Informative Speech
Informative Speech Preparation Outline
INTRODUCTION
Attention Getter: Thousands of screaming fans are on their feet fingers crossed. Forty four second left on the basketball game N.C. State fifty two, Houston fifty two. A dangerous pass is almost stolen by Houston. Twenty two seconds left. Sidney passes to Bailey in the corner. Bailey throws it too Whittenburg, FIVE second left. Whittenburg shoots a prayer from thirty feet. THREE seconds …TWO seconds, the ball looks to be short and all hope is lost. Then Lorenzo Charles leaps into the air from under the basket, ONE second left. Charles catches the ball and dunks it in.
Reveal the Topic: The N.C. State Wolf pack, are the 1983 NCAAM Basketball champions.
Thesis Statement: I would like to inform you all about a historic, Cinderella sports story. How the North Carolina State won the NCAAM Basketball Championship in 1983. I will inform you about their regular season highs and lows, what they did in the tough ACC tournament, and how they defied the odds and won it all.
Transition: To begin, let’s talk about N.C. States regular season.
BODY I. N.C. State at the beginning of the season was thought have had a decent shot at a deep run in the NCAA Championship tourney, many of us call March Madness.
A. (First) I need to give you a bit of back story about the team. 1. N.C. State’s head coach Jim Valvano or (Jimmy V) had only been there for a couple years. He was a young, exuberant Italian guy from Queens, New York. He was the type of coach that was loved by his players but hated by the leagues other coaches because he would celebrate on the court after big wins. He was also a big dreamer. 2. N.C. State that year had a very mature team, with very good players. Some of them were Thurl Bailey, Sidney Lowe, Dereck Whittenburg, and Lorenzo Charles. 3. N.C. State was a part of the Atlantic Conference better known as the ACC. During that time the
INTRODUCTION
Attention Getter: Thousands of screaming fans are on their feet fingers crossed. Forty four second left on the basketball game N.C. State fifty two, Houston fifty two. A dangerous pass is almost stolen by Houston. Twenty two seconds left. Sidney passes to Bailey in the corner. Bailey throws it too Whittenburg, FIVE second left. Whittenburg shoots a prayer from thirty feet. THREE seconds …TWO seconds, the ball looks to be short and all hope is lost. Then Lorenzo Charles leaps into the air from under the basket, ONE second left. Charles catches the ball and dunks it in.
Reveal the Topic: The N.C. State Wolf pack, are the 1983 NCAAM Basketball champions.
Thesis Statement: I would like to inform you all about a historic, Cinderella sports story. How the North Carolina State won the NCAAM Basketball Championship in 1983. I will inform you about their regular season highs and lows, what they did in the tough ACC tournament, and how they defied the odds and won it all.
Transition: To begin, let’s talk about N.C. States regular season.
BODY I. N.C. State at the beginning of the season was thought have had a decent shot at a deep run in the NCAA Championship tourney, many of us call March Madness.
A. (First) I need to give you a bit of back story about the team. 1. N.C. State’s head coach Jim Valvano or (Jimmy V) had only been there for a couple years. He was a young, exuberant Italian guy from Queens, New York. He was the type of coach that was loved by his players but hated by the leagues other coaches because he would celebrate on the court after big wins. He was also a big dreamer. 2. N.C. State that year had a very mature team, with very good players. Some of them were Thurl Bailey, Sidney Lowe, Dereck Whittenburg, and Lorenzo Charles. 3. N.C. State was a part of the Atlantic Conference better known as the ACC. During that time the
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