ESPN Classic will be showing 5 consecutive Johnnies' games from the '83-'84 season starting Friday morning at 5am.
Was watching the 1989 away game vs Georgetown. Talk about lack of depth (at the guard position) we started FR Jason Buchanon and Matt Brust. They were playing a lot of minutes and was looking forward to a substitution and who was the third G? Terrence Mullin vs the #2 team in the nation.
I watched a bit of that one from early this morning. I was thinking the same thing, in regards to our lack of depth. I didn't particularly realized that at 15 and 16 years old. I actually remember watching that one live, and being heckled by one of my siblings (he was a huge Hoya fan at that time) and a couple of friends.
That was the year Marco Baldi left a year early and returned to Italy to play professionally, and Boo Harvey and Michael Porter (who never returned) was ineligible to play. Chucky Sproling was a Prop 48 (ineligible).
Revisionist history, but Gary Payton would've been a junior on that particular team and probably was the talent and leader needed for that particular youthful group.