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#5 Rich Nemcek
#10 Scott Turner
#15 Dave McNally
#20 Bob Ritter
#22 Carl Nicks
#23 Steve Reed
#24 Tom Crowder
#30 Bob Heaton
#32 Eric Curry
#33 Some guy named Larry
#40 Brad Miley
#42 Alex Gilbert
#44 Leroy Staley
(#5 through #20 are the right guys, but it's possible their numbers are mixed up)
The starters were Bird, Miley, Gilbert, Nicks, Reed
The first off the bench were Staley and Heaton
The other guys very rarely played, except in the last 5 minutes or so of games when the score was totally lopsided (which happened a lot that year... ISU averaged over 90 pts a game).
Record was 33 and 0 (actually it was 33 and 1, but I like to forget the last game of the season). Plus won all of their pre-season, exhibition games, incl. vs. the Soviet National Team featuring a moster guy named Kachinko.
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Who played Michigan state in the 1978-1979 basketball championship?
Indiana State and Larry Bird.
Where did Larry Bird play his first informal basketball game?
As a teenager, Larry Bird paid no attention to basketball. It happens that one day he was visiting his aunt's home in Hobart Indiana. Some neighborhood kids asked him to play a game. Without practice he was a natural for the game and then decided to follow through and work at being a great basketball player.
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In 2008, both of the 2007 finalists, Florida and Ohio State, didn't make the NCAA tournament. That has only happened one other time - in 1980 when the 1979 finalists, Michigan State and Indiana State also failed to make the tournament.
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Michigan state has only won two national basketball championships. the first one was in 1979, and the last one was in 2000 with Mateen Cleaves and Morris Petersons. They were dubbed as the Flinstones.
Did Michigan State 1978-1979 basketball team start the high five?
no -marquette -i think the 1976 team (bo Ellis and butch lee ) Who invented it is anyone's guess. Sure wasn't Michigan State. We were doing the high 5 in high school in the 60s.
