WEBVTT 00:00:04.540 --> 00:00:06.540 mm hmm, 00:00:11.839 --> 00:00:18.607 mm. 00:00:18.640 --> 00:00:24.787 They found the winning formula late in the 1976 00:00:24.820 --> 00:00:30.587 77 seasons. Those exciting young sun devils, we're unbeatable at the 00:00:30.620 --> 00:00:38.207 finish. Won their last five days. Look like champions in the making. 00:00:38.240 --> 00:00:43.677 Yeah, The word is out for 1977 00:00:43.710 --> 00:00:50.807 78. Sun Devil basketball is looking good. 00:00:50.840 --> 00:00:55.906 Yeah. Yeah. 00:00:55.939 --> 00:01:00.906 Uh huh. 00:01:00.939 --> 00:01:08.807 You can see it in the lineup. Almost everybody is back 00:01:08.840 --> 00:01:16.206 towering. Mark Lands burger team leader in scoring and rebounding. 00:01:16.239 --> 00:01:24.239 Mhm Tony xeno. More exciting than ever. 00:01:26.540 --> 00:01:34.107 Thanks blake taylor. Ready for stardom. 00:01:34.140 --> 00:01:39.656 It's coming, johnny nags who could become the greatest sun devil of them 00:01:39.689 --> 00:01:42.206 all. 00:01:42.239 --> 00:01:49.497 Okay. Mhm mm hmm. Curtain, impious derrick, Davis rick taylor. Mark Sim. 00:01:49.530 --> 00:01:52.807 Bill Koharski, 00:01:52.840 --> 00:01:55.807 Come on. 00:01:55.840 --> 00:02:03.406 Mhm Yeah. 00:02:03.439 --> 00:02:07.507 Mhm. 00:02:07.540 --> 00:02:13.147 You can see it in the home schedule. Look who's coming to play in the shoe 00:02:13.180 --> 00:02:18.307 activity center in the home opener. It's the Sun devils against the 00:02:18.340 --> 00:02:24.587 Arizona Wildcats. Always an explosive matchup. Next comes the Fiesta Bowl 00:02:24.620 --> 00:02:29.606 classic with a power packed field including san Francisco university rated 00:02:29.639 --> 00:02:34.566 number one nationally. Most of last season, Tennessee of the Southeast 00:02:34.599 --> 00:02:40.106 conference And Iowa State of the Big eight. Also on the December home 00:02:40.139 --> 00:02:47.006 slate or Purdue of the Big 10. Houston 1977 National Invitation Tournament 00:02:47.039 --> 00:02:52.846 finalist, fast improving cal state. Los Angeles and Kansas State the 00:02:52.879 --> 00:02:58.596 defending Big eight champion early road games. Match s you with 00:02:58.629 --> 00:03:04.036 Washington's huskies and southern California trojans by the time they 00:03:04.069 --> 00:03:08.416 begin Western Athletic Conference play in january. The sun devils will 00:03:08.449 --> 00:03:14.376 have faced the back. In fact, The schedule includes seven teams which 00:03:14.409 --> 00:03:21.446 played in 1977 post season tournament Utah Arizona Purdue Houston 00:03:21.479 --> 00:03:29.479 Tennessee Kansas state and san Francisco 00:03:34.539 --> 00:03:40.527 looking good. How about specific athletic conference membership Coming up 00:03:40.560 --> 00:03:48.316 in 1978? U. C. L. A. USC stanford and other pac 10 powers will soon be 00:03:48.349 --> 00:03:53.416 annual visitors to the Rescue activity Center. No wonder that season 00:03:53.449 --> 00:03:58.207 tickets for Sun Devil basketball are already becoming prized possessions 00:03:58.240 --> 00:04:03.267 network. Starting his 21st year as Arizona state's head basketball coach 00:04:03.300 --> 00:04:10.066 has had seven straight winning season even in their rare off years. Won't 00:04:10.099 --> 00:04:16.236 coach teams play exciting basketball. That racehorse run and gun offense 00:04:16.269 --> 00:04:24.007 has fans on their feet. Okay, walZ. Harassing defenses can send your blood 00:04:24.040 --> 00:04:27.406 racing too. 00:04:27.439 --> 00:04:33.067 Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The 00:04:33.100 --> 00:04:37.457 Sun Devils faced a rebuilding year in 1976, 00:04:37.490 --> 00:04:42.036 but they won eight games while losing only five in the pre conference 00:04:42.069 --> 00:04:47.027 schedule. They conquered Northwestern Portland's State, Hawaii and Long 00:04:47.060 --> 00:04:51.877 Beach State along the way. And they won two of 3 games in the Rainbow 00:04:51.910 --> 00:04:57.527 Classic at Honolulu, falling only to San Francisco. Arizona State opened 00:04:57.560 --> 00:05:01.356 the Western Athletic conference season