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[ABM]

Without "cheating", do you remember the event.....what was at stake?

 

[tlongII]

Notre Dame ended UCLA's 88 game win streak in 1974.

 

[ABM]

Notre Dame ended UCLA's 88 game win streak in 1974.

Yep. Actually, I had thought it was Oregon that had done it. I had to look.

 

[tlongII]

Yep. Actually, I had thought it was Oregon that had done it. I had to look.

Of course you thought it was Oregon. Frikkin Duck fan! smh

 

[tlongII]

FYI - The Beavs broke UCLA's 50 game conference winning streak later that season and the Ducks beat them in the following game.

 

[jlprk]

UCLA had been poor all season, mainly from laziness, partly from little injuries to Walton, partly from the brand new rule that freshmen could play varsity.

I remember that right before the game, Wooden announced that because Notre Dame was starting a freshman at guard, the Bruins would start freshman Marques Johnson at guard. I ignored the name, figuring I'd never hear it again. In the NBA, both he and Adrian Dantley played forward. Johnson was better due to height and defense.

 

[NOVoodoo]

UCLA had been poor all season, mainly from laziness, partly from little injuries to Walton, partly from the brand new rule that freshmen could play varsity.

I remember that right before the game, Wooden announced that because Notre Dame was starting a freshman at guard, the Bruins would start freshman Marques Johnson at guard. I ignored the name, figuring I'd never hear it again. In the NBA, both he and Adrian Dantley played forward. Johnson was better due to height and defense.

Crazy to think that nowadays, freshman are "forced" to play varsity college ball...

A decade ago, I started a thread on this forum about the best college freshman of all-time. I'm still a young guy now, but I want to time travel back and smack myself in the face when I was just a kid, for some of the ill-informed bullshit I was saying back in the day.

http://sportstwo.com/threads/48053-Best-Freshman-Ever?

 

[jlprk]

It had the same effect as the NBA drafting high schoolers and college freshmen later. It disrupted each coach's orderly system with unwashed masses of know-nothing players. The game got dumber.