Carl Tacy

[W-S HerdFan]

Remember those games well, in spring of 67 IIRC. Was in school at MU and campus was going "nuts" over MU basketball after we nipped Nova in the tourney's opening round and routed Nebraska in quarterfinals, 119-76. Papers had pictures of coaches of final 4 teams each holding a basketball. Ellis looked pure "Kentucky country" in a sports coat and one of those string ties!

In the Nebraska game George Stone set a NIT record scoring 46 points. It lasted barely 2 days as Rutgers' Lloyd scored 51 against MU in the last game.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/k0282f6t4zc1dug/IMG_1978.jpg?dl=0

...my ? about 3 or more players scoring 20+ points in the same game? Here it happened the year before the Houston game...

 

[W-S HerdFan]

https://www.dropbox.com/s/6wl8dc2oo41j2tf/IMG_1980.PNG?dl=0

Semi-final recap. So, there WAS some history w/McGuire! Another game (2 in a row) where we had 3 players with 20+ points...

 

[W-S HerdFan]

OK - so I have the HD article of the game. How does a team put up 97 shots in one game? Ninety Seven!
https://www.dropbox.com/s/h3j0qxvi1y7p0ve/File Apr 14, 23 16 44.pdf?dl=0

https://www.dropbox.com/s/m93h67be3l7f9wh/Basketball game 1968.pdf?dl=0

 

[Herdmeister]

OK - so I have the HD article of the game. How does a team put up 97 shots in one game? Ninety Seven!
https://www.dropbox.com/s/h3j0qxvi1y7p0ve/File Apr 14, 23 16 44.pdf?dl=0

I remember when ORU came to Huntington in 72-73 season they lead the nation in scoring. Over 100 points per game. I was at a press conference with coach Ken Trickey. He told us his #1 goal wa to get off 100 shots per game. Keep in mind there was no 3 point line. His reasoning is that any college team should average 40% from the floor. That is 80 points from the get go. Then you get an average of 12-15 ppg from the free throw line. He said that he liked his chances of winning with a base of 92-95 points per game. In that game, his team got off 103 as I recall and they won 81-76. A month later, we beat them in I believe their first home loss ever in their building 106-103 in OT. That was a miracle game. We came back from a huge deficit. Tyrone Collins had the game of his life that night/ That win was one of the 8 in a row heading down the stretch to get us to the NIT. A win at Florida State in that run was huge too

https://www.dropbox.com/s/m93h67be3l7f9wh/Basketball game 1968.pdf?dl=0