ISU VS WICHITA 1979 

I was a senior at ISU in 1979....married and living in married student housing....that has been a long time ago but the memories will last forever! Ahh....was I ever so young?

Bill Hodges was the head coach at my college, Georgia College, before he went to Mercer. I was a huge Bird fan😉

Thank you for adding this! Great to watch!

What's cool is Larry was always a TEAM player.

Love hearing Al McGuires old school NYC accent.

I love how Al appreciated Larry even then. Even if Larry didn't score.

According to Seth Davis’ book “When March Went Mad” this game was not on the original NBC schedule for 1978-79. The had a DePaul game the day before original scheduled but when NBC wanted to do the ISU game Ray Meyer willing agreed. In addition this wasn’t a full national game. The Southeast got the game between Kentucky and South Carolina which was a non conference matchup in those days.

Wichita State had MTXE (Mental Toughness Extra Effort) on its pants.

Heads up! Indiana St. vs Wichita St. starts at the

Cheese Johnson and Ronnie Ryer…NYC. I lived in Wichita once upon a time and remember them in my young days. Larry Bird on his way to greatness….

THAT was fun! 😀 Thank you for posting this. ❤️

Bird is the word!

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DAVE GAVETT!! WENT ON TO CREATE the greatest conference EVER..r.i.p Dave

Thanks for posting, by accident you listed Wichita State as the opponent instead of Virginia Tech. Springs Valley alum here, class of 83'

thanks...Nicks was so out of control.

Musta been when basketball was invented

ISU was a good TEAM.

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It's amazing how well they did with Nicks. That guy was a bad shot or a turnover waiting to happen.