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Post by DanMcQ on Feb 4, 2015 7:33:27 GMT -5
I was at that game too! I could not believe my eyes. I seem to remember Scates hitting a reverse underhanded layup in the NIT overtime game at UVa in 1978, but that may also have been delirium resulting from seeing the little used Felix Yeoman play the best three minutes of his Hoya career in the first half. Felix is one of my favorite all-time Hoyas, in part because he lived on the 4th Ryan wing of our floor my freshman year. |
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Post by johnnysnowplow on Feb 4, 2015 8:36:00 GMT -5
One play I don't think has been mentioned yet was Ashanti going to coast to coast and dishing to Roy for the dunk to beat Notre Dame in 05. I just remember being astounded that the entire play could actually happen in 5 seconds.
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Post by hoyainspirit on Feb 4, 2015 9:34:14 GMT -5
I remember being so nervous before that game. Wingate was outstanding on Mullin. Wingate was probably nervous too as he was still in high school... Correct. That was Patrick's freshman year. |
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Post by BubbleVisionBiff on Feb 4, 2015 9:58:35 GMT -5
Not sure if it has been mentioned yet, but the comeback from 17 down against MU 3 years ago was pretty good. A key stretch in the second half when III went with Clark and 4 frosh-Otto, Whitt, Trawick and Hop. Massive lockdown before Hollis' and Henry's late game heroics.
Speaking of Holli$ . . . . . whoa.
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Post by drquigley on Feb 4, 2015 10:00:03 GMT -5
Brendan Gaughan's two point shot off the back board against Colgate. Pete Michell leading the Hoyas from 9 points down vs NYU in the last minute at MSG Frank Hollendoner's 29 points in the first half vs NYU (again). Frank Hollandoner, now that name brings back memories. He and Neil Heskin were going to be our Twin Towers in 1965. When Frank wanted to he could be a force. However, he never seemed to want to. |
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Post by MassHoya on Feb 4, 2015 12:13:44 GMT -5
Definitely Smitty coast to coast at the Dome. I remember Big John running joyously off the court The best part was that SUcks had just taken the lead and 30,000+ orange clad cretins were going crazy. Once Smitty scored, dead silence except for the approximately 500 Hoya fans who went friggin' nuts. It was beyond wonderful. |
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Post by Nevada Hoya on Feb 4, 2015 12:27:00 GMT -5
Brendan Gaughan's two point shot off the back board against Colgate. Pete Michell leading the Hoyas from 9 points down vs NYU in the last minute at MSG Frank Hollendoner's 29 points in the first half vs NYU (again). Frank Hollandoner, now that name brings back memories. He and Neil Heskin were going to be our Twin Towers in 1965. When Frank wanted to he could be a force. However, he never seemed to want to. Frank was the top rated big man coming out of HS. Besides Frank and Neil,the class of '67 had Bob Ward and Steve Sullivan, who contributed more than Frank and Neil. But the 29 points scored in the first half of the ranked NYU nationally televised game was amazing. He scored only in single digits in the 2nd half, but the damage was done and we ended up beating NYU. This game brought us lots of negative publicity, but that is another story. |
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Post by miracles87 on Feb 4, 2015 12:28:24 GMT -5
St. Patty's '89. The Mighty Hoyas, #1 seed in the East Region, tipping off against Princeton University in the first round. I'm dressed up, getting ready to meet some friends for a night on the town, my folks heading out to dinner. "I'll just watch a few minutes before heading out" I say to my Moms as she leaves. Two hours later, I'm in the living room in my underwear, clothes strewn all over the place screaming and carrying on, my Mom gets' back from dinner, "what's this happy horse!". I spew some monosyllabic saliva strewn utterance my Mother's way, Zo blocks Kit Mueller's shot as time expires to steal the win, I warm up some milk, and go to bed.
