1979 NCAA Basketball Tournament Oklahoma vs Indiana State Sweet Sixteen Larry Bird with Indiana State. Sorry about the quality, it was a long time ago. :)
These ISU games are great to see. Back then larry bird was not on tv on the east coast until the final four first game. Thanks for posting all these games.
13:40 Lol, not many people remember that Bird played the entire tourney with a broken thumb he suffered in conference tournament and still averaged 27 ppg and 13.5 rebounds in the tourney. Toughest player that ever played
What the hell?? Bird didn't travel at all?!!!?? Check out 8:35 - I have NO idea what the ref was lookin' at! OMG how sad is my life that I'm getting upset at a traveling call 40 years ago... LOL
Jay Randolph and Gary Thompson were announcers for the Big 8 game of the week for a number of years. It's nice to hear their voices again. It brings back a lot of memories of Big 8 games! Thanks for posting!
Man what memories this brings back. Dad use to work in Terre Haute during this time frame. I watched every ISU game that year on good ol wthi tv Bob Forbes use to do the games for them.
Rehwald67 I never knew wtf Terre Haute was. I remember when bird won his first nba championship he said he won’t if for Terre Haute and I thought he said Terry lol I was like who tf is Terry
This is the year that made the NCAA Tournament. You never heard anyone use the term "March Madness" before the 1979 tournament. Bird and Magic made it a national event.
Not much out there from Bird in college. One regular season game from 1979 and the 1979 NCAA tournament are the only network games that were televised. There is one local broadcast from that season but I'm not aware of much else avaliable from his college career.
Jay Randolph was a great announcer. In the mid 70's to early 80's, Jay called alot of KC Chiefs games for the NFL on NBC. Big chief Jay. One of the best.
@@rendragmedia, sportscasting is both an art and a science. Sorry, you cannot comprehend that. And, when the pbyplay guy talks AT the audience instead of TO them, that is not doing their job. SEE J. RANDOLPH..
He mainly played Forward, but some opponent's lineup dictated that Bird switched to Center. Usually, Alex "the High Jumper" Gilbert(Center) at 6'7" would jump Center, and do opening jump balls !
Again, he was a forward throughout the season, but they would move him to the center position according to the opponent's lineup, and for this game, he was listed at Center.
There were NO three point attempts in the entire game. Why? The NCAA didn’t adapt the three until the 1986 season. The line is there on the court in case NBA teams played in the arena. And as you can see it’s the NBA distance anyway.
@@michaelcavallacci2945There wouldn’t have been any three point attempts in an NBA game either as the NBA didn’t adopt the three point field goal till the 1979-80 season
@@paulsonj72. Some arenas still had the 3 point line remaining from the ABA. Or, it could have been a new floor and they anticipated the NBA adopting the three that coming season.
My dad, a teenager around this time in Indiana, recalled people early on in the season going, "Wow, heck of a season Indiana State is having, huh?" He would respond, "You mean Indiana, right?" Even until that season, folks in Indiana still said, "Who?" about Bird and Indiana State. Since then, we still never hear about Indiana State. Truly one of the greatest testament to Bird's greatness.
This is an NCAA Productions broadcast as NBC did not televise games in the sweet 16 in 1979. This means this game went to stations in the teams markets who decided to broadcast the game. No ESPN either because they had not signed on yet.
OU coach Dave Bliss had actually recruited Larry Bird while Bliss was an assistant for Bob Knight at IU. Wonder if Bliss was breaking NCAA rules as flagrantly as he did later in his coaching tenure at Baylor and allegedly SMU as well.
Interesting data John Paulson. I always thought that by 1979, the Regional Final Rounds (aka Sweet 16 and the so called Elite 8)would at least be shown in syndication across the country thru TVS on both then independent (Non-ABC/CBS/NBC) and a few select ABC/NBC/CBS affiliates. In a sense, similar to now how lower tier Sunday Afternoon NFL games are only shown in the markets/regions of the 2 teams playing. I guess viewers of the local stations in say OKC (Sooners) and the State of Indiana i.e Indianapolis and Terre Haute (ISU) were the only ones showing the game. Now in 2018, even so called Mid Major College Basketball games is now shown on at least RSN(Regional Sports channels) and of course some national games on say either ESPN, FS1, or CBS/TNT.
