Husky hoops teams headed to NY/Hawaii
Published 1:14 pm Thursday, November 15, 2007
The Huskies will play next week at Madison Square Garden in the semifinals of the NIT Season Tip-Off after beating Utah last night. Here’s our story on the win, which was led by a career night by Snohomish’s Jon Brockman.
And just because it made me laugh, here’s the lead from the NY Times story in 1941 when the Huskies beat NYU at Madison Square Garden.
“The University of Washington basketball forces struck unbeaten New York University with cyclone fury at Madison Square Garden last night, virtually swept the Violet off the court with the fastest-breaking attack seen hereabouts in many a moon and cracked three Garden scoring records in achieveing a 72-38 victory.”
My how sports writing has changed.
Yesterday was also signing day, and we had this story on Washington’s four signees.
In that story, I briefly mentioned how Lorenzo Romar has known Scott Suggs and his family for years, but here’s the whole story Romar told:
“You opened up a can of worms here,” Romar said when asked how he recruited Suggs to Washington. “I played with a guy named Herb Anderson, Little League. He lived around the corner from us, he’d come over to our place all the time. That was my man, he was a great baseball player. Well Herb ended up living in Texas, and once in a while we’d talk, and he finally said, ‘Hey, a really good friend of mine lives in St. Louis, and I’m going to be in town.’ It was the fourth of July that weekend, he says, ‘I’d like to come by, you mind if I bring his family along.’ So they come by, we’re hanging out the whole day. We’ve got the family picture with Herb’s family, my family, and the Suggs family. We’re all right outside. The kid, Scott Suggs, was 11 years old at the time. I had a hoop in my driveway, and challenged him to one-on-one. I mean, I’m not bragging, but I beat him.
“I didn’t know this until last year. When the game was over, I kind of gave him the, ‘Keep working hard sonny.’ Well they left a little bit afterwards, and he got in the car and started crying. ‘How in the world did this old man beat me?’
“But at that point, now we had developed a friendship with his parents, and they would come to some of our St. Louis games. And he always said, one day, if my son is good enough, I’m going to call you. And sure enough, he called, and he said, ‘You’ve got to come see for yourself, but I think he’s going to be good enough.’ And the rest is history.”
Also, since we haven’t had much on the women’s team while it has been on the road, here’s an update on the Huskies, who are 0-2 heading to a tournament in Hawaii.
