Recent content by NMSooner'80

The OU team from my senior year started a front line of 6-9 (Al Beal), 6-8 (Terry Stotts) and 6-7 (Steve Bajema) at times, FWIW.

I think Bobby Jack was All-Big 8 in both baseball and basketball, but that was a little bit before my time. He played for John McLeod in basketball, a couple of years before Alvan Adams' debut in the fall of 1972.

OU has three wins over the "Sweet 16 field" as of now. Of course, I'm talking about Arizona, Michigan and Arkansas. I don't care a lot about the Florida-Maryland game, but I have a hard time rooting for a school that once employed Mark Turgeon (Maryland).

If the Lobos get this one done tonight, he'll be the new mayor of Albuquerque. They've never been past second round since the field was expanded many moons ago.

Bradley was one of the guys involved in that major hazing scandal at New Mexico State a couple of years ago. That's the one that got their season canceled. Brief story on the whole mess from Albuquerque's CBS-TV affiliate...

UNM. I worked there for a long time. But I'd never pull for them against OU under any circumstance.

It's been 26 hours since the bracket was released, and I'm surprised that no "national guys" have been saying that Marquette is playing New Mexico State in that 7-10 game in Cleveland. The folks in Albuquerque have gotten sick of being mistaken for NMSU, especially when the Aggies had such a...

I can't figure out how Illinois is in the Top 25. They're getting worked by Maryland right now. I can think of a certain MWC school, the one that once employed me for over a decade, that should be in there ahead of them. FWIW, the Lobos can also help OU's cause, if it's even necessary, with a...

UCF and KSU won the other two Big 12 games, FWIW. I had to see it on my laptop's "home page," because the early Big 12 games weren't even on TV. I assume the Bobby Hurley firing watch has already begun. I also hope that Indiana flops in its own head coaching search. If you've ever seen the...

OSU (a.k.a. "the 'basketball school' in Oklahoma" according to the media) and TCU are both done at the Big 12 tournament. Both Tulsa schools are well under .500, and ORU is already done, so OU will be the only D-1 men's program in Oklahoma that will finish with a winning record this season.

That's NOT EVEN CLOSE to what I was saying. I was just pointing out the double-standard of a similar situation that occurred over the weekend - the Thunder never get criticism when it's due, and they lost in that situation. OU won, albeit stressfully, the other day. Anytime someone uses the...

Got upper-deck tickets for tomorrow night. That keeps those seats away from any UK fans or any OU-style bedwetters who'll be pulling for Kentucky.

I'm risking starting a holy war here, but after all the screaming about the late-game situations by many, at least everyone got to see OU win that game. The pro guys up north in OKC, who are never criticized for anything, blew a 25-point lead, including a 16-point spread in regulation in the...

In the FWIW department, Drew Head finished his career at San Diego State after transferring out of OU in '78. One of his college teammates was Tony Gwynn (RIP), who was obviously more famous for his baseball skills. I saw Drew and SDSU on TV lose to UNM at the Pit in January of '81 (my first...

Whitley got hurt early in what was supposed to be his original senior year (Tubbs' first). He came back as a fifth-year senior but wasn't the player he had been before his knee injury. The 1977 team's point guard was Eddie Fields, who I think was the last player on the team recruited by John...