Worst controversial call ever !!!!!!!!!!
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As much as it would seem Norm, I gotta agree with the Jarvi being the worst. Jarvi took over an NCAA team from Fran and yes, he took them to the final 8, thanks to Fran's players. Then he cost us nearly 50 victories because of Keita and was fired in mid-season that led to the stripper incident in Pittsburgh. He turned over a 6-21 team to Norm who certainly had difficulty recruiting because of it. Norm somehow got a 9-18 record in year one and had 17 wins in his last year of mediocrity as he had the challenge of a total rebuild of players and SJU Reputation. His last year saw a good group of players for Lavin to take to the NCAA's in his first year who included DJ, Paris Horne, Hardy, Burrell, Evans, Boothe, Stith. This group were good players and good people unlike what Jarvis would recruit. (And I was not a Norm supporter, but Jarvis was a sleaze who was looking to line his own pockets. I stopped my Red White donations in Norm's last year and said I would be back when we had a new coach, which I did with the Lavin hiring.)
Foul call in BET vs Villanova after JC's game clinching attempt was hit by a gust of wind at MSG.
Pretty sure Carter got there late and was a dangerous submarine. That moment, frozen in time, possibly the worst single moment of the last 50 years (2nd only to Harrington saying "Congratulations and welcome aboard Norm".)
Pretty sure Carter got there late and was a dangerous submarine. That moment, frozen in time, possibly the worst single moment of the last 50 years (2nd only to Harrington saying "Congratulations and welcome aboard Norm".)
GeorgiaRed
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Didn't Wiley Brown lose his prosthetic thumb before the NC game?
I think Darrell Griffith on that Louisville team was the greatest visiting ball player to play at CA.
Interesting topic would need to see a complete list of great players to have played on our campus. Off top of my head I’d go with teammates Marvin Barnes and Ernie D.
Calvin Murphy and Rick Barry were two more great ones.
Was that David Russell’s coming out party? We were down big at half…Billy Packer turns to me and my buddies (we routinely chatted him up) and tells us “you guys are kinda quiet”…Russell proceeded to bring us almost all the way back but alas we lost.
Providence routinely hurt us at Alumni Hall
Recent memory of Sanogo getting a Christmas gift foul call to steal the game away from us in Storrs 4/5 years ago.
GeorgiaRed
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He put on quite a show that day. But Bernard King dropped 40 on us at Alumni Hall.
Seton Hall screwjob
I need to put up the bat signal to ESPKEN. My (faulty) recollection is that Russell arrived here ready made for the college game. Maybe the first time he touched the ball in his first game he got out on the left wing on the break and threw down a thunderous one handed dunk. He almost had a smooth midrange jumper and of course Buck Rogers jet packs that allowed him to fly.
My guess is that he wss among the first freshmen that Looie started out of the gates. Could be wrong about him even starting as a frosh but i don't think so.
Sadly IMO he didn't improve all that much start to finish. Wonder if Rick would have done more with him.
Darrell Griffith crushed us at Alumni Hall. Seem to remember us never been in the game at all.
I think David Russell came the following year.
Brown was the one who had a prosthetic right thumb that he lost during breakfast the day of the 1980 National Championship game. It got actually was picked when the wait staff cleared the tables and was found in the garbage.
He played in the NFL as a defensive end for a couple of years (he played football in high school but not college) before going overseas to play professional basketball.
Double checked…Feb 1980…we lost 76-71…David Russell was a freshmen…he had some game
That was a great SJ team…ended season 24-5…ranked #13
Def a weekend afternoon game, right?
Russell was the sixth man his freshman year. As a sophomore he took Ron Plair‘s forward position next to Frank Gilroy with Plair and Billy Goodwin among those coming off the bench. Goodwin wound up in the starting lineup at guard when Curtis Redding quit (or was thrown off the team).
The following two years, Russell and Goodwin were the forwards as Chris Mullin moved into the shooting guard role.
Russell probably could or should have started as freshman, but as SJU85 stated, he was sixth man. Plair and Gilroy were starting forwards during the elite 8 run the prior season and Lou kept them as starters. Hard to argue since we started the season 19-1.
As a freshman, Russell was named all Big East 2nd team, all Big East freshman team and was the only Johnnie to make the Big East tournament team. He led the team in scoring in both Big East Tournament games. (17 points each against Providence (quarterfinals) and Georgetown (semifinals). Not bad considering Reggie Carter and Wayne McKoy were our top 2 options.
As a freshman, Russell was named all Big East 2nd team, all Big East freshman team and was the only Johnnie to make the Big East tournament team. He led the team in scoring in both Big East Tournament games. (17 points each against Providence (quarterfinals) and Georgetown (semifinals). Not bad considering Reggie Carter and Wayne McKoy were our top 2 options.