Marquette-South Carolina 1972

[GoldenDieners32]

Can't wait till we play them in the big dance. thanks to Al we call it the big dance

[MU82]

MU82

You actually appear to be several years older than I am. I started at MU in '81. I started going to games in '67, the year my parents started getting season tickets.
IMO, the Al era ended on a rainy, late March evening in 1977.

My apologies, Goose. You only talk older than I do - ha!

[i71_dawg]

Really enjoy reading the memories and old stories from the 60's, 70's and early 80's.

These sorts of threads of so entertaining for those of us that weren't at MU until the 90's or 2000's.

This is just another example of why getting to the tournament is so important...brings back memories and reminds us of our tradition and our great teams of the past!

[4everwarriors]

Bring it, y'all, hey?

[Earl Tatum]

Can't remember the year--butSC had Brian Winters, Alex English and Mike
Dunleavy and we pounded them. SC was coached by Frank McGuire and MU had Al. One thing i remember is when MU had 3 or 4 fouls in the
first minute, Al called time and let go with a phrase" Hey Jim (Ref)  you can't do that, this is my place." (Mecca) Game changed.
We were 4 rows behind the MU bench.

[4everwarriors]

I'm tinkin' that was January 1973, ai na?

[ecompt]

Check out the Russ Franke article in which there is a tidbit about Notre Dame players pressing mustard packets into MU players hands during post game hand shakes. They felt MU players were overdoing handshakes during the course of a 64 game home winning streak.

I think he had that wrong. ND coach Johnny Dee did it before his last game in MKE when MU players came over to shake hands. He later said it was "mustard for some hot dogs.".