go to Michigan too or a minute
@@Realistic316 smarter than you. I’m sure
Most over hyped team in history
George lynch shredded for Dokken then became an all time great Tarheel
Montross, You are a LEGEND!!! A champion forever! Thank you sir. Rest easy ♡ GO HEELS!!!!
Very excellent! Thank you for sharing and God bless everyone
RIP Billy Packer 💙✝️🙏
04/05/1993 - 31 years ago
The time out doesn't take away from how great he was
Yeah it does! He had NO court PRESENCE you *snowflake*
Chris webber is the best big man in the history of Michigan basketball 🏀
Yeah really good player and a good guy. I felt bad for him but at the same time happy for my UNC.
He traveled. Call the travel and mich has better chance of winning
Jalen Rose should've come back for the ball, also?
Always come back to this thinking something different will happen. You’re not a basketball fan if you don’t hold respect for the fab five
Sweeeeeet. Dean Smith G.O.A.T
Hard work beats Talent when talent doesn't work hard
Lots of tick tack fouls in favor of NC thats why they went to the line more than anyteam all year ....rigged
Be glad that "talent" beat UK. All the clichés in the world would not have saved UNC.
That's exactly right in one regard! Had the REAL and CAPABLE Fab Five shown up in the final, they win by 10-15 points easily! They were the better team but as the NCAA tournament shows us almost every year, the best doesn't always win! I hated that final because I despise the Tar Holes! Michigan let them hang around and it cost them
@@scottworley1479 loaded? As in high? Certainly not with talent.
Had nothing to do with this game.
Hard to believe this was 30 years ago
Dean Smith basketball. Lawdy I miss it!
Welcome to another episode on where quarantine has taken me this time😀
1:13:23 reaction by the UNC bench...SAVAGE!
Whose here to see if Juwan Howard goes back in time to punch Chris Webber for calling a timeout?
i am probably one of the only guys who has an easier time giving UNC's starting line-up than Michigan's. Go HEELS!
Except for the Kentucky game, Michigan never played that great in the 93 tournament. Struggled with UCLA, George Washington and Temple. Caught up with them in the end
Yep. As much talent as they had they were fairly inconsistent both years. People forget as freshman they were only a 6 seed in the tourney. The 93 semi vs uk was probably they best they played in either tournament. I'm sure pressure had something to do with their performance in 93. As freshman they shocked the world but as sophomores they were expected to win.
A team isn't just the 5 guys on the court...it's all the guys on the bench too.
The best team won . Period .
Can we get a version of this game where Billy Packer's mic is muted the entire game?
I love Billy packer
Ain't that the truth....I hated anytime I had to hear Billy Packer call a Carolina game....Just listening to his negativity towards Carolina & Coach Smith, U knew someone was jealous!!!
@@StephenHazelwood Billy packer liked UNC and coach Smith from what I always thought
I think it’s fun, Packer hated UNC but had to call this.
I'll never forget Dean Smith almost jumping out of the Superdome when Chris Webber walked...
Justice, Webber traveled at start of last play
Did we ever get the name of the guy on the bench signaling Webber to call a Timeout?
UNC, Michigan, and Arkansas were my 3 fav teams. I was spoiled from 92-95. This was so hard to root for but I was pulling for Fav 5. Incredible game with so many college legends-Fab 5, Lynch, Montross (RIP), Donald Williams, Phelps, etc. 1:13:20-one of the hearbreaking sequences in college bball history
First Final Four I attend with my brother and mother. My mother was in 7th heaven, she was a huge North Carolina fan.
As a Michigan fan the end of this game hurts my soul
I feel your pain. This was just a couple years after both the Pistons & Wolverines were champs at the same time making Michigan a basketball mecca.
George Lynch hurt Park blacktop legend, Patrick Henry high School standout, flint Hill academy defense monster UNC champ . Without him UNC gets demolished against Michigan
But man as much as I was rooting for Carolina I hate it that that happened to Webber.
markshaq1991 As a Unc fan, Weber scared the s*** out of me as a kid. 30 years later I’ve seen how mature he was and is (especially compared to jalen rose) and now feel compassion for him. Not saying Dean Smith was better than Mich coach but I’m sure Weber wasn’t reminded that he didn’t have any TOs where he would have under Dean.
