It was 30 years ago today, March 28, 1977 that Marquette won the national title beating North Carolina in Atlanta. It almost didn't happen. MU was lucky to get a bid and perhaps even luckier to survive a second round game against Kansas State in which MU won by 1.
After the game Coach McGuire blasted the NCAA for a technical foul that was called against him. The 7 minute episode was recorded and provided by the Appleton Post-Crescent. We sure miss this man. Take a listen
Jerry Karpowicz also writes of the event in today's OnMilwaukee online magazine. Nice article Jerry.
Thanks to the boys over at Marquette Hoops for pointing these two items out.
A hat tip to GE1974
Classic rant...a little pre-Bob Knight
ReplyDeleteClassic! That Kansas State game has acheived legendary status over the years...just don't tell the folks that made the throwback t-shirts for the PITT game. :-) They had us playing Kent State!
ReplyDeleteThat was great.. I would like to see that passion from TC towards the officals
ReplyDeleteDefinitely one thing I'd like to see...Tommy getting a T standing up for his guys.
ReplyDeleteHas anyone seen the UCLA documentary on HBO? Why couldn't they do one on Al McGuire and Marquette in the 70's? We were the #2 program after the Bruins all those years.
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