The amazing stat for the 75-76 team

[Scarlet Shack]

Team averaged 93 points a game

In an era of
No shot clock
No three point line
No dunks

And it played princeton twice and a couple of other teams determined to slow it down and still scored 93

Team was so good it forced it's will on other teams to play fast

The press was a thing of beauty

Could you have imagined them playing the RAC with that press!!! The roof would have blown off with the noise in there

And the bottom line it was a team where it's too five players all got serious nba looks and it's 6th man was good enough to score 1450 points

Top 6 players scored over 11,000 points in their careers

Think about that one a minute

 

[JMD77]

Team averaged 93 points a game

In an era of
No shot clock
No three point line
No dunks

And it played princeton twice and a couple of other teams determined to slow it down and still scored 93

Team was so good it forced it's will on other teams to play fast

The press was a thing of beauty

Could you have imagined them playing the RAC with that press!!! The roof would have blown off with the noise in there

And the bottom line it was a team where it's too five players all got serious nba looks and it's 6th man was good enough to score 1450 points

Top 6 players scored over 11,000 points in their careers

Think about that one a minute

Shack - I was there and it was awesome. All 5 starters of the FF4 team got drafted by the NBA.

 

[Scarlet Shack]

Beyond awesome. I was a kid those days and my dad took me to see ru play in the garden because it was an impossible ticket in the barn. Very fond memories...

We owned the garden... We were legit.

That team was not a fluke...it was the real deal. It dismantled a really good Purdue, BC, and penn team early

It smacked around a cuse team the year after they went to the final four

It beat a ranked team

Beat the hall, cuse, St. John's, bc, Uconn twice, a ranked princeton twice, chuck daly and penn, Purdue

The worse thing that happened was that full week off before playing Michigan...that was a team that just played tight and missed so
Many chippies early

it was the better team if it played that game 10 times but not on the day it counted

 

[shields]

Great Final Four too.

 

[jellyman]

Great Final Four too.

I believe that Final Four (the 1975-76 F4) still has the most NBA players from 4 teams of any Final Four.

Almost none of the players from that Final Four became stars (Marques Johnson may have been the only one). And few became even starters in the NBA (Kent Benson and Quinn Buckner did ... David Greenwood, also, I think ... and Richard Washington until he got hurt ... Eddie Jordan ... Hubbard and Green from MU). But for sheer numbers who played even ONE NBA game, I think 18 or 19 players from the 4 teams in that Final Four played in the NBA. Maybe even more.

 

[jellyman]

Team averaged 93 points a game



Could you have imagined them playing the RAC with that press!!! The roof would have blown off with the noise in there

Well ... the noise in the Barn was pretty awesome. For those who did not know, or who do not remember, there were several things about games in The Barn that were amazing:

1) It fit only about 2200 fans.

2) But the upper level balcony felt like it was over-hanging the court, practically (our season tickets were mid-court in the 2nd row of the balcony).

3) The lower level seats were on those collapsible bleacher seats. When the game was close, the fans in those seats would drum their feet on the wooden bleachers, which would rattled an echo like you cannot believe.

4) The bleacher seats and balcony surrounded the court on 3 sides.

5) The FOURTH side, where the teams and scoreboard controls and announcers sat was a huge, 60 or 80 foot high wooden wall ... a sliding wooden wall, behind which was the pool. It created an incredible echo chamber. When the fans cheered, and when the lower-level fans stamped on the bleachers, the noise echoed and amplified, reverberating like nothing else I had even heard.

In the St. Bonaventure game, the last game of the 26-0 regular season that year, in the last 5 minutes, after MANY RU baskets, they had to stop the game. Why? Because the noise was so loud the paint chips from the ceiling were knocked loose and fell on the court, and they had to sweep the floor.

That game (and yes, I was there) was possibly the loudest crowd I have ever heard, and been part of. There were only a few games that rivaled that loudness, at which I was in attendance.

The ranking of the loudest games I have attended:

1) RU-St. Bonaventure, 1976

... small gap ...

2) RU-Penn State, A-10 Finals, 1989

... LARGE gap ...

In a tight group:

3) - 6) RU-Missouri (Daryl Smith scoring 14, 16 or 18 points, defending All American Doug Smith), RU-UNLV, RU-WVU, RU-ND (when Rashod Kent humiliated and completely shut down Troy Murphy).

 

[Scarlet Shack]

That is very true about the barn

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[shields]

RU- Vegas in 91 I attended was very loud game.

 

[goru7]

Team averaged 93 points a game

In an era of
No shot clock
No three point line
No dunks

And it played princeton twice and a couple of other teams determined to slow it down and still scored 93

Team was so good it forced it's will on other teams to play fast

The press was a thing of beauty

Could you have imagined them playing the RAC with that press!!! The roof would have blown off with the noise in there

And the bottom line it was a team where it's too five players all got serious nba looks and it's 6th man was good enough to score 1450 points

Top 6 players scored over 11,000 points in their careers

Think about that one a minute

Was an amazing team as they got that pressed cranked up, it was steal after steal. The paint chips will fall from the ceiling of the Barn as the crowd went wild. Jeff Kleinbaum would come in to score the 100 th point as we did 9 times . I was a freshman and we slept out for tickets and definitely for Final Four tickets.
Agree totally with Shack, we were a better team than Michigan, but could not shoot that day. Eddie went around and thru Ricky Green but shot 5-16 that day. Phil thru up some air balls. We couldn't believe our eyes. To this day Sellers was the best rebounder we ever had and the toughest player we have ever had. If we had one player since then with his toughness we would have won many more games over the years.
Also remember Bailey did not start until after the 5 th game of the year but he was the last piece of the puzzle to make the team complete with Abdel coming off th bench for instant offense with about 10 per game .
If they allowed dunking back then , we would hold the record for most dunks. Bailey, Copeland and Dabney would have had 50 each. An amazing offensive and defensive team. Only regret we didn't get to play Indiana as the only two undefeated teams in the Final.
So hard to believe it was 40 years ago and as a long time season ticket holder a time period I only dream about which is so sad!!!

 

[pele78]

Have to agree about the St. Bonaventure game - electric

Last home game of regular season, and we were down at the half

My fraternity boys (Delta Sigma Phi) and I were in the first row on the floor, directly behind one of the baskets

We actually got one of the nets (cut it quick before they raised the backboards)