krutwig...

[Original TULSAFAN]

Perhaps it's just me... but...

If Tulsa had Krutwig, they'd still be playing...

The young gun is a tremendous big man. A joy to watch.

 

[I.I.]

If Wichita had stayed in the MVC , Krutwig would be watching the tournament at home. I’m glad Loyola got a chance via tournament champions of MVC. I like Krutwig.

 

[Original TULSAFAN]

The MVC has been and will remain my favorite all time conference. ISU alum of course. But if not for Tulsa's membership in the MVC and victory over Illinois in 95, I likely don't end up in T-town. I hate Illinois BTW. Loathe 'em. Anyway... Loyola had an RPI of 22. They deserved a 7 seed. Total bull.

MVC is a a great conference. Krutwig is a stud and Custer and Co are excellent.

 

[I.I.]

Kansas State playing like they did against Tulsa.

 

[drboobay]

They could not hit the broad side of a barn that game.

 

[I.I.]

Loyola beat Illinois State THREE times. They are really good. Ten guards on the floor now. I love it.

 

[Tulsafanzz]

Awesome game by Loyola! I love to see the underdog come through.

For me, watching a team like Loyola have the tournament run they’ve had, is what makes March Madness great!

 

[Li'l Eric Coley]

Harrington, Swanson, and Reed would still beat Loyola. Just my 2 lil pennies

 

[Bill Lowery]

Harrington, Swanson, and Reed would still beat Loyola. Just my 2 lil pennies

 

[Li'l Eric Coley]

Lol

 

[I.I.]

Did Wichita moving to the AAC allow Loyola to even get in the tournament ????????? Will never know............. But they are sure fun to watch and the ghost of Utah and Majerus still appears.

 

[Original TULSAFAN]

Swanson, Reed, Harrington, Johnson, Parker and Glenn may have been the best Tulsa team ever... just one bad coaching decision away from another elite 8 or final 4 --- Glenn should have been guarding Prince the final 20 minutes; never leaving his side.

 

[Gold*]

Glenn barely played that year. No.

 

[Weatherdemon]

Swanson, Reed, Harrington, Johnson, Parker and Glenn may have been the best Tulsa team ever... just one bad coaching decision away from another elite 8 or final 4 --- Glenn should have been guarding Prince the final 20 minutes; never leaving his side.

IIRC, pretty much everyone had a chance to guard him and couldn’t.
Kid was just ‘on’ that night and the only thing that could stop him was him not being on the court.

 

[JesseTU]

Tulsa recruited and offered fellow Loyola teammate Clayton Custer (all according to Rivals)... he ended up going to Iowa State before transferring to Loyola. Custer is from Overland Park and was recruiting by Kansas, but they never made an offer. No idea if he is the typical Kansas kid wanting to play for Kansas, but it could set up a fun story line...

(class of 2014, we signed Rusic, LIttlejohn, and Dew https://tulsa.rivals.com/commitments/basketball/2014)

 

[Bill Lowery]

Tulsa recruited and offered fellow Loyola teammate Clayton Custer (all according to Rivals)... he ended up going to Iowa State before transferring to Loyola. Custer is from Overland Park and was recruiting by Kansas, but they never made an offer. No idea if he is the typical Kansas kid wanting to play for Kansas, but it could set up a fun story line...

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(class of 2014, we signed Rusic, LIttlejohn, and Dew https://tulsa.rivals.com/commitments/basketball/2014)

I don’t believe Manning and staff recruited him very hard.

 

[TU_BLA]

IIRC, pretty much everyone had a chance to guard him and couldn’t.
Kid was just ‘on’ that night and the only thing that could stop him was him not being on the court.

That may have been the best individual game performance I've ever witnessed in person. Outside of Prince's 41 pts, we pretty much had our way with Kentucky. I'll always remember the Kentucky fan in the bar after the 1st round wondering who UK was going to have guard KJ because he was pretty sure Chuck Hayes couldn't do it. You know, SEC Freshman of the Year in 2002 Chuck Hayes. Nor did he think Jules Camara, Marquis Estill, or Marvin Stone could guard KJ.

One of my favorite TU basketball moments happened during that game in the 2nd half. We got a rebound and started our break, Ledoux ran along the sideline and looped towards the basket and Antonio Reed threw him an alley oop from the defensive side of half court. Entire Ed Jones Dome crowd gasped. Phillips looks down the sideline to Tubby and just shrugged his shoulders.

 

[tufan-11]

isnt blue valley northwest the same school Jackson played for?

 

[GoldenCaneKC]

isnt blue valley northwest the same school Jackson played for?

Yes. And they just won their 2nd Kansas 6A state championship in a row.

 

[Original TULSAFAN]

I was at the game - 15th row free throw line - directly across Ms. Judd.
If I remember correctly, I recall saying to my group... Glenn should have been on Prince all game --- from the 10 minute mark on of the 1st half. It may have been the difference because he was the only one who I remember having any success or making life a little more difficult for Prince that game.

