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Message: [QUOTE="SWC75, post: 2421883, member: 289"] I had to look it up: I hope he enjoyed being on the USBL's 20th anniversary all-star team. [URL="http://www.orangehoops.org/mlloyd.htm"]Michael Lloyd[/URL] Before that he played for the Auburn-Montgomery Warhawks, an NAIA team: [URL="https://basketball.realgm.com/player/Michael-Lloyd/Summary/2339"]Michael Lloyd Player Profile, Auburn-Montgomery, NCAA Stats, Events Stats, Game Logs, Awards - RealGM[/URL] At least, he was on their roster. That was a strange SU team, one with a lot of potential and most of the players who played for the title the next season. Yet they only wound up 20-10. They lost their opener in Manley when the Dome was unavailable for some reason, (the game was played on a Wednesday night). We fell way behind a George Washington team that would wind up 18-14. Fans got up and left, which gave Dick Vitale an opportunity to castigate them, especially when Lloyd led a furious comeback to get the game into overtime, where we still lost. Manley Field House remained "closed". We then won 14 games in a row, only to lose 9 of our last 15. The key was single digit games. After losing to GW, we won our next 7 single digit games, then lost the next 7 in a row. We beat Southern Illinois 96-92 in the first round of the NCAAs. Then came the Arkansas game, making us 8-9 in such games. We were a strong 12-6 in the conference but lost in the first round of the BET to Providence, in another OT game. The strange behavior of Lawrence Moten in some games stands out. At Pittsburgh on January 14th, we had a 4 point lead with a second left. Pitt was in-bounding near mid-court. All we had to do was nothing. Moten fouled on a three point attempt. It was the only chance Pitt had: make the first two, miss the second and tip it in. They missed the tip in and we won 65-63. I have a vague memory of something similar happening at St. John's on March 1st, except we lost that game 78-82. I think he fouled on a three pointer in the final minute there. In the loss to providence, we had the ball for the last shot in regulation and Moten picked up his dribble and just held the ball frozen with Jim Boeheim, clearly in his vision, begging him to do something with it. The defender came up on him and the ref declared an turnover on the "closely guarded rule". Then he called the time-out we didn't have against Arkansas. JB said afterwards that the players had been reminded that we didn't have on in the time-out before that play. What a strange way to end a career for a player who lived on his basketball instincts. [URL="http://www.syracuse.com/orangebasketball/index.ssf/2014/05/syracuses_1994-95_team_was_on_the_verge_of_greatness_no_15.html"]Syracuse's 1994-95 team was on the verge of greatness (No. 15)[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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