Christmas Day Classics Marathon on FS1

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Eight-hour marathon will feature a pair of St. John's classics beginning at noon.

Dec. 19, 2013

QUEENS, N.Y. - The gift of classic BIG EAST basketball comes to FOX Sports 1 on Christmas Day with eight-straight hours of some of the conference's greatest games, including two St. John's classics. The marathon features four all-time matchups, including the BIG EAST's historic three-team Final Four and Villanova's "perfect" NCAA Championship Game in 1985, and tips off Wednesday, Dec. 25, at noon.

Opening the marathon is the St. John's upset from the 1984 regular season in which Chris Mullin scored 33 points to lead the Johnnies to a 75-71 win over Patrick Ewing and the second-ranked and eventual national champion Georgetown Hoyas.

At 2 p.m., FOX Sports 1 will show last year's third-round NCAA Tournament game between Marquette and Butler, who was a member of the Atlantic-10 Conference at the time. In a back-and-forth game, the Golden Eagles edged the Bulldogs, 74-72, as Butler's last-second shot was off the mark.

St. John's and Georgetown take the court again at 4 p.m., this time in the 1985 NCAA Tournament Semifinal. Both teams joined Villanova in the Final Four, making the BIG EAST the only conference in history to place three teams in the same national semifinal. The Hoyas rolled to a 77-59 victory, setting up the final game in FOX Sports 1's Christmas marathon, the 1985 National Championship Game between Georgetown and Villanova.

At 6 p.m., FOX Sports 1 has Villanova's "perfect game," a 66-64 win over Georgetown that still stands as one of the greatest upsets in NCAA Tournament history. The hot-handed Wildcats shot nearly 80 percent from the floor to take down the top-ranked Hoyas.

Studio host Rob Stone and FOX Sports lead college basketball game analyst Bill Raftery provide context, analysis and postgame thoughts for each of the four classic games.

FOX Sports is home to BIG EAST basketball with more than 100 men's games on FOX Sports 1 this season, including the entire BIG EAST Men's Basketball Tournament from Madison Square Garden in New York City. Conference play gets underway Tuesday, Dec. 31, with a five-game New Year's Eve marathon from noon to midnight ET, live on FOX Sports 1.
 
Spectacular!!!! Get out your recording gear. I remember every moment of our two of those games and have forgotten most of how what happened in the Villanova game. I attended our win to go to first place in the nation; I moved to a new home on our second game and watched it on packing boxes on TV before leaving for Kentucky for the Final Four. I have never seen a repeat of the Villanova win but the odds and reality were so in favor of Georgetown that we all just sat and watched for the Hoyas to eventually destroy them. Reality never set in until minutes to go when we started to think the impossible was possible. I doubt you could find 100 people out of the 16000 in attendance that thought VU could keep the loss under 15. This time I will watch both teams

Fox just "made " my Christmas so much better. I will be surrounded by mostly Redstorm fans in my extended family which will make the first two games homecoming games.
Thanks FOX!
 
Kudos to FS1. This network is going to be a worthy partner to the BIG EAST! May this relationship last for many years to come.
 
Hoping the kids watch our 2, more importantly the 4pm since that was at MSG.
They could see how SJU games was at MSG and damn it they could have that too, just win.
 
Cant wait for that!! FOX is giving SJU some love. I wish they would play some late 90's early 2000 games also.(I'm an 87 baby) But regardless this is amazing. Family, Good Beer and Great Basketball!! it gets no better.
 
That was great. Two exciting games and wonderful memories of Chris Mullin, Bill Wennington, Willie Glass, Mark "Action" Jackson and the rest of the crew. I had forgotten how short the short-shorts were! And no 3 point line...
 
How about no names on the uniforms; Pretty classy and makes a big statement. The Yankees among a few others, still get away with it and we still somehow get to know their players names by their deeds.
 
They showed a high and a low game for Chris when it came to Georgetown. He just couldn't get free in that final four semi game.
How I hated the hoyas in those days. It was fun to see Walter Berry, Wennington, and Chris and Mark Jackson on the floor at the same time in the second game though...and to remember Lou getting criticized for not starting Mark jackson over Moses. Watching it again years later, it really didn't matter...that was Georgetown's time...until villanova pulled off the ultimate upset in the Nationanl Championship.
I had forgotten that Shelton Jones was a freshman at the time of the second game until the announcer in the first game said if St John's can pick up Walter Berry and Shelton Jones they will be a force next year...and they were.....until those hoyas got us.
 
