Scholarship table
Yep, especially that first one. Not even close to a charge.
Brad Palmer from Chicago media posted this in June. Classic from 1972 Chicago Alumni Luncheon.http://youtu.be/Ta08uVdRzck
Does anyone remember if 76 was the year that the Russian BB team played both MU and Indiana in the preseason?
Here's a question: what if we had had won the 74 game and/or we won the OSU game and at least got to the Final four. Would we be talked about as the clear runner up to UCLA back then? Would MU in the 80s never have happened?
Two separate questions. First, we were the runner-up to UCLA. Nobody had more victories in the 1970s than Marquette, except for UCLA. Second, if we had defeated NC State and tOSU, would the 1980s never have happened? Honestly, I doubt anything would have changed. The 1980s happened because of a series of bad management mistakes by administration that, like many of us, believed the good times would never end. I suspect a lot of us thought we could plug Donald Duck into the head coaching role and the combination of our legacy and Al's past would have made sure we won, well, forever. We chose a master tactician in Hank. He was a fine man and stood for many of the things Marquette stood for. He wasn't Al and he wasn't, unfortunately, the dynamic force necessary to continue a top-flite basketball program into the next decade.We compounded our problems by prematurely hiring Rick Majerus and then stumbling into the Pianoman. Had we not found Kevin O'Neill, we'd be the Loyola of Chicago of the north!P.S. -- Given the talent we had, if Jim Chones, Larry McNeill and Maurice Lucas all had stayed for four years at MU, we probably would have had a decent chance at hanging National Championship banners in 1972, 1973, 1974 and 1975 to go with 1977. When Jim Chones left in 1972, for example, we were undefeated and had cut through our schedule like a blazing knife through butter. And then the roof fell in. Sorry Bill Walton, we would have kicked you a*s! And I like Bill Walton!
The neighborhood had really gotten bad (much worse than it is now)...
recently watched the espn 30 for 30 on Bernie and ErnieWas kind of surprised those two came out of NYC and went to Tennessee, when MU had the NYC pipeline. does any one know if we were in on those guys? Bernard seemed to have amiserable time in knoxville and was arrested and ruffed up by the cops on a few occassions , couldnt help but wonder how much more happy he would have bee at Mu and how much more happy we would of been to have him
We played the University of Tennessee in, I believe, 1972, which was the first year of the Ernie and Bernie show. The year before, Tennessee came to Milwaukee and had their heads (arms, legs, feet, hands, heart, eyes, nose and about everything else) handed to them in a game they never even were close to being in (kinda like tOSU last year for us). In 1972, with Ernie and Bernie and playing at Stokley Athletic Center in Knoxville, we got out in double overtime with our lives. I believe Ernie was the first African American ever to play for the University of Tennessee's basketball team.
I know we had the most victories, I meant be the obvious runner up. Outside of avid basketball fans I doubt many would immediately say MU if you were to ask the second best team of that era. I definitely agree about the Jim Chones situation, still don't understand why he left at such a weird time in the year. Was that common back then?
That would be Bernie.I don't think Ernie Grunfeld was African American.
In 1975 MU ended the regular season at 23-3 and ranked 5th. Once again it was Kentucky in the first round. This time in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
In 1975 MU ended the regular season at 23-3 and ranked 5th. Once again it was Kentucky in the first round. This time in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Kentucky jumped out to an early 9 point lead but MU went on a 21-4 run late in the first half to build a 28-25 halftime lead.UK using it's size to overpower Ellis, Homan and Tatum (Earl fouled out with more than 16 minutes left) inside erupted for 51 points in the second half and pulled away for a 22 point margin.
Did we used to play an easier schedule or something? It just seams odd that we were putting up such great records and didn't make it far that often. Or were we just seeded poorly for our teams most years?