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Post by orangedw on Feb 21, 2024 23:15:43 GMT -5
As a little kid I first started watching when we’d play Georgetown at the end of every season on a March weekend, and that was always the big game. And it was also that time period when Seton Hall was really good, so they were a big game. And St. John’s. UConn was the scrub school who all of a sudden had one great season (1990), and started playing Cuse tough every year, but usually Cuse would win in a close game. Didn’t really take them seriously until Donyell Marshall and Ray Allen. In short, UConn didn’t surpass Seton Hall as a program until 1994 and it’s important that UConn fans are made aware of that because let them tell it, they took over the world in 1990 and never looked back. Those Boneyard goofs were mad that “Requiem for the Big East” didn’t talk about UConn enough, smh. Love these stories. My first memory of Syracuse basketball was rooting against them in 1987 (my cousin was at Indiana). The cute girl in my fifth grade class was the only person I knew who wanted SU to win. (She also had brains, obviously.) Became a fan after I was accepted. First game I watched was against none other than Mizzou in the ‘94 tournament. I was the rare kid who would sit down and watch entire games when I was 6-7 years old, so I was all in starting in 89. My dad was a HS coach and I would go to most practices and games with him and watch, and that carried over to watching games on TV. Vaguely remember a big win over GTown in 89 where Douglas threw down a reverse dunk to clinch it, and then running around the house throwing down reverse dunks on my nerf hoop. Probably my first vivid memory of SU hoops. Damn, can’t link to specific parts of videos here. 1 hour 43 min. mark!
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