Everyone of age remembers Lorenzo Charles dunking Dereck Whittenburg’s miss against Houston (he still says it was an assist) and rightly so.
And most basketball fans know the term Phi Slamma Jamma, which was the nickname of Houston’s high-flying team.
In the Final Four, Houston put on an aerial assault that has become legendary. They dunked all over Louisville and it got to the point that some Louisville players were getting off the bench to watch the highlights on a nearby monitor.
No one had ever seen anything like it.
As Benny Anders said after, “we took ‘em to the rack and we stuck ‘em.