re: LSU-Loyola Marymount basketball game

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Any evidence LM people (including former players) also consider that a significant game? Anyone seen any interviews or articles on this?

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Unfortunately, Hank Gathers’ untimely death took a lot of the wind out of the sails of the LMU program. I’m not sure there’s really the mass following of the program today or any ties back to the Westhead days to make that connection. Given that it was a road game that they lost against a team that didn’t go far in the NCAA tournament, I’m not sure there’d be a lot of reason for the game to be considered an all-time great for their program even if there were a lot of long-time followers. The high scoring nature of the game wasn’t that unique for LMU in that time period.