Top 10 Moments in NCAA Tournament History

Chris Weber Calls a Fictional Timeout

Feb 14, 2014; New Orleans, LA, USA; Team coaches Chris Weber and Grant Hill before the 2014 Rising Stars Challenge at Smoothie King Center. Mandatory Credit: Bob Donnan-USA TODAY Sports

I actually hate doing this. The idea that one of the “best” moments in the history of the NCAA Tournament was actually of a guy having a brain-fart is not cool. Still, it would be dishonest not to recognize this moment as its place in tourney history has been more well-documented than anything Edward Snowden gave the public.

With that being said, everyone knows the deal by now. The Michigan Wolverines recruited all of those fancy-smancy freshmen, made a couple of deep runs in the NCAA Tournament and Chris Weber had the worst kind of career defining moment. You know, the type that makes people forever think you are a choker.

We forget the fact that Weber actually walked to start that possession. We also forget that he was a tremendous basketball player and how his style of play helped redefine the power forward position for some time.

But that hasn’t changed the fact that the fictional timeout and the free-throws that followed, resulted in out of the weirdest and (if you are a Michigan fan) heartbreaking moments in the history of history.

Weber is now a really good analysts for TNT. Not so secretly I am hoping he still has the ability to choke. Not at the game of basketball, but the skills to literally choke Shaq and take his spot in TNT’s studio show.