I watched my first Husker basketball game ...

[hskr4life]

My first in person was the 2005 ranked upset of Oklahoma State.  Have also seen the Texas court storm/upset at the Bob and many other games throughout the years.

[twinswingohuskers]

Went to the coliseum for my 6th grade  birthday, thanks mom and dad.  I bought season tickets in the 70's and had them till my kids were in junior high and we had to many activities to go to, then bought tickets again for the last year in devaney and have had them since.

Edited March 18, 2024 by twinswingohuskers

[Cazzie22]

My first game in the Coliseum was the great Tom Baack, Grant Simmons, Willie Campbell, Nate Branch and Stuart Lantz team in 1966 against a Tex Winter coached Kansas St.  That Husker team would have been an NCAA Tourney team and would have won a tournament game but only conference champions qualified.  Kansas had JoJo White and Walt Wesley.  It was fun for a High School Freshman to witness. Texas Western was the champion in 1966.

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[cipsucks]

  On 3/18/2024 at 9:47 PM, Cazzie22 said:

My first game in the Coliseum was the great Tom Baack, Grant Simmons, Willie Campbell, Nate Branch and Stuart Lantz team in 1966 against a Tex Winter coached Kansas St.  That Husker team would have been an NCAA Tourney team and would have won a tournament game but only conference champions qualified.  Kansas had JoJo White and Walt Wesley.  It was fun for a High School Freshman to witness. Texas Western was the champion in 1966.

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By far Cipriano's best team, from what I've read.  I was only 5 at the time.

[jimmykc]

NU was good that year and as I remember played in the NIT. I was privileged to watch them be beaten at Allen Fieldhouse that year 110 to 73 though. The rest of that KU team consisted of Delvy Lewis, Ron Franz, and Al Lopes, with sixth man Roger Bohnenstiehl. They would have beaten Texas Western in the regionals except for a phantom call of Jojo stepping out of bounds on a winning shot.

[cipsucks]

  On 3/18/2024 at 10:24 PM, jimmykc said:

NU was good that year and as I remember played in the NIT. I was privileged to watch them be beaten at Allen Fieldhouse that year 110 to 73 though. The rest of that KU team consisted of Delvy Lewis, Ron Franz, and Al Lopes, with sixth man Roger Bohnenstiehl. They would have beaten Texas Western in the regionals except for a phantom call of Jojo stepping out of bounds on a winning shot.

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The movie says otherwise.  

[jimmykc]

As another movie, "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance", states "When the legend becomes fact, print the legend".  

[cipsucks]

I've already told my story on my first Husker game in the Coliseum.  I don't want to be " that guy" who keeps telling the same story over and over.  But, I will say, I really like this team!

 

My early memories following the Huskers:  this had to be the 70-71, season.  I watched the Huskers play on TV on a few Saturday afternoons, during the Big 8 season.  Never on every Saturday but at least 3-4 conference games a season.   Marvin Stewart was a senior, Chuck Jura a sophomore.  Usually won in Lincoln. I remember Marvin Stewart being so good!

 

Probably my favorite memory from that same time period, was Wednesday night games.  I grew up in the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod, and my dad was the organist for our church for 40 years.  Of course, Lenten services could not be missed.  They started at 7 pm, same time as Husker tip-offs.  Remember, I'm 10- 14 years old, so I talk my mom into giving me the car keys so I can warm up the car the second the service is over.  Usually caught the last 15 minutes of the second half.  

 

 

[Brick]

My memories of individual games is not very clear, but Bernard Day has always been my favorite player.

 

Much later in life, I remember sitting with my kids during a media timeout. They were all staring intently at the floor. I asked each, one by one, what they were looking at. My oldest daughter, a cheerleader, said she was watching the cheerleaders and the dancers. My younger daughter, a dancer, was watching the dancers and the cheerleaders. My oldest was watching the band. No surprise. But my youngest son said he always watched the boys mopping the floor. My best memory even though it wasn’t about the game. 

[Noah121]

My first game was at the BOB in 1996 or 1997, but I remember no details of it, which is unusual for me considering I was 9 at the time. 

[roscoe]

Versus TCU in NIT in 1983. Had a friend whose brother attended UNL and got us tickets. Loved the red, white and blue basketball. 

First NCAA college games I attended were at BDSC as it was 1980 NCAA tourney site. Sat in last row in B section and watched Louisville vs Kansas St. & Missouri vs Notre Dame. 

