Rowan's Shot and Berry's Block
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I don't recall any controversy about Pearl being fouled. He said just the opposite and I don't recall Boeheim whinning about it either.
I was sitting in the about ten rows up in the Student section on the left hand side facing the court where Ronnie started his drive, stopped and hit the pull-up jumper. And then witnessed the Pearl's made dash down the court and then to see Walter swat it away.
I remember a Cuse fan saying to rationalizing to his girlfriend "We'll they only had the lead once" and she agreed. To which my buddy responded, yeah, we had it when it counts, at the end!!!!
Celebratory steak and drinks at Runyons (boy do I miss that place) where some Nova and BC fans where buying drinks for anyone in St. John's red.
Great night.
I was sitting in the about ten rows up in the Student section on the left hand side facing the court where Ronnie started his drive, stopped and hit the pull-up jumper. And then witnessed the Pearl's made dash down the court and then to see Walter swat it away.
I remember a Cuse fan saying to rationalizing to his girlfriend "We'll they only had the lead once" and she agreed. To which my buddy responded, yeah, we had it when it counts, at the end!!!!
Celebratory steak and drinks at Runyons (boy do I miss that place) where some Nova and BC fans where buying drinks for anyone in St. John's red.
Great night.
I miss Runyon's as well.
The Berry block after the Rowan shot put us ahead was one of the most electric moments ever in the Garden. It went so fast it took a second or so for the crowd to go berserk. It was stunning. I was at several other memorable late game shockers for STJ in the Garden including Louie Rothel's hook shot against Utah in the NIT in '58 and the stunning late win against Kentucky by one point in the 2000 season opener. What a way to start a century! Neither of those were as big or as exciting and memorable as the '86 BE Championship IMO.
I will share with you a funny comment made to me after the game by Doc Gimmler, the long term trainer of the SJU basketball team, former golf coach at SJU, and former N.Y.F.D. hero. Doc said, "In those last 5 seconds 18,436 fans in the Garden knew exactly who was going to attempt to make the shot for Syracuse; the astonishing thing to me was that all 5 of our kids ALSO knew Pearl was going to take that shot!" Everything clicked for us in those last moments of that game.
The Berry block after the Rowan shot put us ahead was one of the most electric moments ever in the Garden. It went so fast it took a second or so for the crowd to go berserk. It was stunning. I was at several other memorable late game shockers for STJ in the Garden including Louie Rothel's hook shot against Utah in the NIT in '58 and the stunning late win against Kentucky by one point in the 2000 season opener. What a way to start a century! Neither of those were as big or as exciting and memorable as the '86 BE Championship IMO.
I will share with you a funny comment made to me after the game by Doc Gimmler, the long term trainer of the SJU basketball team, former golf coach at SJU, and former N.Y.F.D. hero. Doc said, "In those last 5 seconds 18,436 fans in the Garden knew exactly who was going to attempt to make the shot for Syracuse; the astonishing thing to me was that all 5 of our kids ALSO knew Pearl was going to take that shot!" Everything clicked for us in those last moments of that game.
Are there any fans out who saw the final '59 regular season game vs NYU at the old MSG. Tony Jackson takes about a 28 ft jump shot as the buzzer goes off. The Garden is silent for the two or three seconds it takes for the ball to go in and break a tie score.
Jackson had such great range that his shot had the form of another player's 18 ft shot.
Many newspaper articles wrote that this game finally ended the New York college basketball's fan disgust because of the '51 scandals.
About two weeks later NYU loses in the NIT semi finals and SJU beats Bradley in the finals. Tony gets 27 rebounds in that game.
Jackson had such great range that his shot had the form of another player's 18 ft shot.
Many newspaper articles wrote that this game finally ended the New York college basketball's fan disgust because of the '51 scandals.
About two weeks later NYU loses in the NIT semi finals and SJU beats Bradley in the finals. Tony gets 27 rebounds in that game.
Enright, those games w/ NYU were great. That particular game and season was a massive milestone for SJU.
NYU, as you know, was in the top 3 in the rankings in those years with Satch Sanders, Barry Kramer Cunningham, Pedone, Mark Reiner and Mike Paprocky. I was on the floor for that game as well as at the '61 game and it was a great one as was every win over NYU in those years. There is a famous photo from that game when Leroy hoisted a fistful of violets in his up stretched hand. That photo made every paper and I later saw it in the wallpaper in Montgoris hall on campus some years ago.
