Gilmore ended 9-for-29 shooting and was out-rebounded by Wicks 18-16. When Gilmore finally decided he’d come, another 7-footer was already in the Jacksonville bag. Morgan had 28 points, Gilmore 24 points and 20 rebounds. I think the trend was, hey these guys can get along, they’re winning games, they’re putting Jacksonville on the map.”. Ljubljana, Yugoslavia • May 10-24, 1970  For the first time, the World Championship moved to the Northern hemisphere. Also UCLA’s Patterson, and Wooden. 1 vs. 2 – not only on this list, but for all of college basketball – might have been a heck of an argument. Without the 6-11 Lanier, the Bonnies had no player taller than 6-5 to go against the Jacksonville trees, and Gilmore had 29 points and 21 rebounds. “Car jockey,” he called his job. “And when I pulled up, he was sitting on my porch with my mom. One day, his mother summoned him home, because there was a stranger waiting to see him. It was too nice a restaurant for us.” According to one story, they borrowed from the radio play-by-play man. I mean, he dominated the front court. That was nearly the end of the road, with Gilmore fouled out, but a Burrows tip-in in the last second saved the Dolphins, 104-103. A further indication of the successful frosh campaign was the fact that the 22 wins posted by Kentucky were the most in recent years for a freshman team. That left UCLA vs. Jacksonville, aura vs. upstart. The official 2020-21 Men's Basketball Roster for the UCLA Bruins That Final Four comes with many postscripts. The 1970–71 UCLA Bruins men's basketball team won the National Collegiate … We both were unique in our contribution to the program. 2010. We were probably motivated a little extra.”. 1970 UCLA Bruins Draft - A Comprehensive List of Draft Information I hate to judge the officials. Kentucky star Dan Issel fouled out with 10 minutes still left, having already scored 28. This particular band of Bruins was supposed to be the dead spot in between. So is Wedeking, Fleming and Chip Dublin and Danny Hawkins from the Dolphins. UCLA’s first course in lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender studies, taught in 1976, was the English class “Gay and Lesbian Literature.” UCLA Chancellor Young was one of the first university leaders to direct departments not to discriminate based on sexual orientation. Nobody could stop him, not one-on-one. He now fights bladder cancer and doesn’t like to talk much about 1970, the foulness of fate painful even yet. Meanwhile, 2400 miles across the continent, something remarkable was brewing at Jacksonville. Not much is said about it because Kareem and Bill became such big stars in the NBA. 2. Burrows went into law enforcement in Florida and became the nation’s tallest state patrolman. Vallely lost a 12-year-old daughter to cancer, and needed a stem cell transplant to survive the disease himself. We're tracking all conference tournaments as teams play for automatic bids into the 2021 NCAA tournament. The UCLA Bruins compete in NCAA Men’s Basketball as a part of the Pac-12 Conference. “Personally I felt it was a huge achievement, because I don’t think anybody expected us to be able to prevail that season, since we no longer had Kareem,” Vallely said. We focused on that which we could control,” Vallely said. Valley was named on the NCAA All … “Our guys got a little excited about that,” coach Joe Williams said the other day, from his home in Mississippi. By March, they were 17-1, the lone loss 89-83 at Florida State, later atoned for with an 85-81 win over the Seminoles at home. Steve Alford was fired as UCLA basketball coach in … Led UCLA to an unprecedented 10 NCAA Basketball Championships in 12 years, including seven in-a-row… Owns the NCAA's all-time consecutive win streak record of 88 straight games, compiled over four seasons from 1970-74… The 1969–70 UCLA Bruins men's basketball team won UCLA's sixth NCAA National Basketball Championship in seven years under head coach John Wooden, despite the departure of Lew Alcindor to the NBA, with a win over Jacksonville.