1968 UCLA at Houston
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- This is The 1/19/1968 UCLA at Houston game. It is college basketball's version of "The Game of The Century". 1 vs 2. Lew Alcindor vs Elvin Hayes. I have a few portions of the first half which I believe are Audio Recreations by Dick Enberg done for the Old "The Way it Was" series. The second half is the original broadcast. Elvin Hayes was the Star of this game with a caveat. Lew Alcindor had an eye injury that hindered his performance. He played anyway and played pretty well but not good enough. A rematch in the final four ended up as a UCLA Blowout win but this was the game that everyone remembers. Made for National TV. It was the first Nationally televised College basketball game. I claim no rights.
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Perhaps the best single half in college basketball history.
This game was more important than the Semi final game in the Tourney. "Game of the Century"
Don't we wish all TV commercials had been as short as these! 🙂
I remember it well. I was in elementary school. This was really my intro to college basketball as a national sport. We had Wes Unseld, Butch Beard and Rick Mount in our area, but as far hearing about great stars from other parts of the U.S., this was the game.
Wow what a game l was 12 yes old l watch it
FANTASTIC!!
Great upload!
It cracks me up how they didn't figure out dome seating for basketball back then.
They didn't have much advance notice.
Please Dont let youtube take this down. This was the jGame of the Century. Greatest Game Ever in my opinion . The Big E was the Greatest player in College Basketball this night
Can anybody tell me who did the broadcast on the rematch on March 22 1968 it was on l watch it live on T V ?
please tell me do you all feel like the eliteness was highest with the lakers power memorial high ucla and/or the bucks for legend kareem abdul-jabbar
Kareem was at his most dominant at UCLA. The no-dunk rule actually helped him, because he developed more of his skills a few feet away from the basket. And he had to face zone defenses. The NBA's no-zone rule was designed to allow great centers to score, and as Russell and Chamberlain were retiring the goal-tending rule was changed to prohibit blocking shots on the way down, which was specifically designed to let Kareem become a hook shot expert. That made Kareem more one-dimensional, I believe.
you make sense
The Bruins would get revenge 2 months later in the LA sports arena !!!!!😊
They'd get revenge and then some!
Nobody played defense back then - NOBODY!
That’s cap. Houston held teams to 38% shooting that season.
@@Maal7432 I stand by my comment ...
My first year as a student at IU was Knight's 2nd year as a coach ...
Knight was THE first coach to bring the tight man-to-man D with zone principles to CBB ...
Go back and watch this game tape ... Cheney, Mike Warren, Lucious Allen all played 5-8 ft off their man ...
And there really wasn't much fighting in the post for position ... the game back then was very soft ...
@@douglascarlson9006 Defense was different back then. It wasn't as body-on. But to say they didn't play defense ignores Wooden's greatness. Teams with great scorers often came away from a game against UCLA asking why they couldn't hit. Kareem (Alcindor) would come out and join Shackelford to double team Rick Mount or Elvin Hayes (in the rematch when his eye injury had healed) and shut them down.
And Bill Walton and Lew Alcindor's blocking opponents off the boards was every bit as good as IU's best.
@@brianarbenz1329 Pat Riley said it best, Brian ...
He said "the player of the 80s was more competitive than the player of the 70s, the 90s more than the 80s, and so on"
Wooden had the two most dominant players in CBB history ... but his players only played as hard as they had to in order to win. Not true with Knight and those IU teams ... I firmly believe that undefeated '76 team would have beaten any UCLA team.
But you and I we were there for the golden age of CBB, which began with Alcindor on the cover of SI's CBB preview issue in '66 and ended when Magic left in '79 for the NBA ... wish you well, Brian.
If edgar lacey plays more than 11 minutes, houston would have beaten the bruins by more than 2 points. Hayes was destroying him.