It was a moment made for movies because, well, it was a movie.
All the noise and semi-ethical recruiting (OK, it was definitely not ethical or within NCAA rules, which was kind of the point) washed away in the final moment of the game.
Nick Nolte’s Pete Bell is drawing up a play for his star-studded — and, yes, bought — team, the fictitious Western University Dolphins. The players on that court were anything but fictitious. The coach on the other sideline was Bob Knight, coaching a team of college star stand-ins for the cameras.