[1]. . different. He actually went to Coach Wooden during the game — we were behind — and he asked if he could go behind Artis. His players had given him a gift certificate for his birthday and he chose those colors because he figured they would like the style. There was Jacksonville, nearly as small as St. Bonaventure, which only six years before had been an NAIA program. In my bones I just felt it,” said Larry Weise, then the Bonnies coach. JR. Los Angeles, CA. “We went all the way from 30-0 to 28-2. Had UCLA completed a third consecutive championship in the 1974 Final Four, No. CBSSports.com is your college basketball scores and news source. “As the season progressed and we got better and better I thought that we could win the championship. “I think the team set an example because it was racially mixed with whites and blacks, and we’re winning and now everybody is pulling for not just Jacksonville University’s team, but the city of Jacksonville. They’d destroy every office pool bracket. By 1969, the Dolphins were 17-7 with strong guard play, especially Rex Morgan and his 26 points a game. I went to the Final Four with a somber heart.”, St. Bonaventure gave it a fight, but couldn’t match the taller Dolphins. Roster Stats News. A new fan cutout program will allow fans the chance to be represented during the Men’s Final Four while also supporting two important causes. Mike Lopresti is a member of the US Basketball Writers Hall of Fame, Ball State journalism Hall of Fame and Indiana Sportswriters and Sportscasters Hall of Fame. The UCLA mystique that proved it did not need a legendary center to continue ... the hard luck of St. Bonaventure ... the frustration of New Mexico State ... the fascinating ascension of Jacksonville Who. Lots of people couldn’t. “We played our fundamental game, which was real contrary to what LSU had done,” Vallely said. UCLA whipped past New Mexico State 93-77, with the balance of the Bruins — all five starters scored in double figures and combined for 91 points — offsetting Collins’ 28. Mrs. Nell Wooden. Torn knee ligament. Burrows was on the phone to Williams quicker than you could say, who’s starting? Comprehensive and up-to-date UCLA Bruins news, scores, schedule, stats and roster “I was in awe he was that tall and that good.” Two weeks after Burrows chose Jacksonville, he got word that Gilmore had made his selection, too. Schedule/Results Roster Stats News. Schedule/Results Roster Stats News. Schedule/Results Roster Stats News. “You can’t take one without the other,” Weise said. Jacksonville guard Vaughn Wedeking — a state high school track champion in the 440-yard dash in Indiana — lured Issel into a charge. The first real sign that things hadn’t changed all that much was the fifth game of the season, when LSU and Maravich visited Pauley Pavilion. “They had something in Paris about us being the tallest team. We will never know if Jacksonville’s dreamy run would have been cut short at the Final Four, had Lanier not been hurt. It was the age of offense. New Mexico State averaged nearly 91 points a game, and the Aggies were only 10th in the nation in scoring. Williams says now he has no special recollection of where Jacksonville stayed. “Certainly, we acknowledged the fact that it was University of Kentucky with their history,” Gilmore said. We don’t referee the game, we just play it.”. 2011-12. Probably having to foul to try to contend with the size, St. Bonaventure was outscored from the line 37-15. 2012-13. They became friends. A 24-7 advantage in free throws didn’t hurt the Bruins’ cause, either. There was New Mexico State from the far reaches of Las Cruces, with star Jimmy Collins, who rode a bus four days from his home in Syracuse to first get to school. “It was all about Pistol Pete. Fifty years later, it remains one of the most unusual Final Fours ever held. All that elation, all that sense of destiny  ... gone. The UCLA Alumni Association is your total resource for staying connected and involved with UCLA. Which he did, four times. Visit ESPN to view the UCLA Bruins team roster for the current season. Soon, Morgan was gone. By halftime, UCLA had a 41-36 lead and went on from there. Full UCLA Bruins roster for the 2020-21 season including position, height, weight, birthdate, years of experience, and college. But there was purpose to their play, too, and how Williams coached them. Are you kidding? I ain’t done nothing.”. And then when they doubled up, he had such a basketball IQ that he hit the open man. Williams made no mention of the officials then, and doesn’t now. “He was a hard competitor. UCLA's roster turnover before the 1970-71 season After UCLA went 28-2 and won the 1970 national championship, the Bruins lost the following players from their roster: John Vallely, 6 … The record will show that Jacksonville beat Lanier-less St. Bonaventure 91-83 in the semifinals. 