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The main thing keeping it relevant, is nationally, everyone still loves the tournament. Filling out the brackets, rooting for upsets and buzzer-beaters, all of that. Ratings wise, the tournament still does very well. Without that the sport would really be in trouble in my opinion. The...

Random one for me, in the famous 96 S16 game against Georgia, after having like a 10 point lead in the 2nd half, Wallace picked up foul #4, and Georgia went on a huge run, then was suddenly was up 9 with about 3 minutes to go in regulation and seemed in total control. Sims hit back to back 3s...

Also, at the time they had Earl Duncan, who at that time was sitting out as a Frosh due to academics, but was a top recruit and were expecting big things, though it wasn't clear if he was best as a PG or SG yet.

I'm pretty sure was a developmental coach, or something like that, here a few years ago. But I think it was a year or 2 plan from the start. Then he was an actual assistant at Detroit Mercy for a year, but left to come back to Syracuse to live. I think he wants to do it, but maybe not grind...

If I'm reading correctly, this happened after he went on leave, so it is on top of other problems. "The incident took place on Sunday, October 1 — two days after Grasso went on leave"

Plus, with back roads to where the access to charter flights is, it is real close to the airport.

I think it was 44's in the early 90s, then he bought it and called it Konrad's. But it does raise the same question, the bar was named 44's at one point.

For mine i'm going for underrated/overlooked moments, at least to me. 1. 96 win over Kansas to go to the Final 4. The Georgia game has all of the memories, rightly so, but that Kansas team was loaded (Jacque Vaughn, Paul Pierce, others), and SU pretty much controlled that whole game. 2. 94...

What amazed me, was the poise of the 2 Furman players who did the double team. With 10 seconds on the clock, they were in foul mode, but they realized they had him in trouble and didn't foul, when it would be real easy to do so.

And that UMass game...ugh. After a rough stretch in Feb, we had come out of nowhere to win the BET the week before. And for UMass, that was was the first big year they had in forever, with Calipari putting them on the map and were like 30-5 or something, and that crowd was insane. I think...

This whole thing is shaping up to be like the time Charles Barkley says he was misquoted in his auto-biography.

https://cuse.com/sports/2002/12/13/quinnipiac99.aspx?id=316

Yep, plus more Saturday night games, since they weren't all day for the regional networks like they are now. The weekend afternoon games were usually big CBS games against a top 10 team so you didn't care what time the game was. Players stayed around longer. Even the not-so-good teams had...

Me too. Another factor, they expected Michael Lloyd to be back on that team. He started 94-95 and was pretty good. If I remember there was something late in the off-season where his JUCO transcripts were called into question or something, and he was either dismissed or declared ineligible...

If you get the ACC network , according to my guide it is replayed monday 9/19 at 3am, and 9/20 at 12am.

And on top of it, he pretty much turned Donovan into the player he was. Pitino took the job before his JR year, at which point he had been a bench player averaging like 3 points his first 2 years. The way I remember it, he wanted to transfer, Pitino made some calls, but nobody would take him...

I believe he was sitting with Adam Weitsman at the NBA Finals games in Boston, could be visiting with him too.

Good stuff. One addition that increases the 88-89 and 91-92 numbers: In 88-89 Mike Hopkins was part of the class, and redshirted that year, same with Lazarus Sims in 91-92. So both were 6-man classes, and both of them stayed for 5 years.

I think they have the minutes for Davis and Celluck mixed up. Celluck had 17 and Davis had 1. This is on SU's site https://cuse.com/documents/2006/4/28/2000-01%20game%20summaries.pdf

ouch

UNLV 90-91, after winning in 90?

If I'm remembering correctly, the records that people brought were a few games later, against UConn, when he broke the all-time SU scoring record, and the career NCAA assist record on the same night. It was pretty close to the 22 assist game so they blend in after all of these years. The 22...

The night Sherman Douglas broke the single game assist record with 22 against Providence. Felt like at least half of them were on alley-oop dunks.

86 Big East Title against St John's. Pearl won MVP even though they lost. Played really well and led most of the game.

On the one hand, I completely agree. They've played their best ball at the end of these seasons, no question. On the other hand, I just wish the regular seasons didn't torture us so much.

I'm the same way. Along those lines, for anyone working from home, the round of 32 continues tomorrow, so while working there are games to keep an eye on if we get the win.

Stephen Thompson 72, David Thompson 68

Fun report. Conrad actually had been declared ineligible right before the 1991-92 year and missed the first 5 games or so, putting Siock right into the starting lineup. Fallout from the big NCAA Investigation that was still ongoing. His connection to Rob Johnson deemed Johnson a...

also if it starts late, they could move the switch to ESPN News.

I realized tonight, as the first post NFL regular season Monday, normally ESPN would have its first Big Monday doubleheader, usually with good matchups. With so many cancellations they aren't airing any games at all tonight.

In the 87 Final Four run, in the s16 game against Florida. Florida was up 5 with like 5 minutes to go, DC came over from the weak side to block a layup, didn't swat it and held onto it, made an outlet to Douglas who hit Triche for a layup and one. Went from a 7 point late deficit to 2 and...

I can't believe I remembered this from a SI preview issue, and found this on the SI Vault website. Hearing Acropolis made made me think of this and look it up.

I met him when he was finishing up school and around the program a lot in the late 80's. Super nice guy. I think he spoke at the Hardwood Club or another event, and told the story of after a game against Niagara, then Niagara coach Frank Layden said "he will be Syracuse's next pro" after he had...

I'd love to get one of the cursive pullovers the coaches wore the other night, but have not seen them anywhere

And a lot of them lead to long rebounds, with people out of position, that lead to fast breaks at the other end.

Not a book but this is a fun twitter feed. https://twitter.com/BigEastTourney They share a lot of old video clips and articles from those days, and get interaction from some of the players of that era.

The opening tip dunk!

Lots of changes since then...that year in particular they were #1 for a while, household names and stars for SU and opponents since leaving early was not common, not all games on TV, and even if they were, no HD/big screens. Lots of Saturday night home games, since they weren't all throughout...