why isnt college basketball like this today?? awesome game to watch even 37 years later.

Seikaly schooled Schintzius in that game!!!

I forgot how bad Billy Packer was at calling Syracuse games. So biased. Honorary ACC commissioner...

That Syracuse team played with a chip on their shoulder during that tournament run- their veterans still had that lingering embarrassment with the beatdown on their home floor from Navy in the '86 NCAA's! The Pearl never got to redeem himself since he had turned pro, but the guys who returned in '87 didn't forget that moment! They played with a hunger, especially Rony Seikaly! The two games he played against Florida and UNC in that regional was his best at Syracuse - 60 points and 24 rebounds (a man possessed)

@jwainer4397

4 жыл бұрын

Seikaly was out of his mind in that tournament. Heckuva team they had that year. I'm a life long Georgetown fan- still amazed that the Hoyas beat that team 3 x's in 1987.

@bradlewis6514

2 жыл бұрын

@@jwainer4397 But that was an example of the proof at just how crazy balanced the Big East was in those days! What Georgetown did to Syracuse then u turn it around - Syracuse took two out of three from Providence and Providence shot lights out in taking two out of three from the Hoyas (especially superb from the perimeter in that Elite 8 game)! Unpredictability was the story of the day! Familarity breeds contempt! And never was it more evident than the Big East as college basketball's best league in the '80s!

@bradlewis6514

2 жыл бұрын

@@jwainer4397 Also showed and proved it's all about how you match up! It's what makes the NCAA tournament the biggest crapshoot in amateur sports that it is! And still is to this day! I was a freshman in HS during '87 March Madness, so I vividly remember!

@ericg2166

2 жыл бұрын

@@bradlewis6514 The Big East was amazing in the 80s and there were so many great, intense games. I was lucky to get to see many of them live at Syracuse. The Pearl, Seikaly, Rafael Addison, Sherman Douglas, Howard Triche, Greg Monroe. Very exciting teams. In 85 Georgetown, St. Johns and Syracuse were all in the top 5 a lot of the season and Villanova ends up winning the national championship. That's how good the league was. Boston College, Pitt and Providence were no slouches either. Seems strange now, but back then Uconn actually sucked and were at the bottom of the league. I was at the game when Syracuse beat #1 (and seemingly invincible) Georgetown. It's the game where an orange was thrown and smashed off the backboard when Ewing was shooting a free throw and Thompson pulled the whole team off the court. It was crazy in there.

Great memories. My HS/College years.

Boeheim was in his 11th season..... .....36 years ago!

This game(for most of the country) was tape delayed and shown in the 11:30 PM ET time slot. As I previously posted it did air live across the state of Florida and Howard Cosell went ballistic Friday morning on his old Speaking of Sports program over the decision of the CBS stations in Florida doing this game over a President Reagan press conference.

I remember this game, & all the hype about Dwayne Schintzius, who was purported to be better than Rony Seikaly... Then came THIS game... Rony dominated Schintzius enroute to a big win here !!!

@bradlewis6514

5 жыл бұрын

Yes he did, and then I liked it even more when he totally outplayed JR Reid in the East final against Carolina when Reid was supposedly better; also Reid became an OK player but in that game Seikaly made him look like the freshman he was then

@blown22

4 жыл бұрын

And thus the legend of "DWAYNE SHIT STAIN" was born!

@bradlewis6514

2 жыл бұрын

@@blown22 He had the raw talent, but lacked the work ethic and commitment! Substance far outweighed the hype in Schintzius' case! Huge disappointment!

@zt1053

6 ай бұрын

@@bradlewis6514 He quit the team his senior year because they wanted him to get a haircut.

@paulsonj72

2 ай бұрын

@@zt1053And coach Don DeVoe with a classic put down of the entire situation at Florida. I’m a no nonsense coach and this is a nonsense program 😊. Ouch

Fun fact- this is one of only two Florida Gators Sweet 16 losses. The other? Gonzaga (THE SLIPPER STILL FITS)

Maxwell did end up going on to a fairly lengthy career in the NBA

This was Florida's breakthrough basketball season! Had never even been to the Dance before '86-87! Beat ACC champ NC State and crushed co Big Ten champ Purdue, then gave Syracuse all they could handle! They get forgotten bec of Billy Donovan's success but '87 was an accomplishment at that time bec Norm Sloan molded that team without any four or five star recruits like today's programs r able to go after, meaning battles between numerous schools for the same guy

