1980 UCLA NCAA Tourney Action, PT 2 (vs Purdue & Louisville)

A live edited chronicle of NBC's broadcast coverage of the UCLA Bruins March 1980 contests in Indianapolis at Market Square Arena vs the Purdue Boilermakers in the Final Four and the Louisville Cardinals in the National Championship game. Bryant Gumbel hosted the coverage with Dick Enberg, Al McGuire, and Billy Packer serving as the announcers.

[@karlc2869]

And now Bryant Gumbel and Larry Brown are the only ones left. R.I.P. Dick Enberg, Al McGuire, Billy Packer and Denny Crum.

[@danabaker596]

I remember as a kid, Joe Barry Carroll was many times referred to Joe Barely Cares because of his stretches of seemingly lackadaisical play. Drake Morris was an incredible scoring machine in HS, and at Purdue, but couldn't hit well that day. Kiki Vandeweigh had a great game. Smooth.

[@hansgordy]

Larry Brown should have coached at Ucla for 30 years. He had the ability to keep the Bruins in the running for the championship many times. Amazing coach. But he had the wanderlust.

[@brianarbenz1329]

Purdue absolutely fizzled in this game, because they were too complacent. The Boilermakers didn't take the task ahead seriously enough, looking so froward to playing Louisville. They had beaten great competition in the toughest of the four regionals, and here they were 50 miles from their campus playing the last team picked in the NCAA tourney field. Piece of cake, right?

[@chrismalloy7960]

So good!!!

[@carseye1219]

No, I am not advocating for the elimination of the shot clock (though I would like it to go back up to 35 seconds, allowing for different styles of play), but sometimes wasn't it interesting watching how teams probed the other's defenses? There was no way Ohio State shouldn't have gotten to the championship game that year. Their roster was loaded (3/5 of their starters were 1st rounders).