LITTLE ROCK — A short-term moniker with an extraordinarily long life, the “Triplets” will be reunited Nov. 5.
Honoring Marvin Delph is simply poetic justice, according to one of the members on the committee that selected the latest group of University of Arkansas athletes to join the Southwest Conference Hall of Fame.
Forty years ago, NBC’s Al McGuire hung the label on Delph, Sidney Moncrief and Ron Brewer when Arkansas defeated Cal State-Fullerton in the NCAA Regional Final to advance to the Final Four in St. Louis. Describing the play of those three homegrown products, going with “Triplets” is much more efficient than quoting Aristotle as saying, “The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.