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Message: [QUOTE="SWC75, post: 4157142, member: 289"] This game came up on the Jim Boeheim Show Thursday night. They wondered if we'd ever begun a half with more than 11 straight 'makes' and I remembered we'd hit our first 16 second half shots against Michigan in the NIT quarters in the Dome. I mentioned we got hosed by the refs in the final or we would have won the NIT, which back then was a more significant tournament than it is now. Jim said the reason we lost was that Danny Schayes got injured in the pre-game shoot-around. We were both right. Danny injured his foot stepping on a ball during the shoot-around for the semi-final game against Purdue, which we won: [URL="https://www.syracuse.com/orangebasketball/2019/01/the-story-of-why-syracuses-jim-boeheim-doesnt-hold-morning-shootarounds.html"]Story of why Jim Boeheim doesn’t hold morning shootarounds[/URL] "Schayes played that night, as he described it, “on one-and-a-half legs’,’ and Syracuse outlasted Purdue 70-63 to advance to the NIT championship game against Tulsa. “It just got more and more sore,’’ Schayes said. “By the Tulsa game, I could barely get up and down. I was pretty useless for that one.’’ The box score: [URL="http://www.orangehoops.org/Box%20Scores/19810325.htm"]Syracuse vs Tulsa March 25 1981 NIT Championship[/URL] Note that the Tulsa totals are wrong We got called for 31 fouls in that game and 3 guys fouled out, (I had thought it was four), with two other guys getting 4 fouls and two other guys getting three. If you add up the individual totals, they were 30 for 38 from the line to our 12 for 18. They were called for 19 fouls as the comments below say. Danny Schayes played 21 minutes before fouling out. but had only 4 points and 4 rebounds. There were some great individual games, despite all the fouls: Eric had 29 points and 9 rebounds, (he was 6-4). Tony bruin scored 25. Leo Rautins was 2 rebs from a triple-double and freshman Gene Waldron was pressed into service and scored 19. Paul Pressey had a game-high 34 points for Tulsa and Greg Stewart had 23 points and 11 rebounds. If the refs had given us an even shot, we'd have won it and remembered it as one of our greatest games. I seem to recall that Digger Phelps was doing the commentary on that game, (Notre Dame's season was over), and maybe Len Berman the play-by-play and they both said after the game that it was too bad that such a great game was decided by the referees, not the players. [/QUOTE]

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