10:04 PM
12/21/24
12/21/24
August 20, 2007
The Little Engine That Could: Frank Keaney and the birth of the Fast Break, an excerpt from Bill Reynolds' book on Rhode Island basketball, Our Game: The Story of New England Basketball.
bugmenot for the Journal
posted by yerfatma to basketball at 11:20 AM - 1 comment
Nice post, yerfatma. In the mid-50s, when I was in high school, our basketball team was pretty good. We often went to the "Tech Tourney", as the eastern Massachusetts HS championships were then called. One of my teachers was a Rhode Island grad from the Frank Keaney era, and as basketball season heated up, he would spend a lot of class time telling stories of RI basketball heroics. One thing that the article failed to point out was that the NIT, being played on the national stage in Madison Square Garden, was in those days a far more prestigious tournament than the NCAA championships.