Edited March 19, 2024 by roscoe

[AuroranHusker]

Besides watching those few games from the mid-to-late 70s throughout the 80s, I specifically had season tickets during the 90s run (both football & basketball--WHAT A TIME!!!) and have now had season tickets for football since 2005 and in hoops since PBA opened in '13. The best part of all of this is that I've always gone to games with my bro, and the past few with my son, who's now 16. Individual memories of games could be mentioned, and there have been many, but the best memories are talking about every facet of every single game until we can't discuss it any further, that's for both FB & BB. And I analyze everything! lol

 

[HuscurAdam]

One of things I like about this board is it's one of the few places I still feel young .  I had never paid much attention to college basketball growing up; I liked the NBA at the time and only thought of Nebraska football. During my freshman year at NU I had a buddy from Virginia who was a big Nebraska basketball fan and convinced me to get student season tickets. This was in 1993 and I was hooked immediately. My first game was an exhibition against Pella Windows or Athletes in Action/Marathon Oil when they still did those...didn't matter. Those Nee squads played a fun brand of ball and I was shocked at how much more fun it was to go to basketball than football games. I watched all of the (Raycom-Phillips 66) road games on the big screen in the Selleck game room and had the high of winning the Big 8 tourney and low of getting smoked by Penn in the Big Dance that year. I figure if I could survive the Collier era after that exciting start, I can handle anything!   

 

[cipsucks]

  On 3/19/2024 at 12:00 AM, Brick said:

My memories of individual games is not very clear, but Bernard Day has always been my favorite player.

 

Much later in life, I remember sitting with my kids during a media timeout. They were all staring intently at the floor. I asked each, one by one, what they were looking at. My oldest daughter, a cheerleader, said she was watching the cheerleaders and the dancers. My younger daughter, a dancer, was watching the dancers and the cheerleaders. My oldest was watching the band. No surprise. But my youngest son said he always watched the boys mopping the floor. My best memory even though it wasn’t about the game. 

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We used to have a poster here named sideburns jones who was into mopping the floor.  One of my favorites.  I think @jimmykc took a hankering to him, also.

[BugeaterZ]

I don't know what my first game was, but I'm sure it was no later than Dave Hoppen's freshman year. I'm certain our family had season tickets that year, and together with my uncle's family we had nine in a row in section C16, row 22. I kept score along with a cousin who was my age.

 

I distinctly remember the NIT games with the ABA ball and along with Hoppen, my favorite player was Stan Cloudy.

 

 

[lang]

My first was in  78?  ( I’d have been 10 ).   We played K-State and Rolando Blackman IIRC.  Couldn’t tell you if we won ( I think we did though).  There was a play were Carl McPipe or Andre Smith tried to save a ball on the sideline. It was the old turn and throw it off the opposing team’s closest player before you go out of bounds.  The ball hit the K State player right in the face ( and… it went out of bounds off him).  Those two players instantly were slapping hands ( that was a few years before “high five-ing” believe it or not)…as if to unashamedly say “ that was a bad ass play and we don’t care what happened to that dudes face”.  I think Ro Blackman airballed a free throw in that game ( any chance anyone remembers that ?).  A few years later some friends ( thanks Dan and Tim ) took us to a few games.  They would sit way at the top, dead center and brought a pencil or pen to keep stats in the program.  I thought it was cool, so I did that a few years too.  My next big memory was I believe Andre Smith’s Sr year.  My older bro got us tickets to a home game late in the season vs Ok State.  They were in First place in the conference at the time.  The Bob was electric that night.  We were milking a lead late. Andre kept getting free for easy buckets as OSU was chasing, trying to make a steal.  IIRC, Andre missed 3 dunks in the last couple minutes…but we still won.  And on it goes, fun memories.  Larger than life at the time.

[CanadianHusker]

  On 3/18/2024 at 11:46 PM, cipsucks said:

I grew up in the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod 

 

 

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Me too! That’s awesome!  

[HB]

  On 3/19/2024 at 12:00 AM, Brick said:

My memories of individual games is not very clear, but Bernard Day has always been my favorite player.

 

Much later in life, I remember sitting with my kids during a media timeout. They were all staring intently at the floor. I asked each, one by one, what they were looking at. My oldest daughter, a cheerleader, said she was watching the cheerleaders and the dancers. My younger daughter, a dancer, was watching the dancers and the cheerleaders. My oldest was watching the band. No surprise. But my youngest son said he always watched the boys mopping the floor. My best memory even though it wasn’t about the game. 

