92 East Regional Final; Duke vs. Kentucky

Best College Basketball Game Ever?

ye olde chef says yes;

on Classic right now.

 

Dunno if it's the best ever, but on the short list (plenty of bias ... full disclosure and all):

Maryland-N.C. State - 1974
Georgetown-North Carolina - 1982
N.C. State-Houston - 1983
Villanova-Georgetown - 1985
Duke-UNLV - 1991
Kentucky-Duke - 1992
Syracuse-Connecticut - 2009

 

Wasn't this the last basketball game ever played at the Spectrum?

 

No. I think the Sixers were there for a while longer before moving across the parking lot.

 

Thought this was very interesting;

From wikipedia;

Pink Floyd played the Spectrum in 1972, 1973, 1975 and 1977. They last played two shows there on June 28 and 29, 1977, during their Animals/In the Flesh tour. On the second night (June 29, 1977), Floyd member Roger Waters fell ill and did most of the show after a painkiller injection. However, the painkiller wore off and was taken to the hospital and missed the final encore of "Us and Them" where second guitarist Snowy White had to fill in on bass guitar. Unbeknownst to the crowd, this was the first time that the rest of Pink Floyd (guitarist/vocalist David Gilmour, drummer Nick Mason and keyboard player Rick Wright) performed a song live without Waters (they would go on without Waters as of 1986). Roger's experience performing while ill at this venue would be documented on "Comfortably Numb".

 

Time-less. Never causing any Brain Damage.

Just seeing that ending again. Great ending, fantastic baseball pass by Grant Hill ... did he learn that from Roger Staubach on his father's practice field?

Felt bad for the Kentucky seniors who stuck it out after the program was slammed into probation. Otherwise have detested this program since it popped the balloon of the Miracle of '78 out of Durham.

 

Wait a minute, Sam. You can't be old enough to actually remember the '78 final.

 

This is actually the most overrated game ever. Yeah, it had a tremendous ending, but most of the game was poorly played and blunder-filled. Houston gave that away more than NC State won it.

 

Guy Lewis decisions at the end of that game made Calipari's blunders look good in comparison.

 

I covered a couple of Atlantic 10 tournaments at the Spectrum in the mid-90s.

 

I was four years old. I had more than inkling about the ACC even then ... pretty much a way of life, S-P.

Gene Banks was my favorite growing up until Johnny Dawkins came along. He, Mike Gminski, Kenny Dennard and Jim Spanarkel helped Bill Foster along. Gminski and Banks were still there for Mike Krzyzewski when he was brought to Durham from Army.

 

Covered that Final 4. Foster had gone from Rutgers to Duke.
Spanarkel is a Jersey guy, still lives a few miles from me