That's what I remember... could be wrong. Often am.

 

[tupatsfan]

Just stop. Youve never been more wrong. Again.

 

[lawpoke87]

Glenn only played nine minutes against Kentucky. He didn’t log many minutes that season as Gold stated. He played five minutes in our win against Marquette prior to UK.

 

[Original TULSAFAN]

Dick!

 

[Babe the Blue Ox]

Just stop. Youve never been more wrong. Again.

Were you at the game too?

 

[TU_BLA]

The problem with Prince is he was essentially a 6’9” shooting guard. Kentucky had Chuck Hayes at PF and a trio of 6’10” guys playing center. Those 4 were essentially guarded by KJ and Charlie Davis. That left Harrington, Swanson, and Hill to guard Prince, Bogans, and the other guy. My guess is Hill drew the assignment to start and Ledoux probably had him some too. It didn’t matter. Everything he threw up seemingly went in that night. Open shots, tough contested shots, crazy shots to be the shot clock. Again, IMO, the single greatest individual game performance I’ve ever witnessed first hand and I was there for Van Horn and Miller’s game, freaking Savovic from Hawaii, and Courtney Alexander, and Blake Griffin at the game at BOK.

Hate to say it, but if Ledoux and Hill weren’t stopping Prince, Jarius Glenn wasn’t stopping Prince.

 

[Babe the Blue Ox]

Speaking of best performance ever, the 30-30 episode of Phi Slamma Jamma was on espn2 tonight. It included some footage from the Mabee Center game, including some good shots of Phil Spradling. We had no chance that day. Those guys were good.

 

[Tulsafanzz]

Speaking of best performance ever, the 30-30 episode of Phi Slamma Jamma was on espn2 tonight. It included some footage from the Mabee Center game, including some good shots of Phil Spradling. We had no chance that day. Those guys were good.

I was at that one. It was such a deflating game. With a decent draw, that TU team could have made the final four. We were a 3 seed & had been ranked in the top 10 during the season.

Unfortunately we were playing a team with 4 NBA first round picks including 2 hall of fame players in Drexler & Olajuwon!

 

[nevadanatural]

That was also a horrible shooting night for our guys. I think we could have beaten Houston if we had a warmup game to get rid of the NCAA jitters.

 

[Weatherdemon]

The problem with Prince is he was essentially a 6’9” shooting guard. Kentucky had Chuck Hayes at PF and a trio of 6’10” guys playing center. Those 4 were essentially guarded by KJ and Charlie Davis. That left Harrington, Swanson, and Hill to guard Prince, Bogans, and the other guy. My guess is Hill drew the assignment to start and Ledoux probably had him some too. It didn’t matter. Everything he threw up seemingly went in that night. Open shots, tough contested shots, crazy shots to be the shot clock. Again, IMO, the single greatest individual game performance I’ve ever witnessed first hand and I was there for Van Horn and Miller’s game, freaking Savovic from Hawaii, and Courtney Alexander, and Blake Griffin at the game at BOK.

Hate to say it, but if Ledoux and Hill weren’t stopping Prince, Jarius Glenn wasn’t stopping Prince.

Agreed.
I really thought Ledoux would be able to defend him but he wasn't going to be stopped that night.

 

[quincy101]

Don't recall how many of that 41 came from the line, but it seemed like a heavy breath on him resulted in a foul on us-and he didn't miss many.

 

[Weatherdemon]

Don't recall how many of that 41 came from the line, but it seemed like a heavy breath on him resulted in a foul on us-and he didn't miss many.

He was shooting 35% in the 7 previous games.
He was 14-for-21 from the field and 6-for-8 from 3 against us including a 25 footer.

Damn tough 5 point loss.

 

[TU_BLA]

Don't recall how many of that 41 came from the line, but it seemed like a heavy breath on him resulted in a foul on us-and he didn't miss many.

He only went to the line 9 times, hitting 7. Now there was a huge disparity between UKs FTA (29, hitting 21) and ours (15 attempts, 11 makes). Some of those were us fouling in the last minute, but they probably still shot 8 more FTs than we did before we resorted to fouling. Total fouls were 20 for us, 17 for UK.

 

[Larry Lewis]

If I remember correctly, Kentucky amazingly didn't commit a foul in the last 9 minutes of the game.

And I think there was a really bogus foul on Tulsa late in the game. A brush foul if there ever was one.

 

[TU_BLA]

If I remember correctly, Kentucky amazingly didn't commit a foul in the last 9 minutes of the game.

And I think there was a really bogus foul on Tulsa late in the game. A brush foul if there ever was one.

It's been a while. I remember thinking Prince hit every damn shot he threw up that day. I remember the alley oop to Ledoux (his only bucket of the game). I remember Phillips shrugging towards Tubby and thinking "he really doesn't know what's happening", and that every time Kentucky went on a 6-8 pt run, we countered right back. It was one of those classic back and forth NCAA games that make the tournament so much fun for spectators, and even more so if you're a fan of one of the teams.