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warriorjoe

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Tom Flynn
« on: November 07, 2019, 09:09:17 AM »
Keep Tom Flynn in your thoughts and prayers.
He has been going through a tough time with chemotherapy for his multiple myeloma.

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Re: Tom Flynn
« Reply #1 on: November 07, 2019, 09:25:23 AM »
Hadn't heard the name before but this is a really cool picture:

http://digitalmarquette.cdmhost.com/cdm/ref/collection/p16280coll1/id/2509

Hope he gets through it

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Re: Tom Flynn
« Reply #2 on: November 07, 2019, 09:41:30 AM »
Tom played for Eddie Hickey and for Al's first two teams.

He averaged 16.4 points and 9.9 rebounds per game during his seasons at MU.

Tom scored a career-high 37 points in his last game, which was also Hickey's last game as a coach, in a 98-95 win over Xavier at Cincinnati.

Tom Flynn also won the McCahill Award.

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Re: Tom Flynn
« Reply #3 on: November 07, 2019, 09:45:29 AM »
Thanks for the update.  Thoughts and prayers are with him.

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Re: Tom Flynn
« Reply #4 on: November 07, 2019, 09:47:07 AM »
Tom Flynn- If I remember Flynn was pretty good shooter and  good
rebounder, Played hard. Scored 1282 pts in his three years at MU,
Averaged 16.4 a game. Bob Wolf and Flynn were keys on the 1964-
1966 team. He did finish one career point ahead of Wade and Butler.
Wade scored his points in 2 years.

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Re: Tom Flynn
« Reply #5 on: November 07, 2019, 09:51:41 AM »
Tommy Flynn is a first class Warrior and hard pressed to find a better guy. Prayers to the Flynn family. Few have better first hand knowledge of MU ball history than Flynn family.

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Re: Tom Flynn
« Reply #6 on: November 07, 2019, 10:07:31 AM »
Tom Flynn was my first favorite player. I will keep him in my prayers.

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Re: Tom Flynn
« Reply #7 on: November 07, 2019, 12:13:51 PM »
Flynn was a really good one during the Eddie Hickey years. Hickey did bring in good local talent back in his day. Hope Flynn sees his way through this.
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Re: Tom Flynn
« Reply #8 on: November 07, 2019, 04:17:06 PM »
65 was a very good year, Tom was deadly from the corner, and thanks for your FBI service.
In those days there was no 3 point line.  Tom would have had his share of 3 pointers if the 3 point rule had been in place. 

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Re: Tom Flynn
« Reply #9 on: November 07, 2019, 04:23:52 PM »
One of the bright spots re MUBB my first 2 years and and a key part of Al's first winning team along with Bob Wolf. His shot had the flattest trajectory I've seen, but deadly. Would have scored many more points with the 3 pt. line.

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Re: Tom Flynn
« Reply #10 on: November 07, 2019, 04:26:39 PM »
Flynn had a long career as an FBI agent. 

warriorjoe

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Re: Tom Flynn
« Reply #11 on: November 07, 2019, 04:49:37 PM »
Vogue 65: Thanks for the note. Much appreciated.

Tom Flynn is one of the good guys in MU history.

I have been fortunate to have spent time with him over the years and interviewed him for my book on Al McGuire.

Since his wife Tanja died a little over a year ago, it has been a tough time for Tom.

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Re: Tom Flynn
« Reply #12 on: November 07, 2019, 05:13:03 PM »
Prayers up
"I hate everything about this job except the games, Everything. I don't even get affected anymore by the winning, by the ratings, those things. The trouble is, it will sound like an excuse because we've never won the national championship, but winning just isn't all that important to me.” Al McGuire

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Re: Tom Flynn
« Reply #13 on: November 07, 2019, 06:39:57 PM »
Tom was also a great high school player. Although he was 6'5" he played a lot bigger.  Saw him play in the state tournament.  He would have scored more career points as a Warrior but had to play on the Freshman team his first year.

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Re: Tom Flynn
« Reply #14 on: November 07, 2019, 08:55:57 PM »
Tom played for Eddie Hickey and for Al's first two teams.

He averaged 16.4 points and 9.9 rebounds per game during his seasons at MU.

Tom scored a career-high 37 points in his last game, which was also Hickey's last game as a coach, in a 98-95 win over Xavier at Cincinnati.

