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No team making its first tournament appearance has come so close. No team since has reached it undefeated. Three decades have passed, and that game remains special. Magic and Michigan State were triumphant. Indiana State shot poorly, fell behind and never caught up that March night. The Bird-Johnson rivalry moved on the next year to rejuvenate the NBA. The obscure Sycamores against the burly Big Ten’s Spartans.

Until the Final Four, Bird refused almost all interview requests, in deference to his teammates, and no doubt because reporters were eager to ask about his father’s suicide and Larry’s divorce from high school sweetheart Jan Condra and a paternity suit over their daughter, Corrie, born in 1977. Successive two-point victories — 73-71 in the Midwest Regional final against Arkansas and 76-74 against DePaul — delivered the Sycamores to the national finale.

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Sycamores marched through the Missouri Valley Conference Tournament and deep into the NCAA Tournament. They were a phenomenon revealed. It was the Sycamores’ first national TV appearance. Indiana State beat Wichita State 109-84 in its regular season finale to go 26-0.

Students camped overnight outside the arena to get prime tickets. Terre Haute had caught the fever. Crowder incited home crowds by kicking the backboard, the net or the rim at the end of warm-ups. Michigan State had no monopoly on magic. A moment later, Webb missed the free throw, Miley rebounded and heaved to Heaton. He considered the time and circumstances and moved back upcourt, across halfcourt. Heaton wandered into a corner at the Indiana State end.

With Indiana State trailing with 3 seconds to play in an 83-81 game at New Mexico State and the Aggies’ Gary Webb about to shoot the potentially clinching, bonus-carrying free throw, the Sycamores huddled around Hodges during a timeout. Brad Miley, the defensive stopper and the only other returning starter. He predicted they would win the national championship. After watching Michigan State beat the Russian national team in a preseason exhibition, he told his teammates the Spartans were the best team in the country. Bird had an instinctive, almost mystical, grasp of basketball. Bird’s passion and toughness became contagions. Bird led by example and biting sarcasm. They found a big brother. All were looking for direction.

There were a half-dozen new transfers and a horde of role players. There were some big-city kids, but most of Indiana State’s roster came from Hoosier outposts such as Warsaw, French Lick, Rushville, Bedford, Cayuga and Clay City. CBS and ESPN plan 30th anniversary pieces on the season, the game and the rivalry, Bird-Magic, all of which are celebrated in the recently released book “When March Went Mad: The Game that Transformed Basketball,” by Sports Illustrated’s Seth Davis. The 1979 title game launched the NCAA Tournament to new heights. Its 24.1 Nielsen rating remains the highest for any game in basketball history, college or professional. Indiana State’s was a program that had advanced to the NCAA’s highest division in 1969.

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