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Username Post: 50 Years Ago        (Topic#24914)
13otto 
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02-09-21 12:05 AM - Post#320463    
    In response to SteveChop

I have the box score from The Philadelphia Inquirer. Lefteroo's recollection (but not his spelling) is correct. Roger Parramore, not Hal Grossman, refereed the 1970-71 Penn-Ohio State game with Steve Honzo.

Any chance that article Lyle posted was from 2009?
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SteveChop 
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02-09-21 11:25 AM - Post#320471    
    In response to 13otto

Thanks Otto.

 
LyleGold 
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02-09-21 03:26 PM - Post#320485    
    In response to 13otto

Indeed it was. Nov 8, 2009

 
Lefteroo 
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02-10-21 11:13 AM - Post#320535    
    In response to LyleGold

Is it a sign of mental illness that I remembered the ref's name? And yet, I still can't find wallet or my car keys most days.

I am convinced that it was Parramore (yep, I couldn't quite remember the spelling last time), not Honzo, who made that call in Corky's favor.

 
13otto 
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02-21-21 07:13 PM - Post#321079    
    In response to 13otto

50 years ago this weekend, #4 Penn improved to 22-0, (10-0 in the Ivy league) when it swept Harvard, 103-72, and Dartmouth, 102-75, at the Palestra. It was the first time that a Penn team reached the century mark in back-to-back games. This past Friday, The Pennsylvania Gazette did a piece on the Harvard game.
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13otto 
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03-05-21 05:15 PM - Post#321457    
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50 years ago this week, the NCAA Tournament pairings were announced. Yes, back in 1971, the pairings were announced before the end of the regular season. Penn (24-0, 12-0), which clinched the Ivy title the previous weekend but dropped one spot to #5 in the AP poll, drew #11 Duquesne (20-3) in the opening round, at Morgantown, W. Va. (just 75 miles from the Dukes' campus). The winner would face the ACC tournament champion, which had yet to be decided.

Last night, the Penn Sports Network wrapped up their Virtual Basketball Season celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the 1970-71 men's basketball season by showing The Perfect Season video.
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OldBig5 
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03-08-21 04:31 PM - Post#321617    
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Thanks much Otto for posting The Perfect Season video. First time I had seen that. Hearing John Facenda is always great. I have to admit that I fast forwarded through some near the end for obvious reasons.

It also made me think about Phil Hankinson and sad about how he died. Sounded like he had a tortured life before his death.

When were the newer player interviews done? They seemed recent. Bilsky's absence seemed notable!


 
13otto 
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03-10-21 07:23 PM - Post#321729    
    In response to OldBig5

The newer player interviews were done throughout the 2020-21 basketball season, and posted on the Penn Twitter page throughout the season. Corky Calhoun's interview was featured during the 12/12 Ohio State game, Bob Morse's during the late December Quaker City Tournament, Dave Wohl's during the Quaker City Tourney and during the 1/23 Villanova game, etc.,

While Steve Bilsky may not have done an interview, he definitely was at the Virtual 1970-71 Basketball Season celebration, as were all the starters plus a few other players from that team.
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13otto 
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03-13-21 06:44 PM - Post#321919    
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50 years ago today, #4 Penn (27-0) defeated #11 Duquesne, 70-65, in the first round of the NCAA Tournament, in front of a hostile crowd at the brand new WVU Coliseum in Morgantown, W. Va. The crowd of 13,861 was at the time the largest ever to see a single NCAA Tournament game.

In the unbelievable finish to the ACC Tournament final at Raleigh, #6 South Carolina stunned North Carolina, 52-51, on a buzzer-beater when the Gamecocks' 6'3" guard, Kevin Joyce, out-jumped the Tar Heels' 6'10" Lee Dedmon with just 5 seconds remaining. This set up a Penn-South Carolina match-up 5 days later in an East Regional semifinal game.

