Well, I am a fan of Guy Lewis and as a youth I watched Elvin Hayes, Theodus Lee, Kenny Spain, Don Chaney and George Reynolds(?) when they were a freshmen team playing at the Delmar Field House.
I would watch them 3 years later play Lew Alcindor (still his name then) and UCLA in the Astrodome versus UH and before over 52,000 fans. They looked like ants from where we sat but I had some binoculars, of course.
Dick Enberg says that one game was a real broadcast and pioneering experience for him and America; that is, the first nationally televised college basketball game into record numbers o; homes (some saw it on the old UHF channels with special antennas) that became the fore-runner of what we now call March Madness with all its TV success. After the UH/UCLA game, TV advertisers knew they could sell NCAA basketball nationally.
OK, CUSA'ers, that is a prime example of your eastern media at play here by their literally having kept Guy Lewis out of the Hall of Fame this long. Had he played a Damn-Yankee U, he would have been elected into that Hall 1 year after he retired. Just sayin'...
GMG!
PS: I was almost an adult before I was told that damn-yankee was actually 2 words.
GMG!
PS II: Such a sad, sad time for those of us who grew up in the Houston area and have such terrific memories of the Astrodome.
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