Best BET memories

Great job by ESPN going back and interviewing all the relevent people in a retrospective of the Big East Conference and Tournament:

http://espn.go.com/espn/story/_/id/9002900/last-call-garden-party

Nice shot, bad results.

“@lukewinn: SI's regional cover for the Big East's last dance: https://twitter.com/SInow/status/311497272208801792/photo/1 Ewing! Mullin!”

Fordham, thanks for the ESPN link. Great piece. It was long, but I didn't want it to end. Highly recommend it to everyone.

Big East Memories...

Since this is the last one as we know it, here is one man's list.
1. Rowan jumper / Berry block to win championship over Cuse
2. Goodwin sitting on top of backboard with WE ARE SJU ( I was only 9 or 10 so it was nice of Billy to acknowledge me) poster after winning championship vs BC
3. Pearl destroying Gtown, punching Ewing, crossing over Michael Jackson so bad he falls down, then Pearl motioning for him to get up so he can do it again, and Thompson being forced to call off the press.
4. BET Championship over Uconn
5.  Cuse vs Uconn 3 ot game

#4 was the third time we beat'em that year, right. Year prior they won it all.

Quote suppose if you post one who doesn't have a rictus grin that makes me want to dress like Batman and fight her, my taste may change.LJSA


I have a great idea for a reality show. Freak Island. Can get contestants from this board.
Marillac and his Taurisi/ Geno threesome. LJSA and his Batman costume's and fascination with Greek men's genitalia. Fun and his Vagina bong and Marco Baldi who forced several members of this board to do body shots with him at a forum gathering gone terribly awry. Heck you can throw in Carmine and Bobre what with there man love for Phil Greene and Sean Evans respectively.
I'd watch this!

If it's set in an exotic locale and lets me escape my nagging family for a month or so Im in.

I will always remember that cover with Felipe on the front.  I was in the early part of high school, playing hoops, and my teammates and I had that plastered on the inside of our lockers.  I believe the insert to that edition also had profiles on Iverson (Gtown) and Chris Herren (BC), as part of the "Big East is back" theme. 

Amazing the different paths that those three took -- the most hyped because a very good/star college player and was picked in the first round of the NBA draft, but could never meet the incredible (and unrealistic) expectations that some set; the second was dominant from the start in college, and turned in a HOF career in the NBA; the third was a unique talent who had some flashes of greatness in college (and lots of controversy) and a cup of coffee in the NBA, only to be derailed by his inner-demons, and has now seemingly turned his life around.

I have 3 in no particular order:

1.  Goodwin on rim
2.  Rowan/ Berry
3.  Sitting next to   asst. coach from another school in tourney when we were taking apart UCONN in Norm's last year.   Asst leans over to me with about 10 left and says " you know your coach is getting fired".  Went to bar and bought my friends a round of drinks.

I will always remember that cover with Felipe on the front.  I was in the early part of high school, playing hoops, and my teammates and I had that plastered on the inside of our lockers.  I believe the insert to that edition also had profiles on Iverson (Gtown) and Chris Herren (BC), as part of the "Big East is back" theme. 

Amazing the different paths that those three took -- the most hyped because a very good/star college player and was picked in the first round of the NBA draft, but could never meet the incredible (and unrealistic) expectations that some set; the second was dominant from the start in college, and turned in a HOF career in the NBA; the third was a unique talent who had some flashes of greatness in college (and lots of controversy) and a cup of coffee in the NBA, only to be derailed by his inner-demons, and has now seemingly turned his life around.

The Herren doc on ESPN is simply amazin.

Big East Memories...

You mean nightmare.

I will always remember that cover with Felipe on the front.  I was in the early part of high school, playing hoops, and my teammates and I had that plastered on the inside of our lockers.  I believe the insert to that edition also had profiles on Iverson (Gtown) and Chris Herren (BC), as part of the "Big East is back" theme. 

Amazing the different paths that those three took -- the most hyped because a very good/star college player and was picked in the first round of the NBA draft, but could never meet the incredible (and unrealistic) expectations that some set; the second was dominant from the start in college, and turned in a HOF career in the NBA; the third was a unique talent who had some flashes of greatness in college (and lots of controversy) and a cup of coffee in the NBA, only to be derailed by his inner-demons, and has now seemingly turned his life around.

I lost $20 to my friend who said Iverson would be better than Lopez.
I had seen Lopez, but not Iverson. That's how much I bought the hype.

A good lesson.

No shame in the fact that he wasn't as good as Iverson though, Poison.  Felipe had a very good career.  Had Fran coached that team earlier, instead of year 4, I think Felipe would have been in multiple NCAA tourneys.

A second half play against Ucan't in the final.  Bootsy misses a jumper from the corner. Jake "Bricklayer" Voskul is poised under the basket ready to corral the rebound uncontested.  Postell starts a run from the 3 point line, leaps from the foul line and rises toward the basket like he's climbing a ladder.  He gathers the rebound with his right hand and with a long sweeping motion he slams it down right over and on top of Jake's head. 

Game...Set...Match!  Johnnies.

too bad we have to go into the last century for our best memories. 

too bad we have to go into the last century for our best memories.

Ain't that the truth!

Quote from: newsman13 on March 15, 2013, 10:13:12 AM

too bad we have to go into the last century for our best memories.

Ain't that the truth!

St. John's basketball and Disco.  Ahhh, the good times.

No shame in the fact that he wasn't as good as Iverson though, Poison.  Felipe had a very good career.  Had Fran coached that team earlier, instead of year 4, I think Felipe would have been in multiple NCAA tourneys.

Fran coached Felipe as a junior. They had a losing record.