What better time to relive one of the greatest Miami MAC Tournament wins…And look back further…When our look back hero was playing in the State Tournament…Against a pretty good player!
Stranger things have happened!
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Monty and Hausfeld both on that Bacon team that beat Lebron (Penno was not if that’s what you were thinking)
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Nope - Penno went to Alter.
James scored 25 points and had 11 rebounds. Penno led Alter with 12 points.
Alter played well but lost by four points. Division II Ohio State Championship game.
I don’t even need to click on the video to quote Bake’s glorious call!!
At seconds 43 and 44 you can see me run on and off the court behind Akrons distraught big guy
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A couple of things:
1 - The video above is ESPN, so no Bake audio.
2 - The famous quote “Stranger Things Have Happened” was by Joe Barry.
Fair enough. As I said, I didn’t click on the link. But my memory is still of Bake’s “Miami’s Dancing” call
Gino Harris…
The block he had earlier that season at Millett. I think his head was above the rim. And then the jump in celebration of winning the MAC. The man certainly could get up.
The thing lost to his highlight is that Akron still got to inbound the ball about 15 minutes later with a chance to win.
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Charlie was on ESPN Radio while I was driving back to Columbus afterwards and he still didn’t know or understand what the refs were doing or thinking.
It was (and still is) completely counter-intuitive that if the clock did not start, that they would put time BACK ON the clock.
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Jeremiah Wood was the best player on those Akron teams and he never received the credit he deserved because he didn’t happen to go to high school with LeBron.
He was, however, a beast in the old college basketball video games. But virtual Jeremiah could never stop virtual Monty St. Clair because, for some reason, the game developers decided that Monty should get an A- for 3-point shooting, so you could just spam pick-and-roll triples with him.
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Wasn’t drive by poster/former HawkTalker hoopsjunkie at the bottom of the pile?
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I believe that is true
SportsCenter highlights included their studio host saying “somehow, MAC officials inexplicably put MORE time on the clock”.
Was he the same guy that was just a bit “vocal” at games?
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We had a party at my house in law school that night. All sorts of people were there doing party things (I lived in one of the big party houses, as things happened), but I was being antisocial to watch the game and would join festivities when it was over. At some point in the second half, this guy named Rob sat down across from me in the living room when Akron was up big, looked at the TV, and said “This shit’s over, change it.” I kicked him out of the party, and when he got all huffy, my housemates stood with me.
And then we won. Fuck you, Rob.
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The ESPN announcers were basically rooting for some sort of full court lob to Romeo Travis to win the game…
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