1969-70 College Basketball Season
Originally written by Jeff Haggar
Regular Seaason
Sat 1/3/70, #13 Notre Dame @ #2 UCLA, TVS, 11:30 pm, Dick Enberg, Rod Hundley
Sat 2/21/70, #2 Kentucky @ LSU, TVS, 3:30 pm, John Ferguson, Joe Dean
- The LSU game was the first time Pete Maravich appeared on national TV.
NCAA Tournament
Sat 3/7 (first round) - doubleheader (national)
Notre Dame vs Ohio (at Dayton), NBC, 2 pm, Curt Gowdy, Charlie Jones
Jacksonville vs Western Ky (at Dayton), NBC, 4 pm, Curt Gowdy, Charlie Jones
Sat 3/7 (first round) - local
* Niagara vs Penn (at Princeton, NJ), TVS, 7:30 pm, Chuck Healy, ??
St Bonaventure vs Davidson (at Jamaica, NY), TVS, 7:30 pm, Les Keiter, Mike Nolan
* Houston vs Dayton (at Fort Worth), TVS, 8 pm, ??, ??
Long Beach vs Weber St (at Provo), TVS, 9 pm, Connie Alexander, Don Perkins
* New Mexico St vs Rice (at Fort Worth), TVS, 10 pm, ??, ??
Utah St vs UTEP (at Provo), TVS, 11 pm, Connie Alexander, Don Perkins
Villanova vs Temple (at Philadelphia), 7:30 pm (not televised)
Thu 3/12 (regional semis) - local
Villanova vs Niagara (at Columbia), TVS, 7 pm, Jim Simpson, Bill O'Donnell
St Bonaventure vs NC State (at Columbia), TVS, 9 pm, Jim Simpson, Bill O'Donnell
Kentucky vs Notre Dame (at Columbus), TVS, 7 pm, John Ferguson, Joe Dean
Jacksonville vs Iowa (at Columbus), TVS, 9 pm, John Ferguson, Joe Dean
Drake vs Houston (at Lawrence), TVS, 8 pm, Max Falkenstein, Ed Macauley
New Mexico St vs Kansas St (at Lawrence), TVS, 10 pm, Max Falkenstein, Ed Macauley
Utah St vs Santa Clara (at Seattle), TVS, 10 pm, Connie Alexander, Dick Enberg
UCLA vs Long Beach (at Seattle), TVS, midnight, Dick Enberg, Connie Alexander
Sat 3/14 (regional finals) vs doubleheader (all regionalized)
* St Bonaventure vs Villanova (at Columbia), NBC, 2 pm, Jim Simpson, ??
* Jacksonville vs Kentucky (at Columbus), NBC, 4 pm, Curt Gowdy, ??
* New Mexico St vs Drake (at Lawrence), NBC, 4 pm, ??, ??
* UCLA vs Utah St (at Seattle), NBC, 6 pm, ??, ??
Thu 3/19 (Final Four) - single game (regionalized)
Jacksonville vs St Bonaventure (at College Park), NBC, 7:30 pm, Curt Gowdy, Jim Simpson
UCLA vs New Mexico St (at College Park), NBC, 9:30 pm, Curt Gowdy, Jim Simpson
Sat 3/21 (consolation/championship)
New Mexico St vs St Bonaventure (at College Park), NBC, 2 pm, Jim Simpson, Curt Gowdy
UCLA vs Jacksonville (at College Park), NBC, 4 pm, Curt Gowdy, Jim Simpson
* any help on missing announcers appreciated
- Here is an interesting note on 1970 which illustrates how different things were in this era. Marquette was ranked 8th and received an at-large bid to the NCAA tournament. The NCAA slotted Marquette into the Midwest regional rather than the closer Mideast regional. Al McGuire was so displeased about this that Marquette actually turned down the NCAA bid and chose to instead play in the NIT (which they won). The NCAA no longer allows a school to turn down a bid to the NCAA tournament in order to play in another postseason tournament.
NIT
Sun 3/15 - first round
LSU vs Georgetown (at New York), CBS, 1 pm, Don Criqui, Pat Summerall
Sat 3/21 - championship
Marquette vs St John's (at New York), CBS, 1 pm, Don Criqui, Pat Summerall
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