SMU Basketball Nostalgia

[Grant Carter]

I used to go to games with my grandmother in the early 80s. I remember being keyed up for a week before Joe Klein and Arkansas came to town.

[Mustangsabu]

Moody is a special place. My dad was in town from Ireland over Christmas and I showed him around the new Moody. He was gob smacked. It's the first thing he asks about when we talk. Have I been back and did we win? Can't wait to take him to a game.

[ponyte]

One of my roomamrates was a BB player. I went to most games while he played during the run Sonn run era. Pretty much sucked exept for a game or two against Texas or Arkansas.

[Nacho]

gene phillips and it were the best that i have seen.
didn't see jim krebs.

[Nacho]

btw does anyone know if gene phillips still has contact with smu? it seems i never hear of him at any games.

[k pony]

Beating NC State while I was a student in 87? and Valvano turning around to us and saying we had good BS!

[LHS81]

Low post battles between Ira Terrell & Tortilla Tech's, Rick Bullock in the 70's

[50's PONY]

Nacho,
Gene Phillips was inducted into the SMU Athletics Hall of Fame two years ago. He comes back for the HOF Dinner each May. He can't make it during the basketball season because he is the Athletic Director at Alamo Heights in San Antonio.

Arkpony,
One small correction concerning your Jim Krebs story. K.C. Jones, the great All-American guard for San Francisco, was ineligible for the NCAA Tournament and did not play against the Mustangs. They still obviously has plenty of firepower. I still see Bobby Mills, Rick Herrscher, and Larry Showalter weekly and we still talk about those games.

50's PONY

[PonyKris89]

I started listening to games on radio when I was 8 years old in I.T. senior season and was in awe of Ira Terrell before I had ever seen the man. My late father was an SMU Engineering professor at SMU from roughly 1959-1979.
I asked for dad to take me and my twin to games starting in Sonny Allen's first season which was Ira Terrell's senior season when he won the Conference POY.
I could not believe how loud those crowds were, albeit, our foes packed half the place. It made me so mad that they would cheer for the other team.

[austinponie]

Gonna have to go with PG Kato Armstrong, Carlton McKinney (dreads) and Co.
Fun team to watch...circa 1987 ??
Kato had 2 nice throwdowns off the dribble against Notre Dame in 1st round win..

[Topper]

Baptized on the end of the Doc Hayes era-SMU was actually the Powerhouse of the SWC with 8 Championships in 13 years, First BB hero was Gene Phillips which was convenient because my first Football hero was Jerry LeVias and both wore No. 23

It makes me feel really old when I hear the media talk about how there is no real basketball tradition at SMU. Back when I started attending games at Moody during my high school years I saw all of those championship banners and considered SMU to be the in the forefront of basketball in the old SWC. It is my impression that had the NCAA tournament been a 64 team event back in the 70s we would have probably been invited a couple of times during that decade. We shared the title with Texas once and had some really fine teams led by Ira Terrell.

[Arkpony]

My, my, my! All you new comers! I was there with Jim Krebs!

[SMU Section F]

My, my, my! All you new comers! I was there with Jim Krebs!

I wasn't even born when a lot of the above stories occurred... and I graduated a while ago.

[mrydel]

My, my, my! All you new comers! I was there with Jim Krebs!

Yeah. I understand you and Moses were original season ticket holders.

I would loved to have seen Krebs. Gene Phillips was my era hero.

[MustangStealth]

I came to SMU in 1999, first BBall game I remember clearly was Tulsa, I think they were ranked. Moody was bouncing and I've loved it ever since. The Bob Knight game. Doh's wins over Memphis. Driving 600 miles round trip to see us lose to rice in El Paso. Memories.

I loved the fact that we really got under Knight's skin. I dug up this quote from after the game.

Knight ripped SMU's fans and school administration during his weekly radio interview on The Ticket (KTCK-AM 1310). The 63-year-old said the remarks directed at the Tech bench were the worst he has encountered in 37-plus years of coaching.

"I'm used to being harassed, and rarely have I ever done anything," he continued. "But I've never heard such garbage come out of the stands before as I did the SMU stands. I thought today about writing a letter to the president of SMU, but I'm sure that wouldn't do any good. That must happen at every game, and he must condone that kind of thing."