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Ecarma reminisces on student experience of 1986 National Championship

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By Noah Allison–

“My junior year, we won the National Championship (in men’s basketball).

“After Milt Wagner hit those two free throws, everybody came to U of L’s campus. You’ve got to remember there was no social media then, there weren’t cell phones then, but everybody gravitated to U of L’s campus. And I remember for hours all we did was run around the University like six or seven-year-old kids running around an open playground.

“We didn’t know where we were running to, what we were doing, everybody was just running and screaming. People were climbing up on light poles, anything that could be climbed, someone was climbing it.