1980 LSU / DePaul College Basketball

[@scottDchicago]

The years of the late 1970’s until the early 1990’s were a magical time of Blue Demon basketball! From the age of 3, I remember watching games at the historic Alumni Hall throughout the late 1970’s. My father was a professor at DePaul and my family would enjoy season tickets at the Rosemont Horizon. I remember seeing Coach Ray Meyer (DePaul) license plate in Three Lakes, Wisconsin where he had his boys basketball camp on Little Fork Lake. My family had a cottage on Island Lake just next door (chain of 28 interconnected lakes) and we could boat to Meyer’s camp within minutes. Those were awesome memories. Thanks for posting this!

[@deputay]

You're welcome! Those are great memories. Glad you enjoyed it, and I also have the DePaul/ UCLA game from December 1980 on my page as well

[@cygnusx-3217]

From 79' to 82' DePaul was the most popular team in Chicago. Younger Chicagoans might find it hard to believe because DePaul is pretty much a non-entity today. But back then, they owned the city.

[@damienkirksey7026]

They should have won a national championship during this period of time

[@jdubb007]

Co-signed. They lost so infrequently and were so much fun to watch but just couldn’t make it far in the tourney other than the 1 final four appearance.

[@MrDuds1984]

DePaul basketball was big but could not get it done, the 81 loss to St Joe’s still hurts, they lost two games that season by a total of 2 pts

[@henrys5291]

@@damienkirksey7026 I watched the 79 final four game on youtube recently and the refs wanted Bird in the title game so badly

[@henrys5291]

They were the best team in college basketball for a few years but just couldn't show up in the tournament after 79

[@orange22ify]

DePaul's uniforms were awesome

[@superdoov]

There is a photo of The Doors' keyboardist Ray Manzarek wearing a sweet DePaul jersey. Sweeeeeeeeeeet!

[@loubruno797]

I was in person at this game. Alumni Hall was the best gym for a game.

[@mauricioochoa4179]

My oh my, DePaul basketball has fallen so far. Aguirre was unstoppable in the paint. Love the commercials back in 1980!

[@bobbymarsh1]

Aguirre was a beast both he and TC they're def HOF players that had outstanding careers

[@mattbradford8227]

I'm sure I watched this in front of the old Zenith as a 5 yr old. Dale Brown vs Ray Meyer. LSU, Kentucky and Tennessee were the best in the SEC in 1979-80. These mid season after Christmas matchups were special. Being from Alabama, basketball season meant watching great teams from the Big East and PAC 10, SWC ACC and SEC. And in these days, NBC has great coverage. They preempted Sat Night Live for Notre Dame at UCLA sometimes in tape delay with Dick Energy and Al McGuire making the call. They were great so was Don Criqui. Very underrated basketball play by play man.

[@georgeturner3611]

One Conference you forgot to mention here was the Metro 7 great basketball Conference!!!!!! They has the NCAA Champ for this year in Louisville!!!

[@floridapmi]

R.I.P. Al and Billy

[@joseyeastwood]

Great game Mark should be in the hall of fame Rest in Peace Coach Meyer.

[@toddlesiak3837]

He's the only player in NBA history that played in over 900 games & had a scoring average of 20 ppg or more that's not in the HOF!

[@Biggdoom344]

Aguirre was known to be very moody and wasn’t liked by the media. He also got a ring w the Pistons.

[@joseyeastwood]

@@Biggdoom344 Wtf are you talking about there are plenty of guys in the Hall of Fame who were a$$holes i am talking about his career before he got to Detroit that alone should get him in know wtf you are talking about before you come for me.

[@123slasher.16]

​@@Biggdoom3442 RINGS 💍💍

[@Biggdoom344]

@@123slasher.16 I wasn’t sure if he was on both Detroit teams but that’s cool. I always liked Aguirre going back to his DePaul days.

[@Dorishall225]

I remember wgn use to carry Depaul Games on TV...late 70s and 80s before espn was around on cable in Louisiana.

[@scottdavidson9963]

Yup

[@mattbradford8227]

This was the first time I've seen a DePaul game pre-Rosemont Horizon.

[@softrockrules]

What a line-up. Chicago was a College Basketball town!

[@cityhawk]

At least you still have good programs like Northwestern (I can't believe I'm saying that), Loyola, and Illinois (although they're in Champagne). There are a lot of problems for DePaul. They would have been better off in the current AAC than in the Big East. DePaul is not a Power 6 program. We’ve seen programs make insane jumps to conferences that are well above what they're capable of, and DePaul is no exception. I think they'd be better off in the AAC or Atlantic 10 than staying in the Big East. It's no fun for the conference to see one of their programs getting slaughtered by 20-30 points every conference game. If the program wants to heal again, it'd be best for them to move to a conference that’s more to their level. I'm not saying they'll be instant contenders if they go to the AAC or Atlantic 10 (they're a long way away from doing anything of note), but they’d have a better chance of competing game after game.

