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Great Topic!

A few ring a bell to me - actually 3.

1. Indiana State beating Bob Knight coached Indiana in the Hulman Center on a Michael Menser 3-pointer with 0.5 seconds left, Sycamores win 59-58 to set off pure pandemonium inside the Hulman Center.

Menser had hit another 3 with nine seconds remaining to pull the Sycamores within 57-56. This was the second straight year that ISU had beaten the Hoosiers. Which leads me to my second memory.

2. Sycamores beat the Hoosiers for the first time in 74 years in the Hoosier Classic, a tournamet that the Hoosiers had never lost. They never again would host that tournament, I was a young kid at the game with my best friend and family. I still have this issue of sports illustrated from that season, featuring Nate Green with MJ on the cover. http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1018286/index.htm

3. Marico Stinson's buzzer beater with 1 second left to beat Southern Illinois in double overtime http://mywabashvalley.com/content/fulltext/?cid=7678.

Also when Stinson went for 37 vs. Drake at home and put on a shooting clinic, scoring 24 in the first half of the teams 38. He played 35 mins. and scored 37 on 9 of 10 shooting from long range. Pretty cool to watch this! http://www.tribstar.com/sports/local_story_002163517.html
 
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Beating Oklahoma in the NCAA Tourney.

I can remember listening to the end of the game before I went in the Boys Club for basketball practice and when they won I got outside my car and all of the kids on campus were honking their horns and hooping and hollering - that was pretty cool! Plus I can remeber having bets with a few people in my 7th grade class at Honey Creek that the Sycamores would win. That was a great memory and Block had to have a root canal the next day... Oh man, that seems like forever ago.
 
Good picks...

SycamoreStateofMind said:
A few ring a bell to me - actually 3.

1. Indiana State beating Bob Knight coached Indiana in the Hulman Center on a Michael Menser 3-pointer with 0.5 seconds left, Sycamores win 59-58 to set off pure pandemonium inside the Hulman Center.

Menser had hit another 3 with nine seconds remaining to pull the Sycamores within 57-56. This was the second straight year that ISU had beaten the Hoosiers. Which leads me to my second memory.

2. Sycamores beat the Hoosiers for the first time in 74 years in the Hoosier Classic, a tournamet that the Hoosiers had never lost. They never again would host that tournament, I was a young kid at the game with my best friend and family. I still have this issue of sports illustrated from that season, featuring Nate Green with MJ on the cover. http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1018286/index.htm

3. Marico Stinson's buzzer beater with 1 second left to beat Southern Illinois in double overtime http://mywabashvalley.com/content/fulltext/?cid=7678.

Also when Stinson went for 37 vs. Drake at home and put on a shooting clinic, scoring 24 in the first half of the teams 38. He played 35 mins. and scored 37 on 9 of 10 shooting from long range. Pretty cool to watch this! http://www.tribstar.com/sports/local_story_002163517.html
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-- Though the Menser Miracle came with the world's greatest coach (Mike Davis) on the sideline; the gloomington sphincter had been fired ~10-12 weeks earlier.

-- The 1999 victory in the Hoosier Classic - a CLASSIC!

BTW -- Where's Green? If he's on that cover, he's hidden better than the Bunny on last month's issue...

-- Don't forget Kelyn Block's return (with three broken teeth) in the 2001 NCAA to knock off Oklahoma
 
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Not even close...as an eighth grader @ Castle JHS during the '64-65 school year, the three (3) game matchup that season between Evansville College & SIU. I only caught the 1st of 3 held in Roberts Stadium and won by the Aces, 81-80. Sloan, Frazier & Humes...talk about fireworks!

Overview
http://web.courierpress.com/features/150/hist0923.htm

Games 1 & 2 (home & away
http://web.courierpress.com/features/150/hist0924.htm

Round 3 - NCAA Championship Game
http://web.courierpress.com/features/150/hist0925.htm

Ya 4Q...that year was a basketball Shangri-la, at least for Evansville.
 
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1) Jordan hitting shot over Ehlo to beat the Cav's.
2) Apke hitting shot w/ 2 seconds to go vs ISU to beat the Syc's in the MVC championship game at the Civic.
3) Kev scoring 42 against crosstown rival Fremd High School in first or second round of the playoffs...2 dunks in the game for him if I recall correctly (he didn't get a ton of dunks).
4) Playing Worthington, MN in a play-in game, winner goes to Hutchinson, KS for NJCAA championships...my team, Casper College wins by 42 points and I actually get PT. Tacking onto this, scoring 9 points in a game vs Northeastern Colorado against a kid that was supposedly a Creighton recruit at the time.
5) Meeting Kareem and Magic while Kev was w/ the Lakers...was up in Detroit for a pre-season game. Got my picture taken w/ Magic.

Honorable mention...Syc's coming back from the dead in the game vs WSU, not once but twice two seasons ago.
 
