1989 NBA Finals, Background, Los Angeles Lakers
Seeking to become the first team since the Boston Celtics dynasty of the 1960s to win three consecutive championships, the Lakers managed to put up a conference-best 57–25 record. The team's core remained mostly intact, save for veteran forward Kurt Rambis, who was drafted by the Charlotte Hornets in the expansion draft. Their most notable addition was former Chicago Bulls forward Orlando Woolridge.


1989 NBA Finals, Background, Los Angeles Lakers
In the playoffs, the Lakers turned it up a notch. They became the first team to win their first 11 playoff games, as they swept the Portland Trail Blazers, Seattle SuperSonics and Phoenix Suns in each of the first three rounds. Magic Johnson won the MVP award that year.


1989 NBA Finals, Background, Regular season series
The Detroit Pistons won both games in the regular season series:


1989 NBA Finals, Game Summaries, Game 1
Just before Game 1, Lakers guard Byron Scott suffered a severe hamstring injury in practice; he would miss the series. His absence would especially be felt on the defensive end. Magic Johnson had a size advantage, but was too slow to defend against the Pistons' three-headed backcourt monster of Joe Dumars, Isiah Thomas, and Vinnie Johnson. Super-sub Michael Cooper would have to log more minutes than he was accustomed to, and rookie David Rivers was inexperienced. Another option was Tony Campbell, but he played very little during the season.


1989 NBA Finals, Game Summaries, Game 1
Without Scott's quick switches and help defense, the Piston guards smoked the Lakers in Game 1. Thomas had 24 points, Dumars 22, and Johnson 19. With six minutes left, Detroit led 97-79, and the final score was 109–97.


1989 NBA Finals, Game Summaries, Game 2
The short-handed Lakers snapped right back in Game 2, pounding the boards and taking a strong first-quarter lead. Joe Dumars had a hot first half with 24 points (he would finish with 33) to keep Detroit close. Los Angeles held a 62–56 lead at halftime.


1989 NBA Finals, Game Summaries, Game 2
With about four minutes left in the third period, a major misfortune would befall the Lakers, leading 75–73. John Salley blocked a Mychal Thompson shot, which started a Detroit fast break. Magic Johnson dropped back to play defense, and in so doing, pulled his hamstring. Magic was visibly hurt and frustrated, and had to be coaxed into leaving the floor. Dick Stockton, commentating for CBS, said, "I've never seen (Magic) look like this! ", referring to Magic's look of intense pain combined with resignation.


1989 NBA Finals, Game Summaries, Game 2
The Pistons had made the bucket on the break to tie the game at 75–75, but the Lakers, minus Johnson, charged to a 90–81 lead late in the period. In the fourth, however, the Lakers missed three easy baskets and committed an offensive foul as Detroit first tied the game, then went up 102–95. The gritty Lakers charged back and cut the lead to 106–104. The Pistons committed a 24-second violation, giving the Lakers the ball with eight seconds left.


1989 NBA Finals, Game Summaries, Game 2
James Worthy drove to the basket and was fouled, giving him an opportunity to tie the game. But the 1988 Finals MVP missed the first free throw. He made the second, bringing the Lakers within one, 106–105.


1989 NBA Finals, Game Summaries, Game 2
Isiah Thomas then hit two free throws with one second remaining to give the Pistons a three-point lead and the Lakers, who called timeout to advance the ball to midcourt, one last chance to force overtime, but Jeff Lamp lost the ball on the inbound pass, and the horn sounded, ending Game 2 with the Pistons winning, 108–105, to take a 2–0 series lead.


1989 NBA Finals, Game Summaries, Game 3
The Pistons had a 2–0 series lead, but knew it would be tough going in L.A. Magic Johnson tried to play, but the pain of his hamstring injury was just too great. He left Game 3 after just five minutes with the Lakers leading, 11–8.


1989 NBA Finals, Game Summaries, Game 3
Without Magic, the Lakers made a heroic effort. James Worthy scored 26 points, and the 42-year-old Kareem Abdul-Jabbar found the fountain of youth, contributing 24 points and 13 rebounds. Michael Cooper, the last remaining backcourt veteran, had 13 assists and 15 points. But it wasn't enough.


1989 NBA Finals, Game Summaries, Game 3
Dennis Rodman, despite suffering from painful back spasms, pulled down 19 rebounds between trips to the sideline for rubdowns. But the main effort came from the guards. Joe Dumars scored 31, including a remarkable third quarter in which he scored 17 consecutive points (21 in all for the period). Vinnie Johnson added 17, including 13 points in the fourth. Isiah Thomas pitched in with 26 points and eight assists, including six and three in the final period.


