33 years ago today. March 20, 1987. What a shot.
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Stayed up late to watch that on an 8” black and white tv in my bedroom. That was awesome.
I've been watching a lot of these games under quarantine and you know I was at several of those NCAA regionals in Tucson, LA, Salt Lake City, Minneapolis and Wichita. You know we used to really rebound well especially on the glass under Davis, but if you watch you'd realize how many easy fast break points we gave away as 5 guys crashed the boards and no one got back. It was almost as maddening as our present team giving up all the offensive boards...
All time favorite. Hope to replace it someday, but for now...
We'll forget about what happened 2 days later....
very premature "in heaven there is no beer"...damn lucky to have survived
i noticed the sooners were clever in trying to "set up" lohaus for a non-ball charging foul while running the line chasing the inbounds guy. i can't recall if the okies bitched about that at the time or not...
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we almost pissed that game away, we had a nice lead with a couple minutes left. What a freaking shot, set up beautifully by BJ
Yes, they weren't happy with the no call.
Seems like that may have been one of those seasons when that play was called fairly often.
One of if not my favorite shots of all time!! Gamble had such a beautiful shot. The net barely moved, awesome just awesome. Great times great memories
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And you'll notice Gamble was WIDE open. Nobody anywhere near him. He simply took the pass, stepped into the shot with confidence, and drained it. Of course, teams played basketball in those days instead of the rugby we see far too often today. Do you think Joe W. or CJF would have been able to get the look Gamble did? Not likely.
Great Hawkeye win, of course, only to incredibly lose to UNLV after having an 18-point lead at the half.
So the 1970, 1980, and this 1987 team all could have won the national title. How would Iowa basketball have been different if they had?
BTW: That was a brilliant play by Oklahoma running the baseline and luring Lohaus into the screen. Can you imagine the reaction we Iowa fans would have had if they had called that foul? Speaking objectively, I couldn't blame them if they did. And if I were OU, I'd definitely be upset that they didn't. It was their only legitimate chance with only one second, and they pulled it off. Fortunately, Iowa got the no call.
Great Hawkeye win, of course, only to incredibly lose to UNLV after having an 18-point lead at the half.
So the 1970, 1980, and this 1987 team all could have won the national title. How would Iowa basketball have been different if they had?
BTW: That was a brilliant play by Oklahoma running the baseline and luring Lohaus into the screen. Can you imagine the reaction we Iowa fans would have had if they had called that foul? Speaking objectively, I couldn't blame them if they did. And if I were OU, I'd definitely be upset that they didn't. It was their only legitimate chance with only one second, and they pulled it off. Fortunately, Iowa got the no call.
Remember that game very well........watching in my basement, with the
Fireplace going, Kevin Gamble hit one of the most clutch shots in Iowa Hawkeye history. Might have slammed an Old Style late that nite.
Go Hawks
Iowa must not have taken a lot of 3's back then because dang did defenses back off of them.
Iowa passed the ball around a lot on the perimeter, looking for the best 2 point shot, with little defensiveness pressure around the 3 point line.
Still not sure why we seemed to be playing for the last shot down by 1.....
I don't remember the resemblance part of it but rather Tubbs sounded like Jack Nicholson. Both work I suppose.
When this was mentioned to Tubbs he responded something like "No, I think Nicholson sounds like me."
Tubbs was a pretty colorful character.
