Throwback to the Puerto Rico Shootout
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The high point of the Ralph Willard era. Beat #15 Xavier on Thanksgiving, #4 Kentucky on Saturday, blown out by Stevie Franchise on Sunday but landed in the Top 25. Blown out at SJU midweek then it was the Khalid El-Amin game vs #1 UConn. Blew a big lead and the team tankes after than and got more into theft and beating up cops.
Yes we know the story etc. Just wanted to create a post about a nice win over a blue blood back in history. H2P
This was the Thanksgiving of the Steelers’ infamous coin toss debacle in Detroit. WVU also killed Pitt that Saturday in 3 Rivers getting revenge for the Pete Gonzalez game.
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So I'm guessing we beat Kentucky twice in a row. Earlier that decade they beat the team with Mashburn around Christmas. I still have that on VHS.
We beat them in the preseason NIT at Kentucky in 1991. They haven't beaten us since 1960. Mostly because they are afraid to play us!
Loved this game. I remember posting “dribbles” afterwards.
I might have even been stupid enough to post something along the lines of “We Are Back!”
Atilla was a monster the game prior to this against Xavier. His best game as a Panther.
Nice thanks, I'll have to look that one up. I barely remember him playing, but love the name.
Didn’t we lose a game to Tennessee between then and UConn as well. College basketball was so different then. We would play Tennessee and the game wouldn’t even be televised. I remember in the first good Howland team we played at Georgia and it was radio only lol.
I was so high on this group following Puerto Rico. You had size with Cosby and Hawkins. A true star in Vonteego. Ricky Greer was a great 2nd banana, and then Kelli Taylor, Jarrett Lockhart, Primus…we had dudes on that team.
But like everything else Willard touched here that team imploded.
I dont think the Tennessee game was that year. I remember a mid-December home game vs Tennessee at the Fitz. Dont really remember the road game but yea, some of those roadies werent televised. Someone mentioned that UGa game. I remember a Sunday road game at Auburn during early Dixon 1 that I had to listen to on the radio.
See below - I was right. We lost by 3, and I’m telling you, I don’t think this game was televised lol. We left Puerto Rico ranked, and I still think we were 24 or 25 when we played UConn in the El-Amin game.
Highlight of the UConn game was my future Wife watching that one behind a beam in the Fieldhouse where she could only see approximately 1/4th of the court, it was some extra seating they put in behind the baskets.
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Jerry McCullough was fantastic vrs the Bruins. Believe Chad Varga may have been on that team.
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