1989 NBA Finals, Game Summaries, Game 3
The Pistons led 113–108 with 15 seconds left when Thomas allowed A. C. Green to tie him up and steal the ball. Thomas then fouled Lakers rookie point guard David Rivers, who made both free throws, pulling Los Angeles to within three at 113–110 with 13 seconds left. Dumars then lost the ball out of bounds with nine seconds left, giving the Lakers a shot at the tie.


1989 NBA Finals, Game Summaries, Game 3
The Lakers then ran a play where Rivers got free for an open three-pointer in the corner. From about eight feet to Rivers' right, Dumars wheeled and lunged at the shot. Not only did he block it, he landed and saved the ball from going out of bounds. The Pistons then ran out the clock after Bill Laimbeer's free throw to close the game with a 114–110 win, putting them on the verge of an unexpected sweep.


1989 NBA Finals, Game Summaries, Game 4
With the Lakers' backs to the wall, coach Pat Riley admonished key offensive player James Worthy to step up his game. Worthy responded with a championship effort of 40 points on 17-of-26 field-goal shooting with Rick Mahorn in his face every step of the way. The Forum crowd was also anticipating Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's possible curtain call. During the pregame warmups and introductions, Kareem received several ovations.


1989 NBA Finals, Game Summaries, Game 4
With Worthy playing out of his mind, the Lakers took a 35–23 lead at the end of the first period. Despite trouble at the free-throw line (11 missed), the Pistons began to claw back as Los Angeles led 55–49 at intermission.


1989 NBA Finals, Game Summaries, Game 4
The Pistons started fast in the third quarter, beginning with a three-point basket by Bill Laimbeer. Mahorn then scored four quick points, and the Pistons took a 59–58 lead moments later. Dumars hit a driving bank shot, drew the foul and made the free throw, giving him 19 points on the evening. Mahorn followed that with another bucket and the Lakers called timeout. Worthy led the Lakers back into a 78–76 lead at the end of the third, but they knew the Pistons were coming on.


1989 NBA Finals, Game Summaries, Game 4
The Pistons took control of the game in the fourth, with James Edwards scoring particularly well. With 3:23 left and the Pistons leading 100–94, the crowd rose to a standing ovation as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar left the game. For the next two minutes, it seemed nobody wanted to hit a shot. Abdul-Jabbar reentered the game and spun and hit a bank shot with 1:37 left, his last two NBA points, cutting the Pistons' margin to 100–96. Kareem went out of the game with 47 seconds remaining amid thunderous applause.


1989 NBA Finals, Game Summaries, Game 4
Laimbeer hit a jumper at the 28-second mark, and the Pistons began celebrating. Riley sent Abdul-Jabbar back in after the timeout, but Michael Cooper missed a three-pointer and Isiah Thomas was fouled. Riley then sent Orlando Woolridge in for Abdul-Jabbar, this time for good, prompting a standing ovation from the crowd and acknowledgment from the players on both the Lakers and, in a rare show of sportsmanship, the Pistons. Thomas then hit the foul shots, closing out the 105–97 win and the championship. Dumars was named Finals MVP.


1989 NBA Finals, Game Summaries, Game 4
This was the first NBA Finals that ended in a four-game sweep since the Finals went to the 2–3–2 format in 1985.


1989 NBA Finals, Television coverage
This series was aired on CBS. Dick Stockton and Hubie Brown called the action. Stockton also narrated the season-ending documentary "Motor City Madness" for NBA Entertainment.


1989 NBA Finals, Television coverage
That year, Pat O'Brien filled in for Brent Musburger for Game 2 as pre-game, half-time and post-game host as Musburger was on assignment for CBS Sports, the same thing that happened in 1988. CBS used three sideline reporters which were O'Brien (the Pistons' sideline), Lesley Visser (the Lakers' sideline) and James Brown (both teams). This was Musburger's last NBA Finals assignment for CBS, as he was fired on April 1, 1990, months before NBA's television contract with CBS expired. Musburger moved to ABC and ESPN, and later called nine NBA Finals series for ESPN Radio between 1996 and 2004.


1989 NBA Finals, Television coverage
For the start of 1989 NBA Finals CBS completely revamped their opening montage for their NBA broadcasts. The computer-generated imagery (once again set in and around a virtual arena) was made to look more realistic (live-action footage was incorporated in the backdrops). Also, the familiar theme music (an uptempo series of four notes and three bars composed by Allyson Bellink since the 1983 NBA Finals) each was rearranged to sound more intricate and to have a more emotional impact, along the lines of the network's later World Series coverage. Between the 1989 NBA Finals and the 1990 NBA Finals' intros, the theme music was slightly revised; the 1989 Finals intro incorporated more of a guitar riff, while the 1990 Finals intro featured a little more usage of trumpets.


1989 NBA Finals, Aftermath
The Pistons would repeat as champions in 1990. The Pistons won 59 games that season, then defeated the Indiana Pacers (3-0), New York Knicks (4-1) and Chicago Bulls (4-3) in the first three rounds, before overcoming the Portland Trail Blazers 4–1 in the Finals.


