On April 9, 1983, in the Baldekin Hall in Šibenik, Šibenka and Bosna met in the decisive third game of the playoff finals. Šibenka had won the first match 103:98, and Bosna responded in Sarajevo with 96:84, so the Yugoslav champion was decided in the packed Baldekin Hall. Bosna was leading 82:81, with two seconds left on the clock. Živko Ljubojević passed the ball from out of bounds to Dražen Petrović, who was guarded by Sabit Hadžić. The 19-year-old Petrović received the ball, started dribbling, then took a shot and missed, and the Bosna players began celebrating their third Yugoslav championship title. However, the celebration of the Students was interrupted by referee Ilija Matijević, who called a foul on Petrović. After several minutes of discussion, during which even police officers protected referee Matijević from the Bosna players, Petrović made two free throws to secure Šibenka's victory with a score of 83:82. The medal and trophy ceremony was held on the Baldekin court, and Bosna immediately filed a protest. The very next day, the Basketball Federation of Yugoslavia annulled Šibenka's title. However, it did not decide to recognize the 82:81 result for Bosna but instead found a compromise solution—to play a new match on neutral ground in Novi Sad. The Šibenka team did not show up for that match, the ball was tipped off, and Bosna became the Yugoslav champion for the third and final time. The federation president, Vasil Tupurkovski, distributed a new set of gold medals since the Šibenka players did not want to return theirs. Šibenka returned the transitional trophy only a year later. Immediately after the match, referee Matijević insisted he was right, and decades later, he stood by his position. He even went so far as to claim that Bosna should have been the champion because the Winter Olympics were held in Sarajevo in 1984, and the Students should have played in the Champions Cup that same year, where they ultimately finished fourth. The championship-winning generation of Bosna consisted of Borislav Vučević, Bogoljub Đurić, Predrag Benaček, Spomenko Pajević, Mario Primorac, Ratko Radovanović, Dragan Zrno, Emir Mutapčić, Miroljub Mitrović, Sabit Hadžić, and captain Žarko Varajić, coached from the bench by Svetislav Pešić.