1976 Notre Dame vs. Cincinnati - NCAA Tournament

[Jean0987654321]

Oh my

[HartleyHawk]

I coached with former Bearcat great Brian Williams # 45 at Bishop Hartley High School in Columbus, Ohio.

[DUCKIE2SWAG]

my father DUCK WILLIAMS did his this and everyone on the team did to to get the win

[michael144635]

I too was at that game, seated mid level behind the winning basket. MIzzou beat Washington in the first game. At 4:30 as ND deliriously starts to leave the court you can hear the boos. Those were for Adrian Dantley who had gotten into a scuffle with Cincy's Pat Cummings under that same basket minutes before the video begins. A great game even though the crowd was pulling for Cincy!

[a7b7c78]

I like watching broadcasts of 70's tourney games. This is the way it was before the 64-team tourney and the office pools.

[2nd2nun1]

Man, I love the simplicity. Plain uniforms, clean looking court without all kinds of corporate logo crap or overbearing college logos at center court. Less is more.

[1400deadwood]

@2nd2nun1 - also, no shot clock, no 3 pt shot = this is proof that neither is needed in the college game. NCAA basketball is still fun - but it was so much better in those days.

[tleatherland]

@2nd2nun1 I find this a little funny because this clip is of a game played at Allen Fieldhouse, which now has one of the largest logos at center court of any arena in the country.

[ripperduck]

Damn did people actually dress like this??? What the hell jacket was the Cincy coach wearing? It's hard to believe that anyone would think this was an appropriate way to go out of the house. I was about 10 when this game took place and I can only hope my folks had more fashion sense than that....

[rico0597]

I was at this game as an 8 year old KU fan with my dad to watch some good tournament games. I remember being impressed by the irish fans and the excitement of the games. good memories. thanks for posting

[illmatic95]

during this time the dunk was still outlawed in basketball or as they called it "the Lew Alcindor Rule" and then was reinstated during the 1976-77 season

[3811iberis]

This is what I like about YT, I was born in Cincy and at the time of this game, I was a big Bearcat fan, but I was 10 years old, I remember the Bearcats losing this game, but I didn't see it on TV, if it wasn't for YT I would've never seen this, boy how time flies.

[dennydog10]

Hard to believe, but the notre dame basketball team was wearing green jerseys a year before the football team did.

[rushinspy]

Dick Enberg was and still is terrific as an announcer. Too bad, there are not more true Adrian Dantley highlights... such as his gold medal Olympic performance... Or other archival footage of Notre Dame basketball including John Shumate over UCLA and Tripuka and Woolridge.

[written12]

Enberg was great- heads and shoulders over many of today's announcers. I thought of him yesterday when watching the Rose Bowl- a game Merlin Olsen and he did for a long time.

Dantley was a great and classy player. I couldn't help noticing there wasn't a single dunk here and yet the game was riveting. The slam dunk is such an overdone, overrated thing.

[dlshaw74]

I am a KU fan and have regular season tickets for KU basketball. Neat to see Allen Field House in 1976. I never knew it was a two level arena. The floor even looks smaller. Hard to believe that was 32 years ago.

[ohiodan22]

that was SUCH a bad call! extremely exciting game though!

[famousbill]

Ward CLEARLY calls timeout before the 5 second. o well, luck of the irish!

[Odawg96]

Wow...Adrian Dantley right after the last of his "fat kid" days. Hard to believe he used to be "that fat kid." Should DEFINTELY be in the HOF.

[Firebirdfrenzy79]

it's incredible how little recognition Duck Williams gets for his input to ND basketball. granted he played alongside Dantley, Paxson, Tripucka and people like that but damn was he a clutch plyer

[scatman44]

Notre Dame still comes back despite a Cincinnati box-and-one on Dantley!

[sctrojan12]

Didn't the Irish lose to Michigan in the Midwest final that year?

[m1049]

You wouldn't happen to have a clip of NBC Grandstand (aka the postgame show) would you?

[tjnd88]

My clip of NBC Grandstand that follows this game lasts only about 10 seconds before cutting off.

[m1049]

Still would be cool to see it -- I've never seen any part of Grandstand. Thanks for the basketball video.

[Ariamaluum]

Too bad there wasn't a Rick Barry doing that game because it was Rick who alerted that there were two seconds in that 1976 OT game between Phoenix vs. Boston.

[byrd56]

Back then, the rule in college basketball was that the clock would continue to run after a basket was made. That rule was changed more than a decade ago to allow the clock to stop after a made basket in the last minute of the half, game, or OT.

[Ariamaluum]

You can see the Cincinnati players trying to call time out with 2 seconds. left. You are supposed to grant a time-out regardless if they did have any or not.

[dr58man]

fucking adrian dantley needs 2 b put in the hall of fame

[Ariamaluum]

His jersey isn't even retired by the Jazz because he outsmarted that cheapskate, backdoor-racist, Jazz owner, Larry Miller during contract negotiations in the mid-1980's.

[dr58man]

actually they did retire his number this year, but it shouod have been done a long time b4 that. and yur exactly right that fuckin racist owner.

[BTWall]

Majesticon is right, I had to adjust to what I was seeing. No 3 point line, no "flipping" sign on the scorers table no painted logos all over the place and the players could shoot the ball into the basket without dunking and styling

[Majesticon]

no three point line.. hard to watch older games sometimes

[Edo111567]

Thanks for posting, I love this old stuff from the 70s. If you've got any more, I'd love to see it.

[kacsports]

Dick Vitale was still coach when that happened...

[scoutie101]

What will it take for the viewing public to be free of the scourge that is Billy Packer? He's been around FOREVER.