A few comments on tonight's SU-TCU

[Orangeyes]

Time capsule game on Time Warner

SU 5-0 vs TCU 7-0 1991 Carrier Dome

Some things that remain the same

JB & his hair. It doesn't look like Jimmy has lost one follicle off his head in the last 21 years.

Gary Barnaba court side doing stats

The Orange Coat guy who sits on the visitors side

Mike Hopkins & Adrian Autry then as players, now as coaches. Tim O' Toole sat next to JB at the end of the bench as he does today.

Some things that changed

The court, Jim Boeheim court has not happened yet, nor has the colorization of the Dome, video boards or ribbon LED boards.

Bernie Fine

The fans hardly wore any Orange

No seats court side or behind either basket. The Jack Nicholson celebrity seats hadn't yet been thought of. The press inhabited those seats. There were no VIP areas

Otto looked a little weird compared to today's Otto.

The guy who used to travel by car from Connecticut to every game in the contiguous United States and pass out the towels was there . Whatever happened to him?

Coney Island Dave & Jim Satalin were doing games for Time Warner.

Notes

Sophomore, Conrad McRae had to sit out this game and a few others. His lawyer spoke at halftime. There was a possibility that he would transfer. Tragically Conrad's life would be a short one, after collapsing on the court at practice "McNasty" died of a heart attack at the age of 29.

Two guys on this team would transfer, Glenn Sekunda and Anthony Harris. Both were players of the year in their home states, Glenn in New Jersey where he averaged 31 PPG and 11 rebounds in his senior season and Harris in Connecticut where he was a two time Parade AA & averaged 33 PPG his senior season.

Sekunda would transfer to Penn State where he had a nice career.

In his sophomore season Glenn would score the winning bucket against Seton Hall pictured above.

Here is a description from Daily Record.com

"Forty-eight seconds were left on the clock when Sekunda got the ball. He was guarded by a formidable opponent, Seton Hall’s 7’2”, 290 lb center Luther Wright. Sekunda used his speed, driving, twisting, throwing up a shot from fifteen feet. He was fouled on the play but the shot banked in giving Syracuse the lead. After missing the free throw, Sekunda returned to the bench, watching the clock nervously, hoping his spectacular jump shot would win the game. As time ran out, Sekunda again was officially a star."

At Penn State he would be an 82% free throw shooter good for 7th place all time for the Nittany Lions. He would lead them to the NCAA tournament but shot 1-10 in an 86-80 loss against Arkansas.

When Harris arrived at SU he was over weight and struggled academically, plus he was a poor defender. Anthony averaged 3 points a game and left the program after the season. The next year he played at a community college in Iowa. Harris then went to Hawaii where he averaged over 22 points a game in his senior season

Lawrence Moten really started to show folks just how easy this game can be. He scored 25 & had 6 rebounds on this day and was game MVP

A skinny sophomore for TCU named Kurt Thomas showed he had game. I mean he looked nothing like he does today. Kurt is currently the oldest player in the NBA by one day over Grant Hill.

TCU was only giving up around 60 points a game entering the Carrier Dome, SU scored over 50 in the first half alone.

Lazarus Sims and JB Reafsnyder would play a big part on our 1996 Final Four team but neither would play this day. Both would end up redshirting.

Larry Lembo was one of the refs, he did a lot of games in Syracuse. I always had respect for the way he went about his business.

He was a terrific player for Manhattan, set a lot of scoring records, once averaging 25 PPG and was drafted by the Knicks in 1964. Louie Carnesecca had tried but failed to get him at St. John's.

The NCAA should recruit more former players of his character & caliber instead of short fat drinking buddies. Lembo sould be put in the Hall of Fame for the following:

"The stakes went up when: George Washington ended UMass' undefeated season in 1996. UMass was 26-0 until it got thumped at home by the Colonials. Calipari was ejected from the game with 10:31 left in the first half when Larry Lembo hit him with his second technical foul. Calipari swears to this day he didn't say anything to deserve being tossed from the game."

Lembo all but disappeared in the mid 1990's, anyone know what happened to him?

SU would win the Time Capsule game 89-72

Syracuse would go 22-10, that year,win the Big East Tournament and get to the second round of the NCAA's as a 6th seed. We would finish 21st in the final AP Poll.

 

[Marsh01]

Time capsule game on Time Warner

SU 5-0 vs TCU 7-0 1991 Carrier Dome

Some things that remain the same

JB & his hair. It doesn't look like Jimmy has lost one follicle off his head in the last 21 years.

Gary Barnaba court side doing stats

The Orange Coat guy who sits on the visitors side

Mike Hopkins & Adrian Autry then as players, now as coaches. Tim O' Toole sat next to JB at the end of the bench as he does today.

Some things that changed

The court, Jim Boeheim court has not happened yet, nor has the colorization of the Dome, video boards or ribbon LED boards.

Bernie Fine

The fans hardly wore any Orange
No seats court side or behind either basket. The Jack Nicholson celebrity seats hadn't yet been thought of. The press inhabited those seats. There were no VIP areas

Otto looked a little weird compared to today's Otto.

