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Message: [QUOTE="OldSchooler, post: 4506773, member: 11804"] My earliest college basketball recollection was the 1957 NCAA championship game, when North Carolina (with Lenny Rosenbluth) upset Kansas (with Wilt Chamberlain) in triple OT. (For you trivia buffs, the second OT was scoreless.) In those days, you could only get those games on the radio. Then I became a big Jerry Lucas (Ohio State) fan, and then Bill Bradley at Princeton. Saw Bradley in a game at Cornell -- their last loss of the season until they lost to Michigan in the national semi-finals. He had 10 points in the first half, and they trailed by 17 at the break. In the second half, he scored 30, and Princeton took the lead, but lost on a shot with 2 seconds to go. When I was in the service in California, I got to see a lot of Lew Alcindor/Kareem Abdul-Jabbar at UCLA. I was at the NCAA finals his junior year, and was at his final game at Pauley Pavilion in the western regional final his senior year. My interest in women's BB started when I was flipping the channels and saw Bird/Taurasi. Fell in love with Geno's program and his coaching philosophy. Started watching a lot of the archived games. Hooked ever since. Try to get to see them in person at least once a year -- at Rutgers, Temple, MSG, USF, South Carolina, Seton Hall and Gampel. My wife is not a big sports fan, but we never miss a UConn game. And thanks to HuskyNan, we're able to watch all the games "live" even while snowbirding here in Florida. [/QUOTE]