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Posted on 4/4/14 at 3:17 pm
Posted on 4/4/14 at 3:17 pm
basketball, old, you've been warned. 
'73-'74 was incredible. Hard to believe in the 'modern era' with color TV, integration,etc only one team from a conference could go to the tourney. You could host and play in a regional on your home court,but if you didn't represent your conference, you couldn't go to the NIT. Oral Roberts played in a regional Final on their home court. Alabama was SEC-CoChamp, 22-4, no probation and no post season.
1973-1974 College Basketball season
'73-'74 was incredible. Hard to believe in the 'modern era' with color TV, integration,etc only one team from a conference could go to the tourney. You could host and play in a regional on your home court,but if you didn't represent your conference, you couldn't go to the NIT. Oral Roberts played in a regional Final on their home court. Alabama was SEC-CoChamp, 22-4, no probation and no post season.
1973-1974 College Basketball season
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Posted on 4/4/14 at 3:21 pm to I-59 Tiger
Il just always remember my dad taking me to the tourney one and only one game...It happened to be the Jason Kidd reverse layup with 1 second left game. If only we had Shaq and not Geert under the hoop. I still to this day give him shite about him making a father and son trip like that, only to end up being one of the most heartbreaking games of lsu basketball history. 
Posted on 4/4/14 at 4:23 pm to I-59 Tiger
That year began what may have been the best 4 year stretch in Alabama basketball history. Alabama won 3 straight regular season SEC titles starting the following year and the 1976 team lost in the final seconds to the undefeated 1976 Indiana team in the NCAA tournament. If the current seeding had been in place that year, Alabama likely would have ended up in the Final 4 that year with a legitimate shot at winning the whole thing.
P.S. Funny that you mention the 1973-1974 season and that Alabama team. I just happen to be looking at team photos from that era. My uncle played basketball for Alabama in the 3 seasons prior to that season. He played against Dave Winfield who played at Minnesota and against Paul Westphal who played at USC while he was there.
P.S. Funny that you mention the 1973-1974 season and that Alabama team. I just happen to be looking at team photos from that era. My uncle played basketball for Alabama in the 3 seasons prior to that season. He played against Dave Winfield who played at Minnesota and against Paul Westphal who played at USC while he was there.
This post was edited on 4/4/14 at 4:26 pm
Posted on 4/4/14 at 4:29 pm to Govt Tide
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Alabama won 3 straight regular season SEC titles starting the following year and the 1976 team lost in the final seconds to the undefeated 1976 Indiana team in the NCAA tournament.
well,it was 74-69. Certainly final minutes.
One of my first blogs was about that '76 team. Ironically a win in OT on a controversial buzzer beater in Nashville may have kept them from the Final Four that season. "Subtraction by addition."
Who was your uncle? That '73 Alabama team was superb. They tied Vandy for second and swept them keeping Vandy from playing the '73 ME Regional at home.
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