NCAA Tournament Thread

Ralph318! said:
I had a priest who taught theology when I was an undergraduate in the late 1970s. He grew up Jewish near St. John’s, went to St. John’s, and converted to Catholicism.
I wish I could remember his name. Great professor and person.
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Best professor I had at St John’s, and I had a few who were outstanding, was a philosophy professor whom I was told was a former priest who married later in life. He was the former head of the department of theology but had to give up his title following his marriage. My friend said while he was an active priest his church was full every Sunday morning.
 
And now ... Let's get ready for Friday night!

Four one seeds. Half of the FF is the SEC, which pretty much tracks straight thru from the sweet 16

Big 12 with St Houston.

ACC with otherworldly talent on Duke.

Looking forward to see if Houston can slow those super freshmen down.
 
redmannorth said:
Best professor I had at St John’s, and I had a few who were outstanding, was a philosophy professor whom I was told was a former priest who married later in life. He was the former head of the department of theology but had to give up his title following his marriage. My friend said while he was an active priest his church was full every Sunday morning.
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Was it Prof. Valenzano?
 
lawmanfan said:
And now ... Let's get ready for Friday night!

Four one seeds. Half of the FF is the SEC, which pretty much tracks straight thru from the sweet 16

Big 12 with St Houston.

ACC with otherworldly talent on Duke.

Looking forward to see if Houston can slow those super freshmen down.
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Did the NCAA flex those games from Saturday night? I must have missed that....:)
 
If you trust coaching experience there is some good value to be found at the final four.
 
Dan Klores a writer, guested in the NY Post the other day writing about 3/4 coaches in the FF being Jewish. But what the article was really about was the tradition of East coast cities and Jewish embrace of BB. He mentions all of the greats and integrates it with the tough Irish kids, then the blacks, the Jewish players competed with.

St. John's and its tradition of Jewish (and Irish) players and stars gets a couple of mentions.

It is a great article for those of us of a certain age. St. John's in the 20's and 30's especially being in Bklyn with its large Jewish poplulation had more thant its share of Jewish students in the college and grad programs especially Law. People forget but schools like Columbia and even NYU had unspoken about quotas of how many Jewish kids they enrolled. St. John's did not.

He mentions the old G. O. Card (I had one) got you in as a HS student to the "old" Garden for $.50 (later on $1.50)
 
BrookJersey Redmen said:
Dan Klores a writer, guested in the NY Post the other day writing about 3/4 coaches in the FF being Jewish. But what the article was really about was the tradition of East coast cities and Jewish embrace of BB. He mentions all of the greats and integrates it with the tough Irish kids, then the blacks, the Jewish players competed with.

St. John's and its tradition of Jewish (and Irish) players and stars gets a couple of mentions.

It is a great article for those of us of a certain age. St. John's in the 20's and 30's especially being in Bklyn with its large Jewish poplulation had more thant its share of Jewish students in the college and grad programs especially Law. People forget but schools like Columbia and even NYU had unspoken about quotas of how many Jewish kids they enrolled. St. John's did not.

He mentions the old G. O. Card (I had one) got you in as a HS student to the "old" Garden for $.50 (later on $1.50)
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I believe I posted the link the other day. Its a Post Plus article but a great read.
 
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