Wednesday is the 35th anniversary of the famous Blizzard of '78 here in New England. In Rhode Island, people a little older than me can remember the Blizzard of '78, the Moon Landing, and the day JFK was shot. I was 9 yrs old in '78, still around 8 months away from being scarred for life by Bucky Dent.

So with the blizzard, we got around 4 feet (!) of snow over the 2 day storm. School was closed for 2 weeks. Roads were impassable. Hundreds of cars were stranded all over the state, in downtown Providence, on I-95 in the city. Maybe 4 feet isn't a lot in Syracuse or Montreal, but here it was disastrous especially because the forecast was for a "light dusting".

Anyway, 6 days later on Sunday February 12th, Dave Gavitt's top-20 Friars hosted the 1977 runner-up (thanks Marquette) and current #7 North Carolina Tar Heels. PC uplifted our state in a nationally-televised (Al McGuire was there announcing, his first year in retirement from Marquette), legendary 61-59 thriller on a game-winning shot by Bill Eason. [UNC had a late lead and tried to pull the four-corners nuttiness.]



Just wanted to pass along a little Friar history, back then definitely New England's team. Wow, seems like that all happened yesterday. And look at the ticket (found it on friarblog)-- a lower bowl seat was on $3.25...! Bill Eason, Soup Campbell, Dwight Williams, Bob Misevicius, etc...

I think everyone local at the game must have had to walk to the Civic Center ("The Dunk"). Out of towners must've had to take the train? The former station was a lot closer to the arena back then.