[quote="BrooklynRed" post=383676][quote="fan since 65" post=383630]I was there as well, lucky enough to fly on the fan charter. My roommate in Lexington was the famous Howie Schwab.

I think we stayed at a place called the Greenleaf (?) Inn on the outskirts of Lexington, a dry place on Sundays. But, there was a fan get together for all three BE schools that day, BBQ, beer, etc. so all was good.
Watching the game now, saw a typical G'town move of the Thompson years. They scored and a Hoya jammed the ball into Harold Jensen's stomach as he was about to take it out of bounds.95% of the arena was rooting for Villanova that night.
Several years later I was in Australia with Dennis Myron (former ticket manager for you young ones) and we caught a Sydney Kings basketball game and Dwayne McClain was playing for them. Same trip on a boat on the Great Barrier Reef, while wearing my SJU hat, tall guy on the boat noticed my hat, started talking to us. Sean Kerins, played for Syracuse1981-84. Small world indded.[/quote]
I remember a "gathering" in dry Lexington that Sunday. I think it was done by the owner of Runyons from the east side in the 50's (great watering hole that was fun to go to, especially during BE week). The story I heard is he rented it from the owner so BE folks could do what they like to do. I always thought Lexington blew by not getting the state to authorize drinking on that one Sunday and also to have a "special" race day at Keeneland.
If memory serves me right, that 1985 finals were the last to be held in an arena, since then they have all been held in football stadiums; in my mind a tragedy.[/quote]
85 was the last year that the Final Four was held on a college campus. The last arena Final Four was in 1996, when Kentucky beat Syracuse at the Meadowlands.