Hardwood History | 19Nine Weekly Podcast | Tourney Time, Billy Ball, College Basketball Grail Records

On this week's episode, we go over coaches as titans of college basketball from Coach K to the Izzone. We finish talking about conference tournaments.  In our Unanswerable Questions segment, we break down Billy Ball and Oklahoma's best team. Longtime CBS analyst Billy Packer, in his book, placed the Sooners among the top 15 college teams of all time. They pressed full court, created turnovers galore, shot quickly and played ferociously. The starting unit of Grace and Blaylock and Harvey Grant and Stacey King and Dave Sieger became so well-conditioned that by season's end Tubbs rarely had to substitute, and the assault was never ending. There is nothing like it in college basketball anymore. The days of Nolan Richardson's 40 minutes of Arkansas hell and Jerry Tarkanian's Runnin' Rebels and OU's BillyBall are over. The game is pedestrian, played not by refined stars but by young prospects headed for the NBA after a college drive-thru. That was a unique group of guys because we had speed, quicks and endurance,” Tubbs said. “And they loved to play like we wanted to play. It's hard to play like we played. That's why people don't play that way. It takes tremendous endurance.” And Josh gets a personal favorite off his chest discussing an all-time ACC performer Randolph Childress.   We finish up with And 1 Grail record you’d most like your progeny to have - Maravich scoring record, On a team that matches UCLA's win streak, On an undefeated team...And 119nine | Celebrating Hardwood History
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