1989 NBA Finals, Aftermath
The Lakers earned the league's best record with a 63–19 record in the 1989–90 NBA season, despite losing Kareem Abdul-Jabbar to retirement. However the Lakers fell to the Phoenix Suns 4–1 in the Western Conference Semifinals, after which head coach Pat Riley resigned. The Lakers did make it back to the finals in 1991 but fell to the Bulls in five games.


1989 NBA Finals, Aftermath
The Pistons and Lakers met again in the 2004 NBA Finals. Much had changed since they last met, but they still took on the personalities of their respective teams: the more physical, defensive Pistons against the finesse, offensively-minded Lakers. In the rematch, the underdog Pistons, led by Ben Wallace, Chauncey Billups, Richard Hamilton, Rasheed Wallace and Tayshaun Prince, and coached by Larry Brown, upset the star-studded future Hall-of-Fame Lakers team of Kobe Bryant, Shaquille O'Neal, Karl Malone and Gary Payton, and coached by Phil Jackson, in five games.


1989 NBA Finals, Aftermath
Two-time NBA All-Star Isaiah Thomas was named after Isiah Thomas as a consequence of this series. The former Thomas' father, a lifelong Lakers fan, bet his son's name on his team winning the series.


1989 NBA draft
The 1989 NBA draft took place on June 27, 1989, in New York City, New York, USA. Despite eight of the top ten picks being considered busts, including the first two picks Pervis Ellison and Danny Ferry, the draft did produce many talented players such as Shawn Kemp, Glen Rice, Sean Elliott, Nick Anderson, Dana Barros, Tim Hardaway, Vlade Divac, Clifford Robinson, B. J. Armstrong and Mookie Blaylock, The draft was reduced from three rounds in the previous year to the two-round format that is still in use to the present day. As a result, NBA drafts from this season until 1995 produced the lowest number of total draft picks selected at 54 overall selections.


1989 NBA draft
This was the first draft for the Minnesota Timberwolves and Orlando Magic, prior to their inaugural season. This was also the first draft televised prime time on U.S. national television.


1989 NBA expansion draft
The 1989 NBA Expansion Draft was the ninth expansion draft of the National Basketball Association (NBA). The draft was held on June 15, 1989, so that the newly founded Minnesota Timberwolves and Orlando Magic could acquire players for the upcoming 1989–90 season. Minnesota and Orlando had been awarded the expansion teams on April 22, 1987. In an NBA expansion draft, new NBA teams are allowed to acquire players from the previously established teams in the league.


1989 NBA expansion draft
Not all players on a given team are available during an expansion draft, since each team can protect a certain number of players from being selected. In this draft, each of the twenty-three other NBA teams had protected eight players from their roster and the Magic and the Timberwolves selected twelve and eleven unprotected players respectively, one from each team. The previous year's expansion teams, the Charlotte Hornets and the Miami Heat, were not involved in this draft and did not lose any player.


1989 NBA expansion draft
Prior to the draft, the league conducted a coin flip between the Timberwolves and the Magic to decide their draft order in this expansion draft and in the 1989 NBA draft. The Magic won the coin flip and chose to have the first selection and the right to select twelve players in this expansion draft, thus allowing the Timberwolves to receive the higher pick in the 1989 Draft.


1989 NBA expansion draft
The Magic were formed and owned by a group headed by Jim Hewitt and William duPont III. Former Philadelphia 76ers coach Matt Goukas was hired as the franchise's first head coach. The Magic used their first pick to select former fifth overall pick Sidney Green from the New York Knicks. The Magic's other selections included two-time All-Star Reggie Theus and seven former first-round picks, Terry Catledge, Sam Vincent, Scott Skiles, Jerry Reynolds, Jim Farmer, Keith Lee and Frank Johnson. However, Farmer, Lee and Johnson never played for the Magic. Nine players from the expansion draft joined the Magic for their inaugural season, but only two played more than three seasons for the team. Catledge played four seasons with the Magic until his NBA career ended in 1993. Skiles played five seasons with the Magic.


1989 NBA expansion draft
The Timberwolves were formed and owned by a group headed by Marv Wolfenson  and Harvey Ratner. The Timberwolves were the second NBA franchise to play in Minnesota, following the Minneapolis Lakers, which moved to Los Angeles and became the Los Angeles Lakers in 1960. Former Cleveland Cavaliers head coach Bill Musselman was hired as the franchise's first head coach. The Timberwolves used their first pick to select Detroit Pistons starting power forward Rick Mahorn. However, Mahorn refused to report to the Timberwolves and was traded to the Philadelphia 76ers prior to the start of the season.


