SPRINGFIELD — Even 30 years after the final buzzer sounded and the last celebratory cheers echoed in the Amherst locker room, the magnitude of what the 1992-93 Hurricanes girls basketball team was able to accomplish still rings true.

For years, the Hurricanes were dominant in the regular season but couldn’t put the pieces together in the postseason. That changed in 1992, when head coach Ron Moyer and his team, led by senior captains Jamila Wideman and Jen Pariseau, orchestrated one of the most unbelievable state title wins in history against the defending champions, the Haverhill Hillies.

In the championship game, the ’Canes used a 37-0 run in the first half to build a 54-6 halftime lead, sealing their fate as one of the most impressive girls basketball teams in the state, if not the country. Amherst ultimately scored a 74-36 victory.

The team caught the eye of journalist Madeleine Blais, who decided she needed to write a book to tell their story properly. Blais’ book, “In These Girls, Hope is a Muscle,” became an instant bestseller, earning a spot on Sport’s Illustrated list of Top 100 sports books of all time.

That team was celebrated last Friday at Springfield College, at the birthplace of basketball. The college hosted a daylong event celebrating women’s basketball and 50 years of Title IX, and one of the sessions brought together Moyer, Blaise, and two players from that championship team — Rita Powell and Kristen Keller (nee Marvin). The four spoke about that special year that has so captured the attention of the sports world even now, three decades later.

“(Did I expect) the longevity of it? No. I got a basketball coach’s brain — usually you make a plan and things quickly go wrong, and you have to have a Plan B and a Plan C. To actually be in a game where everything went right? I knew as we were in the middle of that 37-0 run… our kids are on a different plane right now,” Moyer said. “At that point I knew it was special.”

The panel opened with emcee Marty Dobrow, professor of communications at Springfield College and former Daily Hampshire Gazette scribe, playing a short clip from that title game against Haverhill. It was only 30 seconds long, and the video quality nowhere near 4K, but even in that short time it was clear to see that the Hurricanes were lights-out that night.

As the discussion continued, the panelists painted a larger picture about the importance of that Hurricanes’ team. Their story was significant not only because of the improbable win, or the ability to find their footing in the postseason. It wasn’t just because of the success that Wideman and Pariseau, among many others, had after their high school careers. What was meaningful was that group of high school girls got the chance to play together at all.

The Hurricanes’ fairy tale run started 20 years after Title IX was passed, legislation that famously kick-started girls and women’s sports programs in schools across the country. All of the players on the team were born after the law was passed, and only knew a world where Title IX existed, where girls would be given an equal opportunity to play — and excel — at whatever sport they chose.

“There is a story there. And the story isn’t that we hit a shot at the last moment, or that we got lucky, or somebody became a hero or heroine and carried the team. That’s not really what happened. It was a group of kids that together decided they were going to take themselves to another level. That’s pretty rare,” Moyer said.

“This is a story about young women finding their feet, finding their leadership, being confident in each other. And somebody caught the story… which really is the embodiment of Title IX. We passed Title IX because we wanted to give women a chance to show their excellence.”

That sentiment was something Powell mentioned after the panel as well. As exciting as the championship run for her was, it was just a moment in her sports career, and in the wider picture of women’s athletics. She hopes that the enthusiasm and opportunity that were given to her can also be given to others, and that women’s sports will continue to be supported at every level.

“This whole day today, I think, is doing a really good job, 30 years out, looking at an arc that happened with women’s sports … I think that urgency of continuing to really care about women’s sports feels strong, stronger now even,” Powell said. “But in terms of the arc, just realizing that women’s sports really changes lives, our lives were changed by our exposure to this, so (we’re) wanting to keep fighting for that.”

Friday’s event, Title IX: The History of Women’s Basketball Day, also featured appearances by Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame and Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame members Tamika Catchings and Tina Thompson. In addition, Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey, who was the starting point guard for Harvard back in the late 1980s and early 1990s, also appeared on campus.