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[QUOTE="IthacaMatt, post: 4860549, member: 405"]
My first year was the 1971-72 season, "Roy's Runts", the year after 7 foot center and best player Bill Smith had graduated.  I won tickets to a couple early season games at Manley as a paperboy, in around 7th or 8th grade.  The environment was crazy, and had instant magnetic appeal to the inner id of a pre-teen.

Sports first experienced on steriods, with madness in the air, vulgar chants, the threat of near-violence toward the cowed opponents.  We were like if college basketball was actually minor league hockey.  I had been to Blazers games the year before I first saw the Orange in hoops, and the madness was comparable.

It was the Greg Kohls, Mike Lee, Denny DuVal, Mark Wadach, Bob Dooms, Tommy Stundis team.  I recall us making the NIT, which was the first time I saw them on TV.

That was really cool, back in the days when national TV coverage seldom got down to the level of regional schools like us, unless we were played a major conference program, like Tennessee, Purdue, North Carolina and Houston.
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