Today - Sunday 3/29- at 1 pm Reair 1985 Championship Villanova v. Georgetown CBS

[quote="newsman13" post=383594]Depressing...we beat Villanova three times that year...and they win it all.[/quote]

We had a knack of beating the eventual national champs in the 80's.
In the span of 5 seasons, we beat the eventual champs SIX times.

1983-84 @ Georgetown
1984-85 Villanova 3x
1985-86 Louisville @MSG
1987-88 Kansas @ MSG
 
[quote="newsman13" post=383594]Depressing...we beat Villanova three times that year...and they win it all.[/quote]

Georgetown swept them in the regular season too, what's your point?
 
[quote="fordham96" post=383606][quote="newsman13" post=383594]Depressing...we beat Villanova three times that year...and they win it all.[/quote]

Georgetown swept them in the regular season too, what's your point?[/quote]

Always a bridesmaid...never a bride.
 
My wife, my father and I were at the game

Appropriate that it was on April Fool's Day

Hoya fans thought the game was a mere formality before they were crowned champions

As you know, it was the last game without the shot clock

Harold Jensen should have sprinted to the nearest convenience store to buy lottery tickets after the game.

It was his lucky night.

Biggest mistake Rollie ever made was leaving Villanova
 
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[quote="jerseyshorejohnny" post=383624]My wife, my father and I were at the game

Appropriate that it was on April Fool's Day

Hoya fans thought the game was a mere formality before they were crowned champions

As you know, it was the last game without the shot clock

Harold Jensen should have sprinted to the nearest convenience store to buy lottery tickets after the game.

It was his lucky night.

Biggest mistake Rollie ever made was leaving Villanova[/quote]

My wife and I were also there, even though frustrated by the semi outcome we stayed for one of the great college upsets. Glad we did. We were rooting for Nova as we really could not stomach the Hoyas.
 
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.
 
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[quote="jerseyshorejohnny" post=383624]
Biggest mistake Rollie ever made was leaving Villanova[/quote]
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Despite the love that Rollie still receives at Villanova I understand that he may have been nudged out the door 7 seasons after winning the National Championship.

Over his last 4 seasons at Villanova Rollie's record was a mediocre 67- 61 before he departed after the 1991- 92 season.

Rollie's successor, Steve Lappas was eventually fired with an overall winning percent of 61% winning percent and 55% Big East win percent over 9seasons

Heck, StJohn's hasn't had a coach who has won more than 61% of his games since Coach Carnesecca but Villanova nevertheless pulled the plug on Lappas.
 
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In spite of the fact that GT played dirty and Thompson had control of the refs, Nova still won. Pretty unreal.
 
[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="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]
Dennis Myron is a classic...saw him at the Marquette game
 
In rewatching the game two things I also saw along the lines of typical G’Town.
1- On a late game inbounds play, Broadnax went nose to nose with the Villanova player. As Nova tried to inbound Broadnax pulled the player towards him trying to “fake” an offensive foul. Referee called the play correctly. Billy Packer exploded calling it a “dirty” play.
2- I don’t recall the rule at the time. However, after a made basket the clock would continue to run. As the last G’Town basket was at like 5 seconds Nova didn’t have to inbound the ball. However, the G’Town player swatted the ball after the basket. The referees stopped the clock. Massimino was apoplectic. Nova was forced to use a TO. I have no idea why G’Town was not assessed a technical foul? Why wasn’t the clock restarted after the ball was retrieved? Nothing came of it as Nova was able to inbound and end the game.
 
We had Villanova's number that year. It is all about matchups in that final four. Had we gotten Memphis in the semis and Nova beaten Georgetown in the semis (instead of the finals), we would have beaten Memphis ((State) back then) and beaten Nova to be National Champs.

Woulda, coulda, shoulda.

With three BE Catholic schools and his State school, Dana Kirk, coach of Memphis State had a great line....something about "needing to convert to Catholicism".

Keith Lee was Memphis State's big gun, but we could have handled them with the talent on our team. We just let Georgetown have our number that year.

I didn't get to Lexington, I remember telling a buddy, I just had my first kid, but "I'll go the next time". Little did I know.
 
[quote="BrookJersey Redmen" post=383755]We had Villanova's number that year. It is all about matchups in that final four. Had we gotten Memphis in the semis and Nova beaten Georgetown in the semis (instead of the finals), we would have beaten Memphis ((State) back then) and beaten Nova to be National Champs.
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Or we could have beaten Nova in the semis and still lost to Gtown in the finals.
Either way, it was a travesty the committee put the best two teams in the country on the same side of the bracket.
 
[quote="Beast of the East" post=383761]I think the two most incredible shooting statistics on a per game basis in basketball history were Wilt Chamberlain shooting 28-32 from the foul line the night he scored 100 points, and Villanova shooting 78.6% in the title game vs. Georgetown.

[URL]https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/boxscores/1985-04-01-georgetown.html[/URL][/quote]
And Bill Walton's 44 points on 21 of 22 shooting against Memphis State in the 1973 championship game wasn't too shabby either.
 
[quote="redken" post=383767][quote="Beast of the East" post=383761]I think the two most incredible shooting statistics on a per game basis in basketball history were Wilt Chamberlain shooting 28-32 from the foul line the night he scored 100 points, and Villanova shooting 78.6% in the title game vs. Georgetown.

[URL]https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/boxscores/1985-04-01-georgetown.html[/URL][/quote]
And Bill Walton's 44 points on 21 of 22 shooting against Memphis State in the 1973 championship game wasn't too shabby either.[/quote]

That was the one other performance that came to mind and I almost included that.
 
[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.
 
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