We were blessed to hear him share his basketball knowledge on WGN broadcasts with Dave Eanet. And of course, he was on the opposing bench in the 1994 NIT first-round win.
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Great microcolumn, LC. Lovely descriptions.really puts a period on the end of what at one time...other than New York City the best college basketball town in America. Double Headers at the ol Chicago Stadium with Bill Walton and John Wooden ...
I saw a lot of baaaad hoops from Joey Meyer’s latter day teams, mostly in an empty Horizon but a few at Chicago Stadium and the UC. Notre Dame-DePaul games were particularly ugly in that era.He had some good teams. I thought he was younger than 74, but time flies for all of us.
From AP: "Joey Meyer got the Blue Demons into the NCAA tourney in each of his first five seasons. They reached the Sweet 16 in 1986 and 1987. Meyer went 231-158 in his 13 seasons as DePaul’s head coach."
You mean Chicago might be a Pro sports town?I saw a lot of baaaad hoops from Joey Meyer’s latter day teams, mostly in an empty Horizon but a few at Chicago Stadium and the UC. Notre Dame-DePaul games were particularly ugly in that era.
Just a hard place to win. Thanks for your reminiscences, @loyolacat.
Almost as easy as it is to win at NUThat's too bad. I know we've discussed this in the past. There are several of us here who were introduced to college basketball by Joe's teams.
And he was an underrated coach. History has demonstrated how easy it is to win at DePaul.