1 Kentucky in the regional championship. The 1970–71 UCLA Bruins men's basketball team won the National Collegiate Champion again on March 13, 1971 in the Astrodome Houston, Texas. But once you saw the Dolphins, you never forgot them — with their 100-point-a-game offense, their twin 7-footers Artis Gilmore and Pembrook Burrows III, their coach Williams with a wardrobe as loud as his team’s stat sheet. He said `I love you, Joe’. He played a supporting role in UCLA’s 1969 and 1970 NCAA Championships, scoring 15 points in the finals both years. But you know what? They all gathered in Cole Fieldhouse at the University of Maryland to settle an NCAA tournament that began with only 25 teams. The Final Four? The 2021 Big Ten tournament will be played March 10 through 14 in Indianapolis. In the 49 months of March since, New Mexico State has won three NCAA Tournament games, St. Bonaventure one, Jacksonville none. -- rigged. He’s not an ardent follower of college basketball anymore, but “whenever they run that (UCLA) game on TV, I get a call.”, UCLA was the deserving champion, but Jacksonville was the most compelling story of 1970. The memories of 1970 are still there for him to treasure, even on dark days such as the call in 2016. When he graduated, he had two scholarship offers, and figured he didn’t have much of a chance at either place, so went to work at an auto dealership near his home in Florida. 2013-14. Jacksonville? The ultimate mismatch in pedigree. Still, there were always reminders the Dolphins came from a different place than the Kentuckys of the world. Get the bracket, schedule, scores and seeds here. Blue and Gold Member status means premium benefits and services, and the ability to give back. Old-schoolers gasped in disbelief. Another record still on the books. I’m looking at him like, he looks like the police. I’ll never forget Coach Wooden told me a story about how he went to a camp down in the South and he was talking with (LSU coach and Pete’s father) Press Maravich, his friend, and he said, `Press, you’re developing a monster here.’ Maravich said, `Oh, no, I’m developing the first million-dollar player in the NBA.’, “So there were very different goals. Recent Game Results Height of bar is margin of victory • Mouseover bar for details • Click for box score • Grouped by Month The call is what the call is.”, Gilmore:  “Reflecting back on that many years ago and the fact we lost, you can always find some reasons why maybe this happened, maybe that shouldn’t have happened, maybe it was goal-tending, maybe it wasn’t.”, Vallely: “ He was shooting the ball down probably, so there could be some truth to it. The rest of the basketball world wasn’t quite sure what to make of the Dolphins. Lanier went on to a Hall of Fame NBA career. Name POS HT WT Class Birthplace; Jules Bernard 1. Schedule/Results Roster Stats News. There might not have been a more important game in the sport of basketball than Notre Dame's 71-70 upset over UCLA in 1974. “So both of us ended up at Jacksonville,” Burrows said. And those were really the only rules we had. The team was honored 40 years later at half-time of the UCLA-Oregon game on February 27, 2010. Next, with a trip to the Final Four magically on the table, they faced No. Only one of them has ever been back. Notre Dame’s Austin Carr scored 61 against Ohio in the NCAA tournament first round. In fact, every time the NCAA tournament is on, I say what if? “I think we would have handled Jacksonville because we matched up well. Except he blew out his knee in the second half of the regional championship game, and watched the Final Four from a hospital bed. He is so old he covered Bob Knight when he had dark hair and basketball shorts were actually short.The views on this page do not necessarily reflect the views of the NCAA or its member institutions. LSU’s Pete Maravich set a record that 1970 season which still stands, averaging 44.5 points. 1970 – Sidney Wicks received national co-player of the year honors from the. “After we beat Kentucky,” Williams said, “it was a snowy cold night and some people from the tournament took us out to eat, and we had to collect money to pay for the meal. “(John Wooden) said the worst thing that happened to him was his wife got upset that the way I dressed, that I made him look like an undertaker. the 1970-71 team went 24-2 and defeated opponents by an average of 14.0 points per game. St. Bonaventure had been on a roll. But we all contributed in a big way at UCLA, so it was fun to be a part of that bridge. “We looked at each other, can you believe this?”