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<blockquote data-quote="Cuyahoga Falls Eers_rivals" data-source="post: 131178634" data-attributes="member: 1759980"><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: #ff0000"><strong>The Chiefs winning only their 2nd Super Bowl ever is a good omen for the Mountaineers.</strong></span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: #ff0000"><strong> Think about it: Kansas City Chiefs beat the Vikings for their first Super Bowl title in 1970 after losing Super Bowl I to Green Bay in 1967. </strong></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: #ff0000"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: #ff0000"><strong> Chiefs won Sunday in 2020 over the 49ers, only their SECOND national title. </strong></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: #ff0000"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: #ff0000"><strong>WVU won its ONLY national basketball title in 1942, when the NIT was THE national title. WVU won the NIT again in 2007, but it wasn’t THE national title by then. </strong></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: #ff0000"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: #ff0000"><strong> The NIT began in 1938 when there was NO NCAA title game. The NIT was in Madison Square Garden in New York City, the dream venue for every college basketball team. </strong></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: #ff0000"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: #ff0000"><strong> WVU won its NIT title in 1942, when there were 8 teams in the field. The Mountaineers were seeded 8th (last), but wound up on top. Just like the 2020 Chiefs. </strong></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: #ff0000"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: #ff0000"><strong> WVU beat Long Island, which was so good for years that it could name the score – literally, as the 1950-51 point-shaving scandal later proved. Long Island would win, but kept the point spread below that the margin that the bookies told them to win by. </strong></span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: #ff0000"><strong> Then the Mountaineers trounced Toledo. Next came Western Kentucky, which also was quite good in those days, in a 47-45 game for the NIT title. </strong></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: #ff0000"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: #ff0000"><strong> Coach Richard Aubrey “Dyke” Raese was the 1942 coach after six successful years at Davis High School. </strong></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: #ff0000"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: #ff0000"><strong> Later, Dyke married Harriett Louise Wiedebusch (Monongalia County’s representative in the 1990 Ms. Senior West Virginia Pageant) and the hero of the 1942 NIT championship team was embraced by the Greer empire in Morgantown.</strong></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: #ff0000"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: #ff0000"><strong>He became Greer Limestone president, Greer Steel and Greer Industries vice president and director of Greer’s West Virginia Newspaper Publishing Company and West Virginia Radio Corporation, which owned Morgantown’s top newspapers and radio stations. </strong></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: #ff0000"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: #ff0000"><strong> Even Jerry West, the great player in Mountaineer history, couldn’t bring WVU a national title, a 71-70 loss in 1959 to California in the NCAA title game, but he did so well with 38 points and 15 rebounds that he became the first member of the losing team to be named NCAA Tournament MVP. </strong></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: #ff0000"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: #ff0000"><strong> Until the mid-1950s the NIT was regarded as THE national title. Better teams chose the NIT over the NCAA. </strong></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: #ff0000"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: #ff0000"><strong>When Al McGuire turned down an NCAA invitation in 1970 to play in the NIT, which Marquette won, the NCAA made a rule that NO school could turn down an NCAA invitation again. </strong></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: #ff0000"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: #ff0000"><strong> In 2005, the NCAA bought the NIT, relegating the NIT forever to playing to see who is #69 in the country (68 teams in March Madness). </strong></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: #ff0000"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: #ff0000"><strong> I know, with March Madness, it seems like the NCAA has been the prize plum forever. Not so. Not in 1942 when the Mountaineers took Manhattan and the Big Apple by storm. You know, the hicks from the sticks in the most sophisticated city in America, or so outsiders thought. </strong></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: #ff0000"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: #ff0000"><strong> So, if the Chiefs can win their second national title, why can’t this be the year that WVU wins its second true national title? </strong></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: #ff0000"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: #ff0000"></span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
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