fatlever wrote:mattcampbell wrote:Anyone watch the Requiem for the Big East 30 for 30? Interesting watch, really made me wish I was around to watch college basketball in the 80's.
i missed it. was watching walking dead. i'll DVR it this week for sure.
80s and early 90s college ball was the peak. of course i am biased since that was the era of college hoops i grew up watching as a kid. i remember my first memories of college basketball were the UNC vs indiana championship game in 1981 - when i was 8. for some reason, i thought al wood was amazing. it was all ACC and big east back then. ACC had UNC, duke, NC state and virginia who were usually great. big east had georgetown, st johns and then sometimes villanova, sometimes providence, sometimes syracuse.
think of all the great players that came out of the big east in the 80s - patrick ewing, chris mullen, mark jackson, reggie williams, sleepy floyd, ed pinkney, david wingate, bill wennington, walter berry (wikipedia if you arent familiar with his story), otis thorpe, cliff robinson, pearl washington, sherman douglas, rony seikaly (if you were a hornets fan, you hated him), danny schayes, michael adams, john bagley (you thought ray felton was fat?), charles smith, jerome lane (broke a few backboards).