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Post by Big Dog on Feb 4, 2015 14:03:30 GMT -5
St. Patty's '89. The Mighty Hoyas, #1 seed in the East Region, tipping off against Princeton University in the first round. I'm dressed up, getting ready to meet some friends for a night on the town, my folks heading out to dinner. "I'll just watch a few minutes before heading out" I say to my Moms as she leaves. Two hours later, I'm in the living room in my underwear, clothes strewn all over the place screaming and carrying on, my Mom gets' back from dinner, "what's this happy horse Edited!". I spew some monosyllabic saliva strewn utterance my Mother's way, Zo blocks Kit Mueller's shot as time expires to steal the win, I warm up some milk, and go to bed. SI.com has a slide show up that shows what it believes to be the best team at each seed number in NCAA history. Princeton is the 16, and FGCU is the 15. If you don't see that and realize that the college basketball gods and the NCAA committee have screwed us and owe us one, I don't know what more evidence you want. Part of me wonders if these ridiculous draws of teams that are historically good for their seed--FGCU, VCU, Davidson--is our karmic payback for Craig Esherick being allowed to coach a team to the Sweet Sixteen by beating Hampton. If so, I think we've more than paid our dues. |
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Post by hoyazeke on Feb 4, 2015 14:19:32 GMT -5
The Good
I don't know why but Hollis' three against Bama really stayed with me.
Charley Smith against Cuse was the 1st Gtown memory that I really have.
Greg schooling Thabeet in the paint.
The Bad
Chuck missing the short J against Uconn.
Otto's miss at the buzzer against NCST.
The shots that have stayed with me the longest. (Sadly I still get upset about both when I see a replay) Corey Brewer and Ray Allen making the 2 luckiest shots ever. I still feel that both of those teams go far if those shots don't fall. The Bowman team was obviously already in the tourney and the AI team lost a #1 seed out west.
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Post by 1789 on Feb 4, 2015 16:08:53 GMT -5
January 2013 - AB tip-in versus Louisville.
March 1995 - Don Reid tip-in versus Weber State
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Post by drquigley on Feb 7, 2015 12:36:21 GMT -5
Frank Hollandoner, now that name brings back memories. He and Neil Heskin were going to be our Twin Towers in 1965. When Frank wanted to he could be a force. However, he never seemed to want to. Frank was the top rated big man coming out of HS. Besides Frank and Neil,the class of '67 had Bob Ward and Steve Sullivan, who contributed more than Frank and Neil. But the 29 points scored in the first half of the ranked NYU nationally televised game was amazing. He scored only in single digits in the 2nd half, but the damage was done and we ended up beating NYU. This game brought us lots of negative publicity, but that is another story. I was actually an asst manager in '66. That team was probably the most disappointing team during the pre-JT2 era. Loved to run but never learned to play D or develop a half court offense. Plus O'keefe and Magee were terrible coaches. Before the '66 season began we had a closed scrimmage against Duke. As asst manager I got to see Duke just tear us apart. Bob Verga their guard just shot lights out and Jack Marin killed us inside. Plus they arrived on campus in 3 busses. One forthrir players, one for all their coaches and one for all their video equipment. Meanwhile we had O'keefe and Ed Lopata who was his assistant as well as a law school student and RA for 4th Loyola (which is how I got the asst manager job). Neil Heskin broke a bone in his leg almost every year and so little playing time. Was quoted in newspaper as saying "good thing I'm not a horse or they would have shot me by now". |
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Post by ahoya2 on Feb 7, 2015 13:15:01 GMT -5
Smitty coast to coast against "Cuse"
Landover, Freddy Brown on a break against St Johns thows a hard pass off the top of the backboard and Patrick follwos with a slam,. Jaw dropping
Landover, sitting in second row across from GU bench with Skin coach Norv Turner. I n second hald of a Syracuse game. Lawrence Moten, 6'5 guard from Cuse standing way out front with Iverson guarding him in a crouch about seven feet away. Moten fakes an overhead pass one way and then fires a hard two handed overhead pass. Iverson leaps straight up and catches it. Turner almost fell out of his chair. More astounding than any of his dunks
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Post by hoyalove4ever on Feb 7, 2015 13:17:34 GMT -5
Smith being fouled very hard versus LSU but not leaving the game and shooting the FTs himself (I think he hit 1-2).
