The Official Beat the Elizabeth City State Vikings in the Stu on Black & Gold Friday Thread

AlienAiden said:
It was 1984. Nobody rushed the court. The fans were yelling at each other.
Click to expand...

That was the Charles Oakley Era .... however, during much of the '80s and '90s, the Panthers moved home games to the Arthur Ashe Center - even hosted the 1985 South Atlantic Regional there .... '85 was the season VUU went undefeated until the Region opener and lost on a long desperation heavy by a Winston-Salem player. It was perhaps the toughest loss coach Davae Robbins ever took. Prior to the NCAA Regional, there was serious talk of VUU accepting an NIT bid, but it didn't happen. D-2's sometimes played in the NIT. Southern Illinois won it one year with Walt Frazier.
 
bighornn said:
That was the Charles Oakley Era .... however, during much of the '80s and '90s, the Panthers moved home games to the Arthur Ashe Center - even hosted the 1985 South Atlantic Regional there .... '85 was the season VUU went undefeated until the Region opener and lost on a long desperation heavy by a Winston-Salem player. It was perhaps the toughest loss coach Davae Robbins ever took. Prior to the NCAA Regional, there was serious talk of VUU accepting an NIT bid, but it didn't happen. D-2's sometimes played in the NIT. Southern Illinois won it one year with Walt Frazier.
Click to expand...
D2 did not exist in 1967 when Southern Illinois won it - their were two divisions University Division (with about 200-225 teams) and College Division which included everybody else - because SI was college division at that time they were not eligible to compete in the University Division National Championship (UCLA won that year by beating Dayton)

many good college division teams played university division schools and would win some of those games - would not surprise me SI beat quite a few in regular season

Southern Illinois lost in the 1965 and 1966 College division championship games (to Evansville and Ky Wesleyan)

Technically, The college division was further divided in 1973 when it was split to Division 2 and Division 3 (the main differenceat that time was that D-2 could give athletic scholarships and D-3 could not )
 
share the ball said:
D2 did not exist in 1967 when Southern Illinois won it - their were two divisions University Division (with about 200-225 teams) and College Division which included everybody else - because SI was college division at that time they were not eligible to compete in the University Division National Championship (UCLA won that year by beating Dayton)

many good college division teams played university division schools and would win some of those games - would not surprise me SI beat quite a few in regular season

Southern Illinois lost in the 1965 and 1966 College division championship games (to Evansville and Ky Wesleyan)

Technically, The college division was further divided in 1973 when it was split to Division 2 and Division 3 (the main differenceat that time was that D-2 could give athletic scholarships and D-3 could not )
Click to expand...

All that is correct. VCU/RPI competed in NAIA and College Division of NCAA until at least '74 ... it has always interested me why, why Division 1 schools, of which there were many, would schedule VCU at all until it became Division 1. Unlike many schools that used College Division/D2 as a springboard to Division 1, the Rams never made their mark in the lower classification although the talent was there.
 
Dayton is putting it to UNC. Up 13 with 4 minutes to go in the first half.
Totally outplaying the heels right now!
 
myrtlebeachramfan said:
How long has Grant been At Dayton? Is Dayton afraid of losing him each year?
Click to expand...
He's been there since 2017. It's extremely unlikely he would leave for another job since he's an alum and has already had a P5 job (and made P5 money). Some of the lunatic fringe of their fan base regularly gripe about this since the perception is the AD isn't willing to move on from a Dayton guy - in actuality, they won't because Grant has a GREAT eye for talent and tons of NBA connections, which makes him pretty much the ideal coach there. His career arc is more or less what I'd want to see if we were to hire a former player as head coach one day.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top