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Post by thebsukid on Oct 26, 2015 12:21:54 GMT -6
Beating Pitt was great...I was at that one.
And, Bonzi going off for over 40 against Gary Trent at Worthen was special.
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Post by bsu0 on Oct 26, 2015 16:01:23 GMT -6
I remember my freshman year '71-'72 when Illinois State came Men's Gym with two seven footers and a 6'6'' guard named Doug Collins.
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Post by redfeather on Oct 27, 2015 6:06:19 GMT -6
Theron Smith was also a heck of a player and I remember many of games he has the man on the court. I don't recall where he was from though, was he an Indiana kid?
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Post by jam on Oct 27, 2015 6:16:47 GMT -6
Theron Smith was also a heck of a player and I remember many of games he has the man on the court. I don't recall where he was from though, was he an Indiana kid? He was a great player for us and as I recall, he was from Florida. |
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Post by Bigfoot on Oct 27, 2015 12:29:38 GMT -6
I agree with all of the above and was at virtually every game mentioned.
The Illinois State game was a great one and I had almost forgotten it but also made me remember the NIU game that featured Jim Bradely from East Chicago who the Huskies out recruited us for.
Bradely was a star in the making in the pro's but his personal life a "train wreck" and he ended up being murdered!
For some reason I thought we lost by 1 point to that Karl Malone lead Louisiana Tech team - can't remember?
Picking a favorite player almost impossible but I have always admired those mentioned but also have great fondness for guys like Keith Stallings, Scotty Nichols, Shawn Parrish, Jamal Sylvester, Shafer Suggs, Larry Bullington and Marzene Moore who each in their own way excelled at their position on the court by knowing their role on the team and maximizing it!
We have had some great players no doubt about that!
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Post by proctorp on Oct 27, 2015 19:09:48 GMT -6
Lots of great memories. Thought Bonzi on the baseline was a treat almost every game. Agree that the Purdue game in old Men's gym was terrific.
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Post by lmills72 on Oct 27, 2015 19:49:16 GMT -6
For some reason I thought we lost by 1 point to that Karl Malone lead Louisiana Tech team - can't remember? Found it in the recordbook, an 81-77 win for the Cards. Fairleigh Dickinson was the first-round opponent that year. |
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Post by universityjim on Oct 28, 2015 7:55:34 GMT -6
The win over Purdue in 1988 is the tops for me. The energy from that crowd was breathtaking. I've been to many big time world class sporting events and honestly that is probably my favorite of any sporting event I have been to. I've never seen a crowd so into a game for 40 minutes.
Favorite coach: Saint Majerus
Favorite player: Too many to list
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Post by cardfan on Oct 28, 2015 8:02:43 GMT -6
The atmosphere even AN HOUR before the Purdue game was amazing. The gym was electric and there was a buzz that you could feel. It was intense and insane before, during, and right after. Incredible day. The Miami game to open the new arena was up there as well.
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Post by swenocha on Oct 28, 2015 8:19:27 GMT -6
For anyone who wants a taste of what the opening of UArena (Worthen Arena) was like, BSU archives have a nice video: libx.bsu.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/HistFilmVid/id/785/rec/9 (I'm in this video... pretty funny) I have a VCR of the Purdue game... I wish it was better quality. I believe my parents recorded it, and they were notorious for reusing VCR tapes to death, so it's very, very grainy. |
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Post by williamtsherman on Oct 28, 2015 10:44:19 GMT -6
As I said, the Purdue game was my favorite, but I'm always a little surprised that a lot of other people say the same. I would have thought people would pick one of the bigger stage games. One thing that really added to the Purdue game was the fact that they absolutely crushed us by some completely humiliating margin the year before in Lafayette.
A couple other thougths about that game and atmosphere:
**Having the crowd standing on the floor around 3/4 of the court added a lot to the atmosphere. A 3000 seat arena with people standing around the playing floor will have more energy than a 30,000 seat arena with the crowd raised and partitioned off of the floor. For this reason there can never be an atmosphere in Worthen like the atmosphere in UGym that day. Worthen should have been designed with this in mind. Who are all those people sitting behind the desk across from the benches? They could do their jobs elsewhere....they add nothing. Is it a security thing? Well, if you don't trust your fans, then you don't get the atmosphere....that's just the way it is.
**At the Purdue game, I have the memory that everyone stood for the whole game. I'm not sure that's completely accurate, but I know I did and so did everyone in my immediate vicinity. I think I was maybe 8 or 10 rows up, across from the visitor bench. I was so into the game that I don't think I even reallly realized I was standing until I sat down at the half to rest my legs. But here is the thing: the crowd standing is the RESULT of enthusiasm, not the CAUSE. It always pisses me off when some morons in the front rows try to force everyone behind them to stand. Idiots like that are too dense to understand the situation and distinguish cause from effect. I always have the urge to go down and give them a good hard kick in the ass. They create annoyance, not enthusiasm.
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