Came hear to remember this team since they're honoring them tomorrow at Rupp for the 40th anniversary! Thanks for the video...pretty good clarity (for the time)
I missed that they’ll be at Rupp tomorrow. I’ll definitely have to try to catch that! Thanks for commenting and for letting me know about them being honored. The credit for the clarity of the video goes to the person who shared it with me. Thanks again, and go Cats!
my redskins let me down in that superbowl they kept hyping. but later, in march, my hoyas stepped up big time. it's remarkable that georgetown actually beat both of these teams decisively to win the crown. michael graham, the best college player to never play one game in the nba.
My Bengals have let me down in 3 Super Bowls, and they were all close. It’s frustrating that they’ve never pulled one out. And yes, the Hoyas were beasts in that year. I still can’t believe how poorly UK played against them in that 2nd half. Thanks for watching and commenting!
It is intriguing to think that Hakeem Abdul-Olajuwon had only been competing at the game of Basketball for only 2 years by the time he arrived at the University of Houston. A truly genetic marvel in terms of Gigantism and athleticism. That's why he was fun to watch at the University of Houston. Without his contributions for the Houston "Cougars" in his 3 years, "phi slamma jamma" would have been irrelevant.
As a UK fan I totally agree, when i was a teenager during this time my friends and i loved to watch him and Houston play. Truely a very special player in college basketball. We loved watching bb on tv.
As a UK fan I totally agree, when i was a teenager during this time my friends and i loved to watch him and Houston play. Truely a very special player in college basketball. We loved watching bb on tv.
As a UK fan I totally agree, when i was a teenager during this time my friends and i loved to watch him and Houston play. Truely a very special player in college basketball. We loved watching bb on tv.
As a UK fan I totally agree, when i was a teenager during this time my friends and i loved to watch him and Houston play. Truely a very special player in college basketball. We loved watching bb on tv.
As a UK fan I totally agree, when i was a teenager during this time my friends and i loved to watch him and Houston play. Truely a very special player in college basketball. We loved watching bb on tv.
CBS Sports and prelude to Super Bowl XVIII. The GAME broadcast for Super Bowl XVIII was 4:30 ET and as a result this game broadcast came on the air at 12:30 ET with the Super Bowl Pregame show slated to start at 2:30. All times e astern.
@@patrickdaly5068 I found two more in the 1980’s. In 1987 they played Navy in the game where David Robinson went off for 45 points even though Kentucky won 80-69. In 1988 they played Norte Dame in Louisville on Super Bowl Sunday. The 1987 and 1988 games were on ABC and the 1988 game was right before the Super Bowl Pregame show as ABC had the Super Bowl in 1988
It must have been frightening to have been on the opposing side of one Hakeem Abdul-Olajuwon in the "N.C.A.A." An individual blessed with that much abundant athleticism and a giant. Even in this game though, that gifted athleticism was challenged. There was a sequence when the Basketball giant Hakeem Abdul-Olajuwon was running up and down the court 2 consecutive times, and was about to collapse. That was symbolic of just how competitive "N.C.A.A." Basketball was during the ultra-financially deregulated, win at all cost, President Reagan-era.
Under Joe B. Hall, Kentucky's best move was looking the other way while boosters were paying off players (26 former UK players interviewed for a 1985 Lexington Herald-Leader story they were handed 50 or 100 dollar bills by boosters and allowed to sell game tickets at inflated prices. The top players said they were making around $4,000 a year.)
Ironic how small the amount was. Even in 1985, that amount was below the poverty level if treated as an income. It was only in more recent decades that huge dollar figures entered into college basketball cheating. Louisville players in 2015 were putting more money than that into strippers' g-strings.
Isn't that the same moron that let Magic and Bird rot on the bench for the World tour in favor of his own Muppets. Sounds like a great guy... looking the other way. Maybe if Kentucky had learned from his mistakes they would not have been repeated
Yea, Kentucky is only school that happens at. Only one. No other coaches would do that! Man yall full of yourselves. The people there wasn't trying to cheat. They were taking care of kids like they were family. People just love basketball there! More than anywhere you can name. Louisville Kentucky is biggest city. Its 70% Kentucky fans. Basketball capital of the world. And they know ball! I'm sure nobody at LSU's ever took shaq out to eat. Are give free tickets to Michael Jordan at Carolina. Not a penny ever gave to Patrick Ewing. I bet zion got zero favors as well.
If it wasn't for the bad 2nd half shooting in Seattle, I think we would have been the national champion, true cat's fan here,go big blue. Bye the way, whatever happened to Georgetown.
Yes, that is correct. UK used to play on SB Sunday quite a bit, several years in a row I think. I remember one year they played Oklahoma, and they won when Rex Chapman got a layup on a last second inbounds play from under the basket. Thanks for commenting!
@@patrickdaly5068 That’s okay! You were right however. The NCAA did use the 3 point shot during the 1985-86 season. They just didn’t use it in the tournament during that season.
@@patrickdaly5068 christ i was watching that at a high school kegger as a 16 year old🤣. Think Kentucky was up four or five at the break? That bald headed Graham got a buncha dunks in the 2nd. Those were good days for basketball
@@patrickdaly5068 , Both of these teams would make it to the King Dome in Seattle for the Final Four just a couple of months later. Houston would take on Virginia who was the one sort of surprise team to make it to the Final Four that year, and Kentucky would face Georgetown with Patrick Ewing and company. Ended up being a Georgetown vs. Houston final, where once again a surpremely talented and loaded Houston Cougar team would lose their second straight NCAA final to Georgetown after having lost to N. C. State in the 1983 finals.
