On Thursday night in Honolulu, less than 24 hours before the biggest upset in the history of the N.C.A.A. men’s basketball tournament took place, across half an ocean and a full continent, Chaminade University held its annual athletics gala.
Guests included a couple of players from the 1982-83 basketball team, inducted into the university’s Hall of Fame five years ago. Also in attendance was Merv Lopes, the long-retired coach.
They are, and forever will be, celebrities for beating top-ranked Virginia 35 years ago.
“It comes up a lot,” Tony Randolph, the team’s 6-foot-6 sophomore center in 1982-83, said on Saturday morning.