Buckley: In 1975, LeMoyne-Owen won it all. Too few in Memphis remember.
Members of LeMoyne-Owen's 1975 National Title-winning basketball team gather at The Butcher Shop for their 50th anniversary reunion. They included (standing, from left): Larry Lewis, Morris Atkins, Jerry McNeal, Jerome Potts and Clint Jackson, and seated, Robert Newman. (Brad Vest/Special to The Daily Memphian)
Tim Buckley
Tim is a veteran sportswriter who graduated from CBHS in Memphis and the University of Missouri. He previously covered LSU sports in Baton Rouge, and the University of Louisiana football and basketball for The Daily Advertiser/USA TODAY Network in Lafayette, the NBA’s Utah Jazz for the Deseret News in Salt Lake City, the NHL’s Tampa Bay Lightning for the St. Petersburg Times in Florida, and West Texas State basketball for the Amarillo Globe News in Texas.
The setting was small, intimate even.
And fanfare was at a minimum when six members of the 1975 LeMoyne-Owen College basketball team gathered in a dark, private room at The Butcher Shop steakhouse in Cordova to celebrate the NCAA Division III national championship they won 50 years ago.
That seems unfair.
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