Atop the Northern Iowa basketball memory bank are the NCAA Tournament wins, last year’s postseason buzzer-beaters and, of course, the slaying of a Rock Chalk goliath.
And yet ... Nobody will forget that day No. 1 came to Cedar Falls.
“You just don’t get a Louisville or a Kentucky or a Kansas usually to come to your house, veteran Northern Iowa play-by-play man Gary Rima said. “When it was North Carolina, there’s no doubt there was as big a buzz around a nonconference game as I’ve seen in my 24 years of doing the games.