@@markshaq1991 Lynch was just amazing...he starts this game with a block two rebounds...he was just all over the place. One of the hardest workers. Highlighted at UNC basketball camp for setting something like 7 picks during one possession.
Billy Packer almost seemed like he was happy about Webber.
Like we were supposed to be scared of some long shorts and black socks 🤣
i love how Villanova destroyed you
@@JB-mb6lm what a random comment. Thanks.
North Carolina is a better program and better coach that decade. Dean Smith is a master and made them one dimensional and also better all around team. I say team. Webber was great montross played well later on him made him earn it. Unc is a 👍program. If Michigan had a chance was a year earlier vs dook(duke) up at half
I was twenty four years old I watch ed this game real basketball not like these cowards today
I was 17 yr old NC fan then💪🏾💪🏾
I've heard a rumor that a misunderstanding caused Chris to call that timeout. He thought some players on the U of M bench were urging him to call one when they were really trying to signal that they were out of timeouts. I think Michael Talley tried to convey that U of M was out of timeouts by giving a "no" and "timeout" signal. Some think Chris misinterpreted that.
the backup center on michigans bench on replay is clearly standing up signaling for weber to call timeout, but at the end off the day its the coaches job to tell every player and assistant coach on the team during their actual last timeout, at the end of that huddle in a close game like this where every possession is critical, he has too alert everyone on the team "okay guys, we are out of timeouts now" now if he actually did that, then this is completely webbers fault
@@eddiewilson3724 Interesting take. I can guarantee since this is the 30th anniversary of Webber's timeout, it'll receive attention. FYI, I'm going by something that Voskuil said in a newspaper. I kind of wish he were interviewed about the timeout in the 30 for 30.
On Franklin Street in Chapel Hill, there is a huge picture of Webber in the Time Out restaurant. I sit in the booth next to his picture while I have my chicken cheese biscuit and smile at the image of the captured gesture. The time out was instant karma for the missed walk seconds before.
Is Sutton's Drugstore worth checking out? Or should I stick to Al's ?
Time out got the biscuits and chickens son
@@robertnyalruehleniii6377 Sunrise biscuits > Time Out
People today are much different from then we had are own minds and we spoke how we felt
In retrospect, it would've been better for Michigan if the ref had called the travel on Webber before he had a chance to call the timeout they didn't have.
Yeah people forget that he traveled before the TO.
Michigan gagged a 4 pt lead with under 4 minutes to play. They were outscored 14-4 in the final 4 minutes.
A great team effort by UNC against what I think most people would agree was a more talented side. The time out clinched it, but the Tar Heels were up by two with 11 seconds left, a non ball handler trapped in the corner with no play, and fouls to give. Michigan would have needed an epic miracle. It is unfair how the game in remembered, but for Webber and for UNC. Oh and that was a preposterous walk.
Billy packet was a awsome commentator he knew talent today people are programmed to talk just incredible
Weber didn't cost UM this game. UNC super fans, having deeply observed this team all year, sensed the game was won already by halftime, Carolina having erased a 10 point lead and gone ahead by six. This sixteen point swing convinced the Heels they would win; this team had icy cool--theyd won games like this all year.
Yes sir, champions find a way to win
I remember when this team was down by 17 to Florida State and came back to win.
Definitely love this Michigan team, there will NEVER be another Fab Five team like this, EVER!!!!
He Walked!!!!!!!
Odd prediction by Billy Packer (0:20) at the start of the game: between Webber and Montross - whoever played more minutes - their team would win the game. Well, he was wrong. Webber played 33 min and Montross 31 min.
I love the fab five but winning is not everything it's the only thing they went good enough
This was the fave 5 at it's height.april2022.
Big factors was coaching, experience and brains
I wish they would have just called the travel!
Michigan = better talent, UNC = better team, Donald Williams truly carried this team in the final 4 ... Dean Smith the best.
God Chris Weber was such a superstar on that Michigan team.
And a Goat
Michigan called time out and had nothin left
he cost his team that national title. he got away with a carry.
20-year-old Chris Webber in Michigan.
Ed Hightower had to have gotten paid off... no way he missed as many calls against UNC as he did this game... he loved the sound of his own whistle too much..
Chris Webber first walked then he called a timeout but Michigan used All of their timeouts
Michigan run up against Tobacco Road two years in a row
Which of the players in this game went on to play in the NBA?
