Getting back together after 53 years

They were the NKSC – Northern Kentucky State College – Norsemen as the program for the first basketball banquet of that 1971-72 inaugural season called them. And thanks to one of that team’s original players, Bob Griffin , and his wife, Carol , one of the original cheerleaders, those Norsemen got together Monday night 53 years later, as Bob noted, after that March 21, 1972, banquet.

They had a wonderful evening at Jeff Ruby ’s Steakhouse where a gathering of 35 told stories, laughed at Bob’s stories, and relived those days when the team that is now the NKU Norse played a schedule without a gym to practice in or play home games, without a conference to supply officials or almost any of the things that matter in college basketball today.

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