The ‘One Shining Moment’ Highlight Montage for the 2022 NCAA Men’s Division I Basketball Tournament

Despite being down by as many as 16 points in the first half of the NCAA National Championship basketball game on Apr. 4, 2022, the Kansas Jayhawks achieved their fourth national title ever by accomplishing the largest comeback win (from the aforementioned deficit) in the championship game in collegiate history. Kansas defeated the North Carolina Tar Heels 72-69.

As an annual tradition since 1987, the video montage of the tournament’s highlights of March Madness was broadcast shortly following the title game (as the winning team was cutting down the basketball nets) with the song “One Shining Moment” playing in the background. For 2022, the most popular version of the tune was played, sung by the late performer Luther Vandross

Watch One Shining Moment | 2022 NCAA Tournament in its entirety below:

The following are the lyrics of “One Shining Moment”, written by David Barrett:

The ball is tipped
And there you are
You’re running for your life
You’re a shooting star
And all the years
No one knows
Just how hard you worked
But now it shows
In one shining moment, it’s all on the line
One shining moment, there frozen in time

But time is short
And the road is long
In the blinking of an eye
Ah, that moment’s gone
And when it’s done
Win or lose
You always did your best
‘Cause inside you knew
That one shining moment, you reached deep inside
One shining moment, you knew you were alive

Feel the beat of your heart
Feel the wind in your face
It’s more than a contest
It’s more than a race

And when it’s done
Win or lose
You always did your best
‘Cause inside you knew

That one shining moment, you reached for the sky
One shining moment, you knew
One shining moment, you were willing to try
One shining moment, you knew

One shining moment