Can anyone tell me anything about this era. Sounds like there were some very talented teams with the likes of Pat Cummings and Bob Miller. Unfortunately it ended badly with Catlett getting us in some NCAA trouble and bringing about the Badger/Yates era.
Yes we lost the game against Notre Dame in the closing seconds on an inbound play when the ref didn't let us call time out because the count had reached four. Don't think that is still the rule and it wasn't called very often but we have always find ways to lose NCAA games that leave a sour feeling.
The following year we had a very good team rated in top ten most of year with a great point guard in Gary Yoder. We had the misfortune that Pat Cumming had to sit out the season with an injury or that might have been a truly great season.
(01-03-2020 08:45 PM)Def Berkkat Wrote: Look up the 1975 NCAA tournament game against Notre Dame on youtube.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Damn just watched that, (1976). That finish just seemed all too familiar with the last 20-25 years I have been following UC sports. Lol
It seems like UC basketball has always been determined to lose games in oddest of ways. Then you add in the post season and it just takes the heartbreak to another level.
I have always wondered if UC basketball has suffered more of these than any other good program. Every program has these moments but UC seems to get them more often than not when it matters most.
(01-03-2020 10:34 PM)BearcatnKY Wrote: Lloyd Batts averaged 20ppg and I’ve never heard him mentioned when UC’s scorers are talked about.
Only Bearcat other than Oscar to average over 20 pts for his career. Great shooter before the three point shot and before freshmen eligibility so his career total points are less than players like Kilpatrick and Logan who played way more games.
One of my first ever college basketball games was when my dad took me and a friend in, I'm thinking it was probably somewhere between '77-'79. It was at the coliseum and the opponent was some team I'd never heard much about... Florida State.
I remember thinking how big and impressive the coliseum was like man, this is big time.
UC won pretty easily and I remember feeling bad for Florida St. because they were obviously out of their league and probably were never going to amount to anything.
(01-03-2020 08:45 PM)Def Berkkat Wrote: Look up the 1975 NCAA tournament game against Notre Dame on youtube.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
It was 1976.
OK, '76. I was a little kid at the time.
Everybody was playing for second place anyway. Nobody was beating IU that year.
Probably true but we did pound IU the next year...was a nice write up in SI about UC after that game.
That is true, but that IU team had lost May, Buckner, Wilkerson, Abernathy and Crews from the year before. All they had left was Kent Benson and they ended up 14-13 that year.
So yeah, we pounded them but it wasn't anything close to the teams they had the previous two years.
Funny schedule if you look it up we beat Georgia Tech and Memphis at Freedom Hall on March 5 and 6 to win the Metro Conference Tourney but then played a regular season game at Dayton on March 9th before the NCAA tournament.....great roster Bob Miller, Pat Cummings, Brian Williams, Mike Artis, Mike Jones, Steve Collier, Gary Yoder, Hal Ward and Gary Kamstra.
(01-04-2020 09:27 AM)cincybb51 Wrote: Funny schedule if you look it up we beat Georgia Tech and Memphis at Freedom Hall on March 5 and 6 to win the Metro Conference Tourney but then played a regular season game at Dayton on March 9th before the NCAA tournament.....great roster Bob Miller, Pat Cummings, Brian Williams, Mike Artis, Mike Jones, Steve Collier, Gary Yoder, Hal Ward and Gary Kamstra.
As I remember there were 5 players of the year from their respective states on that team.
First Bearcat game was in 1956, been following a long time....Top five all time game of mine was Riverfront Coliseum in Feb 1977, UC vs. Eventual champion Marquette. UC with Miller, Cummings, Collier, etc. and UM with Jerome Whitehead, Bo Ellis and Butch Lee. UC won by one point a believe but Marquette beat them handily in the NCAA tourney. Fantastic game with super players.....
(01-04-2020 09:27 AM)cincybb51 Wrote: Funny schedule if you look it up we beat Georgia Tech and Memphis at Freedom Hall on March 5 and 6 to win the Metro Conference Tourney but then played a regular season game at Dayton on March 9th before the NCAA tournament.....great roster Bob Miller, Pat Cummings, Brian Williams, Mike Artis, Mike Jones, Steve Collier, Gary Yoder, Hal Ward and Gary Kamstra.
This was such a great era to be a Bearcat Basketball fan....Hal Ward was the epitome of cool on the court. Pat Cummings was an absolute monster on the glass. Collier and Yoder were deadly jump shooters. The Coliseum was brand spankin new and we thought it was state of the art. Fast Eddie Lee, Puffy Kennedy, and my all time favorite Jelly Jones.
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1970's era Bearcat Hoops
