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Message: [QUOTE="Sherman20, post: 4884693, member: 6357"] You can put me down for the 80s. My parents were season ticket holders at Manley before I was even born in 1975. My first game—unbelievably—was the Cuse-Villanova triple overtime classic in the Dome where we won on the Leo Rautins tip in. I was 6. We were seated behind the Nova band and it was loud AF and I kept asking when the game was gonna be over. Mom kept saying when the scoreboard says 00:00. Needless she came across as a big fat liar. She still laughs about it to this day, that I probably never believed anything she said again. Lol. Later I saw Phi Slamma Jamma come to the Dome in 1983 and Carolina in 1984(?). But my fandom really ramped up when Pearl announced on national TV to Al Maguire that he was coming to Syracuse. Pearl was like a god to me and my neighborhood friends during his three years here. Syracuse and Big East basketball was the center of the universe during those years, and it crushed my 11 year old year heart when we lost to freakin Navy and David Robinson in the Dome in 1986 in the NCAA tourney in one of the most heartbreaking losses ever. Last game for Pearl, Raf and Wendell Alexis. Fortunately the next season, Sherm turned out to be an All American PG, DC came in as the best freshman in the country, Rony took a huge leap, and we made it all the way to the Final Four. My poor parents went to NOLA and watched the Keith Smart heartbreaker at the Superdome. The whole city was ecstatic for weeks, and then everyone was suddenly distraught. Two years in a row our hearts were broken. That’s why 2003 was so special. It was such transcendent redemption for so many years of heartbreak (the Moten TO against Arkansas, the 1996 final against Kentucky, the 1989 Elite Eight loss to Illinois). All of it was washed away by Melo, Gmac, Hak and the gang by that sweet sweet national title. So when are we gonna do it again? I’m ready! [/QUOTE]

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