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    yboby replied to the thread 2025-26 PSU MBB Thread.
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    yboby replied to the thread 2025-26 PSU MBB Thread.
    Hopefully he will have the Falcons flying high.
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    yboby replied to the thread College Basketball 2025-2026.
    Indeed. The pride of Abraham Lincoln HS in NE Philly. Passed away 3 years ago at the age of 77.
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    yboby replied to the thread College Basketball 2025-2026.
    The 1968-69 Explorers under the great Tom Gola finished 28-1 and #2 in the final AP poll. Durrett was just a sophomore but they had...
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    yboby reacted to LionJim's post in the thread College Basketball 2025-2026 with Like Like.
    Chuck Daly coached Penn the next year, 25-3 and lost in the Elite Eight. Imagine Bob Morse playing with a three-point line, ye gods...
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    yboby replied to the thread 2025-26 PSU MBB Thread.
    Looks like Rhoades will need a new offensive coordinator...
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    yboby replied to the thread College Basketball 2025-2026.
    Harter's 1970-71 Penn team lost only one game. Unfortunately, it was the regional final vs. Villanova and the final score was 90-47...
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    yboby replied to the thread College Basketball 2025-2026.
    Tough loss but great season for former PSU head coach Jim Ferry. He was the head coach for only one season after Chambers was...
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    yboby replied to the thread College Basketball 2025-2026.
    That core lost only 6 games in 3 seasons in the early '70s, two of them under future PSU head coach Dick Harter. All of the players...
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    yboby replied to the thread College Basketball 2025-2026.
    Great accomplishment for the guy known on Philly playgrounds as "White Magic" during his LaSalle HS playing days in the mid '70s.
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    yboby replied to the thread 2025-26 PSU MBB Thread.
    Supposedlty $3 mill. in NIL was available to keep YKN. When he entered the NBA draft in late May it was too late to use it to build a...
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    yboby replied to the thread 2025-26 PSU MBB Thread.
    Exactly. Rhoades promised that PSU would be "bold, different, and aggressive." Think this primarilly meant the full court pressure and...