The early part of the 1970s had been difficult ones for legendary DePaul basketball coach Ray Meyer. A tenure that saw him turn out consistently good teams over a career that started during World War II, had gone sour. The Blue Demons had consecutive losing seasons in 1970 and 1971. Over the next two seasons, […]
Digger Phelps had Notre Dame basketball on the upswing coming into the 1974 college basketball season. While he inherited a program in 1972 that had just gone to consecutive Sweet 16s, every single notable player from those teams was gone. Starting from scratch, Phelps won just six games in his first year in South Bend. […]
As he entered his 10th season on the sidelines at Marquette, Al McGuire had turned the Warrior basketball program into a consistent winner. He was routinely winning 20-plus games and making the NCAA Tournament, in an era when both objectives were far less commonplace than is the case today. What he hadn’t yet done was […]