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[QUOTE="MSOrange, post: 2566262, member: 630"]
I watched most of the 1983 game while I was working out this morning. Fun stuff - 97-92 with no overtime! I was 7 then and I was starting to get into it, but didn't have a full appreciation of what was going on. I remember watching Leo, Gene Waldron, Sean Kerins and Andre Hawkins in particular. Would have been nice to see what a healthy Leo could have done in the NBA. I don't have much recollection of Erich Santifer or Red Bruin, but those guys were really good.

We were down 57-39 before JB put on his trunk monkey press to cut into the deficit. Georgetown was playing more 2-3 zone and we were in man to man mostly it seemed like.  That was crazy how Sonny Spera hit double figures - I always remembered him as the human victory cigar. One of my earliest memories was he and Andre Hawkins coming to my elementary school. I still have that sheet of paper with their autographs.

Hawkins got into foul trouble and Sean Kerins got hurt, so freshman Wendell Alexis came in as emergency center.

Len Berman and Bill Raftery were on the call. Len kept mentioning the 31,300 plus record crowd in attendance. This was in the early Dome days of course, and he just seemed like he couldn't believe that many people would show up to watch a Syracuse basketball game and how crazy the atmosphere was.

Crazy to think this was 35 years ago and JB was already an experienced coach with 150 wins.
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