Big John getting those three (four?) Ts at the Dome.
Reid over Weber State.
No-call on Williams fouled on putback in '96 BET finals.
Page shot to beat SJU at the Garden in '97 (only shot he made that game I believe; great job of holding his arm out after the shot).
Burton over Arkansas.
Awful foul call on clean steal by Reed against YouCon in '05 BET.
Debacle against SUCKS in '06 BET.
'07 second half and OT versus Carolina.
All subsequent NCAA meltdowns.
2013 SUCKS games.
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Post by DFW HOYA on Feb 7, 2015 13:21:36 GMT -5
Frank was the top rated big man coming out of HS. Besides Frank and Neil,the class of '67 had Bob Ward and Steve Sullivan, who contributed more than Frank and Neil. But the 29 points scored in the first half of the ranked NYU nationally televised game was amazing. He scored only in single digits in the 2nd half, but the damage was done and we ended up beating NYU. This game brought us lots of negative publicity, but that is another story. I was actually an asst manager in '66. That team was probably the most disappointing team during the pre-JT2 era. Loved to run but never learned to play D or develop a half court offense. Plus O'keefe and Magee were terrible coaches. Re: the '66 team, whatever happened to Bob Ward? Transfer, quit school, or something else? I read in a book many years ago that Morgan Wootten and Joe Gallagher both expressed interest in the Georgetown job in 1966 but both backed away because of what the author (of a Wootten biography if I recall) said was an thoroughly amateur search by Georgetown. One of them dropped out of the search when Georgetown wouldn't even commit to an administrative assistant for the program. Magee had no previous ties to Georgetown and appeared to get the job following Bob Cousy's recommendation. Magee is back in the DC area according to a recent article but has apparently had no contact with the University in the last 43 years. |
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Post by drquigley on Feb 7, 2015 17:23:16 GMT -5
True story. To "toughen up" players Magee had players line up at opposite foul lines. He rolled ball to mid court and had players dive for it. First time he did it Denny Caesar our leading scorer dislocated his shoulder. Our for season.
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Post by Nevada Hoya on Feb 7, 2015 17:30:09 GMT -5
Frank was the top rated big man coming out of HS. Besides Frank and Neil,the class of '67 had Bob Ward and Steve Sullivan, who contributed more than Frank and Neil. But the 29 points scored in the first half of the ranked NYU nationally televised game was amazing. He scored only in single digits in the 2nd half, but the damage was done and we ended up beating NYU. This game brought us lots of negative publicity, but that is another story. I was actually an asst manager in '66. That team was probably the most disappointing team during the pre-JT2 era. Loved to run but never learned to play D or develop a half court offense. Plus O'keefe and Magee were terrible coaches. Before the '66 season began we had a closed scrimmage against Duke. As asst manager I got to see Duke just tear us apart. Bob Verga their guard just shot lights out and Jack Marin killed us inside. Plus they arrived on campus in 3 busses. One forthrir players, one for all their coaches and one for all their video equipment. Meanwhile we had O'keefe and Ed Lopata who was his assistant as well as a law school student and RA for 4th Loyola (which is how I got the asst manager job). Neil Heskin broke a bone in his leg almost every year and so little playing time. Was quoted in newspaper as saying "good thing I'm not a horse or they would have shot me by now". The '65-66 team had the most potential with two top 25 Hoya players (Jim Barry and Jim Brown) plus the height of the class of '67 players. I followed them all over the northeastern part of the country and was usually left disappointed. I remember walking the streets of Boston with the team after the game and remembering Coach O'Keefe wondering what he could have done better to beat BC - we came close, but no cigar. I think we were 15-10 that year with that big NYU win at home. No tourneys for also rans in those days. |
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Post by jester on Feb 8, 2015 2:47:43 GMT -5
This. The team plays so much better when they are decisive moving the ball.
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