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[QUOTE="Scrutineer, post: 5334234, member: 8240"]
How could I forget the early part of the UCLA dynasty? Plus, a poor choice of words.

What I was trying to say was there was nowhere near the attention paid to the NCAA tournament before the broadcasts went national in 1969. It was syndicated before that (beginning in 1963) and didn't have the interest nor the exposure it receives today.

Texas El Paso (its name then) beating Kentucky helped bring interest and then the dominance by UCLA in the late 60's may have been what drove NBC to televise the championship nationally for the first time in 1969.

I actually rooted for UCLA  when they were on the 7 year roll, and paid attention to them as well as UConn beginning with the recruitment of Lew Alcindor...........thinking before he committed to UCLA that UConn had a chance!

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We were naive during the 60's and 70's, not funding the athletic programs to the extent other schools did, and yet some of us always believed we could be champions someday.
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