Tom Flynn also won the McCahill Award.

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If his 37 point night was Flynn's last game and also Hickey's last game, then how did he play for Al?
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warriorjoe

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Re: Tom Flynn
« Reply #15 on: November 08, 2019, 02:38:56 PM »
Thank you for pointing out my mistake. It was Hickey's last game as a head coach. In my haste to write the post, I made the mistake of stating it was Tom Flynn's last MU game. It was his last game of that season, when MU finished 5-21. It was the most points that Tom had scored in a game during his MU career.

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« Last Edit: November 08, 2019, 08:23:15 PM by warriorjoe »

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Re: Tom Flynn
« Reply #16 on: February 24, 2020, 12:40:26 PM »
Tom Flynn passed away last week, survived by his children Christina and Michael and multiple grandchildren. 

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Re: Tom Flynn
« Reply #17 on: February 24, 2020, 12:41:36 PM »
Tom Flynn passed away last week, survived by his children Christina and Michael and multiple grandchildren.

https://www.muscoop.com/index.php?topic=60076.0

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Re: Tom Flynn
« Reply #18 on: February 24, 2020, 04:25:52 PM »
Tom played for Eddie Hickey and for Al's first two teams.

He averaged 16.4 points and 9.9 rebounds per game during his seasons at MU.

Tom scored a career-high 37 points in his last game, which was also Hickey's last game as a coach, in a 98-95 win over Xavier at Cincinnati.

Tom Flynn also won the McCahill Award.

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Think he played HS ball at Messmer.
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Re: Tom Flynn
« Reply #20 on: February 24, 2020, 08:19:32 PM »
Tom Flynn died last Friday at age 75. His son Michael informed me that he passed at the rehab facility that worked with him over the past year. On Thursday, he received the last rites of the Catholic church and was surrounded by his family.

The rehab staff was fond of Tom, and he converted many of them to Marquette basketball fans during his treatment there.

Services are pending in his home town of Carmel, Indiana. Mike informed me that at some point there will be a remembrance of Tom Flynn in Milwaukee.

Tom usually came to Milwaukee for the annual presentation of the McCahill Award, of which he was a recipient.

On June 23, 2017, Tom was in Milwaukee for Marquette's Centennial celebration at the Bradley Center.
That was the last time I saw him.

Tom Flynn, a proud Warrior to the end.

May he rest in peace.

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Re: Tom Flynn
« Reply #21 on: February 24, 2020, 11:14:03 PM »
I was at the Marquette- Xavier game in 1964.  I received my letter of acceptance to Marquette a short time before the game.  I was all excited to go to the game, until I heard that Marquette had only won 4 games so far that year.  Xavier had Steve Thomas,  a consensus all American who was averaging about 30 points a game.  Marquette was down at half if I recall correctly but Flynn went on a scoring tear and Marquette won the game, 98-95.    I think Flynn outscored Thomas, but I could not find a box score anywhere. I see that a poster above said Flynn scored 37.  Has anyone seen a box score to see if he outscored Thomas?

It was Ed Hickey's last game as a coach.   I remember that at some point in the game, Hickey was so angry at being homered by the refs that at one point he called time out and said we are leaving, and took the team into the locker room.  After a delay, they convinced him to continue the game.  He probably realized that this would be his last game as Marquette coach, and said, what the hell.

After the game, I told my parents that I thought I was going to like it at Marquette.  And at that point, I had never been to Milwaukee.

warriorjoe

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Re: Tom Flynn
« Reply #22 on: February 25, 2020, 08:29:05 AM »
When the game ended, Hickey pointed to the scoreboard and shook his fist at the crowd in the old Cincinnati Gardens in Cincy. He went to the locker room, did not say anything to the players, grabbed his coat and left the arena. How all of this season played out, including the details of that last game, are in the Centennial Edition of my biography of Al McGuire, "You Can Call Me Al: The Colorful Journey of College Basketball's Original Flower Child, Al McGuire." Steve Thomas of Xavier averaged 30 points a game that season and outscored Flynn that afternoon, scoring 39 points to lead all scorers.
I found the information in the March 11, 1964, Marquette Tribune game story. There was another game earlier in the season where Thomas scored 50 points. He was fairly prolific.

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« Last Edit: February 25, 2020, 02:03:02 PM by warriorjoe »

 

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