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Message: [QUOTE="KaiserUEO, post: 1742939, member: 272"] I was in HS when I went to my 1st game ever at the Dome...Pearl's shot. that game and that era, is what college basketball was/is to me...which it no longer is, with all the 1 and doners or the 2 and dones. it was a game of out of this world characters, performers. they were authors, poets, painters, everyone was larger than life and they were there year after year! Pearl. Ewing. Mullin. good lord. but then there were others that made it legendary..and for me, they were at this game on BC too. back then, I liked BC, St Johns & Syracuse...basically in that order, for my dad is a BC alum, Mullin is Mullin and then you had the local upstate NY 'Cuse with the Dome and now this guy Pearl. it also gave me 6+ opportunities a year to really hate on gtown, but I digress. BC had 2 such characters for me, Jay Murphy and Michael Adams. Murphy was born 15 years too early. that skinny white boy could shoot em deep. if there was a 3pt line back then, his avg would've gone up by 5 a game. dude loved the corner J. his kids played major ball, think they in Europe now. Michael Adams was a spectacle to behold, 5'10 but looked more like 5'7 with a shot-put shot and annoying ability on D to steal the ball regularly. you didn't need a scorecard to check the #s to see who was who out there. they both stood out, obviously...so did the Pearl. what a game. filled with great characters performing Shakespeare even, one where the main attraction would not be out done as he stole the entire show and rode (ran off) into the sunset (lockerroom). I cant say for sure that 3 years later id choose Syracuse over BC because of that shot, but I can definitely tell you that my impression of what going to a big time school and rooting for its sports teams should be like...and I knew that nothing would ever top 4 years of what the Carrier Dome could offer based on what the Pearl was doing then. oh to be young... [/QUOTE]

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