Dan Sullivan has passed

From Ancient Spartan at the Spartan Insider Basketball MB:

It was announced today before the basketball game that Spartan great Dan Sullivan passed away. He was 55 years old.

If someone sees an obituary, could you please pot a link here?

Dan was a great defender. His biggest play was in the Big West Conference championship game.

We won our first round game against UCSB, then we had to play the number one seed Utah State Aggies. They started the tradition of standing at the beginning of each half until they scored.

It was Bill Berry's first year as SJSU coach. We entered half time with about a 10 point lead against the Aggies. They stood up to start the second half and we rattled off about 15 unanswered points. They all were sitting down in shock by the time they finally scored. We smoked the league champions 94-68!!! (They had about 1,400 fans there along with 50 Aggiettes and another 50 junior Aggiettes. We had about 50 fans.

Then we had to play #2 seed Long Beach State for the championship. The winner goes to the NCAAs. They had a ton of people there, because it was so close for them. With seconds left in the game, we had the ball up 2 points. Long Beach stole the ball and was going for a breakaway game tying basket and Dan Sullivan somehow came from behind and made a head long dive and just tipped the ball away on the last dribble before the player was going to lay it in. I never saw a play like that before or since. We held them for the last few seconds and won the game and the championship.

I'll never forget Dan Sullivan, one of the all-time great Spartans!!!

Amen. Other than the few Spartan fans, the Anaheim Convention Center was shocked into quiet. We climbed into our orange Pinto and drove around the parking lot screaming and yelling. What a sight that must have been! It was the best moment as a San Jose State University Spartan fan.

Thank you Ancient Spartan for posting about Dan's passing and for your memories.