According to 247sports, NU's current 2018-2019 recruiting class is ranked No. 11 in the nation. They are ranked third in the Big 10 with 4-star signees Jordan Lathon and Pete Nance. With two more potential recruits, NU basketball can have its highest ranked class in its history. Good sign that NU is an ascending program and being made for sustained success.
11th Rated Recruiting Class in the Nation
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Does it work like Football where the size of the class is a bonus? If so this could be a top 10 class nationally when we are done.
Keys are to do whatever it takes to keep Chris and to continue running a program without any scandals. I like the moves that OSU and IU made, but conference titles don't really milk the udder. Just get us into the tourney more years than not and anything can happen. Did I hallucinate, or did we almost beat Gonzaga? Very exciting.
NU's Class of1963 (?) was #1 in the nation-tough to beat that
NU tennis great Marty Riessen was a part of that class. Marty played hoops 3 seasons in addition to being an NCAA singles finalist 3 times. Might be the second best all-around athlete to play at NU after Otto Graham.
You might look at the 1963-64 team with Falk, Lopossa, and Pitts and wonder how you go under .500. Well, when you play three top 10 teams in the non-conference slate, that hurts. Oh, and in addition to those three games, you also play Notre Dame and La Salle. We dropped all five of those games before Big Ten play and started 2-6.
NU did not play any cupcakes in those years.
Kentucky-Pat Riley, Louie Dampier
Louisvlle -Wes Unseld
UCLA- Alcindor et al
NU played in the Holiday Festival in NYC also. UMASS with Art Stephenson eliminated us at MSG
Kentucky-Pat Riley, Louie Dampier
Louisvlle -Wes Unseld
UCLA- Alcindor et al
NU played in the Holiday Festival in NYC also. UMASS with Art Stephenson eliminated us at MSG
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I believe Alcindor was a couple years later. Saw NU play against UCLA 69/69 season down at the Stadium and I thought Alcindor was on that team. Also were FRosh able to play then? Don't think they were in FB till around 1970 or a year or two after.
Good historical fact about 1963 and Marty Riessen. I had never heard of him. I was referring to the ranking of recruiting classes and don't think you meant that NU had the no. 1 recruiting class in 1963. Maybe they were ranked no. 1 at some point during the season. I am not sure and do not think recruiting classes were ranked in 1963, but I could be wrong.
Basketball recruiting is not totally like football recruiting where there is a lot of variability in the number of recruits between schools. Also, some football factory schools push some recruits out and over-recruit.
Schools that redshirt most of their incoming classes like NU's football team do not have as large of recruiting classes as others that overrecruit or 8-10 players a year leave school early to go pro or get pushed out of their scholarship early. Usually, 4-5 or maybe 6 players is a large recruiting class in basketball.
Basketball recruiting is not totally like football recruiting where there is a lot of variability in the number of recruits between schools. Also, some football factory schools push some recruits out and over-recruit.
Schools that redshirt most of their incoming classes like NU's football team do not have as large of recruiting classes as others that overrecruit or 8-10 players a year leave school early to go pro or get pushed out of their scholarship early. Usually, 4-5 or maybe 6 players is a large recruiting class in basketball.
There is even more variability in BB recruiting. Lat year NU had 1 and this year maybe 4 and sometimes schools go even higher.. In FB a small class is 16 and a large class 25. So in FB, a large class is 67% bigger than a small one while in BB a large class is several hundred % bigger
I was also at the stadium for that game. NU also played West Virginia at the stadium around that same time. Think that W.Virginia game wet into triple overtime and both teams scored into the 120's. Think NU may have been victorious but not sure. Another historical game was held in McGaw Hall with over 10,000 fans in attendance on 12/7/1957 vs. Kansas and Wilt Chamberlain.
That is what I was thinking. If we land two more highly regarded recruits. A class of four excellent players would get a pretty high ranking.
West Virginia was December,1958. I was there. Jerry West played for them and they wound up in the NCAA championship game in 1959, losing to Cal. Cats beat the Mountaineers 118-109 in 3ots behind 30 points by Willie Jones. NU might have won Big Ten title that year, but star forward Phil Warren broke his arm in the second Big Ten game (We were 2-0 at the time). Alcindor was indeed on that UCLA team that played the Cats in the Stadium. Game occurred a week after the historic blizzard of '67 I believe, and we led at halftime but faded down the stretch. Couldn't get to that one, but I did attend the Wilt game in 1957. That was his second and final year at KU. He then played for the Trotters for a year before turning pro.
Was this the same Phil Warren that headed the Northwestern MBA program---pre Kellogg?
NU played UCLA in 68-69 season at Chicago Stadium. Beat the crap out of Alcindor by rotating centers until each fouled out.
NU had a 10 point lead at the half while shooting 30% unfortunately NU got "cold" in the second half
