Bowling Green State University Athletics
FEB. 17, 1963 TOLEDO BLADE FEATURE
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BG Ran, Ran And Ran
Anderson Praises Team For One Of Greatest Wins
By Blade Sports Writer
Bowling Green, O., Feb. 16-You would have thought Bowling Green had won the national championship, the Mid-American Conference and solved all the problems in Europe, Cuba, and Africa as well here tonight after it brought Chicago Loyola’s unbeaten season to an end.
Fans charged from the stands to engulf the Falcon bench and it looked as if all 5,734 of them wanted to slap Bowling Green backs and pump Bowling Green hands.
“This was one of the greatest games of my career; one of the best-played games by any team of mine. It ranks with our win over Oklahoma A&M (1946) when they were No. 1 and games with Long Island (1948) and St. Louis (1949) which we won,” coach Andy Anderson said.
Anderson’s format for victory was simple: Run with the runningest team in the country.
“We never planned to play it any differently,” he said.
But the big factor in Anderson’s estimation was an important young man named Howard (Butch) Komives moving on two sound legs again.
“This is the first time since his injury that he’s been able to run on two good legs. It gave us the extra steps we needed on the fast break,” Anderson explained.
He’ll remember this one a long time, too, because on this particular night Andy believed he could beat anybody and “anybody” in this case has to mean top-ranked Cincinnati.
Loyola coach George Ireland agreed.
“I think you could have taken any team in the country tonight, Andy,” Ireland said, hiding his disappointment after losing for the first time in 22 games by the 92-75 count.
Ireland believed he still had a good chance to win coming out after the half, down, 47-35. “We were only 12 down. I thought we could recoup and catch them, but they played a terrific game and we couldn’t do much with their lead.”
The Rambler coach said he didn’t think he got a “concerted effort” from any of his starters.
The crowd was a record for Anderson Arena and many customers occupied in-the-aisle seats. Loyola had an allotment of 50 tickets and used all of them.
Cheers which greeted the announcement that Miami defeated Toledo, which put Bowling Green into the Mid-Am lead, were just as shrill and loud as those which accompanied every BeeGee basket.
“They’re No. 2 and all along we thought we were a better team-we figured we should have beaten them last year,” Komives said.
Butch said his legs weren’t bothering him, but that he still tires easily. Tonight it looked as if he could run from here to Chicago-or maybe Evanston.
Say, say, isn’t that where they’re playing the NCAA regional?
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BG Ran, Ran And Ran
Anderson Praises Team For One Of Greatest Wins
By Blade Sports Writer
Bowling Green, O., Feb. 16-You would have thought Bowling Green had won the national championship, the Mid-American Conference and solved all the problems in Europe, Cuba, and Africa as well here tonight after it brought Chicago Loyola’s unbeaten season to an end.
Fans charged from the stands to engulf the Falcon bench and it looked as if all 5,734 of them wanted to slap Bowling Green backs and pump Bowling Green hands.
“This was one of the greatest games of my career; one of the best-played games by any team of mine. It ranks with our win over Oklahoma A&M (1946) when they were No. 1 and games with Long Island (1948) and St. Louis (1949) which we won,” coach Andy Anderson said.
Anderson’s format for victory was simple: Run with the runningest team in the country.
“We never planned to play it any differently,” he said.
But the big factor in Anderson’s estimation was an important young man named Howard (Butch) Komives moving on two sound legs again.
“This is the first time since his injury that he’s been able to run on two good legs. It gave us the extra steps we needed on the fast break,” Anderson explained.
He’ll remember this one a long time, too, because on this particular night Andy believed he could beat anybody and “anybody” in this case has to mean top-ranked Cincinnati.
Loyola coach George Ireland agreed.
“I think you could have taken any team in the country tonight, Andy,” Ireland said, hiding his disappointment after losing for the first time in 22 games by the 92-75 count.
Ireland believed he still had a good chance to win coming out after the half, down, 47-35. “We were only 12 down. I thought we could recoup and catch them, but they played a terrific game and we couldn’t do much with their lead.”
The Rambler coach said he didn’t think he got a “concerted effort” from any of his starters.
The crowd was a record for Anderson Arena and many customers occupied in-the-aisle seats. Loyola had an allotment of 50 tickets and used all of them.
Cheers which greeted the announcement that Miami defeated Toledo, which put Bowling Green into the Mid-Am lead, were just as shrill and loud as those which accompanied every BeeGee basket.
“They’re No. 2 and all along we thought we were a better team-we figured we should have beaten them last year,” Komives said.
Butch said his legs weren’t bothering him, but that he still tires easily. Tonight it looked as if he could run from here to Chicago-or maybe Evanston.
Say, say, isn’t that where they’re playing the NCAA regional?