on the road against texas el paso 00:05:01.389 --> 00:05:07.846 and new Mexico losing by narrow margins in both games. Mark Lands Burgers 00:05:07.879 --> 00:05:13.137 25 points and 14 rebounds, led the devils to their first league victory 00:05:13.170 --> 00:05:19.277 and overtime win over Brigham Young at Tempe but Utah, the eventual whack 00:05:19.310 --> 00:05:24.476 champion rallied in the late going to handle the issue of damaging home 00:05:24.509 --> 00:05:29.806 court law back on the road. Arizona State lost to Colorado State in 00:05:29.839 --> 00:05:37.757 Wyoming. Yeah, yeah. A week later, despite Silky Holliman's 27.38 00:05:37.790 --> 00:05:44.017 s, you fell to Arizona at Tucson. Then new Mexico snatched the last second 00:05:44.050 --> 00:05:49.736 victory in a riotous finish at Tempe. Only a mathematical championship. 00:05:49.769 --> 00:05:54.277 Hope remained after that, but walt kept experimenting with his youthful 00:05:54.310 --> 00:06:00.527 squad. They hit the comeback trail in a stirring 69 54 win over texas el 00:06:00.560 --> 00:06:06.027 paso. A week later, they almost upset Utah at Salt Lake City and then 00:06:06.060 --> 00:06:11.527 humiliated Brigham Young at provo with Lance burger scoring 22 points and 00:06:11.560 --> 00:06:18.036 hauling down 20 rebounds. There was to be nothing but victory for the sun 00:06:18.069 --> 00:06:23.366 devils. The rest of the way walks, rejuvenated warriors avenged their 00:06:23.399 --> 00:06:30.569 earlier loss to Wyoming, gunning down the cowboys attempt the 107 to 93. 00:06:40.339 --> 00:06:42.339 There was more vengeance for past indignities when Colorado state came to 00:06:45.160 --> 00:06:53.160 town. The final score was Devil's 86 rams 68. Now it was March and the 00:06:53.250 --> 00:06:58.887 season finale with Arizona only a few days away. But before that emotional 00:06:58.920 --> 00:07:04.577 battle, there was a road trip to Logan to play Utah state again. The fast 00:07:04.610 --> 00:07:09.397 improving devils were victorious, roaring from behind in the late minutes 00:07:09.430 --> 00:07:16.457 to win by seven rabid fans, 14,586 00:07:16.490 --> 00:07:21.846 of them jammed sus activity center to the ceiling for the climactic 00:07:21.879 --> 00:07:28.806 Arizona game 00:07:28.839 --> 00:07:33.077 at stake for the visiting Wildcats. We're a share of the whack 00:07:33.110 --> 00:07:39.406 championship and a berth in the CIA Western regional playoffs for the 00:07:39.439 --> 00:07:45.377 Devils victory would assure a winning season and momentum for an even 00:07:45.410 --> 00:07:52.837 better year in 1977 78. It was a typical sun devil wildcat, barnburner, 00:07:52.870 --> 00:07:58.587 fast physical and hotly contested all the way A. S. You lead at halftime 00:07:58.620 --> 00:08:03.647 by a single point with Zeno and lands burger leading the way. The Devil's 00:08:03.680 --> 00:08:11.327 build a late lead, lost it and then battled back to tie the score 76 76 at 00:08:11.360 --> 00:08:17.327 the finish. In the five minute overtime. It was all A. S. U. A 19 point 00:08:17.360 --> 00:08:21.096 explosion triggered by Lance burger. And nash gave the devils their 00:08:21.129 --> 00:08:28.447 biggest win of the season, 95 to 89 jubilant A. S. U partisans roared with 00:08:28.480 --> 00:08:34.407 delight as the clock ticked away the final second. 00:08:34.440 --> 00:08:38.386 So Arizona state begins its 1977 00:08:38.419 --> 00:08:45.526 78 campaign on a five game winning streak with high hopes, most of the 00:08:45.559 --> 00:08:51.407 stars are returning and they're looking good. 00:08:51.440 --> 00:08:53.606 Really? 00:08:53.639 --> 00:08:56.207 Mhm. 00:08:56.240 --> 00:09:04.240 Okay. It's all there. The exciting team networks, crowd pleasing racehorse 00:09:05.759 --> 00:09:13.759 offense and the most ambitious home schedule in years. 00:09:15.440 --> 00:09:18.707 Mhm. 00:09:18.740 --> 00:09:25.726 Don't Miss one Thrilling 2nd of it. Sun Devil Basketball 00:09:25.759 --> 00:09:33.759 1977 78 is looking good. 00:09:34.039 --> 00:09:37.506 Mhm. 00:09:37.539 --> 00:09:45.539 Yeah. 00:09:50.440 --> 00:09:52.440 Yeah.