(03-18-2015 05:07 PM)alcalde Wrote:  Yea, I checked the box score. I cant believe after all I can remember about that game, I can't remember Lee scoring 28. I remember him scoring the first 2 buckets but I thought he went cold. Overall he had a pretty poor tournament limited by foul problems

Lee had gotten into foul trouble in the Penn game, and only played 20 minutes, scoring 8 points. I think Memphis State was down 8 in the second half.

Askew actually did shoot in that game, hitting 6 of 10. He only took 10 more shots over the next 4 games:

http://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/boxs...mphis.html

It's amazing how tight all of these tournament games were for the Tigers.

(03-18-2015 03:14 PM)HoopDreams Wrote:  

(03-18-2015 02:59 PM)83msu Wrote:  Was that the year Andre Turner made a last second basket in 2 games? UAB and ? Or wrong year?

UAB and Boston College

Thanks Hoop..could not bring the other team in..

That was the tourney where we played with the shot clock all year but the tournet had not adopted it yet. We were down something like 11 points at the half against Penn and I thought for sure that they would be able to wait us out. I still don't know how we made that come back.

Oddly enough I was in Birmingham at Legion Field for a Memphis Showboats - Birmingham Stallions USFL game that was taking place at the same time as the UAB-Tigers game. Everybody had their transistor radios out and listening, the crowd moaning and cheering with every basket. Finally there was a collective loud, painful moan from the crowd while across the field a huge cheer from the busload of Showboats fans that had made the trip. I knew then the Tigers had won.

(03-18-2015 10:23 PM)UofMark Wrote:  Oddly enough I was in Birmingham at Legion Field for a Memphis Showboats - Birmingham Stallions USFL game that was taking place at the same time as the UAB-Tigers game. Everybody had their transistor radios out and listening, the crowd moaning and cheering with every basket. Finally there was a collective loud, painful moan from the crowd while across the field a huge cheer from the busload of Showboats fans that had made the trip. I knew then the Tigers had won.

Wow, 30 years since the Showboats. Was '85 the last year?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memphis_Showboats

(03-18-2015 10:14 PM)GringoStarr Wrote:  That was the tourney where we played with the shot clock all year but the tournet had not adopted it yet. We were down something like 11 points at the half against Penn and I thought for sure that they would be able to wait us out. I still don't know how we made that come back.

There was a Dana Kirk interview from 2008 where he mentions the absence of a shot clock as being a big problem for the Tigers.

You can listen to that here, along with an interview with Denny Crum after Kirk died.


http://chrisvernon.blogspot.com/2010/02/...denny.html

(03-18-2015 02:59 PM)83msu Wrote:  Was that the year Andre Turner made a last second basket in 2 games? UAB and ? Or wrong year?

I know he beat Florida State at the buzzer.

Here's something else I just found from this game. Kirk was protesting a phantom basket:




Had Memphis State lost by a point, everyone connected with the team would have said the Tigers were beaten by a basket that wasn't a basket.

With 12:20 to play in the first half, Alabama Birmingham's Archie Johnson appeared to dunk the ball. The officiating crew, headed by Hank Nichols of the Atlantic Coast Conference, saw it as a two-pointer. But Kirk, a lot of other people and CBS television cameras saw something else.

Johnson stuck the ball in the hole with so much force that his hands pounded down on the rim and forced it to bend toward the floor. When the rim whipped back into position, the net popped and flipped the ball out.

http://articles.latimes.com/1985-03-18/s...ate-tigers

(03-18-2015 06:16 PM)83msu Wrote:  

(03-18-2015 03:14 PM)HoopDreams Wrote:  

(03-18-2015 02:59 PM)83msu Wrote:  Was that the year Andre Turner made a last second basket in 2 games? UAB and ? Or wrong year?

UAB and Boston College

Thanks Hoop..could not bring the other team in..

Was BC also the one that we made the 10 point comeback in 15 or 20 seconds or something crazy like that?

We did an 8 point deficit to Oral Roberts in like 17 seconds one time.

(03-19-2015 11:00 AM)HoopDreams Wrote:  We did an 8 point deficit to Oral Roberts in like 17 seconds one time.

that was it....thanks.

(03-19-2015 11:02 AM)tigergreen Wrote:  

(03-19-2015 11:00 AM)HoopDreams Wrote:  We did an 8 point deficit to Oral Roberts in like 17 seconds one time.

that was it....thanks.

Wilfong!

(03-18-2015 06:16 PM)83msu Wrote:  

(03-18-2015 03:14 PM)HoopDreams Wrote:  

(03-18-2015 02:59 PM)83msu Wrote:  Was that the year Andre Turner made a last second basket in 2 games? UAB and ? Or wrong year?

UAB and Boston College

Thanks Hoop..could not bring the other team in..

and Florida State...he got a steal and made a bucket at the buzzer to win the game 70-68