The classic Doug Daniels photo of Jermaine Wallace's game-winning 3-pointer against Iowa in the final second of the 2006 NCAA Tournament basketball win by the Demons will appear in this year's NCAA Tournament First and Second Round official game program published by Host Communications in partnership with the NCAA.
As mentioned last week, Wallace was interviewed last week for a story in the game program about buzzer-beating shots in the tournament. The Doug Daniels photo will accompany the story.
Daniels, coincidentally, will be here Saturday to watch the Demons and visit the campus of the university that has so unexpectedly become a part of his photographic legacy. He covers Southern Illinois University basketball for a Carbondale-area newspaper and was just warming up before the Pitt-SIU first-round game in 2006 at Auburn Hills when he perfectly captured "The Shot."
Footage of the play may be featured in a national TV commercial as part of a General Motors/Pontiac advertising campaign to run throughout March, in conjunction with the Pontiac Game Changing Performance contest. NSU won $105,000 as fans around the world voted the Demons' game-winner as the best "game changing performance" in the 2006 tournament.
As I told Jermaine last week when I called him to set up the interview for the NCAA Tournament program story, he'll be old and gray and still a topic of conversation around the country each year around March. So will Northwestern State!
Doug Ireland, SID
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