The other semifinal would feature Villanova, a 93-75 winner over St. Joseph's at the Palestra, and #10 Fordham (coached by former Penn assistant/freshman coach Digger Phelps), a 105-74 winner over Furman, at St. John's.
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OldBig5 
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03-13-21 06:55 PM - Post#321921    
    In response to 13otto

I attended the Villanova/St. Joe's game at the Palestra. All the time wondering how Penn was doing.

 
caughtinasnare 
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03-14-21 01:12 AM - Post#321933    
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My father was a sophomore at Fordham at the time. He and a bunch of his friends drove down there to see Fordham play Villanova, and as a result also attended the Penn game against South Carolina. I'm not sure if driving that far as a bunch of 19-year-olds in the cars of that era (my dad's '62 Mercedes had no seatbelts...) was more or less crazy than me flying out to Wichita 3 years ago by myself to watch a 16-seed go up against a hometown 1-seed as a 29-year-old business school student...

 
palestra38 
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03-14-21 09:12 AM - Post#321953    
    In response to caughtinasnare

It's much less crazy. We all drove with friends to NCAA games back in the day. I still have a photo somewhere of my friend's Jeep with a banner reading PENN-ACC CHAMPS in Greensboro after the 1979 Eastern Regional. Flying out by yourself to watch the Kansas game is crazy, but presumably, you had the money, so why not?

 
LyleGold 
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03-18-21 10:02 PM - Post#322294    
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Is there a recording of the virtual 70-71 celebration? I’d love to see it.

 
LyleGold 
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03-18-21 10:08 PM - Post#322295    
    In response to palestra38

In more recent times, I drove through 4 ft. of snow from Philly to Syracuse for the ‘93 NCAA game against UMass. P38 and a couple others were no help at all because I was the only one who could drive a manual transmission.

If only Maloney could have hit a stinkin’ shot! (It seems like we said that a few times in NCAA games.)

 
13otto 
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03-19-21 12:01 AM - Post#322296    
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50 years ago today, #3 Penn (28-0) defeated #6 South Carolina, 79-64, to advance to the Elite Eight. Bob Morse led the Quakers with 28 points, while Dave Wohl added 20 and Corky Calhoun shut down All-American John Roche in the second half. Penn's opponent in the Eastern Regional Final would be #18 Villanova, an 85-75 winner over #9 Fordham.

Penn was now the lone undefeated team remaining because, in the Mideast Regional, #2 Marquette, the other unbeaten team entering the Sweet 16, was upset by #10 Ohio State, 60-59. The Buckeyes would face #7 Western Kentucky in the regional final.

#4 Kansas and #19 Drake advanced to the Midwest Regional Final, while #1 UCLA and #16 Long Beach State would meet in the West Regional Final.
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LyleGold 
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50 Years Ago
02-15-22 09:50 PM - Post#336546    
    In response to SteveChop

  • SteveChop Said:
Of course, Penn did wind up 28-0*, the only team to go through an entire season without losing a game yet not the NCAA champion.



Ahh, so the asterisk is on the official record. Today’s 28-0-1 was a bit of a concession to reality.

By the way, NC State was undefeated in 1973, but ended its season by defeating Maryland in the ACC tournament. Norm Sloan sent an assistant coach to play illegal pick up games with David Thompson, which resulted in the Wolfpack’s NCAA suspension.

Didn’t Amaker do something similar when he first took the Harvard job sending Kenny Blakeney to illegally scrimmage with Keith Wright?

NC State and Maryland would have an epic rematch in the ‘74 ACC Final, won by the Pack in OT, 103-100 - a game many consider the greatest in college basketball history. It also led to the end of the one team per conference rule in the NCAAs as MD was ranked #2, NC St #4, and UNC #6. State went in to win it all, beating Bill Walton and UCLA in OT in the national semifinals and Marquette in the final.

 
OldBig5 
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Re: 50 Years Ago
02-16-22 12:39 AM - Post#336560    
    In response to LyleGold

  • LyleGold Said:
  • SteveChop Said:
Of course, Penn did wind up 28-0*, the only team to go through an entire season without losing a game yet not the NCAA champion.





NC State and Maryland would have an epic rematch in the ‘74 ACC Final, won by the Pack in OT, 103-100 - a game many consider the greatest in college basketball history. It also led to the end of the one team per conference rule in the NCAAs as MD was ranked #2, NC St #4, and UNC #6. State went in to win it all, beating Bill Walton and UCLA in OT in the national semifinals and Marquette in the final.


I remember watching that NC State/Maryland game--probably on one of the UHF stations. It was a great game.


 
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