[@trevorhembrough1290]

@@cityhawkDemons would struggle in D2 right now

[@ARIZJOE]

Al McGuire had a weakness for sawed-off forwards who used hip strength and positioning in the paint to get easy baskets. Mark Aguirre reminded Al of his early players at Marquette. In the 3 ball era, that's much less common. Al also loved Ray Meyer.

[@missayawk]

Mark look so slim in this game.I think he was listed at 240lbs on a 6'6" frame which was heavy back then.

[@VolumedMusicMan]

Sports was so bad in Chicago back in 1980. The only good teams we had were DePaul and the Chicago Sting.

[@markofly76]

The Bears made the playoffs on the last day of the 1979 season, then had a disappointing 1980 season. The Blackhawks were known as the Black Hawks and struggled. The Cubs were going through their "June Swoons". The Sox were mediocre but a season away from having a "Pudge" as their backstop. The Bulls, well, were 4 years away from a guy who arrived named Mike that would help change the franchise's fortunes. BTW, the head coach of the Bulls in 1980....a man named Jerry Sloan.

[@kennyfutch8783]

As an LSU fan I hated to lose but it was a good game.

[@orangelab6846]

The good ol' days- when razors had only 2 blades.

[@missayawk]

Mark Aguirre and Charles Barkley are the 2 fastest big bodied guys to ever play basketball.I would've loved to see them as DE on the football field, they would give the offense fits.

[@byroncarter21]

Clyde Bradshaw, Mark Aguirre and Coach Ray Meyers.

[@thomasbetts1768]

Win u take Daryl to work can you run me to Valero, to get sumn for later. If you already did I can find something later

[@tykhan2908]

Clyde Bradshaw..East Orange, N.J...

[@charleswilliamsjr4128]

Who were the Broadcasters Al, Billy, And Don?!

[@earlsmith1186]

Charles Williams Jr Don Criqui

[@paulsonj72]

Not sure where Dick Enberg was as this game was played on Super Bowl Sunday but CBS had the Super Bowl that year so Dick wasn't there. Dick Enberg HAD done the game the day before in Los Angeles with Al and Billy but didn't travel east to do the Sunday game.

[@danielanderson4726]

@@paulsonj72 Criqui and Packer worked as a duo for the UK/LSU game in 80 that was a regional game.

[@scottdavidson9963]

Billy Packer looks the son of sam 😂

[@billsupernaw3720]

Is that Jean Lenti Ponsetto courtside at 33:02?

[@patrickjamesmurphy]

that is not her. but she is at 16:56 in this video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/opundqqdat97na8

[@chrisuncleahmad666]

Super Bowl Sunday

[@Biggdoom344]

Yessir. My Steelers played the Rams after this game.

[@phillipcotton833]

There's always been cheating,& inappropriate transactions in college basketball, but this was a time when players played for the name on the FRONT of their jerseys.

[@brucekarriem2681]

Dewayne scales,,Lsu

[@Biggdoom344]

For whatever reason our black and white TV w rabbit ears got WOR in Chicago. So I saw a lot of DePaul games and became a fan. Loved the uniforms and they were a fun team to watch. But if teams slowed them down they had trouble. They made Memphis St look like FT clinicians at the foul line lol and that would be their downfall in 81 and 82. Listen to Billy Packers comment at 36:37 and people wonder why they thought he was racist. At 46:44 Al McGuire also made a very true statement that was almost like fortune telling.

[@deputay]

Do you mean WGN in Chicago?

[@tonybob47]

Didn't u 👂 no racist comment

[@VolumedMusicMan]

Around that time, I saw De Paul play Princeton. De Paul beat them like 50 to 30. I think the problem DePaul had was underestimating their opponents. I remember one game DePaul played Northwestern, which were a 500 team. The cats took the demons to overtime, thankfully DePaul pulled it out. The big 1980 game against Notre Dame in South Bend. De Paul let their guard down. Prior a year or two DePaul went in the South Bend and upset the Irish. One thing about Notre Dame fans they never forget forget! They whipped the demons in that game. Then they underestimated St. Joseph’s in the tournament.😞

[@Biggdoom344]

@@VolumedMusicMan st. Joesephs. That has to be one of the biggest upsets in tournament history. DePaul would have beat them 98 out of 100 times.

[@lcchristensen9322]

I set up a Nerf hoop in my basement, off the Ping Pong table lifted up.. I was baking & shaking in Toledo Ohio. Lol...we would shovel the drive way...but it was cold as balls & I was a white kid.

[@lcchristensen9322]

Al McGuire was really a moron...God bless him....Dale Brown was a total hack

[@deputay]

Same here! (Though in a different town) When you'd play basketball in cold that bad, the ball would get flat in about 10 minutes.

[@mshelnutt275]

When did Skip Dillard get out of prison?