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My kids had those floor-mopping jobs years ago.  Great times.  Glad a least one person was watching them!

[arliepro]

  On 3/18/2024 at 9:47 PM, Cazzie22 said:

My first game in the Coliseum was the great Tom Baack, Grant Simmons, Willie Campbell, Nate Branch and Stuart Lantz team in 1966 against a Tex Winter coached Kansas St.  That Husker team would have been an NCAA Tourney team and would have won a tournament game but only conference champions qualified.  Kansas had JoJo White and Walt Wesley.  It was fun for a High School Freshman to witness. Texas Western was the champion in 1966.

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My memory is kind of hazy, but I think that was my first game too! I was 8 years old.  K-State had 7 footer Nick Pino at the time. Dad and used to listen to K-State and Kansas games on radio (WIBW), as well as Nebraska games (KFAB). Smoking was allowed at games in those days, and I remember being bothered by all the smoke in the stands. Our family could only afford to go to one game a year, but Dad and I listened to or watched all the others without fail.

[huskercabby]

My memory is not very good. I know my first game was at the Coliseum. I too remember the floor brightly lit but the stands were totally black. I also remember it being extremely smokey. I’m not sure if the smoke was artificially created or just the cigarette smoke. My dad and I were located behind a huge pillar. I had to stretch my neck to see the game. I fell in love with Husker hoops that night.

 

I know Jerry Fort was playing. My favorite player but he sure had a flat shot. I want to say we were playing Kansas but not positive. I also remember we had a 6’10” center something Taylor. Skinny as a stick.

 

I have had tickets both at the Bob and the Vault, but it all started back when I was 10 or 11. Over 55 years this journey has taken me.

[AuroranHusker]

  On 3/19/2024 at 1:58 AM, cipsucks said:

 

We used to have a poster here named sideburns jones who was into mopping the floor.  One of my favorites.  I think @jimmykc took a hankering to him, also.

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I recently wondered what had happened to ol' burns.... anyone know?

[Bugeaters1]

  On 3/19/2024 at 2:03 AM, BugeaterZ said:

I don't know what my first game was, but I'm sure it was no later than Dave Hoppen's freshman year. I'm certain our family had season tickets that year, and together with my uncle's family we had nine in a row in section C16, row 22. I kept score along with a cousin who was my age.
 
I distinctly remember the NIT games with the ABA ball and along with Hoppen, my favorite player was Stan Cloudy.
 
 

I loved me some Stan Cloudy. Get him going and he was a one man wrecking crew.

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[HB]

  On 3/19/2024 at 4:11 AM, huskercabby said:

My memory is not very good. I know my first game was at the Coliseum. I too remember the floor brightly lit but the stands were totally black. I also remember it being extremely smokey. I’m not sure if the smoke was artificially created or just the cigarette smoke. My dad and I were located behind a huge pillar. I had to stretch my neck to see the game. I fell in love with Husker hoops that night.

 

I know Jerry Fort was playing. My favorite player but he sure had a flat shot. I want to say we were playing Kansas but not positive. I also remember we had a 6’10” center something Taylor. Skinny as a stick.

 

I have had tickets both at the Bob and the Vault, but it all started back when I was 10 or 11. Over 55 years this journey has taken me.

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Your memory is good, actually.  It was dark up top, that was cigarette smoke, and their were vision obstructions galore.   But that popcorn machine at the south entrance made it all better.   As for the tall center, you are thinking of Ron Taylor.   Initial returns were that he was a program-changer.   But injuries kept him from reaching his potential.    I believe he passed away a couple of years ago in his late 60s.

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[jimmykc]

He moved to Auburn.

  On 3/19/2024 at 6:54 AM, AuroranHusker said:

 

I recently wondered what had happened to ol' burns.... anyone know?

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[jimmykc]

Was Dev Nelson still a sportscaster at WIBW in Topeka then? I remember his catch phrase was when he called a good play or close game a "double deep dish dilly". I don't believe it caught on with any other broadcaster.

  On 3/19/2024 at 4:03 AM, arliepro said:

My memory is kind of hazy, but I think that was my first game too! I was 8 years old.  K-State had 7 footer Nick Pino at the time. Dad and used to listen to K-State and Kansas games on radio (WIBW), as well as Nebraska games (KFAB). Smoking was allowed at games in those days, and I remember being bothered by all the smoke in the stands. Our family could only afford to go to one game a year, but Dad and I listened to or watched all the others without fail.

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