Webber, Rose, Howard, Montross and Lynch at a minimum.
@@milart12 Don’t Forget About Hubert Davis
@@VintageDonny216 He wasn’t on this team.
Ahh The Fib Five.
Unc was just the all-around better team on that day.
Think about all the great UNC teams under Dean Smith that DIDN'T win it all yet somehow a team led by Eric freaking Montross did
That being said, it’s not like this wasn’t a talented team. There was a high school All American at every position, including Montross.
76-77 was good enough but lost the final with Tom LaGarde out and several playing injured. Still, those walking wounded wins down the stretch were incredible.
ever see his shoe at that HOF. Dude wore like a 22. Explains everything about how he played.
this 93 team is one of the smartest teams I've ever seen play. High I.Q. players who did their jobs
You have to have that special point guard to run the show but not try to be the show, Phelps improved every year. In 82 it was Jimmy Black, got better every year too.
After finally watching this, i have to say in my opinion foul disparancy is what led to UNC winning; also Jalen Rose didn't play good enough defense on Williams.
Donald Williams was clutch for UNC all year, not many had an answer against a premier shooter
41:50--Rose--really dumb foul--Carolina's zones bothered UM and they just didn't foul much.
No, the better TEAM won. Period.
disparancy is not a word, and go Tar Heels!
My beloved 1993 Champs!!!!!!!!
Amen Sister. I was on Franklin St. That night. :D
@@revpgesqredux Me too! I was 16 going on 17 went down to Franklin Street to soak up the fun!
Use to love watching UNC players like Jeff Lebo, King Rice, Steve Bucknall, JR Reid, Scott Williams, Ranzino Smith, and Kevin Madden.
@@562Omar ME Too! I grew up watching Saturday ACC basketball with my grandfather, he passed in 1987 and that is when I carried the torch on to love College basketball and become a seriously fanatical TAR HEEL! Loved those fellows too! 93 will always be my favorite for so many reasons!
And I sure hope u send Webber and the rest of his Fab Five teammates Xmas cards and thank you's each calendar year! Your beloved champs owe everything to them! Had the real and capable Fab Five shown up that night, Carolina would have gotten run out of the Superdome! Michigan played down a level and that game and played right into UNC's hands! If Michigan had played anywhere near in the final the way they'd played leading up to, it would never have come down to the controversial end!
i love you misigan fab five !!!!!!!!! 🇯🇵🇯🇵🇯🇵🇯🇵🇯🇵
People fail to realize that the"Fab Five" were essentially HIGH-SCHOOL seniors who played in the National Championship Game TWO consecutive years!! It'll never happen again!! Jalen Roses high-school(Detroit Southwestern Prospectors,featuring Antoine"The Judge"Jobert,Howard Eisley,Anderson Hunt and Voshon Lenard) team had a DYNASTY in Detroit throughout the 80s!!
Kentucky started five freshman in 2014 on the way to the title game as an eight seed. Aaron and Andrew Harrison, James Young, Julius Randle and Dakari Johnson starting five. And then 2015 Kentucky practically mirrored UNLV’s 1990-91 season, ending with an L in the Final Four after a perfect season.
Some math. College sophmores equal high school seniors. You gotta be a Michigan math major.
What did they win? How were they as pros? All average
@@jakemf1 Webber is a Hall of Famer... maybe an average Hall of Famer?
@@jakemf1Howard was the first $100 million contract in the history of the NBA and played 19 seasons..Rose played 14 seasons.. keep in mind that no one was winning titles while Jordan was on his run
The Webber timeout technical is an iconic brainfart
Thank you, Chris Webber’ when in doubt. Call a time out!
I just fast forward to 1:13:20 😂 Go Green!
Oh the heartbreak I felt from this game. I'm from Ann Arbor and I was stuck in Marina Del Rey, CA surrounded by Tar Heel hyenas. 😆
Go Heels!!
U be ok. U lived.
Jalen Rose kills me with saying the Tarheels weren't better than us but somehow you choked against Donald Williams and you lost. A great team finds ways to win and you didn't. Such a delusional way of thinking.
Pelinka is the biggest winner of them all! Homie is makin bank in 2024
rob pelinka on the squad
he got buckets too. this of course, before all the plasticsurgery
Right around 35 min mark they don't call an obvious foul on Montross for knocking riley to the ground then seconds later call foul on jackson on what looked very much like a clean block from behind.. yeah seems the officiating in this one was, at the least, slightly slanted in Carolina's favor
But at least Freddy Brown won a National Championship in 1984. Brown was redeemed, Webber was not.
