[NU Sports] Recruits

[Jim Bendat]

Re DePaul: I think it's a fair statement to say Aguire put DePaul on the modern-day basketball map. Basketball was pretty much an all-white sport in George Mikan's day in 1945. That 1945 DePaul team played NCAA champion Oklahoma A&M right after each of the two schools had won the two titles. A&M won that Red Cross Benefit game at Madison Square Garden. When DePaul made the NCAA Final Four in 1979, it was DePaul's first such appearance. The final four teams in 1960 were Ohio State, California, Cincinnati and NYU - Jim B.

-----Original Message-----
>From: Mike Nolan <nolan at romaine.tssi.com>
>Sent: Feb 3, 2011 2:46 PM
>Subject: Re: [NU Sports] Recruits

>>> That's exactly why Mark
>> Aguirre went to DePaul and put that program on the map.  
>
>I think it's a slight stretch to say that Mark Aguirre put DePaul basketball
>on the map.  DePaul had 8 NCAA tournament appearances before their
>Final Four trip in 1979, Aguirre's freshman year, including a Final 
>Four appearance in 1960, and they won the NIT in 1945, back when the
>NIT was a far more meaningful tournament than it is now.  
>