North Carolina At Chapel Hill

Episode 12 of The Throwback looks at the 1998 UNC Basketball game in Atlanta against Georgia Tech. While on its face this game may not seem incredibly worthy of such focus, the re-watch cements why this contest is absolutely perfect for Tar Heel fans to revisit.

Joey Powell hosts, bringing along IC team-members Sherrell McMillan and Jon Seiglie to look back on Feb. 8, 1998. The guys can’t help but be taken aback by just how much top-level talent wore the light blue that season, specifically the likes of Jamison and Carter. Yet, it was the Senior Shammond Williams that would melt the scoreboard with his offensive display in this game.

McMillan points out just how perfectly this double-overtime game encapsulates both ends of the ultimate forecast of UNC’s fates for that season: both in how magnificently superior in talent the Tar Heels were, but also in their lack of contributing depth beyond the All-Americans. Seiglie harkens to memories of just how loud the Thriller Dome could get when games were at a fever pitch. Like most, Sieglie also recalls just how many highlight-reel plays were made by both teams in the game.

On the “Postgame” interview, Michael Brooker joins Powell to share his recollections on the game. A freshman on the team, Brooker had the unenviable job of guarding Shammond Williams daily in practice and knew what the game MVP was capable of from long-range. Brooker also gives some insight to the team’s psychological response to an emotional week of play and a GT team that just would not lay down.

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