Fordham is celebrating its greatest-ever season this weekend, the 1970-71 team that went 26-3 and made the NCAA Tournament Sweet 16.
The ceaseless roar has been the greatest of all gifts across this beautiful basketball winter at Rose Hill in The Bronx. The thunder, deafening and daunting and delightful, has been the soundtrack, filling the 98-year-old gymnasium with joy and hope and possibility, spilling beyond the doors and windows, covering a campus with belief.
But as magical as those twin Garden performances were, it was what happened back home, back in The Bronx, back in Rose Hill Gym, that Digger and everyone else who remembers those Rams recalls best. There, the Rams were virtually untouchable, because the students wouldn’t let the opponent breathe, let alone think about winning.
It is a magnificent moment for Fordham, and a reminder that this doesn’t have to be a one-shot fluke, a one-and-done joy ride. There is a genuine opportunity to parlay this magical season into something real, something lasting, which for all the happiness the 1970-71 team engendered is something even it could never achieve.
The new landscape of college basketball also presents a perfect portal for Fordham. Its two best players are transfers. It takes a forward-thinking coach — and Urgo seems like the model — to maximize that brave new world. And Fordham has innate advantages, too: Where better than New York for a grad-transfer to finish off a college career? The integration of the main and Lincoln Center campuses is something that only now is available to all students, and ought to be a huge selling point.
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