Status Note

The 1979 Kansas City Kings entered the year with seemingly little hope. They had won just 31 games in 1978 and not enjoyed any consistent success since the franchise was in Cincinnati with Oscar Robertson in the 1960s. But in ’79, a young Kings lineup, coached by Cotton Fitzsimmons, jumped up and took the NBA […]

Georgetown basketball had arrived by 1981. A program that was desolate when John Thompson arrived in 1973 had become a consistent NCAA Tournament team and got within a basket of the Final Four in 1980. All that was left was to take the next step. 1981 Georgetown basketball continued the pattern of success, but in […]

The 1979 Seattle Supersonics were both a franchise on the rise, as well as one that had a bitter taste in their mouths over the end of the previous season. Those two elements combined to make them NBA champions. Seattle made a surprise run to the Finals in 1978 before losing a Game 7 at […]

1981 was a seminal year for college basketball in the northeastern part of the United States. It was the first year that the Big East, a league that had gotten a partial start in 1980, played a full double-round robin conference schedule. It was also a seminal year for Boston College. A program that had […]