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Carril's resume--not that he needs to have one, mind you--is simply awesome. Ivy titles in 1969, '76 and '77, and the NIT title in 1974. Upset wins versus North Carolina (a 16-pointer, with McAdoo and Jones playing for the opposition), Notre Dame, South Carolina, Oregon, Providence, Alabama, et al. First-round draft picks the likes of Geoff Petrie, John Hummer, Brian Taylor and Armond Hill...
...junior and senior years at Fordham, the Rams were invited to the post-season NIT tournament, the showcase of New York basketball. Even before his collegiate days he met Willis Reed, Bobby Knight, Kevin Loughery, and New York Knicks general manager Eddie Donovan at Donohue's summer clinic, not to mention Jabbar...
McLaughlin only coached at Fordham one season before departing with Phelps to Notre Dame, where he coached six years before coming to Cambridge. The Fighting Irish went 6-20 McLaughlin's first year in South Bend, but the next year they beat Marquette in the NIT finals. During 1973-74 the Irish snapped UCLA's 81-game winning streak...
...Vitale, in the first round of the Motor City Classic over Christmas vacation. Led by bluechipper Kevin Long, the Titans are ranked 18th in the nation by SI. Detroit posted a 25-4 mark last season, the best in the school's history and defeated NCAA champ Marquette and NIT titlist St. Bonaventure en route to winning 21 consecutive games. The streak was snapped by Michigan in the NCAA tourney before the largest television audience ever to watch a sports event in the state...
...Crimson triumph came as a crushing blow to the Lions as it extinguished their hopes of gaining an invitation to the post-season NIT tournament...