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per Axios Sports:
47 years ago today, Tennessee beat Temple, 11-6, in a college basketball game that ESPN later deemed the worst sporting event of the 20th century.
What happened: Owls coach Don Casey, who later coached the Clippers and Nets, determined that the only way to beat the Volunteers was to hold the ball and run out the clock.
Go Gophers!!
47 years ago today, Tennessee beat Temple, 11-6, in a college basketball game that ESPN later deemed the worst sporting event of the 20th century.
What happened: Owls coach Don Casey, who later coached the Clippers and Nets, determined that the only way to beat the Volunteers was to hold the ball and run out the clock.
- And with the shot clock still 12 years from being installed at the college level, there was nothing to prevent him from doing it.
- One local newspaper reported that Temple held the ball for 32 of the 40 minutes. And yet, Tennessee still managed to come away with the win.
- "So we took two guys and put them out by the 28-foot line, had them standing about five feet part, and we had them pass the ball back and forth."
- "This was uncharted territory. We didn't know exactly what we were doing."
Go Gophers!!