the t.a.c. the central florida golden knights against the mercer bears. the t.a.c. was a small basketball conference a bunch of schools you've never heard of, they never get on tv, they play in tiny gyms that fit like 500 people. the beautiful thing about college basketball is that it is the most democratic with a small "d," big time sports. more than 300 teams play it and every single one of them from mighty duke and kentucky to no-names like texas pan america and southern utah, you they have the same opportunity. you win the conference, you play the ncaa tournament. you win the ncaa and claim national title. every time, no matter how big or small has the same theoretical chance to win it all. what happened in march 1986, the championship game of the tvment t.a.c. conference tournament. the winner would get the automatic bid to the ncaa tournament. espn was there.