1989 NBA expansion draft
The Timberwolves' other selections included one-time All-Star Steve Johnson and two former first-round picks, David Rivers and Maurice Martin. However, Rivers and Martin never played for the Timberwolves. The Timberwolves also selected West German center Gunther Behnke, who had never played in the NBA. Four players from the expansion draft joined the Timberwolves for their inaugural season, but only one played more than one season for the team. Tyrone Corbin played two and a half seasons for the Timberwolves before he was traded in 1991.


1989 NBA expansion draft, Trades
Prior to the day of the draft, the following trades were made and resulted in exchanges of future draft picks between the teams, along with a particular agreement in the expansion draft.


1989 NBA playoffs
The 1989 NBA playoffs was the postseason tournament of the National Basketball Association's 1988–89 season. The tournament concluded with the Eastern Conference champion Detroit Pistons defeating the Western Conference champion Los Angeles Lakers 4 games to 0 in the NBA Finals. Joe Dumars was named NBA Finals MVP. The Pistons had one of the most dominant playoff runs in NBA history, finishing 15–2 with their only losses to the Chicago Bulls in the Eastern Conference Finals. This NBA playoffs also holds the record for the most sweeps in an entire NBA playoffs with 9 out of 15 series being decided in just 3 or 4 games.


1989 NBA playoffs
The Lakers won the Western Conference title without losing a game, and entered the NBA Finals as the heavy favorites. However, they were swept in the Finals by the Pistons, due in part to season-ending injuries suffered by Magic Johnson and Byron Scott. The Lakers became the first team in NBA history to open an NBA post-season with 11 straight victories and to sweep three series in an NBA post-season.


1989 NBA playoffs
Chicago advanced to the Eastern Conference Finals for the first time since 1975 (and the first time in Michael Jordan's career), but their season was ended by Detroit for the second straight year. Two rounds earlier, Jordan hit "The Shot" over Craig Ehlo at the buzzer to beat the Cavs.


1989 NBA playoffs
The Boston Celtics' first-round playoff sweep by the Pistons was the first time they failed to get past the round of 16. Boston's chances were hampered by the absence of Larry Bird during these playoffs due to a season-ending injury earlier in the season; the first and only time in Bird's NBA career he'd miss playing in the playoffs.


1989 NBA playoffs
Former Utah Jazz head coach Jerry Sloan made the first of 19 playoff appearances in a 22-year tenure. The only time he missed the playoffs with Utah was 2004–2006. Prior to this, he had last appeared in the playoffs in 1981 with the Bulls. His Jazz were ousted by the Golden State Warriors 3–0, the second time a seventh seed had beaten the second seed in the playoffs. Under Don Nelson, the Warriors became famous for their up-tempo game that made up for an undersized lineup, as well as their ability to create mismatches. The Warriors made history as the only team to beat either of the top two seeds three times in the NBA Playoffs; they beat the second-seed San Antonio Spurs in 1991 and top-seeded Dallas Mavericks (a team Nelson also coached) in 2007.


1989 NBA playoffs, First Round, Eastern Conference First Round, (1) Detroit Pistons vs. (8) Boston Celtics
This was the fifth playoff meeting between these two teams, with the Celtics winning three of the first four meetings.


1989 NBA playoffs, First Round, Eastern Conference First Round, (2) New York Knicks vs. (7) Philadelphia 76ers
This was the ninth playoff meeting between these two teams, with the 76ers winning six of the first eight meetings.


1989 NBA playoffs, First Round, Eastern Conference First Round, (3) Cleveland Cavaliers vs. (6) Chicago Bulls
This was the second playoff meeting between these two teams, with the Bulls winning the first meeting.


1989 NBA playoffs, First Round, Eastern Conference First Round, (4) Atlanta Hawks vs. (5) Milwaukee Bucks
This was the third playoff meeting between these two teams, with each team winning one series apiece.


1989 NBA playoffs, First Round, Western Conference First Round, (1) Los Angeles Lakers vs. (8) Portland Trail Blazers
This was the fourth playoff meeting between these two teams, with the Lakers winning two of the first three meetings.


1989 NBA playoffs, First Round, Western Conference First Round, (2) Utah Jazz vs. (7) Golden State Warriors
This was the second playoff meeting between these two teams, with the Warriors winning the first meeting.


1989 NBA playoffs, First Round, Western Conference First Round, (3) Phoenix Suns vs. (6) Denver Nuggets
This was the third playoff meeting between these two teams, with each team winning one series apiece.


1989 NBA playoffs, First Round, Western Conference First Round, (4) Seattle SuperSonics vs. (5) Houston Rockets
This was the third playoff meeting between these two teams, with the SuperSonics winning the first two meetings.


1989 NBA playoffs, Conference Semifinals, Eastern Conference Semifinals, (1) Detroit Pistons vs. (5) Milwaukee Bucks
This was the second playoff meeting between these two teams, with the Pistons winning the first meeting.


