And I slept fine that night.”), Ewing says, “One turnover cost us the game, but I don’t blame anybody. “I’m afraid we’ll lose.” (Massimino says he still hasn’t watched the finish. The stall lasted less than half a minute before Martin’s hard pass bounced off Broadnax’s shin near the sideline in front of the Georgetown bench. “In reality we were nine for nine.”), And McLain? Rollie’s still rolling: At 80, Massimino continues to coach. He returned to the band in 1996 and again in 2006. Our Sports Talk Line team picked the best NCAA moments for you to enjoy. There is a pause, and Massimino’s eyes dance like old. But still….) Last November Villanova’s basketball team hosted Northwood University, where ’85 head coach Rollie Massimino is the 80-year-old head coach, and turned the weekend into a celebration of the ’85 team’s 30-year anniversary. He occasionally goes on phoning binges with old teammates and then seems to disappear. “I still don’t know why,” says Pinckney. We even have pregame pasta meals.” Massimino had a pacemaker installed a few years ago, but remains the last member of the ’85 team still actively involved in college basketball. ), (The banner was hoisted in 2005. Nineteen years. Rome2rio makes travelling from Georgetown University to Villanova University easy. Dwayne McClain says, “I’m elated to have Gary close with us. “You’re a lifer,” Daly says. Talk about a standout: The lanky Ed Pinckney would finish the championship game with 16 points, six rebounds, and a new status heading into the NBA draft. On Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday Thompson turned practice into an open discussion of King’s and Malcolm X’s influence. I do look back sometimes. “I’ll bet [Tigers point guard] Andre Turner is still confused,” says McClain. Villanova Wildcats (4-1) is visiting Georgetown University Hoyas (2-2) on December 11, 2020, 7:00 PM ET and playing at the McDonough Arena. Saddiq Bey scored 33 points. “And effective. McLain has yet to attend. Find all the transport options for your trip from Georgetown University to Villanova University right here. “That incident just swept the whole team into the locker room on a wave,” says Marty Marbach, one of the assistant coaches. Backers of Kentucky’s Wildcats had made Villanova’s their own for the weekend, and any other neutrals in attendance lined up behind the underdog. Planksy called me, seeking relief. Villanova had 58 possessions in the game and only four times held the ball more than 45 seconds (the duration of the first college shot clock, in 1985-86), including a nearly two-minute possession at the end of the first half, when Georgetown refused to come out of a passive zone. When Massimino’s name was announced, he received a standing ovation. He came back again four years ago, when the team was inducted, en masse, into the Villanova sports hall of fame. Just 79 days later, on July 11, New Coke is wiped from shelves and Old Coke — or “Coca-Cola classic,” as it was branded — makes its triumphant return. Patrick Ewing’s 30-2 Georgetown Hoyas were overwhelming favorites. ). It started when Pinckney took the ball directly at Ewing on an early possession and dealt a soft pass to Pressley, who willed in a wild reverse layup. Then Manhattan hired him, and Lappas righted a struggling program, winning 25 games in his fourth—and final—year. Four minutes! Al Freni/The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images. 5 Seton Hall en route to a victory over the Bluejays on Saturday. (This section of the original story caused problems 11 years ago. Both games had been tense, grinding battles, which history has lost when establishing the magnitude of the championship game upset. What a game Villanova 76-63 Georgetown. The Wildcats opened at -9.5 and the current line is NOVA -6.5. I’m tired of this [feud]. “It was a low pass,” Martin says. “Lappas wanted to do his thing,” he says, “and separate the old stuff from the new stuff.” Lappas won 174 games in nine seasons at Villanova, including the school’s only Big East tournament title (in 1995). Jensen alone had six. “And then hold our breath. It also is Dick Ebersol’s final episode as executive producer. (Years later, when Pinckney was playing for the Miami Heat, he found himself alone in an elevator with coach Pat Riley. Sometimes the things he said to people got pretty personal.”, Yet Thompson was much more than a scowling manipulator. Massimino doesn’t deny it. With two sentences McLain brought every player on the national championship team under suspicion: “Some of my teammates and guys in my dorm knew I did drugs. Following the turnover Villanova held the ball for 62 seconds until Jensen drilled the wide-open jump shot from the right side with 2:37 left on the clock. Point guard Gary McLain was part of Villanova’s stellar 1981 recruiting class. That could be schtick. But Gary is a family member and he’s had problems. I had not seen, or even seen many highlights, of this game since it was played (on April Fool’s Day, naturally). Give me the rock!’” says Plansky. “We have a great administration, great assistant coaches. (In 2004, arranging an interview with Massimino was problematic. They struggled throughout the regular season. It never got better than April 1, 1985, for the man called Daddy Mass. The Flyers held for the last shot, but Pressley stole a pass, and Villanova spread the floor in a variation of North Carolina coach Dean Smith’s notorious four corners offense, a setup that could be used to control a game for minutes on end if executed properly. What damned his relationship with Villanova in the end was the feeling—often rumored, seldom spoken publicly by anyone—that he had gotten too full of himself. Four years later, at the age of 24, Jensen and a partner started Showtime Enterprises, a marketing company that now employs 125 people in six offices (Showtime was subsequently acquired by Sparks Marketing Group, for which Jensen is an Executive Vice President.)
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