{"id":6585,"date":"2014-03-13T20:57:07","date_gmt":"2014-03-14T00:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=6585"},"modified":"2014-03-13T21:04:01","modified_gmt":"2014-03-14T01:04:01","slug":"this-31-year-old-jmu-basketball-highlight-video-will-make-your-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=6585","title":{"rendered":"This Might Be the Greatest JMU Highlight Video of All Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WyFskQH3FGw\" height=\"315\" width=\"520\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Do you like watching guys in short shorts play basketball? Do you forget what it&#8217;s like to see guys JMU jerseys consistently knock down mid-range jumpers? Do you love Carly Simon? Well then the video above is for you. It&#8217;s nothing but highlights of JMU basketball from the 1982-1983 season. And most of it is set to Carly Simon&#8217;s classic sports anthem, \u00a0&#8220;Nobody Does it Better.&#8221; Because, of course it is.<\/p>\n<p>The video was featured as part of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.collegeinsider.com\/pfeature\/10\/1982-James-Madison-Basketball\">CollegeInsider.com&#8217;s \u00a0Turn Back the Clock<\/a> today. As best we can tell, College Insider&#8217;s Turn Back the Clock is to Throw Back Thursday (#TBT) what the College Insider Tournament is to the NIT Tournament. Or something like that. Regardless, it&#8217;s pretty neat. Today&#8217;s JMU themed edition includes a nice little write-up about the Dukes&#8217; 1982 NCAA tournament team that beat Ohio State before falling to eventual national champion UNC. And nothing goes better with a blurb about the 1981-1982 team than the above video featuring the team from the following season.<\/p>\n<p>JMU basketball was legit back in the day, but highlights are tough to find. So do yourself a favor and watch the video. It does a great job capturing classic 1980&#8217;s style hoops. It also features one of the most 80&#8217;s dunks of all time at about the 58 second mark. And some downright amazing JMU warmups around 2:10. And what appears to be a classic 80&#8217;s style VHS recording transition blunder at 2:25. Of course there&#8217;s plenty of great basketball too. Just watch it.<\/p>\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fjmusportsblog.com%2F%3Fp%3D6585&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=true&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;height=80\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:80px;\" allowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you like watching guys in short shorts play basketball? Do you forget what it&#8217;s like to see guys JMU jerseys consistently knock down mid-range jumpers? Do you love Carly Simon? Well then the video above is for you. It&#8217;s nothing but highlights of JMU basketball from the 1982-1983 season. And most of it is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9373,"url":"https:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=9373","url_meta":{"origin":6585,"position":0},"title":"Vote for JMU Basketball Alums to Play in The Basketball Tournament","date":"April 20, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"The Basketball Tournament (TBT) is an annual 5 on 5 single elimination tourney that anyone over 18 can play in. The field will be made up of 64 teams competing for the winner-takes-all $2 million prize. ESPN will be broadcasting the games from the round of 16 on. 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