1989 NBA playoffs, Conference Semifinals, Eastern Conference Semifinals, (2) New York Knicks vs. (6) Chicago Bulls
This was the second playoff meeting between these two teams, with the Bulls winning the first meeting.


1989 NBA playoffs, Conference Semifinals, Western Conference Semifinals, (1) Los Angeles Lakers vs. (4) Seattle SuperSonics
This was the fifth playoff meeting between these two teams, with each team winning two series apiece.


1989 NBA playoffs, Conference Semifinals, Western Conference Semifinals, (3) Phoenix Suns vs. (7) Golden State Warriors
This was the second playoff meeting between these two teams, with the Suns winning the first meeting.


1989 NBA playoffs, Conference Finals, Eastern Conference Finals, (1) Detroit Pistons vs. (6) Chicago Bulls
This was the third playoff meeting between these two teams, with each team winning one series apiece.


1989 NBA playoffs, Conference Finals, Western Conference Finals, (1) Los Angeles Lakers vs. (3) Phoenix Suns
This was the sixth playoff meeting between these two teams, with the Lakers winning the first five meetings.


1989 NBA playoffs, NBA Finals: (E1) Detroit Pistons vs. (W1) Los Angeles Lakers
This was the 11th playoff meeting between these two teams, with the Lakers winning nine of the first ten meetings.


1989 NBL Finals
The 1989 NBL Finals was the championship series of the 1989 season of Australia's National Basketball League (NBL) and the conclusion of the season's playoffs. The North Melbourne Giants defeated the Canberra Cannons in two games (2-0) for their first NBL championship.


1989 NBL Finals, Format
The 1989 National Basketball League Finals started on 20 September and concluded on 20 October. The playoffs consisted of two best of three Elimination finals, two best of three Semi-finals and the best of three game Grand Final series. As the two top teams at the end of the regular season, the North Melbourne Giants and Canberra Cannons both qualified for home court advantage during the Semi-finals.


1989 NBL Finals, Semi-finals, Game 3
North Melbourne's 55 point win over Perth in game 3 of their Semi-final series was the record winning margin for an NBL Semi-final breaking the previous record of 48 held by Adelaide for their 151–103 win over Newcastle in 1985. The Giants score of 165 also remains (as of the 2016 NBL Finals) the highest score in an NBL Finals game.


1989 NBL season
The 1989 NBL season was the 11th season of competition since its establishment in 1979. A total of 13 teams contest the league.


1989 NBL season, Regular season
The 1989 Regular Season took place over 22 Rounds between 20 April 1989 and 16 September 1989.


1989 NBL season, Ladder
This is the ladder at the end of season, before the finals. The top 6 teams qualified for the finals series.


1989 NBL season, Ladder
The NBL tie-breaker system as outlined in the NBL Rules and Regulations states that in the case of an identical win-loss record, the results in games played between the teams will determine order of seeding.


1989 NBL season, Ladder
2Head-to-Head between Sydney Kings and Adelaide 36ers (1-1). Sydney Kings won For and Against (+7).


1989 NBL season, Ladder
3Head-to-Head between Westside Saints and Hobart Tassie Devils (1-1). Westside Saints won For and Against (+5).


1989 NBL season, Finals, Playoff bracket
There were two best of three Elimination finals, four best of three Semi-finals, and then best of three grand final.


1989 NC State Wolfpack football team
The 1989 NC State Wolfpack football team represented North Carolina State University during the 1989 NCAA Division I-A football season. The team's head coach was Dick Sheridan. NC State has been a member of the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) since the league's inception in 1953. The Wolfpack played its home games in 1989 at Carter–Finley Stadium in Raleigh, North Carolina, which has been NC State football's home stadium since 1966.


1989 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament
The 1989 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament was played at the end of the 1989 NCAA Division I baseball season to determine the national champion of college baseball. The tournament concluded with eight teams competing in the College World Series, a double-elimination tournament in its forty third year. Eight regional competitions were held to determine the participants in the final event. Each region was composed of six teams, resulting in 48 teams participating in the tournament at the conclusion of their regular season, and in some cases, after a conference tournament. The forty-third tournament's champion was Wichita State, coached by Gene Stephenson. The Most Outstanding Player was Greg Brummett of Wichita State.


1989 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament, Regionals
The opening rounds of the tournament were played across eight regional sites across the country, each consisting of a six-team field. Each regional tournament is double-elimination, however region brackets are variable depending on the number of teams remaining after each round. The winners of each regional advanced to the College World Series.


1989 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament, College World Series, Results
The teams in the CWS were divided into two pools of four, with each pool playing a double-elimination format. For the second time since the College World Series began in 1947, the series was not a true double elimination tournament. Instead, the winners of the two pools met in a single National Championship game. Texas came out of its pool with no losses. Wichita State came out of its pool with one loss. Wichita State defeated Texas in the Championship game.


