[RayChuang88]

Dean Smith's four corners offense was the VERY reason why the NCAA instituted the 45 second shot clock. Especially after the 1982 ACC conference final when North Carolina used it to stop the University of Virginia, and boy did it annoy everyone watching it at the game and on national TV (ABC showed this game nationally).

[edpc]

Yeah, unfortunately, the rest of the NCAA was slow to follow the ACC. The only way Villanova was able to get into the finals and beat Georgetown was through the stall offense.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

Basketball was very different in those days. I believe that overhand shots at the basket were still illegal, and of course dunking was both illegal and unheard of. Dribbling and the passing game was what the game was mainly about, sort of like hockey now. In addition to that the NCAA tournament, of which this was the first, was very definitely secondary to the National Invitational Tournament (NIT), which was true until about 1960.