OUVan that sounds right. Ah the memories, it is hard to get across to younger people now how big of a deal that game was at the time. Just seeing the Bobcats on TV in any setting was amazing, let alone on national TV with the up and coming ESPN analyst Dick Vitale singing our praises!
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P.S. The UK game was not even on TV in Athens. My frat brothers and I listened to it on WHAS, with the legendary Cawood Ledford. When Cawood announced with about two minutes to go that OHIO was sending in the subs, the whole frat house erupted! It's a great memory of what is probably OHIO's greatest basketball victory.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cawood_LedfordThat's amazing Ohio Cat Fan, do you remember if there was a network that carried the NCAA tournament in 1964, or was it done by local stations? Is there even complete game footage of Ohio's greatest win?
The networks apparently, as best I can remember, picked up the games in the next round. Our game against Michigan was on network TV. We lost this game because, I think, we were more tired than the Wolverines, as we had played three games in about five or six days, and Michigan had a first round bye (as did Kentucky). Our win against Louisville was in the first round. The Kentucky game was the second round, and the Michigan game was the third round. A win over UMich would have put us in the Final Four. Less games to reach the Final Four back then. So, the Elite 8 games through the Final Four and championship games were on network TV. The earlier games were just on local and regional TV and were kind of a patchwork, as I recall.
We did watch the OHIO-Michigan game in the frat house on TV. Too bad we didn't do the Michigone thing that year!
I've seen excerpts of the game. I believe the AD's office has those. I don't believe there is a complete video of the game. If it does exist, it's probably at WHAS-TV in Lexington. Might be worth it for the OHIO AD's office to check on that. In 1964, it would probably have been on two-inch tape, if indeed it was taped.