@ericg2166

3 жыл бұрын

Very insightful comment. This was indeed Florida's breakthrough season and the Florida teams of the late 80's were very, very exciting and very good. There is no bigger Gator bball fan than me and I love Billy Donovan, but I get a little annoyed when people act is if the program had no success prior to him (including the 1994 Lon Kruger "find a way" Final 4 team). I feel that Norm Sloan is pretty much forgotten and overlooked as an all-time great coach, but I think his success and record speak for itself (including a national championship, breaking UCLA's title streak at 7, bringing Florida to national prominence, etc.). On a side note for me personally, this game was a tough one for me to watch, because I actually transferred from Syracuse to Florida for the 86-87 year and I loved both teams.

@bradlewis6514

2 жыл бұрын

@@ericg2166 in fact Norm Sloan's only highly touted bring during his tenure was Vernon Maxwell! He was Florida's Mr Basketball in 1984!

@bradlewis6514

2 жыл бұрын

@@ericg2166 and omg yes in response to his national championship (1973-74)! David Thompson was one of the two best athletes to ever play ACC basketball in my opinion (RIP Len Bias being the other)! That NC State team is one of the 10 best all-time in college basketball

@ericg2166

2 жыл бұрын

@@bradlewis6514 I agree and coincidentally Maxwell was recruited hard by NC State, which was a much more prominent program at the time, but Sloan was able to land him. It didn't hurt that Maxwell is from Gainesville.

@ericg2166

2 жыл бұрын

I think Schintzius was a McDonald's All-American coming out of high school.

thanks for the posting!!

@thacozzman2490

10 жыл бұрын

You are quite welcome!!!!!!

Schintzius got worked so hard by Seikaly that after this game he became forever known as Dwayne Shit-stain.

Syracuse had the best team in the country that year. UF wasn't far behind.

@frederickrapp5396

7 ай бұрын

Tell that to Bobby Knight. He’d throw a chair at you.

Great game! By any chance, do you have the next game vs UNC too?

Yo Family U R The Fuckin Best!!!!! #GoOrange

This game broadcast drew a nasty response from Howard Cosell the next morning on his Speaking of Sports on ABC radio. What happened was the President Reagan had a prime time press conference on Thursday Night(this was a Thursday game) and all but 1 of the CBS affiliates in Florida preempted this press conference for this game. Howard felt it was inappropriate to preempt the president(regardless of party) for a mere college basketball game.

do you have the unc games against notre dame and syracuse during this tournament,if you do i really would like for you to post them,thanks and keep up the good work.

@thacozzman2490

10 жыл бұрын

I don't have either one of them at the moment. I could be getting the Syracuse-UNC game any time now and I may get the Notre Dame game sometime later.

1:27:56 How is that not over and back? They threw it in the backcourt and they touched the ball? What am I missing here? "Saves it"???

@jwainer4397

4 жыл бұрын

Neither the player nor the ball actually landed in the backcourt. Since he jumped from the frontcourt and never landed it's not in violation. Solid athleticism and presence of mind.

Florida was favored in this game? Wonder what that was based on.

But the Gators had to vacate their 1987 season because Maxwell committed a number of infractions from the NCAA.

@bradlewis6514

4 жыл бұрын

Funny u mention that Marvin because there's never been any asterisk historically placed by Florida with their participation in that years' tournament! Unlike other schools who've had asterisks by their name!

Man there is hardly anybody in the arena for the start of this game. Also Billy Packer will always suck.

Brent & Packer were the absolute worst commentators.

@bradlewis6514

2 жыл бұрын

Packer was already the established one of the two having been with NBC doing their broadcasts of the FF pre 1982! Musberger got his position through the back door! Only reason he ended up paired with Packer was because Gary Bender chose to move on to college football after the '84 tournament! Being Packer's sidekick conveniently fell into Brent's lap! He should have stayed solely with football

@bradlewis6514

2 жыл бұрын

I never liked Musberger doing college basketball! Had he not been at CBS when they took over coverage of the main rounds of the NCAA tournament starting in '82, he'd have had no connection to the sport whatsoever

@deweybrightside2276

Жыл бұрын

When I was growing up, Brent and Billy were the soundtrack to the "big games", so it always felt important when they were doing the broadcast. I realize that the average viewer is more sophisticated now, but none of it holds up over the years-- it all sounds so clunky. Packer always takes a glass-half-empty approach to every teaching moment.

@MrPhilaCuse

2 ай бұрын

Brent definitely had $ on the Gators in this one.