![]() Is an icon, and one of the founding fathers in many respects of modern-day basketball, college basketball.Ī: Billy, to me, was a gift to the college game. It was such a massive accomplishment, and then to see him go to the Final Four for the first time, and to win it, and to win it again and win it again, it was one of the great turnarounds in the history of the college game.Ī: Just universally respected. ![]() I can still remember the glee that hung over that UConn basketball team when it won the Big East Tournament in the Garden like in 1990. He took a program that was flatlined and he himself won three national championships. And I think in many respects, he’s never gotten enough due for what he did. I believe in this era of the transfer portal he’ll be able to turn around their fortunes really fast, and I think he’s gonna get New York energized.Ī: Jim Calhoun will forever be the architect of UConn basketball. He has his energy, and he has his vision for how this program can be reawakened. … He’s got, I think, the perfect scenario. ![]() And I firmly believe in my heart he’ll take St. John’s coach Rick Pitino?Ī: Relentless in his pursuit of perfection, and still is as motivated as the first time I saw him bring a Providence team to the Final Four in 1987. ![]() John’s player to enter transfer portal after Rick Pitino hire There have been so many tough, tough losses that sometimes defy explanation.Īndre Curbelo latest St. … You have heavyweights and teams that you just felt are groomed to win it all, and one game, one game, it can all go all away, a whole season’s worth of work. And after that, there are many candidates, but one of them that stands out, it wasn’t a happy finish, was watching Chris Webber and Michigan in the Superdome in 1993 lose by calling timeout, with a timeout that they didn’t have. It hit off the glass, probably if you had to measure it, the math on it probably related to about an eighth of an inch too high off the glass, otherwise it would have dropped for the most exciting epic finish in the history of any sport. I would say 2010 when Gordon Hayward had the half-court heave at the buzzer that would have beaten Duke, and the shot was off by a fraction. Q: Most dramatic championship game moments? One had to be the Kris Jenkins buzzer beater for Villanova against North Carolina in 2016.Ī: Definitely has to be on the list. You are not going to have a team that you enjoy playing less against if you are their opponent that night. And, of course, he passed the reins to his longtime assistant Brian Dutcher a handful of years ago. Like Jim Calhoun, he’s the godfather of that program. Steve Fisher took over a team that was 4-23. Jim Nantz USA TODAY Sports via Reuters ConĪ: National negligence of what they’ve done for a long time. And that group of players - I don’t know the school president at Florida Atlantic - but they have been the greatest ambassadors ever for that school that has 25,000-plus enrollment. Oh, of course we knew they were from Florida, but where in Florida? And they’ve put the school on the map. Dusty May has become someone that we’re not gonna forget about in college basketball. The rest of ’em - three-, four-year guys inside the program. They have one transfer - Gaffney, from UConn, who came through the portal. They showed a resiliency to beat Texas in the regional final that got my attention.Ī: Counter to what’s really happening now in college basketball, they built a program through their own system. Miami, what was considered a football school, built that basketball program. He has taken programs that aren’t blue-bloods - Bowling Green, George Mason - took a team to the Final Four. I think a lot of people thought that it would be tough to restart it, rekindle it - Danny Hurley’s done it.Ī: Coach Larrañaga, to me, has had a Hall of Fame career. A program that undoubtedly is now a college basketball blue-blood if they weren’t already. NCAA Tournament play-by-play man Jim Nantz takes a timeout from his Final Four broadcasts for some Q&A with Post columnist Steve Serby.Ī: Amazingly quick turnaround by Danny Hurley. Liberty star talks life, her career and her team’s high expectations Mets rookie talks challenge that changed everything, throwing to Garrett Wilson Mets’ full 2023 Hall of Fame Class chats with Post ahead of enshrinement Mets pitcher opens up about pitching for both NY teams, chasing title ‘dream’
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