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[QUOTE="Forza Azzurri, post: 2871132, member: 1452"]
Were you on the team?  A team manager?

If I remember correctly, didn't Bouie have a huge block on a Carroll dunk attempt towards the end of the game?  I think Bouie had four fouls at the time.

I really cannot dispute this one way or the other.

Here is my question.  Back then, how much did tourney success determine whether a team was considered a national team or not?

Clearly in '75, we  were not.

We obviously were not favored to beat Ernie and Bernie.

In JB's first three years, we were drummed out of the tournament by UNC Charlotte (by 22  pts!), Westerrn Kentucky and Penn (although Penn was ranked at the time) - hardly hoops royalty.  They did  not have seeds back then either so there was no way to tell whether we would have been considered a high or a low seed.

By 1980, the fact  that we were granted a 1 seed clearly meant that we had arrived on the national scene...

So, at  some point between '75 and '80  it did happen...
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