 The Fab Five also garnered high TV ratings during their playing days; they were one of the featured teams in both of the two highest rated NCAA Men's Basketball Championship games ever played in terms of households (although not viewers), The film aired almost precisely twenty years after the legendary group was assembled. In an attempt to meet the same college basketball fan viewer interest on the tournament selection weekend, HBO produced its own hour-long documentary titled Runnin ’ Rebels of UNLV on Jerry Tarkanian and the UNLV Runnin' Rebels basketball teams of the 1972 – 92 era. Fox Sports also aired an hour-long special featuring sports agent Rob Pelinka, a Michigan teammate of the Fab Five, called Pelinka Chips In on March 14, but the special had low ratings. Pelinka had a cameo in the Fab Five film. ⋅
