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LSU v. DePaul BB 1980
Posted on 3/9/21 at 2:35 pm
Posted on 3/9/21 at 2:35 pm
My favorite LSU team of all time. Strange lineup with Scales (6'9") at G and starting FR Howard Carter (6'5") and forward and Rick Mattick instead of Greg Cook at Center. LSU lost but it was great game against the no. 1 team on the road. Macklin got hurt at the beginning of the game. Oh, what could have been with this team.
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Posted on 3/9/21 at 2:47 pm to Manswers
Javonte loving those shorts
Posted on 3/9/21 at 2:53 pm to PenguinPubes
1979,80 and 81 lost in the tourney to the eventual NC. Great teams.
Posted on 3/9/21 at 2:53 pm to Manswers
Al McGuire and Billy Packer 
Posted on 3/9/21 at 2:55 pm to Manswers
Mattick could rebound, block a few shots, but could not score. He made Greg Cook like like Shaq when it came to scoring.
This post was edited on 3/9/21 at 2:57 pm
Posted on 3/9/21 at 2:55 pm to Manswers
LSU didn't stand a chance regardless of what lineup they started. That old bastard Ray Meyer was going to get all the calls in his building.
Posted on 3/9/21 at 3:00 pm to LSUGrad9295
Thank God for the addition of the three point line. While not all games were like this back then, DePaul just chose to play the old school packline defense and didn't care how many shots we took from outside.
Posted on 3/9/21 at 3:02 pm to LSUGrad9295
I'm watching most of the way through the first half and Willie Sims had not played. Hultberg was playing great but Hi-C was struggling. I'm not sure why Brown didn't play a lineup of Ethan, Willie Sims, Hultberg, Scales, and Cook.
Posted on 3/9/21 at 3:20 pm to Manswers
What aggravated about that game was McGuire so obviously rooting for DePaul.
But just hanging with DePaul in Chicago, got me excited about the post season and the Tiger's chances to go far that year.
But just hanging with DePaul in Chicago, got me excited about the post season and the Tiger's chances to go far that year.
Posted on 3/9/21 at 3:21 pm to Amadeo
Was there in chicago!!
Posted on 3/9/21 at 3:25 pm to Manswers
College basketball was fun from 1980 to about 1992. Started to fall apart post-Shaq.
Posted on 3/9/21 at 4:01 pm to TIGER62
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Was there in chicago!!
That was a great game to see in person. I remember it was on a Sunday afternoon. I was in 9th grade and I remember thinking about that game during the late morning Mass I attended. It was on when I got home and never saw the early part of this game. This was before my family owned a VCR. I'd love to see the LSU v. UK SEC tourney championship game and other games that year when all the players were really hot.
Posted on 3/9/21 at 4:07 pm to Manswers
Those were the days. There were a lot of "what could have beens" back then.
Posted on 3/9/21 at 4:17 pm to Manswers
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That was a great game to see in person. I remember it was on a Sunday afternoon. I was in 9th grade and I remember thinking about that game during the late morning Mass I attended. It was on when I got home and never saw the early part of this game. This was before my family owned a VCR. I'd love to see the LSU v. UK SEC tourney championship game and other games that year when all the players were really hot.
LSU would not lose another game after the DePaul loss until Kyle Macy hit a last second shot to win the game for Kentucky in the last game of the regular season in Baton Rouge.
Of course they went on to win the SEC Tournament that year, their only one to date, and lets not kid ourselves, but Louisville was the better team that day in that Elite-8 game, but if they could have somehow made it to the Final Four that year, it was a very winnable tournament.
Purdue, Iowa, UCLA?, and not your daddy's UCLA team mind you, with Kiki VanDeWeghe leading the team??
Posted on 3/9/21 at 4:33 pm to Manswers
Rudy Macklin was great, but he was injury-prone. I remember he got hurt in the 2nd game of the 1979 season, and somehow that worked out well for him and LSU. He got a fifth year of eligibility: the 1980-81 season, the best season ever for Tiger basketball.
1978-1981 were truly halcyon days for the team. Three entire seasons that LSU had an almost uninterrupted reign in the Top Ten nationally. And the PMAC was rocking back then!
1978-1981 were truly halcyon days for the team. Three entire seasons that LSU had an almost uninterrupted reign in the Top Ten nationally. And the PMAC was rocking back then!
This post was edited on 3/9/21 at 4:36 pm
Posted on 3/9/21 at 4:37 pm to Manswers
I remember watching this game live as a kid, but I forgot the great Don Criqui was on the call.
Posted on 3/9/21 at 5:12 pm to Manswers
I remember the game well, it was on a Super Bowl Sunday like a noon game.
Depaul still played in their little on Campus gym then that held about 3000 people, it was packed and loud, they were No. 1 we were top 5 and every bit as talented...they just didn't believe it when the game started.
They jumped out early pretty big. We cut it to 9 right before the half and got within 3 late, and had a chance late, gave them all they wanted. Scales was on fire...unstoppable.
I go to Chicago every year for a Cubs series and we take the Red Line to Wrigley and it passes DePaul. Not one time when I pass Depaul do I not think of that game....not one.
Depaul still played in their little on Campus gym then that held about 3000 people, it was packed and loud, they were No. 1 we were top 5 and every bit as talented...they just didn't believe it when the game started.
They jumped out early pretty big. We cut it to 9 right before the half and got within 3 late, and had a chance late, gave them all they wanted. Scales was on fire...unstoppable.
I go to Chicago every year for a Cubs series and we take the Red Line to Wrigley and it passes DePaul. Not one time when I pass Depaul do I not think of that game....not one.
This post was edited on 3/9/21 at 5:15 pm
Posted on 3/10/21 at 7:08 am to LSUGrad9295
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LSU didn't stand a chance regardless of what lineup they started. That old bastard Ray Meyer was going to get all the calls in his building.
Yeah, LSU shot 0 foul shots in the first half and there were some cheapies called on us in the second for sure.
Fun to watch, one thing that jumped out at me is how soft and passive the defenses were. Looked like a Lou Tepper cushion both teams were given, very little ball pressure. Also zero ball screens back then.
I think the fact that we were within 3 with the ball with 30 seconds left without arguably our best player (Macklin) and we had two very good looks, tells you how talented LSU was, if fact I'd say we were the better team. Aquirre maybe the best player on the floor that day, and Cummings would turn out to be a long time pro, but I thought we were better overall.
Posted on 3/10/21 at 7:47 am to Tiger Ugly
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Fun to watch, one thing that jumped out at me is how soft and passive the defenses were. Looked like a Lou Tepper cushion both teams were given, very little ball pressure. Also zero ball screens back then.
It is really interesting to watch games when there was no shot clock and no 3 point line. I assume the idea was to force jump shots and eliminate the other team's dunks and layups. Both teams shot really well in this game - particularly DePaul. It seemed like they made all of their mid-range jump shots. But Scales and Hultberg (and E. Martin, too) were on.
I don't understand why Brown played Mattick at center so much in that game rather than Cook. Cook had a decent shot from the elbow and was quicker and more active inside than Mattick.
Posted on 3/10/21 at 7:54 am to Tiger Ugly
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Not one time when I pass Depaul do I not think of that game....not one.
my daughter, no pics, went to DePaul!!
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