RIP Pete Carril

[MileHigh]

92 years old.

 

[Matt1735]

Shot clock finally ran out

 

[Songbird]

Backdoor'd the **** out of UCLA.

Princeton 43, UCLA 41: The game that never goes away

 

[Noholesin1]

I had the pleasure of covering his teams dozens of times. Loved every opportunity; those were the days.

RIP, Pete.

 

[MileHigh]

Backdoor'd the **** out of UCLA.

Princeton 43, UCLA 41: The game that never goes away

Remember it well, sadly. UCLA was the defending champion.

 

[da man]

Loved his Princeton teams.

 

[Moderator1]

Covered the game in, 1989 maybe, when his 16 seed team came close to knocking off No. 1 seed Georgetown.

 

[ChrisLong]

Remember it well, sadly. UCLA was the defending champion.

Charles O'Bannon is still looking for the guy he was supposed to guard.

 

[The Big Ragu]

Covered the game in, 1989 maybe, when his 16 seed team came close to knocking off No. 1 seed Georgetown.

Awesome.

I feel like upsets have become relatively commonplace.

If they had won that -- and some argue that Mourning should have been called for a foul on the last shot -- it truly would have been the biggest tournament upset ever. That kind of thing didn't ever happen then.

I can still see Carril in my head, on the sideline during that game with his hair sticking out in every direction.

RIP

 

[Webster]

Covered the game in, 1989 maybe, when his 16 seed team came close to knocking off No. 1 seed Georgetown.

One of my greatest gambling moments. I was a junior at Cornell and was living with a bunch of guys on the hoops team and watched a ton of film with them. I made an absolute killing that year betting Ivy League hoops and was blown away by how good Princeton was. So I bet a hefty party of my annual winnings on the spread and $50 on Princeton to win at something like +1600. At halftime, the runner (a guy who worked at a sneaker store with some friends) called me at a friend’s house in a panic. Turns out, he didn’t call my ML bet in to the bookie because he figured it was an easy $50 and didn’t have the cash to pay me off if Princeton won. So paid me off at I think $150 and I ended up winning the spread bet and the cash in on the ML bet.

 

[BitterYoungMatador2]

That was the game where Vitale said he would come on the air dressed like a cheerleader if Princeton won.

 

[MileHigh]

That was the game where Vitale said he would come on the air dressed like a cheerleader if Princeton won.

 

[tapintoamerica]

Covered the game in, 1989 maybe, when his 16 seed team came close to knocking off No. 1 seed Georgetown.

Is that game more famous than the upset of UCLA? It's the first one I think of when I think of those Princeton teams, but it's close.

 

[da man]

Is that game more famous than the upset of UCLA? It's the first one I think of when I think of those Princeton teams, but it's close.

That’s the first one I thought of, too.

 

[Webster]

Who were his 2 first round picks?

 

[micropolitan guy]

Who were his 2 first round picks?

John Hummer, 1970, by the Buffalo Braves is one. Maybe Corky Taylor is the other?

 

[Webster]

John Hummer, 1970, by the Buffalo Braves is one. Maybe Corky Taylor is the other?

I missed Hummer. Geoff Petrie and Armond Hill is who I had.

 

[micropolitan guy]

John Hummer, 1970, by the Buffalo Braves is one. Maybe Corky Taylor is the other?

I was thinking of Brian Taylor of the Nets, got him confused with Corky Corcoran of Penn. Taylor was a second-round choice. Forgot all about Petrie.

 

[da man]

I missed Hummer. Geoff Petrie and Armond Hill is who I had.

Armond Hill was really good. I always loved that Princeton team -- Hill, Ilan Ramati, Mickey Steurer, Barnes Hauptfuhrer and Tim van Blommesteyn.

 

[UNCGrad]

This is brilliant, by Alexander Wolff: Longtime Princeton basketball coach Pete Carril dies at 92 - Sports Illustrated

Take the time for it. You won't regret it.