1989 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament, College World Series, Results
Because each team only had one loss, in the championships prior to 1988, the teams would have played a winner-take-all game for the championship. Therefore, when Texas lost the championship game, rather than play another game for the championship, Wichita State was crowned champion. This new format was adopted for television reasons for the final game. Later, the format was switched to a best of three series in 2003.


1989 NCAA Division I Cross Country Championships
The 1989 NCAA Division I Cross Country Championships were the 51st annual NCAA Men's Division I Cross Country Championship and the 9th annual NCAA Women's Division I Cross Country Championship to determine the team and individual national champions of NCAA Division I men's and women's collegiate cross country running in the United States. In all, four different titles were contested: men's and women's individual and team championships.


1989 NCAA Division I Cross Country Championships
Held on November 20, 1989, the combined meet was hosted by the United States Naval Academy at the Navy Cross Country Course in Annapolis, Maryland. The distance for the men's race was 10 kilometers (6.21 miles) while the distance for the women's race was 5 kilometers (3.11 miles). A record 364 runners, both men and women, contested this championship.


1989 NCAA Division I Cross Country Championships
The men's team national championship was won by Iowa State, their first team national title. The individual championship was won by John Nuttall, also from Iowa State, with a time of 15:59.86.


1989 NCAA Division I Cross Country Championships
The women's team national championship was won by Villanova, their first national title (and first of their eventual record nine). The individual championship was won by Vicki Huber, also from Villanova, with a time of 15:59.86, the event record time for the 5 kilometer distance (upheld all the way until 2001, when the race distance was extended to 6 kilometers). Huber beat her nearest competitor by almost thirty seconds. This was the first of Villanova's record six consecutive individual women's cross country titles.


1989 NCAA Division I Field Hockey Championship
The 1989 NCAA Division I Field Hockey Championship was the ninth women's collegiate field hockey tournament organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association, to determine the top college field hockey team in the United States. The North Carolina Tar Heels won their first championship, defeating the Old Dominion Lady Monarchs in the final. The championship rounds were held at Stagg Field in Springfield, Massachusetts.


1989 NCAA Division I Indoor Track and Field Championships
The 1989 NCAA Division I Indoor Track and Field Championships were contested at the Hoosier Dome in Indianapolis, Indiana to determine the individual and team national champions of men's and women's NCAA collegiate indoor track and field events in the United States. These were the 25th annual men's championships and the 7th annual women's championships.


1989 NCAA Division I Indoor Track and Field Championships
Five-time defending champions Arkansas claimed the men's team title, the Razorbacks' sixth overall title and, ultimately, the sixth of twelve straight titles for Arkansas.


1989 NCAA Division I Indoor Track and Field Championships
LSU won the women's team title, the Lady Tigers' second team title and second in three years.


1989 NCAA Division I Indoor Track and Field Championships, Qualification
All teams and athletes from Division I indoor track and field programs were eligible to compete for this year's individual and team titles.


1989 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship Game
The 1989 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship Game was the final round of the 1989 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament and determined the national champion for the 1988–89 NCAA Division I men's basketball season  The 1989 National Title Game was played on April 3, 1989 at the Kingdome in Seattle, Washington. The 1989 National Title Game was played between the 1989 Southeast Regional Champions, #3-seeded Michigan and the 1989 West Regional Champions, #3-seeded Seton Hall.


1989 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship Game, Box score
Michigan trailed by three, 79–76, with less than a minute remaining in overtime when Terry Mills hit a turnaround 11-footer to cut the Seton Hall lead to 79–78. After a defensive stop, the Pirates' Gerald Greene fouled Rumeal Robinson with three seconds left in overtime. Robinson made both free throws, and, after Seton Hall's last-second shot came up short, Michigan won its first national championship.


1989 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament
The 1989 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament involved 64 schools playing in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of men's  NCAA Division I college basketball. It began on March 16, 1989, and ended with the championship game on April 3 in Seattle. A total of 63 games were played.


1989 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament
Michigan, coached by Steve Fisher, won the national title with an 80–79 overtime victory in the final game over Seton Hall, coached by P. J. Carlesimo. Glen Rice of Michigan set an NCAA tournament record by scoring 184 points in six games and was named the tournament's Most Outstanding Player.


1989 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament
Just prior to the start of this tournament, Michigan coach Bill Frieder had announced that he would accept the head coaching position at Arizona State University at the end of the season. Michigan athletic director Bo Schembechler promptly fired Frieder and appointed top assistant Fisher as interim coach, stating famously, that "a Michigan man is going to coach a Michigan team."