They showed a high and a low game for Chris when it came to Georgetown. He just couldn't get free in that final four semi game.
How I hated the hoyas in those days. It was fun to see Walter Berry, Wennington, and Chris and Mark Jackson on the floor at the same time in the second game though...and to remember Lou getting criticized for not starting Mark jackson over Moses. Watching it again years later, it really didn't matter...that was Georgetown's time...until villanova pulled off the ultimate upset in the Nationanl Championship.
I had forgotten that Shelton Jones was a freshman at the time of the second game until the announcer in the first game said if St John's can pick up Walter Berry and Shelton Jones they will be a force next year...and they were.....until those hoyas got us.
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I heard him say that too, that was Dickie V .
 
Other enjoyable games seen on Christmas included the reruns of the Butler/ Marquette NCAA game and the Villanova NCAA Championship win over Georgetown.
 
How about no names on the uniforms; Pretty classy and makes a big statement. The Yankees among a few others, still get away with it and we still somehow get to know their players names by their deeds.
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Is there any modernization of sports you like or would you like to rewind the clock 30 years and live in that bubble forever?
 
The biggest takeaway from the '84 game is that there actually was a time when Dickie V didn't sound like a hysterical female tweener.

Oh and Louie ought to be hog-tied for not running more with the personnel he had. I was shocked at how effective and consistent STJ was beating the Hoyas down the court. Same with Ohio State in '91 Sweet 16.
 
The biggest takeaway from the '84 game is that there actually was a time when Dickie V didn't sound like a hysterical female tweener.

Oh and Louie ought to be hog-tied for not running more with the personnel he had. I was shocked at how effective and consistent STJ was beating the Hoyas down the court. Same with Ohio State in '91 Sweet 16.
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I have to agree with that. There were a lot of times the team played too slow.
 
The biggest takeaway from the '84 game is that there actually was a time when Dickie V didn't sound like a hysterical female tweener.

Oh and Louie ought to be hog-tied for not running more with the personnel he had. I was shocked at how effective and consistent STJ was beating the Hoyas down the court. Same with Ohio State in '91 Sweet 16.
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It was painfully evident to anyone who had watched the 3 games versus Georgetown in 1985 that we had to do something different in Lexington if we were to have a chance to win. We could not do the same thing we had in the prior two games. The Hoyas had our number. Those moves would have been starting 6 3 sophomore Mark Jackson at the point over 5 10 senior Mike Moses and 6 9 freshman Shelton Jones at the small forward over 6 5 sophomore Willie Glass. What could have been.

The 1991 Sweet 16 match-up was one of the top 5 games I have ever watched. Maybe even higher. We destroyed Ohio State whom I believe may have been a number 1 seed with all american Jimmy Jackson. The entire country and Canada watched on that famous Friday evening as we just sliced through the Buckeyes press for lay-up after lay-up. I was drunk with giddiness watching what transpired as it was one of those rare occasions where a Lou C team outplayed a higher ranked opponent.
 
watching the replay of that game gave me the answer to a question which has long baffled me: Who was the third member of the Camden connection? I knew Billy Thompson and Millt Wagner, but it wasn't until Dickie V started touting the long forgotten Kevin Walls that it dawned on me that he was the 3rd member of that Camden HS team to head to Louisville to play for Denny Crum
 
... and 6 9 freshman Shelton Jones at the small forward over 6 5 sophomore Willie Glass. What could have been.
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I've seen others say this and will never understand it.

Willie may have been boneheaded, incapable of scoring three feet beyond the basket and handled the ball the way my one-year-old handles a ball. But he was a tough SOB who gave you everything on the court, was fast, could jump, finished very well at the basket, was a decent rebounder and played very good D.

As for Shelly... that guy was softer than bag of marshmallows.
 
... and 6 9 freshman Shelton Jones at the small forward over 6 5 sophomore Willie Glass. What could have been.
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I've seen others say this and will never understand it.

Willie may have been boneheaded, incapable of scoring three feet beyond the basket and handled the ball the way my one-year-old handles a ball. But he was a tough SOB who gave you everything on the court, was fast, could jump, finished very well at the basket, was a decent rebounder and played very good D.

As for Shelly... that guy was softer than bag of marshmallows.
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Sadly, Willie Glass was singled out, by Pat Riley, as the player with the worst basketball fundamentals that he had ever seen. A kind of backhanded swipe at Looie and the program
 
... and 6 9 freshman Shelton Jones at the small forward over 6 5 sophomore Willie Glass. What could have been.
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I've seen others say this and will never understand it.

Willie may have been boneheaded, incapable of scoring three feet beyond the basket and handled the ball the way my one-year-old handles a ball. But he was a tough SOB who gave you everything on the court, was fast, could jump, finished very well at the basket, was a decent rebounder and played very good D.

As for Shelly... that guy was softer than bag of marshmallows.
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Sadly, Willie Glass was singled out, by Pat Riley, as the player with the worst basketball fundamentals that he had ever seen. A kind of backhanded swipe at Looie and the program
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But he could sure sky. He jumped as high as anyone at that time and was probably only 6'3.
 
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