. I keep up with basketball some, but I’m not avid like I used to be. He does have “two labs and a bulldog and a couple of fishing ponds. We enjoyed it, we played hard. Those of us who played totally understand what happened.”. Put another UCLA championship team picture on the wall. “We didn’t make excuses, and we’re not going to. All alumni are members, and there’s room to rise. The 7-footer who wasn’t even the tallest guy in his own lineup. They rolled up a perfect 22-0 season and gained The Basketball News' vote as the No. I think my players do, too.”. End of story. We just complimented each other.”, STORIES BEHIND THE SUCCESS: 13 coaches (with 13 great stories) who could be the next great champion, Williams blended it all together — the Morgan-led perimeter game, with the two new giants in town — and it didn’t take long for him to realize what he had. Lanier dominated the front court. We never had an idea of getting to the finals, not until it happened.”. “And Jacksonville was a nobody. “There’s no question we feel really good about that. Stay up to date with the latest in college basketball recruiting news. Maravich got his points — 38 of them. One other thing. “There was a picture of Rex Morgan standing on a chair measuring Artis and Pembrook. Could the Dolphins join another immortal underdog who pulled it off? Especially in Jacksonville, a troubled city feeling the pain of the turbulent 1960s. Joe Williams turned 86 this month and that white coat from 1970 is long gone. Ljubljana, Yugoslavia, was awarded the tourney, giving Yugoslavia the hometown advantage after back-to-back Yugoslavian silver medals in 1967 and 1963. We got an awful lot of attention.”. But the Bruins, especially Bibby and Vallely, also harassed him into an astonishing 18 turnovers. Some notable opponent teams from the conference are Oregon, Arizona State, Colorado, and USC. We had a shot at it.”. 1 frosh team in the country. Top Row (L-R): Scott Burke, Jon Olsen, Ryan Kreidler, Jake Bird, Sean Bouchard, Jake Pries, Michael Toglia, Matt Walker, Jack Ralston, Zander Clarke, Justin Hooper. Wooden accepted his sixth trophy and fourth in a row, and his dynasty rolled on. Someone let me use a station wagon and credit card and I would go on the road recruiting. For the other three teams, it was one in many ways fleeting moment in time. “They would announce the guys’ names and what college they were from,” he said. That colorful lucky outfit Williams wore during the tournament? THE ZION EFFECT: Duke's Tre Jones thinks Vernon Carey Jr. is playing in Zion Williamson's shadow. True, there had just been the unprecedented feat of three consecutive national championships, and John Wooden was in his full Westwood wizardry. When Williams took the job to build Jacksonville’s program in 1964, he had to teach five classes, as well as coach basketball. She started buying him bright shirts, and the bad thing was, he had to wear them.”. Fifty years ago, they all shared a very unique Final Four. Yeah, Jacksonville was . They were on their way to thrashing Villanova in the regional championship 97-74 with 26 points from Lanier, when he went down in a heap. “It was a terrible emotional letdown. G. 6' 6" 205 lbs. Or as a motel marquee in Bowling Green, Kentucky asked when the Dolphins were ready to face Western Kentucky in the NCAA tournament ... Jacksonville who? The players told me, `We all made a vow that we were going to play harder than anybody ever played because of the way you treated us.’ So I let them do things they wanted to do because they were such good kids. Jacksonville scored at least 103 points in a game 13 times and was the first Division I team to ever average 100 points in a regular season. John Wooden.”