BCS teams we've never played?

[1972Shocker]

Heck, Texas Western (now UTEP) was good back then too weren't they?

They were fair I guess. Won the NCAA National Championship in 1966.

http://espn.go.com/classic/s/013101_texas_western_fitzpatrick.html

This was really quite a historic, ground-breaking landmark championship in the history of NCAA basketball.

Way to go Big Daddy and Bobby Joe!

Nolan Richardson (as pointed out in the ESPN article) played for Coach Haskins at Texas Western.

Until that moment, at the height of the civil-rights era, no major-college team had ever started five blacks in an NCAA championship game. In fact, until Texas Western coach Don Haskins did it earlier that season, no major-college team had ever started five blacks in ANY game.

For the first time that night, on the edge of the Mason-Dixon Line, a major American sports championship would be contested by one team that was all-white and another whose starters were entirely black.

"What a piece of history. If basketball ever took a turn, that was it," said Nolan Richardson, the Arkansas coach who played for Haskins at Texas Western.

[1972Shocker]

Drake was a first round NCAA Tourney win.

My recollection is the Drake and the Shockers tied for the MVC regular season championship and then played an unscheduled, one-game playoff in Lawrence to determine the league champ and representation in the NCAA Tournament.

I found myself in the unbelievably lucky circumstance of getting to attend that game. One of the most exciting moments of my early teen years.

[1972Shocker]

They didn't call the Mo Valley Conference the "Valley of Death" for nothing.

Winning the league championship was a super tough challenge. The NCAA field was only 16 teams at that time IIRC.

The Valley was as good as any conference in the country in those years.

[Calshockfan]

Naw. Field was 24 teams. 6 in each regional. In 1963-1964 schedule noted above, WSU received first round bye then played in regional semi and then final.

[1972Shocker]

Naw. Field was 24 teams. 6 in each regional. In 1963-1964 schedule noted above, WSU received first round bye then played in regional semi and then final.

Actually, neither one of us are correct, although you were much more on target than I was.

There were 25 teams. 7 in the East Regional.

K-State defeated Texas Western in the Midwest Semi's then knocked of the Shocks 94-93 in the finals -- one hell of a game.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1964_NCAA_Men's_Division_I_Basketball_Tournament

[Shirley Schmidt]

I found myself in the unbelievably lucky circumstance of getting to attend that game. One of the most exciting moments of my early teen years.

I was at that game also with my dad a couple of his buddies.

There was some type of dispute about the number of fouls for one of the Drake players during one of the regular season games.

Do you remember what that was about?

[1972Shocker]

I found myself in the unbelievably lucky circumstance of getting to attend that game. One of the most exciting moments of my early teen years.

I was at that game also with my dad a couple of his buddies.

There was some type of dispute about the number of fouls for one of the Drake players during one of the regular season game. Do you remember what that was about?

No I don't rembember anything about that.

One thing I do remember is that I have never seen so many cars travelling the same direction on the Kansas Turnpiked at one time. Not sure why that has stuck with me.

[Shirley Schmidt]

I am pretty sure that the floor at Allen Fieldhouse was elevated at that time, it seemed very odd.

I need to ask Mike Kennedy about the foul situation I bet he would remember.

[1972Shocker]

I am pretty sure that the floor at Allen Fieldhouse was elevated at that time, it seemed very odd.

I need to ask Mike Kennedy about the foul situation I bet he would remember.

I think that's right. I do remember the floor being elevated a few feet.

[kcshocker11]

Have we ever played Missouri?

[wsushox1]

Ughh I can not find my Media Guide that I managed to pick up a couple years ago that I was almost 100% positive listed all the Conferences and our records against each team.

[beatmu]

[quote="Shirley Schmidt"]I am pretty sure that the floor at Allen Fieldhouse was elevated at that time, it seemed very odd.

The Field House had a dirt floor in those days, and the court was elevated. It was that way until the mid to late 70s.

[swish1]

It's kind of sad comparing those old schedules to what we have now. Even look at the schedules from the Mike Cohen years. There are some pretty big names that came to play in Wichita.

of course wsu scheduled better during the cohen years. they werent a threat. thats like scheduling drake or evansville now...