With all live sports currently on hiatus, WSJD and The Westwood One/NCAA Radio Network will offer a series of re-broadcasts of some of the classic contests in NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament History. Each game will feature play-by-play as it aired originally, but edited down to minimize stoppages. Additionally, each game will feature interviews and additional perspective from some of the players and coaches that were involved in the contest.

There will be fifteen “great games” scheduled for rebroadcast, beginning with a single game on Thursday, March 19 and Friday, March 20. There will be doubleheader on both Saturday, March 21 and Sunday, March 22. There will also be single games the following week on Thursday, March 26 and Friday, March 27 and doubleheaders on Saturday, March 28, and Sunday, March 29.

The schedule concludes with a pair of games on what was supposed to be Final Four Saturday, April 4, and then one final offering will be fed on championship Monday, April 6, 2020.

Some of the games include the 1979 National Championship Game between Michigan State and Indiana State, featuring Magic Johnson and Larry Bird; the 1982 National Championship Game between North Carolina and Georgetown, featuring Michael Jordan; the 2016 National Championship Game between Villanova and North Carolina; the 2018 First Round Game when UMBC stunned Virginia to become the first #16 seed to ever win a tournament game; and the 2008 First Round Game when Stephen Curry burst onto the scene as Davidson upset Gonzaga.

GREAT GAMES IN N-C-A-A TOURNAMENT HISTORY SCHEDULE

    GAME           DAY/DATE              CLASSIC GAME                         AIRTIME        

1             Thursday 3/19         1979 CHAMPIONSHIP GAME            8:00 PM ET   (Michigan State vs. Indiana State)

2             Friday 3/20              2018 FIRST ROUND                       8:00 PM ET   (UMBC vs. Virginia)

3             Saturday 3/21          2008 FIRST ROUND                       12:00 PM ET      (Davidson vs. Gonzaga)

4                      "                   2008 CHAMPIONSHIP GAME            **        (Kansas vs. Memphis)

5             Sunday 3/22            2013 SECOND ROUND                    12:00 PM ET    (FGCU vs. Georgetown)

6                      "                   2016 CHAMPIONSHIP GAME            **        (Villanova vs. North Carolina)

7             Thursday 3/26         2005 ELITE 8                                8:00 PM ET        (Illinois vs. Arizona)

8           Friday 3/27              1983 CHAMPIONSHIP GAME            8:00 PM ET   (North Carolina State vs. Houston)

9             Saturday 3/28          2006 ELITE 8                                 12:00 PM ET       (George Mason vs. Connecticut)

10                      "                   2010 CHAMPIONSHIP GAME            **            (Duke vs. Butler)

  11            Sunday 3/29            2003 ELITE 8                                 12:00 PM ET      (Marquette vs. Kentucky)

  12                      "                   1982 CHAMPIONSHIP GAME            **     (North Carolina vs. Georgetown)

     13              Saturday 4/4           2015 FINAL FOUR                    12:00 PM ET         (Wisconsin vs. Kentucky)

 14                       "                   1985 CHAMPIONSHIP GAME            **       (Villanova vs. Georgetown)

     15             Monday 4/6             2019 CHAMPIONSHIP GAME      8:00 PM ET     (Virginia vs. Texas Tech)

     ** These games will be broadcast immediately following the conclusion of the previous game.