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[QUOTE="Dick_in_MI, post: 4243562, member: 225"]
Agree. The Zoo was just so great to be part of and yes, Sweet D’s warm up act was epic. In those days, SU basketball wasn’t the big deal that it is now so it was us against the world. Or as we saw it, anyway.

My personal favorite memory was on a night when we were playing Rutgers and a Scarlet Blight fan had unknowingly wandered into The Zoo and was standing in front of me. During warmups, he was standing and yelling insults at our players. Clearly this offended my delicate sensibilities so in response I placed a partially opened mustard pack on his seat and he was none to happy about when he sat down.

Lots of fun in Manley. The game vs St John’s where Mike Lee kicked the ball into the crowd, a ball boy calmly rolled another ball onto the court, and the refs looked the other way. Louie C was furious but in the same game, he occasionally scampered out onto the court and moved his defenders around while we were bringing the ball up and then ran off.

Then there was the game when SU was trying to civilize the students and Roy Danforth made a deal whereby, if the language were toned-down and we ever got a.. I want to say 50 pt lead…he would personally lead the students in a Lets Go Orange cheer. The next game was against Iona, we got our big lead, and Roy kept his word. He walked down past the confused Iona bench and led the cheer, The Iona coach…a young Jim Valvano… was furious and vowed never to play SU again.
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