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Message: [QUOTE="Demo Square, post: 4726390, member: 10861"] I got to actually play in college on at least 15 of those historic courts, including at Tulane where Pistol Pete scored 69 points against me, everyone standing. Ha! But as cool as all the listed incredible college courts were/are? The old Madison Square Garden on 8th Ave. @ 50th street in NYC was THE College Basketball Mecca from 1919 on. It should be at the top of this famous college hoops venue list. When I first played there & scored, legendary MSG announcer John Condon said, "That was "Father Demo?" I almost cried running down the court. I spent my entire youth in that building (college doubleheaders & the old terrible 50's/early 60's Knicks) or scalping tickets outside under the marquee. Tickets were just $2.50 for a kid if you had a GO school ID card. I scalped enough to pay for a night of junk food. Was just three subways stops from my family's apartment. Ha! And who can forget the Old Boston Garden? They had a guy come in pre-game & explain to visiting teams where the famous Parquee' deadspots were. It was all BS of course in favor of the home teams. Also, they only had four shower heads in that freezing, tiny visitors locker room! Cold water! But if you grew up watching those incredible Celtics teams from the early 50's on as I did, making your first outside game shot in that building gave me some serious chickenskin. What a feeling in that hoops shrine. Old MSG & Old Boston Garden both should be on the list (posthumously, of course. Ha!). Father Demo I loved many of those older campus gyms. UNC's old Carmichael Gym was a shooter's paradise. Pennsylvania's Palestra was a real beautiful favorite as was Curry Hicks Cage up at Amherst with its glass pyramid rooftop & 'on-top-of-you' seating. Loved the abuse, I guess! -father demo- [/QUOTE]

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