"One Shining Moment" is a song written by David Barrett that has become closely associated with the NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament.
"One Shining Moment" is traditionally played at the end of CBS's and TBS's coverage of the championship game of the tournament.
The song is played as the winning team's players cut down the nets to a montage of highlights from the tournament.
CBS then asked Barrett for permission to use the song after the 1987 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship Game on March 30, in which Indiana beat Syracuse.
[12][13] On April 1, 2016, Turner Sports announced that Ne-Yo had performed a version of "One Shining Moment" that would be used on the "Team Stream" broadcasts of the championship game on TNT and TruTV, which were tailored to focus on highlights of the two participating teams, as with the game broadcasts on these channels themselves.
[14] In an effort to give the song "Turner flair" in honor of TBS's first national championship game broadcast, and to make light of the concerns regarding its use by the network, analyst Charles Barkley performed his own tongue-in-cheek cover of "One Shining Moment" in a commercial promoting that year's tournament.
The Chicago White Sox used the version with "the gun goes off" to close their telecast on the final game at Comiskey Park on September 30, 1990.