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YouTube Gold: Ewing vs. Olajuwon, 1984

It’s hard to imagine now the impact that Patrick Ewing had on college basketball in the mid 1980s.

He enrolled at Georgetown and as a freshman was an absolute sensation. His shot-blocking skills reminded people of Bill Russell, but he played with a ferocity rarely seen. In one NCAA tournament game against a PAC-12 team, we think Oregon or Oregon State, Ewing blocked a shot, sprinted down court and beat the entire opposing team for a massive dunk.

The game was over in the first five minutes.

We may not be quite right about this, but we think we remember Georgetown at some point in Ewing’s career holding Kentucky to seven second-half points.