Like most everyone else here, I am feeling the absence of M in the tournament, and very excited about next year. As a kind of substitute, I've been replaying in my mind games I was either at in Yost or road games watched during the Russell/Buntin years. I was at Cobo Hall on a mean icy evening that season when they played Wichita State with Dave Stallworth, Kelly Pete, et. al., a really fine team. M trailed most of the game. Cazzie had, as I recall, three points at half and scored 18 in the second half, including a dramatic shot to win 87-85, I think. Cobo went crazy. Minnesota also had a fine team: Lou Hudson, Archie Clark, both of whom had long pro careers, and at Yost, Michigan beat them by three in a great game. I was a junior at U-High in AA, and was offered several hundred dollars for my two tickets, lots of money for someone in high school, but I never even thought about it, thankfully! And now living in Bloomington, I think really fondly of a game that season I watched on tv: M at Indiana, with the Van Arsdales, who both also had fine NBA careers. This is pre-Assembly Hall, of course, and the gym was wild. Indiana outplayed M for the most part, and M was down seven points with 51 seconds to play. This is also pre-shot clock, and pre-3-pt shot, of course. Somehow M tied it, and Cazzie hit two free throws in overtime--might it have been double overtime?-- to win 96-95. An unbelievable game. Little-known guard John Thompson hit several clutch shots. I have an audio tape of that game and the Wichita State game that some local company was selling many years ago. Amazing to listen to again....And that's it for a trip down the Maize and Blue memory hole!
great memory from 64-65 M basketball
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