RIP Jerome Whitehead

I remember watching him play for the Marquette Warriors and heped win them the NCAA Mens basketball championship..
From jsonline: Jerome Whitehead is best known at Marquette University for keeping the 1977 national championship on track with a buzzer-beating, game-winning layup against North Carolina-Charlotte in the NCAA semifinals.
The 6-foot-10 forward remembered as part one of the greatest teams in MU history died more than a week ago at age 56. He was found dead in a San Diego suburb, according to California authorities.
"I had always wondered what it felt like to score the winning basket in an important game like that, ever since my cousin Rufus Woods (former North Chicago star) scored the winning basket against Waukegan in 1966," Whitehead told The News-Sun newspaper of Illinois 35 years ago. "I had thought about it for a long time and finally it came true."
Marquette will observe a moment of silence for Whitehead before its Big East opener Tuesday night against Connecticut.
"We are deeply saddened by the passing of Jerome Whitehead," said Michael Broeker, Marquette's deputy athletics director. "Jerome's game-winning layup in the 1977 national semifinal victory over UNC-Charlotte will forever be celebrated as one of the great plays in our program's history. He will be missed. Jerome's family and all of those who knew and loved him are in our thoughts and prayers."  http://www.jsonline.com/sports/goldeneagles/former-marquette-basketball-player-whitehead-dies-at-56-ks86sej-185179612.html  RIP Jerome Whitehead.