RIP Orlando Woolridge

Woolridge was one of the first stars I remember watching when I started to follow college basketball, and there were bunches of them at the time that I followed into the NBA: Bird and Magic, of course, but also Moncrief, Tripucka, Blackman, Spanarkel and Gminski (before Duke became Dook), Griffith, Ainge, and lesser-known ones like Vinnie Johnson (Baylor) and Ricky Pierce (Rice). Kind of my golden age.

 

The '86 Celtics were a pretty good team.

 

I remember the Notre Dame pa guy would always pronounce it "Orlano Woooooooooooooooooolridge."

RIP

 

Reminds me of a time when DePaul was a power under Ray Meyer, with stars like Mark Aguirre and Terry Cummings. As a grade-schooler, early teen, I was flat-out in love with college basketball back then. Hell, that lasted all through college, too. These days, unless it's alma mater, I watch very little.

 

Jordan scored 63 on seven white guys, D.J. and Parrish.

 

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RIP.

 

Offense? Postseason? Sure as hell not today, where a 101-96 game is considered "high scoring."

 

Me too. I think that ND guy may've been the first basketball PA "performer" I can remember. It was cool when he did it, but would soon grow obnoxious and annoying when all those NBA schmucks were trying to outdo each other.

Digger Phelps really had a load of talent on his roster at that time--Woolridge, Tripucka, Laimbeer, Hanzlik, Joe Kleine (pre-transfer) Duck Williams, John Paxson. etc. But you didn't really realize it at the time because, except for O, they were mostly unimpressive looking white guys. It was only years later when all those guys were succeeding in the NBA that you realized "wow, those ND teams were frickin loaded."

 

In honor of his departed daddy, I present Swiperboy:

(Swiperboy graduated this month but has a year of eligibility remaining, so he's transferred to USC next season.)

 

The best PA announcer of all time. The Zink!!!!!!

 

I'm not even a 76ers fan and I loved that call.

 

You are forgetting Austin Carr.