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I understand that the Bulls retired Scottie Pippen's #33 tonight in Chicago.

Lou Hardin and Phil Jackson were his special guest, according to reports.

Congratulations Pip.

Burly Bear

Yes, I cant believe we missed that earlier. Congrats to Scottie on that for sure.

As a side note, does anyone know if UCA has already retired his number here? And if not, I would think sometime in the near future would be a great idea to try to get him back into the fold of UCA while we are about to make the jump to Division 1.

It has been talked about for years, but nothing done.

The only number and/or jersey in basketball that I recall being retired was #44 for Wally Love, who played for the Bears in the late 70's and early 80's.

Burly Bear

if we're going to talk about hanging Scottie's, might as well bring up Checola too. Put her up there in the rafters as well. Both her and Scottie already had their faces painted on the entrance/exit ways in the FC before, might as well hang their numbers...

If your going to put Checola in there, you also have to put Terri Conder-Johnson.

IMHO, Scottie, Checola and Terri are the ONLY three numbers that really need retiring.

Burly Bear

start the drive and let's get this thng going.

More on Scottie's Big Night last weekend...

MCCOLLUM'S COLUMN: Pippen Night begins with quite a ride

The guys over at the Echo have started blogging now.
Goff wrote up a little something about this topic.

You can check it out in the newsstand along with the other UCA news or just click here to go direct.

I think Jeff Harmons jersey should be retired!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'll vote for Harmon but when we hang up the jersey we need Jeff in it.

We should also consider retiring Clifton Bushes # as well..............

Profiles

Bush, Clifton

CLIFTON BUSH
NBL Team: Canterbury Rams
Position: Forward
Born: 1/9/70
Height: 1.95m
Weight: 92kg
Born in Little Rock, Arkansas, Bush came to New Zealand as an import for the Canterbury Rams in the mid-1990s and has had an outstanding NBL career. In 2001, he was the league's leading scorer, voted Outstanding Forward and was a member of the All-Star Five while helping Waikato Titans to the title. Rapidly closing in on 3000 NBl points, Bush achieved NZ citizenship in 2004 and was signed by the Harvey Norman NZ Breakers for the 2005/06 Australian NBL. The following year, he was included in the Burger King Tall Black trials in anticipation of him gaining his NZ citizenship.

Just a general question here...

Are numbers retired due to what that athlete did while at the institution? or does it also include the accomplishments following their time at UCA?

A: How much money they can give to the U.

well in scottie's case, has he given much money to the university?

Come on give Harmon some credit!!!!!!! He used to set some of the best screens for some of us. The man was not afraid of anything or anyone. Trust me I had to room with him for 4 years!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Plus he would drive Coach Dyer up the wall with his antics.