. Plus, their practice routine to the Harlem Globetrotters’ theme of Sweet Georgia Brown. “It’s a terrible feeling. We said `Pembrook, don’t worry, you’re going to start, too,’ ” Williams said. At the conclusion of the season, the team collectively signed a letter to President Nixon condemning the Vietnam War and the administration's actions at home. Jacksonville won 109-96. “I think the only person who had that vision was probably Rex Morgan,” Burrows said. People called them The Mod Squad. Recent Game Results Height of bar is margin of victory • Mouseover bar for details • Click for box score • Grouped by Month It was the third consecutive year UCLA had knocked the Aggies out of the tournament. Jacksonville arrived at the Final Four with a 26-1 record, St. Bonaventure 25-1, New Mexico State 26-2. The NCAA assigned the Dolphins a brutal route. “It was full of racial tension and people have said it was because of the team, it brought the city together,” Burrows said. But the Dolphins must not have noticed. In 1970 St. Bonaventure, Jacksonville, New Mexico State and powerhouse UCLA … Maryland won the accolade in 1970-71, while UCLA won the year before. “Sidney wanted to play behind him. Schedule/Results Roster Stats News. And this one without an imposing superstar in the middle. As for the Aggies, they’ve been past the first weekend of the NCAA Tournament but once since 1970, though they pushed Auburn to the limit in the first round last March. This page was last edited on 29 November 2020, at 15:42. A lot of times I would show up at high school at noon and watch film and then that night I would go to the next place and I’d get there about 8 o’clock and the mother would say, you must be hungry, and they’d feed me.’”. “When they got to my name, they just said `Pembrook Burrows’ and that was the end of it.”, But somebody noticed the 7-footer with no school. Ever.” He said that night UCLA was the better team. © 2021 NCAA | Turner Sports Interactive, Inc. 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And you had to go to class every day. Jacksonville. Schedule/Results Roster Conference Stats News. We had to sell tickets and raise money. “In the locker room, you could hear a pin drop, and we won,” Weise said. “You always say, what if? Next, No. Los Angeles Lakers 1970-71 Roster and Stats. Their championship hopes ended amid searing mixed emotions. Steve Alford was fired as UCLA basketball coach in … That was the edge I thought we had. Baltimore Bullets 1970-71 Roster and Stats. The Bruin Classic was held on Dec. 27 and Dec. 29 with Georgia Tech and Princeton. “He asked us about it. I can tell you this, if I had two turnovers at UCLA, I was on the bench.”, Later, there were UCLA defeats at Oregon and at home to USC, but the Bruins rolled into the tournament ranked No. 7 Iowa. 2 years ago. Team Roster. Plus a basketball with these words written on it, “Thank you for all you did that helped me. But Wooden had weapons — Curtis Rowe, Vallely and Sidney Wicks had been the second, third and fourth leading scorers the season before. Jacksonville won 106-100. “And the rest is history.”, Said Gilmore,  “It was nothing but a good positive relationship, very competitive. I told him `I love you too Rex.’ ”. There was St. Bonaventure, the tiny school of under 3,000 students from western New York, led by future NBA stalwart Bob Lanier, with his 29 points and 16 rebounds a game. He has covered college basketball for 43 years, including 39 Final Fours. Burrows:  “When Artis goes up and he’s seven-foot, he has to be shooting down at the goal, but they were saying it wasn’t goal tending. He now lives with wife Karen — sweethearts since the UCLA days — on Balboa Island, in a home that includes a picture of him with the 1970 net over his head. We had a $500 recruiting budget when I went there. “I said no, we were worried about having to coach John Wooden.”, DON'T MISS A GAME: College basketball TV schedule, game times. “Get the cars off the lot to where they would be serviced.”, He did play a lot of basketball on the playground courts, and hooked up with an AAU team, attending some tournaments where the college scouts collect. The coach with the lucky suit that could glow in the dark — white double-breasted blazer, watermelon red shirt, powder blue pants. First, No. The best of times and the worst of times. The attitude everybody had was, we had a good team and were having fun beating everybody. “When I got home, there was this bald-headed white guy who looked like a detective,” Burrows said. It was all over, not only in America,” Williams said. But Lew Alcindor was in the NBA as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, while Bill Walton was still in high school. That was the edge I thought we had on UCLA.”. I’m avid at enjoying life.”