1989 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament
Two 16-seeded teams came within one point of victory in the first round (Georgetown vs. Princeton, Oklahoma vs. East Tennessee State), and a third came within six points. This tournament was also unusual in that all four 11-seeds advanced out of the first round.


1989 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament
The 1989 Tournament was the second one since 1980, with 1987 being the first, in which the defending national champion did not participate in the tournament. Kansas, winner of the 1988 NCAA title, had been placed on probation for violations committed by former coach Larry Brown and was barred from the tournament. Brown left Kansas immediately after winning the national championship to return to coaching in the NBA with the San Antonio Spurs, leaving first-year coach Roy Williams to coach the team. It is the only time the Jayhawks have missed the NCAA tournament from 1984 to the present day.


1989 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament
The defending champion would not be left out of the next year's tournament again until 2008. The tournament was notable for the poor performance of the SEC. After traditional stalwart Kentucky missed the postseason after experiencing its first losing season since 1927, none of the five SEC teams won a game in the tournament.


1989 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Schedule and venues
The following are the sites that were selected to host each round of the 1989 tournament:


1989 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Schedule and venues
The Kingdome was the host city of the Final Four for the second time in six years. Once again, all four venues in the regional rounds were former or future Final Four venues. For the first time since 1964, there were no new host cities or venues used for the tournament. Additionally, no venues were retired after this year.


1989 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Legacy
The story of the Wolverines' success was cited as inspiration in another sport. When the Spain national football team manager Julen Lopetegui was sacked days before the 2018 FIFA World Cup started after agreeing to join Real Madrid after the tournament, Spanish defender Gerard Piqué drew parallels with Michigan's NCAA win amid similar circumstances. Unfortunately, Spain failed to advance beyond the round of 16 while France won the tournament.


1989 NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championship
The 1989 NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championships were contested at the 51st annual NCAA-sanctioned golf tournament for determining the individual and team national champions of men's collegiate golf at the Division I level in the United States.


1989 NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championship
The tournament was held at the Oak Tree Country Club in Edmond, Oklahoma, a suburb of Oklahoma City.


1989 NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championship
Oklahoma won the team championship, the Sooners' first NCAA title.


1989 NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championship
Future professional and five-time major champion Phil Mickelson, from Arizona State, won the individual title, his first of three.


1989 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament
The 1989 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was the culmination of the 1988–89 NCAA Division I men's ice hockey season, the 42nd such tournament in NCAA history. It was held between March 17 and April 1, 1989, and concluded with Harvard defeating Minnesota 4-3 in overtime. All First Round and Quarterfinals matchups were held at home team venues with the 'Frozen Four' games being played at the St. Paul Civic Center in St. Paul, Minnesota.


1989 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Qualifying teams
The NCAA permitted 12 teams to qualify for the tournament and divided its qualifiers into two regions (East and West). Each of the tournament champions from the four Division I conferences (CCHA, ECAC, Hockey East and WCHA) received automatic invitations into the tournament with At-large bids making up the remaining 8 teams. The NCAA permitted one Independent team to participate in the tournament and because the previous year the independent qualifier was placed in the West pool the two eastern conferences (ECAC and Hockey East) would split only three open spots as opposed to the West's four open spots. The top four remaining western teams and the top three remaining eastern teams received invitations and were seeded with the automatic qualifiers according to their ranking.


1989 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Format
The tournament featured four rounds of play. The three odd-number ranked teams from one region were placed into a bracket with the three even-number ranked teams of the other region. The teams were then seeded according to their ranking with the top two teams in each bracket receiving byes into the quarterfinals.


1989 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Format
In the first round the third and sixth seeds and the fourth and fifth seeds played best-of-three series to determine which school advanced to the Quarterfinals with the winners of the 4 vs. 5 series playing the first seed and the winner of the 3 vs. 6 series playing the second seed. In the Quarterfinals the matches were best-of-three series once more with the victors advancing to the National Semifinals. Beginning with the Semifinals all games were played at the St. Paul Civic Center and all series became Single-game eliminations. The winning teams in the semifinals advanced to the National Championship Game.


1989 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship
The 1989 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Tournament was the 19th annual Division I NCAA Men's Lacrosse Championship tournament. Twelve NCAA Division I college men's lacrosse teams met after having played their way through a regular season, and for some, a conference tournament.


1989 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship, Tournament overview
The championship game was played at Maryland's Byrd Stadium in front of 23,893 fans. The game saw Syracuse University defeat Johns Hopkins University by the score of 13–12. This was a battle of number one versus number two, with both teams coming into the finals with just one loss.


1989 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship, Tournament overview
This was the second straight national title for Syracuse behind the Gait brothers, Paul and Gary Gait, as well as John Zulberti. In addition to the Gaits, a number of stars played in this final, including Dave Pietramala, Quint Kessenich, Tom Marechek.


