I remember Lew Alcindor from his high school days at Power Memorial in New York City. Of course, he was highly recruited and landed in UCLA. I can remember staying up real late, to watch the match up between UCLA with Lew and Univ. of Houston with the Big "E" Elvin Hayes and coach Guy Lewis. Don Cheney, who played with the Celtics and Lakers, may have been on the Houston team also. There was a tremendous amount of hype for this game, as college basketball was seldom on TV, at least out East. They also played in the playoffs, splitting the 2 games. The nearest thing I could compare the games to, is a Superbowl.