Regional Finals(Elite 8) were televised nationally as they were on the weekend. NCAA Production games COULD be purchased and televised in markets of the participating schools. Once ESPN came on the scene and started doing 1st round(and sweet 16 games through 1987) it was still the same as ESPN was doing NCAA Production games Also in 1979 cable had NOWHERE the penetration that it has today.Most people got the 3 major networks and MAYBE a PBS and an independent station.
Virgil Moody WOW dude thanks so much!!! What i really wanna see is a high school game of his cus he's my favorite player ever. His style never changed. He was doing the same thing in college as in the pros. So i wanna see how he looked in hs compared to bron bron
I have now watched ISU's tournament games through the DePaul game, and I am amazed at how many traveling calls there were! Maybe it seems odd because in today's game, like palming, they are almost nonexistent, especially in the nba. One of the many reasons I haven't watched an nba game in many years, not worth it.
Terry Stotts must not have passed muster with General Knight. Probably nobody could have dreamed he'd be coaching in the NBA one day. Maybe Dave Bliss should have asked Barry Switzer if he could have borrowed Billy Sims and J.C. Watts.
@56:06 “if you look around this arena you’ll see some familiar faces in the crowd like Bobby Knight, Pete Newell, Dave Cowens, (why is Dave Cowens here?) with Red Auerbach...
Bobby Knight was probably kicking himself for being a jerk to Bird. The greatest decision Bird ever made was getting the hell out of Bloomington. Four years of Knight would have absolutely ruined Larry Bird.
@PositiveEdge It was those two things and also Kent Benson was reportedly a huge a-hole to him....I've read he could be like that to anyone but he particularly liked riding/hazing new players...Bird never forgot it either and whenever the Celtics played a team with Benson on it Bird would look to humiliate him any way he could.
@@irishgrl, no, it was probably used in the Metro Conference roundrobins' season, and only by Cincy on that floor. Some conferences adopted it years before the NCAA. I am not a fan of it, it eliminates a lot of teamwork and intelligent play, eschews the solving of the defensive puzzle with smart passing and quick passing and movement without the ball, too. The "smiley face" has helped clear out congestion under the driver's basket, but not calling three seconds in the lane enough on both offense without the ball, and on defense, has caused too many defense- free open shooters in the lane, or with defenders getting the benefits not enough offensive rebounders in the lane. Unfortunately, in the thin as tissue paper benches' =one, or two and done era, we don't have enough decent or good 10-12-15 foot shooters anymore to take advantage of those open lane looks. Another thing that drives me crazy is that just dribbling full speed down the court right into properly set defenders= nonsense, instead, of pulling the ball out, and resetting; or, 1 on 3, or 1 vs. 4 dribblers and drivers who shoot frequently with no one under the hoop. The team game has been replaced with too many one on one isos, and clearouts, and too many kickbacks for cheap 19-20 foot threebies. If they are going to give threes, do it for baskets where at least two passes are completed in the lane to a player closer to the basket than the defender at the time of the second pass. Otherwise, this one on one crap turns me off, as do the one and dones . The former is not teamhoops. The latter ruins the quality of the college game. Meanwhile, the NBA does not interest me in the slightest.
@@dennisfaust6607 NBA adopted the 3 pt line in the 1979-80 season. My understanding is that in the NCAA it was a few years later. "While certain college basketball conferences experimented with it in the early '80s, the NCAA didn't universally implement a 3-point line until 1986, with high school basketball following suit a year later."
Yes he was he BUSTED Michael Jordan's ASS 6-0 in playoffs..Won 3 NBA Titles and 3 straight MVPS, 3 Straight 3 pt contest..You could say he was a Bust...He BUSTED ASS....!!!!!!!!!
