I was a Junior at URI. This URI basketball team got robbed of an NCAA bid the year before when NC State won the ACC championship the year before. This was a great win and then they took Duke to the limit.
Then Duke beat my Temple Owls. That loss to Duke broke my heart. We should've went to the Final 4 that year. URI has always been tough. I miss are rivalry with them.
Thanks for this. Those Cuse teams seemed to have it all - passing, size, athleticism, depth. Roe and Duncan were decent enough shooters on outside. I could not remember why this team never got back to NC after 1987 season. This was one where URI shot better from outside over course of game and fewer TOs. The refs were also extremely chippy which hurt Coleman's mins. Still, SU played really good. You can't really fault them. It came down to FTs and URI got more than double amount of attempts. You won't win a close one when called so one-sided
It was close. URI had more 3s but that was not the game. It was how refs called the game, 17 Cuse FTs attempts to URI's 36. Credit URI for making some good plays but it was really poorly called game for Cuse.
Thank you for uploading this game, I was only 6 yrs old when this game was played but I remember watching it on tv with my old man and his friends who all went to Rhody, being able to watch it again now is a huge treat
Was 13 at the time and loved watching Cuse games back then. Sherman Douglas, Coleman, Seikaly, Thompson and this team went out here? Wish they had gone farther. And even when they get Billy Owens soon after this.
