00:006'9'' senior from French Flick, Indiana, Larry Bird.
00:07And from Michigan State, wearing number 33 at guard, 6'8'' sophomore from Lansing, Michigan, Urban Magic Johnson.
00:16What an excellent shooter, a sophomore, and here's the great player, Bird.
00:20Great open.
00:22Indiana State takes the early lead.
00:26Carl Nix.
00:27Rebound Johnson.
00:29Magic Johnson with a ball.
00:33Oh, he scores!
00:34And he has fouled.
00:36Look at Urban Magic Johnson.
00:39One of the great things that Urban Johnson can do is out of the zone matchup defense.
00:43He's a great rebounder and never has to make an outlet pass because he is the outlet pass himself.
00:49Nix cuts him out from underneath, but he made the shot anyway.
00:53Four minutes gone.
00:57Bird.
00:58Oh, what a shooter.
01:01Nix has it stolen away.
01:04Three on one.
01:06Berkovich scores.
01:08Basket good.
01:09Foul is on.
01:12Reed of Indiana State.
01:15Miley would be, would have to go back inside.
01:17Bob Heaton is not a guard.
01:19He can play guard and play throwing.
01:20Bird inside.
01:22Oh, beautiful.
01:24College basketball's player of the year, Larry Bird, has six points.
01:29They don't give Magic Johnson a ball until he gets into the offensive end of the court.
01:34Johnson, from closer, swing on Berkovich.
01:37They played a foul line extended.
01:39They take the foul line all the way to the side of the court.
01:41Here's the foul.
01:43Bird kicked it in.
01:44And Larry Bird using that left hand.
01:46Remember, he has a broken left thumb on that left hand.
01:5018 to 12.
01:52Michigan State with the ball and the lead.
01:55Magic Johnson from 15, and he loves to hit that backboard.
02:00Bob Heaton.
02:01Rebound Donnelly.
02:03The secondary players are not hitting that perimeter shot.
02:06Oh, Bird.
02:07Great play by Bird.
02:09Oh, Bird.
02:09And he saves it.
02:10That was an alley-oop pass almost trying to get it into Kelson.
02:14Standing ovation from some of the fans.
02:16He caught a pretty good elbow in the back of the head.
02:19Oh, he's a tough kid.
02:21There's that man-to-man out of bounds again, Al.
02:24Bird and a block.
02:25He can't save it.
02:28State scores here.
02:30Indiana has to call a timeout.
02:32And Magic Johnson hanging and hitting a 12-footer.
02:3530-19.
02:37The Spartans lead.
02:386-28 remaining in the first half.
02:41No timeout ball by the Sycamores.
02:46Anytime Larry Bird touches it, there's about three people in this area.
02:50Bird left alone.
02:52He's automatic.
02:53Doesn't tighten up.
02:56Little over five minutes left to go for the half.
02:59Kelser off to Johnson.
03:01Wide open.
03:02Kelser has become the assistant.
03:03It ends completely.
03:04Knicks way off the mark.
03:06Rebound Charles.
03:07Johnson.
03:08Three on one.
03:10Here it comes.
03:11The alley-oop.
03:12Frederick Kelser.
03:15Knicks and Reid.
03:16The guards for Indiana State.
03:17Bird.
03:18Miley Gilbert.
03:19The front line.
03:20Kelser.
03:21K.
03:22Hits it.
03:22Danston.
03:23And of course, Miley in this particular.
03:26Any kind of offensive structure they have.
03:28And I certainly know.
03:30Jerry Donnelly.
03:30That's how the game began.
03:32With a little left-hander heading to the Indiana State defense.
03:36There they are.
03:40And Kelser from behind the backboard.
03:43Nill.
03:44Bob Heaton is short.
03:46And he gets it back.
03:48Gives it to Bird.
03:50Bird scores.
03:52One-on-one with anyone.
03:55Johnson.
03:57The no-bring.
03:58Gives it a little easy five-footer.
04:01Indiana State to an N-six.
