I came in that weekend to see my then girlfriend and now my wife of 32 years. The Saturday game before the DePaul game was against Ron Harper and Miami. I recall being impressed with him.

That had to be Harper's freshman year because I saw him play three years beyond my graduation in 83. No?

Moving to Chicago in the summer of 75 I was on the other side of Depaul. We were going to games at Alumni and later the Rosemont Horizon. Corzine was there and then came the long line of stars with Aguirre, Cummins, COrbin and many others I followed through HS and then on to Depaul. Meyer had been around since my Pops was playing. Jeff's assertion RE Meyer was correct. I remember him in the local newcasts running down Ohio and though I thought Coach was pretty good I thought it rather unbecoming to comment that way. DePaul was pretty awesome back then so it was surprising that OHIO handed them a loss. Still shaking my head that Joey, Molinari and subsequent coaches let that program go so far down the hole.

Used to love watching them and it is sad to see where they are presently. Going back through Basketball Reference and reliving moments seeing Notre dame and Digger, UCLA at the Horizon 2 blocks from the apartment, the intercity wars with Loyola and Alfredrick Hughes, Providence in Alumni Gym along with Dayton, Creighton, Bradley of the MVC, SLU, Butler, X and Dusquesne of the EAA and the other teams making up the old Midwest City and Metro leagues. DePaul gave me lots of fun back then.....with a HS Coach that played at Miami with Charlie and a Grammie that went to Miami I was raised on Redskins. I did not have much ties to OHIO...so my memory was from the other side of the fence....and I vividly remember the Chicago press/media and Coach was not very becoming in their treatment of OHIO.

Shabby, you asked for what we remembered. That's a view from the North that may shed some light from the other side. Thanks for asking. Gave me quite a thrill to revisit where I was with hoops living in Chicago with my girlfriend's father assiduously following DePaul and his hero,Bobby Knight, who had recruited a local kid named Quinn Bucker, at the time.

My recollection is that Miami upset the Bobcats in that Saturday game before the DePaul game. I was there for that loss in front of a huge crowd. Unfortunately was not able to attend the DePaul game and listened to the late Dick Schorr's call on radio.

Man, the MAC used to have some star power. Through the 1980s and 1990s, maybe even earlier. Not so much since.

Sorry for the thread drift...IMO, the best Bobcat road upset was Harper's senior year. Packed house at Millet Hall. Rich Stanfel sinks two FTs with a second left to win it. His FT % that year was .333.

Oh yeah, Loyola, DePaul, Indiana, Illinois all kept talent local. Back then kids grew up watching local teams. There was no Cable or Internet so you got to see local teams and only on Say ot Sunday did you see National Feeds on one of 3 or 4 channels. Kids aspired to play for the teams they watched. Kids from Indiana could not wait to wear the candy stripe warm ups and Chicago kids wanted to play for the Illini or if they were not good students or discipline porblems, Coach Meyer who seemed to mentor them or get them by admissions. With the advent of cable that all changed.

My wife grew up in Glouster (she will say ..."on Taylor Ridge") but to hear her talk about being home, with her newborn son, watching cable in late 70s or early 80s... I did not even see cable till I was out of med school in 85 as we lived in Chicago and had no need...so I think places like Depaul and St John's in the city held on a bit longer with their local connections. It's all available now on the internet (espn if you go looking and is not blacked out) and tv. Recruits and their handlers are looking for what the school will do for them and not what they can do for the school. They are looking to play for a place that will get them to the next level and the money and not for the thrill of playing for an in state institution and being set for life with local connections. Indiana and a few places like that are where former players can be set for life if they want... outside of that most recruits are looking for the right now and not seeing the bigger pic.

I must admit after the game, I tried to see if any of the DePaul players would repeat the epic meltdown of Mark Aquirre who famously stormed out of the University of Dayton arena in the 1981? NCAA tournament after being upset. Aguirre never went to the locker room, just straight of UD Arena tossing his game jersey and the ball which he grabbed from the court and chucked it somewhere as he took "The walk less traveled," back to the team's hotel. My high schools friends who went to UD claim there was a legend he tossed it in the Miami River, but I believe they later told me that legend was debunked. Truth be told they weren't that great in the 1982-83 season, but they were DePaul and the iconic Coach Ray Meyer was still leading the ship.

Unfortunately, when son Joey would take the helm a couple of years later he would not return it in the same condition his father had left it. Under Joey's tutelage and guidance (in fairness to Joey he faced a lot more pressure for most of his career than did his father) the ship would return to port in 1997 (I think they only won 3 or 4 games that year) in far worse shape than when she left to set sail under his father's command in 1942!

A good Temple team came to the Convo about five years ago.

Wisconsin was early 2000s, right?