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The tournament is unforgiving. If you have one bad game, that's it.

Paul Pierce

Jalen Rose remembers the Fab Five's run to the 1993 national championship game.

Jalen Rose

When I arrived to the University of Arizona, the basketball program was in shambles. Today, Arizona is almost always in the top 10 or 15 and we’ve been to 25 co

Steve Kerr

Everything I’ve done since comes from the confidence I built during that run. We may have lost in the end, but that’s when I knew I had it in me to be great.

Draymond Green

That game still haunts me.

Tina Charles

If I missed it, it wouldn’t have mattered. I may have shot the free throw, but it was never about me, and it still isn’t. It’s about Hank.

Bo Kimble

Alonzo Mourning, Jason Collins and Bo Kimble join host Ben Lyons to discuss moments of real strength on and off the court.

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Jason Kidd remembers Cal's unlikely 1993 upset over two-time defending national champion Duke.

Jason Kidd

At the heart of this letter I'm speaking to kids everywhere who have no idea what the future holds or how to take charge of their place in it.

Steve Nash

It’s just one play and it’s just three points, but looking back, it was purely a game of momentum. When we had it, we went up big. When they got it, they took a

Sue Bird

We never dreamed that almost two decades later, people would still be showing highlights of that play.

Bryce Drew

Northern Iowa's Ali Farokhmanesh on the shot that knocked Kansas out of the 2010 tournament.

Ali Farokhmanesh

March Madness has officially begun, and former North Carolina Tar Heel Jerry Stackhouse joined host Ben Lyons and guest co-host Jason Collins to talk all things

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I don’t mind talking about that shot. The beauty of March Madness is that you create memories.

Darius Morris

I could have stayed at Connecticut. I could have won multiple national titles. I didn’t, and I regret nothing.

Elena Delle Donne

I played in four NCAA tournaments at Kansas, but that 1987-88 team was a special group.

Danny Manning

The committee has spoken and the bracket is in! This is the Selection Sunday Edition of The Chirp, your all-inclusive look at the best...

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Nineteen seconds left in a tie game with the Pac-10 championship on the line? I had the ball. I was taking that shot.

Isaiah Thomas

Our upbringing as two sibling future WNBA No. 1 Draft picks was about as unconventional as it gets.

Nneka and Chiney Ogwumike

Paul Pierce on what happened before and after making the most memorable game-winning shot of his career.

Paul Pierce

Making the big shot wouldn’t feel so good if missing it didn’t feel so awful.

Paul Pierce