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1954/1955 The "Velt" vs Attucks Memorial Auditorium

Gary Roosevelt played Indianapolis Crispus Attucks at Memorial Auditorium, Gary, Indiana. The placed was packed, The "Velt" had Dick Barnett and Wilson Eison and Attucks of course had Oscar Robertson and others. The Attucks team came out to warm up with "Capes" on their backs and the Auditorium went wild. It was a close game with Attucks winning.

Both teams went on to play in the 1955 State Championship and the Attucks winning the State Title.
 
SycamoreStateofMind said:
A few ring a bell to me - actually 3.

1. Indiana State beating Bob Knight coached Indiana in the Hulman Center on a Michael Menser 3-pointer with 0.5 seconds left, Sycamores win 59-58 to set off pure pandemonium inside the Hulman Center.

Menser had hit another 3 with nine seconds remaining to pull the Sycamores within 57-56. This was the second straight year that ISU had beaten the Hoosiers. Which leads me to my second memory.

2. Sycamores beat the Hoosiers for the first time in 74 years in the Hoosier Classic, a tournamet that the Hoosiers had never lost. They never again would host that tournament, I was a young kid at the game with my best friend and family. I still have this issue of sports illustrated from that season, featuring Nate Green with MJ on the cover. http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1018286/index.htm

3. Marico Stinson's buzzer beater with 1 second left to beat Southern Illinois in double overtime http://mywabashvalley.com/content/fulltext/?cid=7678.

Also when Stinson went for 37 vs. Drake at home and put on a shooting clinic, scoring 24 in the first half of the teams 38. He played 35 mins. and scored 37 on 9 of 10 shooting from long range. Pretty cool to watch this! http://www.tribstar.com/sports/local_story_002163517.html
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ISU moments:
I think the "Menser Miracle" is probably my #1--I was in the 2nd row of the student section and still remember rushing the court.

Number 2 is probably the upset of Oklahoma in the NCAAs. I made the drive from Terre Haute to Memphis (and the drive again the next day as well). I remember Kelyn busting his mouth up as well as Marcus Howard (freshman then) hitting at least one big 3 down the stretch.

Number 3 was from last year--the Jay Tunnell 3-point shooting clinic at Illinois State.

Non-ISU:
1. Jordan over Ehlo
2. Jordan when he was sick in the playoffs and still lit up the Jazz.
3. Laettner's shot from the key to win the NCAA.
4. Bryce Drew's (for Valparaiso) last second shot in the NCAAs...
 

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1)Heaton's shot against New Mexico St. You could hear screaming all over campus (it was an away game but on channel 10).
2)Opening basket against Purdue in the 91-63 win at HC. Bird went to the corner and was being overplayed defensively. He broke to the basket, got a nice pass on the way, and dunked. He didn't dunk often either. That's the loudest I ever heard HC in a basketball game.
3)Bird from the corner bouncing the ball off the side of the backboard back to him for an open shot. (either his soph or jr. year) I saw it and still can't believe he really meant to do that.
4)Hundreds of other Bird memories I have forever etched in my mind.
5)40-38 win for a 5th grade team I coached after being down 20-10 at halftime. We only had one lead in the ball game - the last second. One guy tipped the ball from the other team from behind to his teammate who lead the tipper with a long pass for a layup just before the buzzer.
 
1. Endy Chavez-The Catch (I'm a huge Mets fan)
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2. Reggie Miller vs Knicks
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3. Lebron's 48...this was simply amazing
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read the heading wrong those are my fav sport moments. if basketball take out the chavez and add IU beating Duke in 02
 
egc1985 said:
read the heading wrong those are my fav sport moments. if basketball take out the chavez and add IU beating Duke in 02
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BOOO to your #3. That was Chris Webbers last playoff series and that brings me to tears... One of the best power forwards in his game while he was playing! But I do remember this game, they couldn't stop Lebron.
 

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Lou said:
Gary Roosevelt played Indianapolis Crispus Attucks at Memorial Auditorium, Gary, Indiana. The placed was packed, The "Velt" had Dick Barnett and Wilson Eison and Attucks of course had Oscar Robertson and others. The Attucks team came out to warm up with "Capes" on their backs and the Auditorium went wild. It was a close game with Attucks winning.

Both teams went on to play in the 1955 State Championship and the Attucks winning the State Title.
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In '70, I received my 1st officiating baptism calling the IN State Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) State Tournament held @ the old TH Gerstmeyer HS gym. The Gary squad was decked out in wide bell bottom slacks, colorful satin wide-collared shirts and strut'n their stuff. One dude stood out from the rest, wearing a black wide-brim hat and looked like a Walt Frazier ("Clyde") clone. I asked one of the team reps what his name was. He replied, "Rick Barry from Gary." :bigsmile:

That's "Velt"...
 
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oh ya i thought they couldnt lose either. 3 str8 curveballs looking with bases loaded. remember it to this day like it was yesterday and now ive had to endure 2 collapses and 1 TERRIBLE season after that.
 
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