[NU Sports] The NU Wildcat Super Bowl "Curse"

[cherron604 at aol.com]

Somewhat off topic...
 
But is Tom Ray Weaver still haunting the halls of Tech ?
 
Or has he moved on ?
 
Though my grades were forgettable, I still remember the pipe aroma emanating from Weaver's old office (I think I spent a great deal of time there explaining shortfalls in my chemistry work), and the anecdotes of Fred Basolo. 
 
Chuck Herron   Tech '85 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: John Labbe <johnl at mac.com>
To: NU List Sports <nwu-sports at tssi.com>; Jonathan Hodges <jonathanwhodges at gmail.com>
Sent: Sat, 28 Jan 2006 00:39:03 -0600
Subject: Re: [NU Sports] The NU Wildcat Super Bowl "Curse"


Just to be clear, Northwestern has never been in the NCAA basketball tournament at all. Below you say "has subsequently never been" in the tournament. We weren't in it in 1939, either. The finals just happened to be played in Patten Gym. This curse is a bit suspect, though, because although we've never been in the tournament, the final four was again held in Evanston in 1956, in McGaw Hall, which we haven't torn down. And although we tore down the "old" Patten Gym, we did build a "new" Patten Gym, which ironically is now the "old" gym on campus. The way T.R. Weaver used to tell the story (either you know him or you don't), they tore down Patten Gym the day after the first championship game to start building Tech. 
 
You can find more Final Four status at the following (rather long) link: 
 
http://www.ncaa.org/wps/portal/!ut/p/kcxml/04_Sj9SPykssy0xPLMnMz0vM0Y_QjzKLN4j3CQXJgFjGpvqRqCKOcAFfj_zcVH1v_QD9gtzQiHJHRUUAc0tpTA!!/delta/base64xml/L3dJdyEvUUd3QndNQSEvNElVRS82XzBfTFU!?CONTENT_URL=http://www.ncaa.org/library/records/m_final_four_records_book/index.html 
 
On Jan 26, 2006, at 2:44 PM, Jonathan Hodges wrote: 
 
> And then there's the Patten Gym curse: The first ever NCAA final > four(men's BBall) tournament was held in old Patten Gym (in 1939, > Ibelieve). Patten Gym was then torn down to build Tech (in 1942, > Ibelieve). NU's men's basketball team has subsequently never been > tothe NCAA tournament. 
> Jonathan 
 
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