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Date Posted: Wednesday, December 26, 06:23:01pm
Author: Tim Camp
Subject: Re: St. Peter's history.
In reply to: SPC Fan 's message, "Re: St. Peter's history." on Sunday, December 23, 07:37:45pm

An aside regarding the '91 team--there were multiple centers. John Connell usually started, but Kenny Mack and Scott Nesbitt also saw significant minutes until he became ineligible at mid-season.

Ted did an exceptional job mixing and matching at center. Connell was about 6-9, but he was more of a finesse player. Mack was a big, strong 6-11. And Nesbitt was about 6-7 and a really good inside player on offense.

My recollection is that a guy might play 25 minutes one night and 15 the next according to the matchups. And they always seemed to produce up to the peak of their ability,

Another interesting thing was that the first two guards off the bench were walk-ons Walter Gibson and Corey Taylor and they were both pretty good players.

That team was amazingly healthy, but there was one game that Jasper missed (sprained ankle or something) against Army and Walter started and scored in double figures.

One of my great memories from that year was a double overtime win at Loyola where the first and second overtimes were forced by buzzer beaters. SPC's winning score was right at the end of the second overtime, too.

Both teams scored over 100 points and Kevin Green and Tracy Bergan each scored over 30 points for Loyola.

Because Connell, Tony Walker, Jasper Walker and Antoine Allen had all fouled out, the Peacocks finished the game with Marvin Andrews, Kenny Mack, Walter Gibson and Corey Taylor and a fifth guy I can't recall. And despite guys playing unfamiliar roles, SPC won.

Marvin played all 50 minutes and even though he was about 6-3, he won the opening tip and both overtime tips against the Loyola center, who was 6-10 or 6-11.

Ike Kuhns, who had been a newspaperman since the 50s or early 60s, covered the game (yes, in Baltimore) for the Star-Ledger and he said it was one of the greatest games he ever saw in person.

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[> [> [> [> Re: St. Peter's history. -- PoconoPhil, Wednesday, December 26, 10:18:33pm [1]

I don't remember that game but I do remember BU (coached by Rick Pitino) against SPC in the early eighties. Both squads were like 15-1 and Yanitelli was packed SRO on a weekday night(a lot of fans had to be turned away). Mark Murphy hit the winning basket with a couple of seconds left. SPC had a player whose name I forget, but he was a transfer from a JC and whenever he made a free throw he would wave "bye-bye" to the ball. He was Bob Dukiet's first "find".

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[> [> [> [> Re: St. Peter's history. -- NickD, Thursday, December 27, 05:22:57pm [1]

That transfer was Jimmy Brandon and he was broght in the year before by coach Kelly ,he was not a Dukiet recruit.. That team was in my mind one of the best in Peacocks history Cliff Anderson,Kevin Rodgers,Jim Brandon,William Brown,Tim Dooley,Bill McDevitt and Mark Murphy, As I recall they werte all either McDonald or Kelly recruits with Dukiet the coach at his best.

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[> [> [> [> [> Re: St. Peter's history. -- PoconoPhil, Thursday, December 27, 06:31:42pm [1]

Dukiet was an odd sort of fellow. He liked to stall and shorten the game down to the last three minutes. He also scheduled as many non-D1 opponents as possible. But, if he stayed at SPC he would have won at least twenty games each year and still would be here.

If Dunne doesn't work out, SPC should try to get Dukiet back. I feel that he would have a winning record his first year back.

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