1989 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship, Tournament overview
A wild, back and forth, athletic affair, the game was not decided until one final desperation shot by Johns Hopkins with two seconds left.


1989 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship, Tournament boxscores
1989 FIRST ROUNDMAY 17Navy 12, Penn 11Penn 2 1 5 3 — 11Navy 2 4 3 3 — 12Penn scoring – John Dick 2, Stewart Fisher 2, Peter Smith 2, Tom Burns 1, MichaelKelly 1, John Lyons 1, Bill Quill 1, Chris Shoemaker 1. Navy scoring – Brian Keith 4, Mike Herger 3, Paul Basile 2, Dennis Nealon 2, BrianSullivan 1. Shots: Penn 54, Navy 43. Saves: Penn–Jeremy Sigler 10, Kevin Lopez 9; Navy–LouisBrown 23. Attendance: 2,025.


1989 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship, Tournament boxscores
Adelphi 16, Michigan St. 10Michigan St. 0 1 3 6 — 10Adelphi 4 5 4 3 — 16Michigan St. scoring – Mike Siegenthaler 3, Wayne Sansiviero 2, Mike Ferguson 1,Rich Montalbano 1, Adam Mueller 1, Brad Smaha 1, Dave Stein 1. Adelphi scoring – Tom Aiello 5, Scott Reh 4, Jeff Reh 3, Chris McKeough 1, GordonPurdie 1, Brad Sahlstrom 1, Paul Vlachos 1. Shots: Michigan St. 39, Adelphi 66. Saves: Michigan St.–Chris Barber 27; Adelphi–JimCheeseman 18. Attendance: 750. North Carolina 19, Towson


1989 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship, Tournament boxscores
8Towson 4 1 1 2 — 8North Carolina 4 5 6 4 — 19Towson scoring – Tony Millon 4, John Blatchley 1, Lindsay Dixon 1, David Shoul 1,Glenn Smith 1. North Carolina scoring – David Kelly 5, Neill Redfern 5, John Szczypinski 2, MarkTummillo 2, Jim Buczek 1, Scott Cox 1, Dan Donnelly 1, Chris Galgano 1, MichaelThomas 1. Shots: Towson 39, North Carolina 47. Saves: Towson–David Linthieum 14, MarcLamantia 1; North Carolina–Pat Olmert 16, Lars Pedersen 3. Attendance: 392.


1989 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship, Tournament boxscores
Massachusetts 16, Cornell 7Cornell 1 3 1 2 — 7Massachusetts 5 1 5 5 — 16Cornell scoring – Vince Angotti 2, Steve Meyer 2, Todd Adler 1, Greg Boyce 1, JohnHeil 1. Massachusetts scoring – Chris Tyler 5, Paul Ganci 4, Scott Hiller 2, Bill Begien 1,Michael Cain 1, Rob Codignotto 1, John Gonzalez 1, Tim Soudan 1. Shots: Cornell 38, Massachusetts 48. Saves: Cornell–Paul Schimoler 16;Massachusetts–Sal LoCascio 19. Attendance: 2,392.


1989 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Tournament
The 1989 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Tournament was the 30th organized men's college soccer tournament by the National Collegiate Athletic Association, to determine the top college soccer team in the United States. The final match was played on December 3, 1989, in Piscataway, New Jersey, at Rutgers Stadium. All the other games were played at the home field of the higher seeded team.


1989 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Tournament
The Virginia Cavaliers and the Santa Clara Broncos were declared co-national champions after the championship game ended in a 1–1 tie. Both teams won their first national titles. This tournament marks the third and final time the NCAA recognized men's soccer co-champions; the 1967 final was called due to weather, while the 1968 final was also a draw by rule.


1989 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Tournament, Final
The final was played in frigid conditions; the wind chill was ten degrees below zero at kickoff and dropped throughout the game, with the stiff breeze taking control of almost any ball kicked in the air. After the marathon 1985 final, which was played with unlimited 10-minute overtimes and required eight of them, the NCAA changed their rules to limit games to one 30-minute overtime and one 30-minute sudden-death period, each with two halves. Although all other tournament games could be decided by penalty kicks, this did not extend to the final. After the 150 minutes were played out, Virginia and Santa Clara were declared co-champions.


1989 NCAA Division I Men's Swimming and Diving Championships
The 1989 NCAA Division I Men's Swimming and Diving Championships were contested in March 1989 at the Indiana University Natatorium in Indianapolis, Indiana at the 66th annual NCAA-sanctioned swim meet to determine the team and individual national champions of Division I men's collegiate swimming and diving in the United States. The men's and women's titles would not be held at the same site until 2006.


1989 NCAA Division I Men's Swimming and Diving Championships
Texas again topped the team standings, finishing 79 points ahead of Stanford. It was the Longhorns' second consecutive and third overall title and the third for coach Eddie Reese.