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Indiana Basketball: 1987 Hoosiers’ Championship amongst SI’s best

Despite what your college basketball team did this season or how far they would have advanced in the tournament, this weekend should have been a great one for all sports fans. As the Final Four was slated for Saturday and the National Championship game on Monday, it is time to remember all of the past National Champions, including one Indiana basketball team.

Sports Illustrated’s Pat Forde compiled a list of the 12 best Final Four and 12 best National Championship games in college basketball history and the Hoosiers’ 1987 team made the list.

Charles’s dunk was more sudden and Jenkins’s shot was longer—but there was more pressure on Keith Smart’s final shot than either of those.