That was my last taste of victory as a student mascot and president of the student council booster society. The following week we were crushed by Wake Forest with Billy Packer (the same guy we know as an announcer) in the last NCAA game at the Garden for 53years.
You must have also been at the biggest "fight" in MSG's history later in the 60's when the students of SJU, Fordham, and Manhattan joined in a 3000 man shoving match with NYU students who stormed the court to support their team in a fight w/ the Jasper players in the second game of the double header involving the above mentioned teams. Everyone wanted to take a punch at an NYU guy. They were that good under coach Lou Rossini, who also happened to be an SJU grad.
The "brawl" lasted for a full 4-5 minutes and was stopped only when Johnnie Condon, the original voice of the Garden, called upon Gladys Gooding to play the National Anthem.
All the kids stopped in their place with their hands over their heats and sang along as was the custom. No decision was declared. Might not have happened like that in these days. There were only 1-2 NYPD folks in uniform at the games those days.
On the Bosnian guy, Ii just missed it in the forum; still can't find it but , that's my loss.
NYU, as you know, was in the top 3 in the rankings in those years with Satch Sanders, Barry Kramer Cunningham, Pedone, Mark Reiner and Mike Paprocky. I was on the floor for that game as well as at the '61 game and it was a great one as was every win over NYU in those years. There is a famous photo from that game when Leroy hoisted a fistful of violets in his up stretched hand. That photo made every paper and I later saw it in the wallpaper in Montgoris hall on campus some years ago.
That was my last taste of victory as a student mascot and president of the student council booster society. The following week we were crushed by Wake Forest with Billy Packer (the same guy we know as an announcer) in the last NCAA game at the Garden for 53years.
You must have also been at the biggest "fight" in MSG's history later in the 60's when the students of SJU, Fordham, and Manhattan joined in a 3000 man shoving match with NYU students who stormed the court to support their team in a fight w/ the Jasper players in the second game of the double header involving the above mentioned teams. Everyone wanted to take a punch at an NYU guy. They were that good under coach Lou Rossini, who also happened to be an SJU grad.
The "brawl" lasted for a full 4-5 minutes and was stopped only when Johnnie Condon, the original voice of the Garden, called upon Gladys Gooding to play the National Anthem.
All the kids stopped in their place with their hands over their heats and sang along as was the custom. No decision was declared. Might not have happened like that in these days. There were only 1-2 NYPD folks in uniform at the games those days.
On the Bosnian guy, Ii just missed it in the forum; still can't find it but , that's my loss.
What happened to the interest in college BB in NY. I've criticized SJU for their attendance problems but Fordham and Manhattan are in worse shape. Why are they playing in arenas close to a hundred years old. Both schools have plenty of Wall St. hotshots as alumni .
This years Holiday Festival will consist of four local teams with probably 75,000 students and hundreds of thousands alumni and selling 12,000 tickets will be a struggle.
No there won't be a top ten team playing and not all the teams will have winning records but still.
This years Holiday Festival will consist of four local teams with probably 75,000 students and hundreds of thousands alumni and selling 12,000 tickets will be a struggle.
No there won't be a top ten team playing and not all the teams will have winning records but still.
I was there also (somewhere upstairs) for the "Berry Block". I also remember the Auburn game. What a pity we played them who we matched up poorly against instead of being in another bracket. We could have won it all that year. I was a student from 1959 to 1963 and so, remember well the great games against NYU and the miraculous jump shots from TJ. Those were the days, my friends! The game has changed so much and New York is no longer the hub of basketball it once was. Now, we rely on transfers and one year and done wonders. I miss the old days.
I was at the "86 Championship game and recorded the game on a VHS tape. I still look at it every so often and still can't believe that we came back from 19 (?) down in the second half to win that game. I still cherish the "86 Big East Champions" sweater that I bought at the game. And I remember holding my breath fearing a foul call on " The Truth" as The Pearl put up his shot. As the song goes:" Those were the days, my friend, I thought they'd never end" Its been a long way from that day to where are program went and is now.
Was at the Rowan jumper-Berry block game too.
Along with my closest friend from Brooklyn who happened to go to ‘Cuse. It was soooo sweet.
I felt the Garden rock like a thunderbolt hit it, was so electric that night.
Along with my closest friend from Brooklyn who happened to go to ‘Cuse. It was soooo sweet.
I felt the Garden rock like a thunderbolt hit it, was so electric that night.