Word: whittenburg
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...were when Fred Brown threw the ball to James Worthy and got a consoling hug from John Thompson. When Brown got a victory hug two years later. It was when Akeem wallowed in misery on the floor in Albuquerque, after Lorenzo Charles slammed home his answer to the Derek Whittenburg prayer. As big an upset as Villanova's, two year's later...
...Thompson, 65, a lawyer from Wichita, Kans., sometimes regarded as the pope of the Presbyterians, was the odds-on favorite for the post of Stated Clerk (chief administrator). But on the fourth round of voting, Dark Horse James E. Andrews, 55, a droll, self-deprecating minister reared in Whittenburg, Texas, emerged in an astonishing upset as the man who will try to redirect the declining fortunes of the Presbyterian Church over the next four years...
...night. Though N.C. State led by eight at halftime (on the unexpected outside shooting of 6-ft. 11-in. Thurl Bailey), the Cougars scored the first 15 points of the second half before the country coach, Lewis, 61, inexplicably slowed them down. State began to foul, Houston to miss; Whittenburg and Lowe started lofting distant jump shots. With half a minute left, the score stood tied...
...cool days that followed, people would fault but not blame Olajuwon for permitting Lorenzo Charles the inside position on the rebound. But there was no rebound. Whittenburg's 30-ft. buzzer shot missed completely. Standing under the backboard, Charles caught it and, scoring State's only second-half basket not shot from outside, stuffed it. Against Phi Slamma Jamma. That was the poetry...
...provided the prose: "The great thing about college basketball is that you win your national championship on the floor, not in some poll. Everyone is captured at the end of the year by the excitement because there's always hope. It's always too soon to quit." Whittenburg and Lowe glanced at each other, and as usual nothing had to be said, but Whittenburg wanted to say it. "We'll live with this the rest of our lives," he told Lowe. Neither made All-America, first or second team. North Carolina State had no All-Americas, just...