The guy who used to travel by car from Connecticut to every game in the contiguous United States and pass out the towels was there . Whatever happened to him?

Coney Island Dave & Jim Satalin were doing games for Time Warner.

Notes

Sophomore, Conrad McRae had to sit out this game and a few others. His lawyer spoke at halftime. There was a possibility that he would transfer. Tragically Conrad's life would be a short one, after collapsing on the court at practice "McNasty" died of a heart attack at the age of 29.

Two guys on this team would transfer, Glenn Sekunda and Anthony Harris. Both were players of the year in their home states, Glenn in New Jersey where he averaged 31 PPG and 11 rebounds in his senior season and Harris in Connecticut where he was a two time Parade AA & averaged 33 PPG his senior season.

Sekunda would transfer to Penn State where he had a nice career.

In his sophomore season Glenn would score the winning bucket against Seton Hall pictured above.

Here is a description from Daily Record.com

"Forty-eight seconds were left on the clock when Sekunda got the ball. He was guarded by a formidable opponent, Seton Hall’s 7’2”, 290 lb center Luther Wright. Sekunda used his speed, driving, twisting, throwing up a shot from fifteen feet. He was fouled on the play but the shot banked in giving Syracuse the lead. After missing the free throw, Sekunda returned to the bench, watching the clock nervously, hoping his spectacular jump shot would win the game. As time ran out, Sekunda again was officially a star."

At Penn State he would be an 82% free throw shooter good for 7th place all time for the Nittany Lions. He would lead them to the NCAA tournament but shot 1-10 in an 86-80 loss against Arkansas.

When Harris arrived at SU he was over weight and struggled academically, plus he was a poor defender. Anthony averaged 3 points a game and left the program after the season. The next year he played at a community college in Iowa. Harris then went to Hawaii where he averaged over 22 points a game in his senior season

Lawrence Moten really started to show folks just how easy this game can be. He scored 25 & had 6 rebounds on this day and was game MVP

A skinny sophomore for TCU named Kurt Thomas showed he had game. I mean he looked nothing like he does today. Kurt is currently the oldest player in the NBA by one day over Grant Hill.

TCU was only giving up around 60 points a game entering the Carrier Dome, SU scored over 50 in the first half alone.

Lazarus Sims and JB Reafsnyder would play a big part on our 1996 Final Four team but neither would play this day. Both would end up redshirting.

Larry Lembo was one of the refs, he did a lot of games in Syracuse. I always had respect for the way he went about his business.

He was a terrific player for Manhattan, set a lot of scoring records, once averaging 25 PPG and was drafted by the Knicks in 1964. Louie Carnesecca had tried but failed to get him at St. John's.

The NCAA should recruit more former players of his character & caliber instead of short fat drinking buddies. Lembo sould be put in the Hall of Fame for the following:

"The stakes went up when: George Washington ended UMass' undefeated season in 1996. UMass was 26-0 until it got thumped at home by the Colonials. Calipari was ejected from the game with 10:31 left in the first half when Larry Lembo hit him with his second technical foul. Calipari swears to this day he didn't say anything to deserve being tossed from the game."

Lembo all but disappeared in the mid 1990's, anyone know what happened to him?

SU would win the Time Capsule game 89-72

Syracuse would go 22-10, that year,win the Big East Tournament and get to the second round of the NCAA's as a 6th seed. We would finish 21st in the final AP Poll.

I love watching these old games.

 

[OttoMets]

Nice post, Dan. I've been enjoying these recent Time Capsules - it's an era that doesn't see much replay. Guess that's what happens to a 10-loss team that's looking at probation. A couple other physical observations:

New court design in 1991. SU finally got a permanent hardwood court in Manley and no longer needed to truck the court back and forth between the two buildings. "CARRIER DOME" is added to the Dome court on the far sideline.

New playing surface in the Dome - red track replaced the old pale-colored track.

Still the same old first-generation scoreboards up top. And still the old banner hanging over the scorer's table - the backlighted table of the mid-to-late'90s hadn't been installed. Loved that banner with the old Dome logo; wonder what lucky booster or friend made off with that thing.

Student section still split between the bleachers and the south end. Students weren't wild about December basketball back then, either. Overall season ticket sales were much better than they currently are (though they'd already begun a steep slide).

SU had yet to retire #31; Anthony Harris was given that number. That was the last SU uniform number to be retired (as opposed to honored, as #s 4, 20, 44, etc. are - they're hanging on the wall, but players can still wear them).

And, of course, we wore the best uniforms in school history.

Also, media timeouts were less frequent and the game was officiated a lot more tightly (and demonstratively) by the officials.

Surprising how the talent level fell off so sharply in two seasons. No size at all. We must have whiffed on a lot of power forward recruits between Coleman and Wallace.

Lawrence Moten was a pleasure to watch. Young Autry struggled a bit but was clearly talented (not much of a shooter, though). And Michael Edwards was much more solid than people give him credit for.