Jimmy Valvano’s N.C. State Wolfpack pulled off one of many largest upsets in faculty basketball historical past after they upset the Phi Slamma Jamma Houston Cougars within the 1983 nationwide championship.
More than 40 years later, 10 gamers who performed below the late head coach filed a lawsuit in Wake County Superior Court in North Carolina on Monday in opposition to the NCAA and the Collegiate Licensing Co., looking for compensation for unauthorized use of their identify, picture and likeness. The gamers requested a jury trial and “cheap compensation.”
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North Carolina State coach Jim Valvano, heart with fist raised, celebrates after the group’s win over Houston to win the NCAA males’s faculty basketball event championship in Albuquerque, N.M., on April 4, 1983. (AP Photo, File)
Lorenzo Charles’ emphatic dunk to win the sport and Valvano’s run across the court docket have been part of NCAA Tournament promotions for years.
“For greater than 40 years, the NCAA and its co-conspirators have systematically and deliberately misappropriated the Cardiac Pack’s publicity rights – together with their names, pictures, and likenesses – related to that recreation and that play, reaping scores of hundreds of thousands of {dollars} from the Cardiac Pack’s legendary victory,” the lawsuit said.
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North Carolina State’s Lorenzo Charles dunks the ball within the NCAA Final Four Championship recreation in Albuquerque, N.M., April 4, 1983. (AP Photo/File)
The go well with added that “student-athletes’ worth to the NCAA doesn’t finish with their commencement; archival footage and different merchandise represent an ongoing revenue stream for the NCAA lengthy after the scholars whose pictures are used have moved on from faculty.”
The NCAA has but to touch upon the lawsuit.
Fox News Digital reached out to IMG, which acquired Collegiate Licensing Co. in 2017.
Thurl Bailey, Alvin Battle, Walt Densmore, Tommy DiNardo, Terry Gannon, George McClain, Cozell McQueen, Walter Proctor, Harold Thompson and Mike Warren are the plaintiffs within the case.
The 1983 North Carolina State gamers, from left, Alvin Battle, Thurl Bailey, Ernie Meyers, Lorenzo Charles and Harlod Thompson smile on the crowd throughout halftime festivities of the sport between the Wolfpack and the Clemson Tigers in Raleigh, North Carolina, on Feb. 16, 2008. (Chris Seward/Raleigh News & Observer/Tribune News Service through Getty Images)
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Charles died in 2011; Dereck Whittenburg, whose missed shot was collected by Charles, is a staffer in N.C. State’s athletic division and isn’t listed as a plaintiff.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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