This is the second of a series on the Cardinals hoop squads through the decades in years, ending in 9. Next: 1979.
John Dromo was pissed.
The second year head coach of the U of L Cardinals certainly let the sports editor of The Cardinal know of his displeasure about a story in the student newspaper.
”Oh yes, I remember,” advises said editor Fred Smart a half century after the dressing down.
”Dromo said his wife was on the verge of tears.”
What possibly could have irked the hoops mentor so?
At that juncture of the season, the surprising Cardinals had moved on from the graduation of Westley Unseld, who was then fashioning a Rookie of the Year, NBA MVP campaign for the Baltimore Bullets, while showing off the greatest outlet pass in the history of the game.