. They had a good time, they sang in practice, Burrows the leader of the choir. NCAA TOURNAMENT CENTRAL: 2020 March Madness schedule, dates, locations, Pembrook Burrows didn’t start growing until he went to high school and didn’t play basketball until his senior year. “Our rules were when you stepped on the floor, you had to play a hundred percent. The Dolphins broke to a 24-15 lead against UCLA, with Gilmore doing some real damage. 2 years ago. Even, the established power of the quartet, UCLA, was something of a surprise. He courted old friend Tom Wasdin to be his assistant. Wicks was 6-8, giving away six inches to Gilmore, but was confident he could go up and block his shots. Gilmore had a Hall of Fame NBA career and still does some TV work for Jacksonville University. Say whaaaat? “The overall picture was that we were with the team without,” team captain and guard John Vallely said a half-century later. UCLA Bruins: News, Schedule, Roster, Scores, Injury Report. But were they legal? And every one of them graduated.”, LATEST RANKINGS: NET rankings | AP Top 25 Poll | Top 16 Committee Reveal. There was the All-American who didn’t get to play. In the championship game, the Bruins spotted the Dolphins an early nine-point lead but steadily regained control — more about how later — and won 80-69. I always share with everybody when I do a talk about those days, Pauley Pavilion was in an uproar, because we were going downhill.”. GUARDING THE LINE -- USC has held opponents to 33.3 percent shooting from three-point range this season. 2014-15. Stories from 1970 mention how Jacksonville was assigned the same hotel Texas Western had used at the 1966 Final Four, when the Miners beat Kentucky and rattled the college basketball world. The prize was the enormously gifted 7-2 Gilmore from Gardner-Webb, then a junior college, who Williams found by accident. Also, they rolled up and down the court with a relentless intent to score. Turns out Sidney was right.”. Burrows headed for Brevard, and by the time he was ready to move on to a regular college, he had a box with letters of interest from 250 schools. What we were concerned about was being the best we could be.”. . “Fifty years later, I’m sitting on the sideline after 18 years as a professional and now with grandkids, I’m enjoying the fact it was part of the 50-year experience,” he said of 1970. Weise still has anguish, too. Ernie Fleming was transferring to Jacksonville from Gardner-Webb and wrote Wasdin a letter, mentioning his friend named Artis, who happened to be 7-2. Not that any of these three teams were shockers to make long tournament runs. What a way to get a double-double. “You get a complex after a while,” New Mexico State coach Lou Henson said that night. Henry Bibby was a smooth-shooting sophomore guard and Steve Patterson had developed an inside game, if only by practicing against Alcindor every day. As Jacksonville began to pile up victories, the Dolphins became a sensation. They had become a story, but how long would the novelty last in the cauldron of the tournament? The Walton Gang was two years away. “After they saw us practice up there,” Williams mentioned about the Final Four, “a writer said if we won, it would set basketball back 20 years.”, PURSUIT OF PERFECTION: The 20 most important things to know about undefeated San Diego State. “We woke up (the next day),” Gilmore said, “and recognized that we were enjoying a fairy tale.”. 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UCLA was part of the sizzling offensive landscape, too, even though Alcindor had graduated after two losses in three championship seasons, to the considerable relief of the rest of the sport. Someone else noticed his wardrobe, too. Enter your information to receive emails about offers, promotions from NCAA.com and our partners. 2010-11. That was until ... “Starting out, we had Sidney in from of him, and he was getting some scores,” Vallely said. I had to shorten practice sometimes they played so hard. THE CRYSTAL BALL: 68 predictions for March Madness, made in February. Actually it was Jim Oler, coach of Brevard Junior College, with an offer to play. 12 ranked Western Kentucky. Take a look back at one of the more unpredictable Final Fours in NCAA tournament history. NCAA college basketball coverage at CBSSports.com. Morehead State beats Belmont for OVC title. I do, at least, that we were able to keep going and that we were able to continue the legacy. 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