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...case of Auld Lang Syne when McLaughlin returned to the Bronx Saturday night with the Harvard basketball team to play Fordham in Rose Hill Gymnasium, ten minutes away from his old home in Woodlawn. McLaughlin played basketball for the Rams from 1965-69 after graduating from Fordham Prep, a Jesuit high school that his older brothers Walter and Jackie attended before him. Walter also attended Fordham on one of the school's last football scholarships...
...week later the bubble burst when the Rams lost to Marquette again in the Garden by five points after the game went into overtime. In the post-season NCAA tourney Fordham lost to Villanova. The Wildcats went on to lose to UCLA in the finals, but were later declared ineligible because Howard Porter had already received money to turn professional...
...loss was especially rankling for McLaughlin, whose friends and family were on hand for the game. But he said before the game, "We want to win, but I'm more concerned about our team giving 100 per cent. That's all I want the people at Fordham to know...
...junior and senior years at Fordham, the Rams were invited to the post-season NIT tournament, the showcase of New York basketball. Even before his collegiate days he met Willis Reed, Bobby Knight, Kevin Loughery, and New York Knicks general manager Eddie Donovan at Donohue's summer clinic, not to mention Jabbar...
After running up a $310 tab on their roast beef lunch, the cagers are expected to opt for McDonalds for today's pre-game meal. They should be a little hungrier when they journey to Rose Hill Road to face Fordham here tonight, where McLaughlin both played and served as assistant coach...