UNIVERSITY HISTORY

Penn Plays Philadelphia Big 5 Basketball:
1973-1974 season

Standings | Game results
Big 5 First Team and Hall of Fame | NCAA Tournament | National Invitation Tournament

 

Standings:

Team	Big 5	All	Coach
Pennsylvania	4-0	21-6	Chuck Daly
La Salle	2-2	18-10	Paul Westhead
St. Joseph's	2-2	19-11	Jack McKinney
Temple	2-2	16-9	Don Casey
Villanova	0-4	7-19	Rollie Massimino
		81-55, 59.6%

 

Game results:

All games were played at the Palestra. Click on links to read the text of news articles about the games.

Date	Winner	Loser	Crowd
Dec 19	Penn  84	La Salle  82	7,898
	Five Quakers score double figures
Jan 8	Penn  43	Temple  42	6,458
	No Quakers score double figures
Jan 15	Penn  55	St. Joseph's  53	5,048
	Penn's third straight narrow victory
Jan 23	Penn  83	Villanova  61	9,209
	Coach Daly uses 14 players to clinch title
Jan 30	St. Joseph's  75	La Salle  73	4,671
	All five SJU starters score double figures
Feb 3	La Salle  78	Temple  54	4,773
	Joe Bryant scores 22 points, grabs 16 boards
Feb 9	Temple  81	Villanova  73	6,745
	'Nova led by four (32-28) at intermission
Feb 16	Temple  73	St. Joseph's  67	4,874
	Jim Washington records 18 points, 6 assists
Feb 20	La Salle  104	Villanova  66	4,718
	La Salle shells the 'Cats for 2nd straight time
Feb 23	St. Joseph's  59	Villanova  53	9,229
	Chubby Cox has 24 pts, 13 rebs in loss

 

 

Honors:

Big 5 First Team

* Haigler became the fifth underclassmen to win the Geasey MVP Award after leading the Quakers in scoring (17.4) and rebounding (10.6).

 

Hall of Fame Inductees

 

St. Joseph's Mike Bantom

Mike Bantom has an extensive basketball resume. resume.  It includes being a first-round pick of the Phoenix Suns.  It also includes winning a silver medal as a member of the cheated 1972 U.S. Olympic team.  Bantom was also selected to play in the NABC East-West All-American Game as a 1973 All-American at St. Joseph's.  A two-time team captain, Bantom was the last Hawk to average 20 points a game for a career and he did it during a time when the Hawks averaged 20 wins per season.  In the 1972-73 season, Bantom was outscored by Pat McFarland by a single point. It is still the only time two Hawks averaged 20 points a season.  Bantom is also second on the all-time rebounding list (1151).  Until Carlin Warley did it in 1994, Bantom had been the last player to average double figures in rebounding for a season.

 

NCAA Tournament:

Providence 84, Pennsylvania 69	in Jamaica, NY
Pittsburgh 54, St. Joseph's 42	in Morgantown, WV

 

National Invitation Tournament:

No participants