Comments on: 70,000 Fans at a Basketball Game? http://larrybrownsports.com/college-basketball/70000-fans-at-a-basketball-game/840 Brown Bag it, Baby Fri, 19 Mar 2010 05:24:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: JS http://larrybrownsports.com/college-basketball/70000-fans-at-a-basketball-game/840/comment-page-1#comment-16488 JS Wed, 15 Aug 2007 20:16:17 +0000 http://larrybrownsports.com/2007/08/15/70000-fans-at-a-basketball-game/#comment-16488 The original stadium game was the January 1968 UCLA vs Houston at the Astrodome. This game made college basketball a prime time sport. Spurred on by the huge home crowd and Lew Alcindor being limtied by a scratched eye, the Cougars won a close one and later in the tourney the Bruins blew Elvin Hayes & Co. off the face of the earth. But I digress. The 1968 sellout at the Dome showed college hoops could play to a stadium crowd. The original stadium game was the January 1968 UCLA vs Houston at the Astrodome. This game made college basketball a prime time sport. Spurred on by the huge home crowd and Lew Alcindor being limtied by a scratched eye, the Cougars won a close one and later in the tourney the Bruins blew Elvin Hayes & Co. off the face of the earth.

But I digress. The 1968 sellout at the Dome showed college hoops could play to a stadium crowd.

]]> By: ScottVanPeltStyle.com http://larrybrownsports.com/college-basketball/70000-fans-at-a-basketball-game/840/comment-page-1#comment-16460 ScottVanPeltStyle.com Wed, 15 Aug 2007 15:38:53 +0000 http://larrybrownsports.com/2007/08/15/70000-fans-at-a-basketball-game/#comment-16460 That's going to be one helluva "overrated" chant. That’s going to be one helluva “overrated” chant.

]]>