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Post by dex on Oct 30, 2014 12:05:45 GMT -5
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Post by johnnypc on Oct 30, 2014 12:29:31 GMT -5
Michigan game is the only sporting event I have ever attended where the floor was actually shaking.
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Post by dex on Oct 30, 2014 13:12:44 GMT -5
I was there too "johnny' and it's my No. 1
The game itself was a classic
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Post by thefriarman on Oct 30, 2014 14:32:20 GMT -5
What about that Notre Dame game in the 50s in Harkins Hall before Alumni was built. Seems like that was a significant win. Was Mullaney the coach for that one?
Might add the Blizzard of '78 game with UNC in the then Civic Center...I was there for that one...
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Post by jacka252 on Oct 30, 2014 14:50:27 GMT -5
PC VS St. Joe's maybe Villanova in Palestra-1960 with Lenny Wilkens and John Egan in backcourt. Any other PC backcourt have two NBA’ers, don’t think so?.
PC down by 6 in closing minutes. Sorry not better with more precise details, someone with better memory feel free to help. Lenny Wilkens takes the ball away from the offensive player three times in a row to enable PC to score and squeak out the victory. Listened on the radio to most incredible ending. Why they would ever go near Lenny Wilkens at the end of a game and three times in a row no less is mind blowing.
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Post by wtm97 on Oct 31, 2014 11:07:12 GMT -5
THE top win in PC's history has to be the 1961 NIT Championship as that game literally put PC on the map in major college basketball...hey it made me a fan even as I lived in NYC.
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Post by dex on Oct 31, 2014 11:29:12 GMT -5
Good one jacka...he stole them off a guy who I think was Al Macneil...I was so damn happy that night.
friarman had mentioned the ND game in '56 at alumni hall but the game that put PC on the map for Dex and basketball scribes in the East was:
1959 4 OT win over Nova in PALESTRA Egan 39 pts
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Post by 4friars on Oct 31, 2014 14:39:01 GMT -5
One of my favorites was the Dayton game in the 62-63 season. We started the season off slowly and had 4 losses when we came into the Dayton game with a lot of tough games ahead and wondering if we were even going to get selected to a tournament that year. In those days the teams only played 26 game schedules and 7 losses meant you probably didn't get into the tourney. I was at a PC hockey game that night and they announced the score at half time at Dayton and we were down big. As the story goes the coaches left the locker room at half time and Ray Flynn and Vinny Ernst gave speeches to the team. In the second half they came out strong and won that big game and then went on to win every game the rest of the season including three in the NIT to win the championship.
I also thought that the first game of the NIT that year was significant. We had lost to Miami early in the season at Alumni and now we were facing them and the best scorer in the country Rick Barry in the first game of the NIT. Again we were down significantly to them until Ray Flynn got hot and we beat them something like 105 to 101. Flynn ended up with around 35 and Barry picked up a very important technical foul late in the game for slamming the ball high into the air. That may have been one of the best college basketball games that I ever saw.
Unless we beat Dayton however earlier in the season we probably wouldn't have even made the tourney
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Post by jacka252 on Oct 31, 2014 17:10:13 GMT -5
Dex. in all probability me also feeling very good after game not only because of the great outcome. Never heard of Gansett or GIQ's until 1959. Mentioned game because significance of ending was so extraordinary. In terms of all time significant games think no doubt games mentioned by you and friarman were most significant. They were cornerstones in the building of the Joe Mullaney and PC basketball program.
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