How many NCAA Division I basketball teams have you seen play in person? Which ones?
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I have seen a lot but it has been a long time ago now. Back when I could get student tickets when I attended SECC I saw a lot. Also went to the UKIT for quite a few years and saw a variety of good and bad teams play in that. I also went to the 1982 SEC Tournament in Lexington. I didn't go the first night as it was the bottom four teams. So I didn't see every SEC team play. I don't think I ever saw Florida but I believe they are the only "original" 10 SEC teams I have never seen play.
The first UKIT I went to 1980 had Purdue,SMU and California. Purdue was a Final Four team that year and had Joe Barry Carroll as their best player. Some others off the top of my head were Boston U., UNCC,Marshall,SW Louisiana,Bowling Green, Louisiana Tech,Portland,Cincinnati,Miami (Ohio) etc..
Also saw Villanova play UK in Rupp. They were a good team. Some of those guys ended being on their national championship team IIRC. I had tickets to see UK play Houston but it came a snow storm and knocked me out of going.
Also saw ETSU a couple of time in Johnson City. I remember they played Marshall one time in a really great game. It was high scoring and fun to watch.Kentucky fan since 1971. -
Most of what I've seen has been in the SEC Tournament over the years.
Saw Michigan State and Kansas in the Champions Classic in 2013.
I went to Madison Square Garden in the infamous Gardner-Webb year and watched that entire tournament. (Gardner-Webb brought busloads of students to their first game.) I got to see Blake Griffin's first college game at that event, and that was also the year Derek Rose was at Memphis.
That event was the first time I started to give serious thought to wanting Calipari at UK. I loved the way they played. Of course, they had tremendous talent, but watching them that week was so different than watching the late Tubby and Gillispie teams at UK. You could really get a first-hand view of how far Kentucky had slipped.Comment
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Strangely my brother-in-law still owns a T-shirt that shows UK, Oklahoma, UCONN, and Memphis on it as participants at MSG. Kentucky didn't even make it there. Hilarious and pathetic.Comment
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Saw Duke and Michigan State in Champions Classic is 2011
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quite a few in the SEC tournament and NCAA tournamentComment
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I saw Maryland play Wake Forest at the old Cole Field House. I had seats two rows from the basket (Software partner bought them) being that close gave ma an appreciation of how rough the game is the arena was unimpressive and the crowd was like a Rupp exhibition basketball crowd.
Cole Field House was where Texas Western had the huge upset against UK in the National Championship game.“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.â€-F. Scott Fitzgerald last line "The Great Gatsby"Comment
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Saw a few Louisville games in my lifetime.I saw the Providence upset of Georgetown in Freedom Hall.Isaiah 5:20Comment
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Went to the Final Four in 1995 (minus the Cats unfortunately) and saw Ok State with Big Country, Ark with Thurman & Williamson, Carolina with Wallace & Stackhouse and UCLA with Ednay & O'Bannon who won it all. And of course chatted with Dicky V in the hotel lobby.KYBLUEINNC
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There have been so many it's hard to count them. Most memorable, UK-Duke in St Pete, UK-UL & KU, Final 4 Four in New Orleans.John 3:3
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That was a really fun regional. The other teams in it were Kansas and a very good Alabama team.
Providence had a small crowd, but they were fired up. They had two guys dressed like the Blues Brothers who danced every time their spirited pep band played.
It was 1987, the first year of the 3 point shot.
Alabama was a 2 seed and a top ten team even in the final AP poll after the tournament. Alabama had four players on that team that went in the first two rounds of the NBA draft, and two of them went in the first round. with two guys who went in the first round of that year's NBA draft (Derrick McKey and Jim Farmer, at #9 and #20. McKey was drafted ahead of Reggie Miller, Horace Grant, Muggsy Bogues, Mark Jackson, and Steve Alford, among others.Terry Coner went in the second round of the draft that year. Michael Ansley was a second round pick two years later. They were 16-2 in the SEC and won the SEC regular season and tournament titles.
Providence was a 6 seed, and in the semifinals, they destroyed Alabama, 103-82.
Kansas was coached by Larry Brown, was ranked in the top 20, and won the national championship the following year, with Danny Manning. Mark Turgeon, now Maryland's head coach, was also on that team. Georgetown beat Kansas 70-57.
Georgetown was a heavy favorite, ranked #4, led by #4 draft pick Reggie Williams, Big East regular season and tournament champions. Providence beat them 88-73. Billy Donovan lit it up. It was the fourth time those two teams met that year and Georgetown had won two of the prior 3.
Kentucky was in that region, and would've played Georgetown had they not lost to Ohio State.Comment
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Saw Ol Miss with John Stroud...what a shooter. Alabama with Leon Douglas and again with Reggie King. Vandy with the F-troop. Notre Dame a few times....unfortunately the last time with Tripuka beating UK. Was however at the game when Dwight Anderson played one on five the last few minutes of the game and took em down.Comment
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Isaiah 5:20Comment
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You're kind.
I, too, was happy to see John Thompson's Georgetown team lose. I didn't like them, and was happy to see the team that beat UK in the Final Four in 1984 lose.
Pitino looked incredibly young during those games, even for a guy in his mid-30s. I think he was largely an unknown until that Final Four. It was appropriate that he was launched to fame in Freedom Hall, given that his job just before Providence was as an assistant coach under Hubie Brown, who had won an ABA championship in that building as the head coach of the Kentucky Colonels.Comment
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I just saw EKU play a bunch of teams besides UK.Comment
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