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3-14-81 - the day the Madness started
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Posted: 3/14/2012 1:15 PM
3-14-81 - the day the Madness started
31 years ago today. Not one of my favorite days, that's for sure...
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Posted: 3/14/2012 5:05 PM
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Thanks a lot  ....THE saddest day in my life bar none. |
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Posted: 3/14/2012 5:35 PM
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I won't read that.
That day worse than the 'Bartman' game.
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Posted: 3/14/2012 5:51 PM
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wont read it. i wasnt born until 3 years later
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Posted: 3/14/2012 7:14 PM
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A little before my time, but I had no idea Dillard was in all that trouble after.
And yet another ex. of classy Coach Ray
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Posted: 3/14/2012 7:57 PM
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That was easily the most disappointed I felt after a sporting event, I still think it was a nightmare and could not have happened.
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Posted: 3/14/2012 8:38 PM
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Worst day ever in sports for me too! I am still in therapy. 
If I am not mistaken, Ray Meyer claimed that Skip Dillard should have had 2 shots instead of a 1-and-1. |
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Posted: 3/14/2012 9:07 PM
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Ray claimed a lot of things. RIP
Sam claims maybe the players shouldn't have been drinking beer and partying with chicks the night before the game at the hotel pool in Dayton.
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Posted: 3/14/2012 9:08 PM
Sam also claims....
... maybe Mark Aguirre should have taken more than six shots in the game.
Here we go....
Don't get me started.
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Posted: 3/14/2012 11:57 PM
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for those too young to remember or not even born yet, this was a DePaul team that had lost once all year, was the #1 team for most of the year, with a starting 5 that could compare with the greatest teams in college basketball history - a superstar All-American in junior Mark Aguirre, an up-and-coming superstar in sophomore Terry Cummings, an elite All-American PG in senior Clyde Bradshaw, a Top 12 HS All-American in sophomore Teddy Grubbs and at shooting guard, a player so clutch his nickname was "Money" in junior Skip Dillard. And the 6th man was a scoring machine in HS in freshman Bernard Randolph. 5 players from Chicago's Public League plus a New Jersey kid. DePaul was on top of the basketball world in Chicago, with WGN televising most of their games.
The big "what-if" - what if Isiah Thomas had not reneged on his verbal and did go to DePaul - DePaul would have been a shoo-in to win the NCAA title two years in a row.
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Posted: 3/15/2012 12:14 PM
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Of all the sporting events I've watched in my life, that was the toughest loss I've ever had to go through. Professor, nice job with the quick summary of that team, but even that doesn't begin to tell how big this program was at that time. DePaul basketball dominated the Winter months in the Chicago area. The entire city was on board for this team
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Posted: 3/15/2012 1:02 PM
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SamManella wrote: ... maybe Mark Aguirre should have taken more than six shots in the game.
Here we go....
Don't get me started. I did not start to follow DePaul until 1982 so I did not see that game, but obviously I saw the highlights. What struck me was the fact that Aguirre, so distraught at the loss, walked back to the hotel in the freezing cold. Jeez...that game will forever be etched in alot of peoples brains |
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Posted: 3/15/2012 2:32 PM
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It wasn't freezing cold but yes, Aguirre shunned the team bus and walked back to the team hotel by himself. It's not a very far walk if you've been to Dayton.
Aguirre also in full uniform ran out the ramp and cried in the parking lot at ASU after losing in the opening game of the 1980 tournament. We were a #1 seed that year too.
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Posted: 3/15/2012 2:40 PM
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SamManella wrote: It wasn't freezing cold but yes, Aguirre shunned the team bus and walked back to the team hotel by himself. It's not a very far walk if you've been to Dayton.
Aguirre also in full uniform ran out the ramp and cried in the parking lot at ASU after losing in the opening game of the 1980 tournament. We were a #1 seed that year too.
yes...dayton is not only small, but also a dump. Funnier thing was that he also punted the game ball into the river |
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Posted: 3/15/2012 7:00 PM
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not to dig up old wounds, but here are some old video highlights... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...eature=youtu.be |
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Posted: 3/15/2012 8:17 PM
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I want to thankyou, BBD, for that video. It was double depressing. As, on the side,an additional video of the Indiana State/DePaul FF game was posted.
I'm really down now.
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Posted: 3/15/2012 8:21 PM
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Sorry about that Las. You might want to have the family take away your belt, shoelaces, and any sharp objects for awhile.
We also serve as a suicide prevention hotline, so give us a call if you require further assistance.
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Posted: 3/15/2012 10:06 PM
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Gee thanks. I'm down in the basement rec room watching games on the big screen. I figure if I jump out of the window, this is the best place to do it.
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Posted: 4/15/2012 9:29 AM
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Dillard missed the free throw in the tournament, but does anyone remember the following year? DePaul is playing St. Joe's during the regular season at the Horizon. Dillard has, believe it or not, two free throws at the end of regulation. The score is tied. Dillard misses both shots! DePaul, however, wins in overtime. The coincidence is incredible. Two years in a row, against the same team, Dillard can't make a foul shot. The stakes were much lower in 1981-82, yet it is something still logged in the memory bank. I hope I remembered it correctly. Can anyone confirm? |
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