Boston College, Sun., Dec. 10, 4:30p, ESPNU

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ghostzapper said:
Michael Adams started his career at B.C. under Head Coach Dr. Tom Davis. Gary Williams was Davis's successor and B.C. was very good under both of them. Personally, I always liked watching B.C. teams when they were in the Big East, they were fun to watch and had some really great players. Williams was followed by Jim O'Brien and then Al Skinner who also did a good job there. Unfortunately leaving the Big East in 2005 for the ACC was the wrong move for their basketball program and they have been largely irrelevant since their Big East departure.
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In addition to Michael Adams:

John Bagley, Jay Murphy, Danya Abrams, Dana Barros, Bill Curley, Craig Smith and Troy Bell were all outstanding B.C. Big East players that stand out in my mind. The fall of their program since moving to the ACC has been a sad thing to see.
 
ghostzapper said:
Michael Adams started his career at B.C. under Head Coach Dr. Tom Davis. Gary Williams was Davis's successor and B.C. was very good under both of them. Personally, I always liked watching B.C. teams when they were in the Big East, they were fun to watch and had some really great players. Williams was followed by Jim O'Brien and then Al Skinner who also did a good job there. Unfortunately leaving the Big East in 2005 for the ACC was the wrong move for their basketball program and they have been largely irrelevant since their Big East departure.
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Thanks for the info. We beat B.C. for our first BE championship in ‘83. Which was the first year the tournament was held at MSG. Remember they had a power forward named Jay Murphy(?) who was a heck of a player.

Forgot about Tom Davis. I think he went on to coach at Iowa with players like Roy Marble.
 
ghostzapper said:
In addition to Michael Adams:

John Bagley, Jay Murphy, Danya Abrams, Dana Barros, Bill Curley, Craig Smith and Troy Bell were all outstanding B.C. Big East players that stand out in my mind. The fall of their program since moving to the ACC has been a sad thing to see.
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John Bagley was a walking bucket. No doubt they had a heck of a program in the 80’s. Shame that football basically ruined their basketball program.

Wow, Billy Curley, haven’t heard that name in a while.
 
Best BC memory was 1985 Home game in Alumni Hall. Michael Adams and Mike Moses had a little dust up, no ejections (The good old days). We won a tough two point victory. It was the best atmosphere I ever recall at a SJU game. Building was electric. Crowd all over Adams all night
 
carmineabbatiello said:
I liked it when they used to fix the games with the guys from Goodfellas.
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Here ya go, from Wiki:

'In early February, Boston College was scheduled to play two New York State teams, Fordham and St. John's. The conspirators decided that these games presented especially good opportunities because New York bookmakers generally accepted large bets for New York teams. They reintroduced the original strategy, which proved successful for the February 3 Fordham game when Boston College, a ten-point favorite, won by seven points. The February 6 game against St. John's was a "push" (winning back exact bets), as the syndicate neither won nor lost when St. John's prevailed 85–76, the exact point spread (nine) the bookmakers had offered.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1978–...etball_point-shaving_scandal#cite_note-9–12-2'

I remember that game, it seemed like Ernie Cobb was missing shots that he usually made, although the article said it was neveer proven if he was involved. But an off day gets looked at suspiciously when your teammates were screwing around.
 
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