When Michael Savarino chose to transfer from Duke most people probably didn’t expect him to pick NYU.
NYU? Is that a basketball school? It’s D-III, right?
Well it is now but once upon a time it was not just D-1 but a dominant program.
NYU, along with CCNY and others, were part of the Metropolitan New York Basketball Conference.
Unfortunately, in 1945 and 1951, point shaving scandals greatly damaged college basketball in the city. In 1960, NYU made the Final Four but in 1961, another scandal was devastating to not just New York basketball but reached all the way down to the ACC, affecting UNC and NC State.