OT - 33 Years Ago Today...

[Bayside44]

 

[samspann1]

Yikes. I'm really old.

 

[sutomcat]

That was the greatest moment in the history of Pitt basketball. Woo hoo!

That is happened more than 33 years ago is very hard to believe. Somewhere, someone must have slipped an extra decade or two in.

 

[cto]

Let's not forget about Arinze. And that was 14 years ago!

Dailymotion

www.dailymotion.com

 

[Brooky03]

That guy who got dunked on died at the scene of the crime, right? RIP

 

[hoopsupstate]

Look who’s the little weasel who passed Lane the ball.

 

[OrangeTarheel]

They should be forced to play on in those situations

 

[DoctorBombay]

Yikes. I'm really old.

You ain’t kidding! I was visiting someone in a dorm & the place exploded! Awesome!
Hated Pitt back then, especially Charles Smith. Even more when he became a Knick and blocked his own layup 3X vs the Bulls. Soft as tissue paper!!

 

[Eric15]

Hold my beer. (Someone could have EASILY died here)

 

[Eric15]

This was a little before my time (I was 6 years old). What happened after the glass was shattered? I feel like that would take a very long time to clean up the glass and get a new basket put together.

 

[Bayside44]

This was a little before my time (I was 6 years old). What happened after the glass was shattered? I feel like that would take a very long time to clean up the glass and get a new basket put together.

This is a better video with more Raf:


And a NY Times article (I am sure you have a sub):

A Dunk and an Exclamation That Still Reverberate (Published 2013)

Jerome Lane’s backboard-shattering dunk for Pittsburgh against Providence and Bill Raftery’s call of “Send it in, Jerome!” are part of college basketball lore.

www.nytimes.com

"The game was officially delayed for 32 minutes as crews scrambled to find a replacement backboard. Eventually they wheeled out an old hoop located underneath the stands. It did not have a shot clock."

 

[DoctorBombay]

This was a little before my time (I was 6 years old). What happened after the glass was shattered? I feel like that would take a very long time to clean up the glass and get a new basket put together.

“In my day we didn’t worry about fancy-schmancy time-keeping, TV timeout rules, or playing on deadly glass.
We found a peach basket, had a tall guy hold it over his head and finished the damn game! And we were thankful”!! (In my best grumpy old man voice)