04:02And here comes Kelser off the bench.
04:05Something John Eastcoe just has to do.
04:08Bird.
04:08Bird.
04:1052-47.
04:13They're spreading out.
04:14They want to catch Greg Kelser with the ball.
04:16Trying to get a foul on Birdie.
04:17Bird.
04:18Irvin Johnson scores.
04:19And it's now 55-46.
04:22Michigan State.
04:2321 points for Magic Johnson.
04:26A four-point play.
04:27Michigan State has an 11-point lead.
04:30Bird.
04:30Hits the start with one player.
04:32Irvin.
04:33Magic Johnson wins for his university.
04:36$5,000.
04:37$1,000 during the regular year.
04:39$5,000 in this championship game.
04:42Very few can argue that that's all for...
04:47I said today, someone asked me,
04:49if I could put a name on the back of his uniform,
04:51I would write joy.
04:52The joy for this game.
04:53The joy that he has brought his fans
04:56and anyone who loves basketball.
04:5811.
04:59Well, that read has hit three long.
05:01Oh, there's a pass.
05:02Like a shot.
05:03Oh, there we go.
05:05Yo-ho!
05:07It's all over.
05:09Michigan State University.
05:12National Champions, 1979.
05:20For the Spartans of Michigan State,
05:22and Brian Gumbel has the game star
05:25and his head coach, Judd Heathcote.
05:28Thank you, Dick.
05:29I am with two very, very happy people here,
05:32Magic and Judd.
05:33Magic, not only were you a leader on offense,
05:34I thought you did a great job on Larry Bird
05:36in the zone, denying him the ball.
05:37Yes, uh, coach, uh, gave us a good game plan
05:41to go against Larry Bird,
05:43and all we had to do was go out and do it,
05:45and if we did it, he said we would win,
05:47and that's what we've done.
05:48Judd, I know you didn't count on Larry Bird
05:50hitting as poorly from the field as he did.
05:52Were you surprised they didn't try to force the ball
05:53into him more?
05:54Well, I think that we had a man and a half
05:56on him, Brian, and, uh, it was tough to get it in.
05:59I thought maybe they could have gone to him
06:00a little more, but I think they worked the ball.
06:03Hey, this was a tough, tough game for us.
06:05Uh, they gave us all we wanted,
06:06and we're just very, very happy to win.
06:08Were either of you surprised at how close
06:10the officials were calling the ball game early on?
06:12No.
06:12Well, I sure was, but maybe he wasn't.
06:14I wasn't, because, uh, they wanted to set the tempo
06:17for the game, and they didn't want it to get out of hand, so.
06:20You seem to lose the rhythm a little bit
06:21at the 15-minute mark in the second half.
06:24When Kelser left the ball game,
06:25he sat on the bench for seven minutes,
06:27and, uh, then you, then you, you got outscored
06:2914-4.
06:30What happened?
06:31Well, we might have, uh, become a little
06:33too conservative, and yet, without Gregory in there,
06:36we have a tough time running our offense.
06:37So, uh, we're just glad we could hang in there
06:40and the Magic Man was super as usual
06:42and kept us in there.
06:43Let me ask two final questions.
06:44The rumors say that you've played your last college game
06:47and that you're heading away from Michigan State.
06:49You first.
06:50I can't really say, I, I haven't said that at all.
06:53Everybody's just saying,
06:54if I had not know it now, I'd be back.
06:57But, uh, you know, everybody's got the room I'm leaving,
07:00but I haven't said that.
07:01John, how about you?
07:02Those are just rumors, Brian, just rumors.
07:05Gentlemen, congratulations.
07:06Super Bowl game.
07:10Let's go back to Dick.
07:11Okay.
07:11Brian tells it all.
07:14You feel it.
07:16You feel it with him.
07:18He's a great competitor.
07:19You know, in Terre Haute, when I first met him,
07:21I said, Larry, wouldn't you rather lose a ball game
07:23before you can win for the NCAA?
07:26He says, coach, I don't want to lose any ball game.
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