Best BG Big Man Since 1975?

[KeyWestParrot]

H2O...I believe that you are right about Cartwright. I have forgotten about him. We must have been at the same game cause I remember Larson hitting a last second shot. Talk about quieting a crowd. It was so loud prior to that shot.

I would say that the basketball at that time was bigger than the football rivalry as both teams were top contenders in the MAC. MAC basketball was very good in the early 70's.

I'm not a big fan of the 3-pointer but if it would have been in existence back then players like Montgomery, Scanlon, Hipsher, and especially H. Komives would have set records that may never be broken. Hell Komives had records that still stand 40 years later. Wish I could have remembered him playing but don't remember much since I was only 2 or 3 when he played.

I also heard the same thing about Montgomery too liking his pints.

[h2oville rocket]

H2O...I believe that you are right about Cartwright. I have forgotten about him. We must have been at the same game cause I remember Larson hitting a last second shot. Talk about quieting a crowd. It was so loud prior to that shot.

Reason I was on my way out was too much grief from BG fans- I then turned around and went back to where I was sitting just to be a jerk. I was good at that!

As for three pointers- alwyas sounds good when they say Rick Mount would have scored a million points based on old shot charts but of course nobody guarded the three point line until there was one. Komives certainly was a player who would have benefitted though as would Selgo for UT and some others.

[Falconbadger]

MAC basketball was probably as good as it's ever been in the 60s to mid-70s. I've always thought part of the reason was that you had to win a conference to be assured of making the NCAA tournament -- even if your conference was bigger. One team made it from the Big 10, one from the Pac 8, one from the ACC and one from the MAC. (plus a scattering of independents like Marquette, Notre Dame, etc). That made it tougher for weaker programs in some of the big conferences to recruit. The 74-75 team had a great year but also was one of the biggest disappointments. The Falcons hammered a Houston team that had two future NBA players (Otis Birdsong and Jubilee Dunbar, I believe), but we lost to Centeral Michigan in overtime at Anderson Arena in what turned out to be -- in effect -- the MAC championship game. Montgomery went down (with a hamstring I seem to recall) during the overtime and our offense went with him. AA was so loud during that game that my ears were ringing an hour later.
A year before that, we lost to OU at Anderson Arena with a piece of the championship on the line -- again in the final game of the season. It was another barn burner, with Brian Scanlon missing a shot from the corner -- a spot from where he was deadly -- in the final seconds that might have tied it up, or put us ahead (I can't remember which). I remember walking out with my group of friends and all of us saying that with the game on the line, Scanlon from the corner was the shot we all wanted (assuming they wouldn't let Cash free inside to power up a layup). It was a tough couple of years for heartbreaking finals at AA.
Here's a piece of basketball trivia from that ear. After the 74-75 season, Bowling Green played in the Collegiate Commissioners Tournament. It was an eight-team tournament (played in Louisville that year) that some called the conference runner-up tournament, as the field consisted of second-place teams from conferences -- no independents, as I recall. We beat Tennessee in the first round, then lost to eventual champion Drake in the second. Toledo played in the same tournament a year earlier and won their first game before losing. The tournament folded after just two years, as both the NCAA and the NIT expanded their fields.

[San Fran Falcon]

2. Shane-Kline Ruminski

Don't remember him but Shane Kline-Ruminski was pretty good.

Damnet H20, you stole my thunder

[h2oville rocket]

2. Shane-Kline Ruminski

Don't remember him but Shane Kline-Ruminski was pretty good.

Damnet H20, you stole my thunder

And you've just been stoking your anger for these last eleven days?