This installment from "30 for 30" is about Jim Valvano and the NCAA champion NC State team from 1983. So, it is NOT a biography of Valvano nor is it really about any of Valvano's other teams he coached. Why is this subject THAT compelling? Because there really never has been another NCAA basketball team that kept winning in the post-season even though they were usually behind with only a minute or two to go. Yet, again and again, they pulled victory out of the blue--first at the ACC tournament and then in the subsequent NCAA tournament. This film is their story. However, because Valvano died prematurely of cancer in 1993, the film is taught mostly using the surviving members of the 1983 team.
Like so many of ESPN's "30 for 30" documentaries, this one is surprisingly good and entertaining EVEN WITH FOLKS WHO DON'T CARE FOR SPORTS! Yes, I am not much of a sports fan in general and particularly don't like basketball...yet I was fascinated by the story from start to finish because the subject matter was compelling and because it was told so well.