So many things on that play. Webber looks like he's thinking about a TO right then and there. Indeed he traveled. But why is hte ball in Chris Webber's hands? Where was Jalen Rose or Jimmy King? They should have came back for the ball. That's what messed up Chris Webber, he had to be thinking "Why am I bringing the ball up court. I'm the center"
@Paul Abbott;very astute observation. Realize that these guys basically operated with HIGH SCHOOL-level maturity!! On a stage this big,it's a testament to their character they didn't get BLOWN off the court by THIRTY!!
It should not have even come down to Webber's mental error! Had Michigan played to their capability that night, they'd have run Carolina out of the Superdome! There was no testament in that game whatsoever! The Fab Five had been playing their best in the tournament up to that point, then resorted to letting the Tar Holes hang around! And it proved mighty costly! Carolina was extremely fortunate the Fab Five didn't play at the level they'd been playing at
I wondered the same thing, he should have been under the basket. UNC wasn't gonna be denied that year. They were the better team.
@@bradlewis6514 Experience and coaching won over youth imo
@@bradlewis6514 U do know Michigan struggled, barely winning their games throughout the entire tournament that year right & only looked good & played like the Michigan team they were expected to be all year in the OT victory over fellow #1 Seed Kentucky? People forget this Carolina team was a team & played as a team & had only lost 4 games all season & finished the season ranked #4 in the country & had the best overall record in the country while posting an 89.5% winning percentage & was also a #1 seed! They had been through tough, tight games against the best competition basketball had to offer all year long & they had ice running through their veins & were not the least bit intimidated by the fab five, as they were called, & it was no fluke this team beat Michigan & won the National Championship!
Chris Webber is awsome with those incredible hands
Everyone look bout 30 some compared to today💀
RIP Billy Packer. Packer made an incredible call in this game. Check it out its when there was only 50 seconds left in the first half right before Donald Williams 3 pointer to put UNC up 42-36. Incredible foresight by Packer leading up to the 3 pointer. Never heard such a great call in real time of a basketball game. He nailed it to a T.
He was still a racist p.o.s.
@@manuginobilisbaldspot424 Oh yeah everybody in the world is rascist. Its so terrible and unkind. I can barely bring myself to get out of bed everyday due to all the rascism I know that is going to plague me all day. Give me a break.
When you say the FAB 5...You think of UNC. UNC was definitely the better team in 1993.
Is that MY BOY DANTE CALABRIA???
ERIC montrose would've been a wolverine smh....
Michigan may have been the better team but they were still young, at least the 5 were. And unc had better coaching. Fisher was no slouch but not on Dean's level.
Michigan was not a better team. They had a few pre NBA premier players but UNC was loaded with players that could've started on any team in 93. And like you said better coached
George Lynch--not sure what his stat-line was--but he did more to win this game than anyone...his denial defense created Webber's mistake. His assist to Montross in last minute...he just did so many amazing little things to win this game.
Man I just miss 90s college hoops...so much talent and teams were so much better bc kids stayed longer. That and perhaps it was just an era that we won't see again from a talent standpoint.
Mi was gassed
DUKE fan here... R I P Eric Montross
19:39 That was NOT a foul. If so should have been calling fouls all game long against UNC too. That ref must have been slipped some cash under the table.
You're right, but Phelps sold it really well.
Must have been slipped cash from both sides as they did not call the OBVIOUS blatant walk by Webber at the end.
Watch it again , Howard didn't hold position with his feet, he stepped into him and bodied him . excellent call by the ref .
This game right here let you know the referees never like the ACC how much Chris Webber Walk and the referee did not even call travel this in 1993 the ACC versus the Big ten is still going on now with those referees hate the ACC
Billy Packer really wanted to see UNC lose that game. Most biased commentator ever.
He never got over Carolina beating his brains out when he played for Wake Forest.
Wonder how many michigan fans are taking TIME OUT to watch this
If Fab 5 would have stayed together, would have won it all the next year!
Yep. They made it to elite 8 and lost to eventual champ Arkansas if I remember correctly and that was without Webber who left after 2 years. The following year with just king and Jackson still there they lost in the first round