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Message: [QUOTE="FfldCntyFan, post: 4956359, member: 71"] I responded on the thread itself and the link below will bring you to the thread with an awesome (and nostalgic) article on that tournament win. [URL='https://the-boneyard.com/threads/nit.199493/#post-4947130']Thread on 1988 NIT win[/URL] If someone were to have told me during the 1984-1985 or 1985-1986 season that in my lifetime we would reach the point (where a win tomorrow would take us) where only UCLA and Kentucky would have more men's basketball national titles than us I would have felt they were either crazy or pulling my leg. As eternal an optimist as I was in those days about what the basketball program could end up being with the correct leadership, viewing a consistency where over a decade we would finish in the top half of the conference more often than not, maybe make one run each decade at the conference title and going to a couple NCAA tournaments and a few NIT tournaments in a given ten year stretch as a legitimate goal. I'm not sure that anyone that wasn't born before the mid to late 1970's can truly comprehend what a hurculean achievement this has been, the mountains that Jim Calhoun figuratively moved the massive rebuilding job Dan Hurley has accomplished. One year before we won that NIT, Indiana, who had a strong a history as any school in the sport just won their fifth, with a head coach who was four years younger then than Dan Hurley is today. Not only were they not able to win another since then (I still find it surreal that we can pass them), they have yet to find a replacement for coach Knight who can consistently do anything. Yes, there are a couple of things that we have somehow made look easy (winniing natinal titles, finding coaches capable of building consistently elit programs) but the truth is they are not. Every school seems to run into some difficulty finding replacement coaches, we somehow have been blessed. I want the [B]W[/B] tomorrow night. I want it as bad as I've wanted any [B]W[/B] that any team I've followed in ant sport was after. I want it because I appreciate how truly remarkable it is, which is something that some may not yet understand. [/QUOTE]

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