Congratulations to Villanova on winning the National Championship!

[Big Old Booger]

Easy fix. 3 game series until you get to the Final four, then 5 game series in the semi games, then 7 game series in the final!!!

See everyone is July!

In all seriousness, maybe doing a 3 game series once it reaches the final four wouldn't be a bad thing (probably not practical though). Any team can have an off night.....look no further than the 1988 NC game. OU was the best team that year...and no one is going to argue that point. We beat them 8-9 times out of 10!!!! But unfortunately, that 1 time came on the wrong night. I admit it....I cried after that game. I was 16 years old...and followed OU b-ball religiously since the Wayman days. Back then, not all games were on TV like today. Several were...but I listened to all the others on the radio....NEVER missed one!

I even remember setting my alarm clock for a game where we played Michigan in the Maui tournament or somewhere. I believe it was the 1988 or '89 season....and we played at like 2a.m. Okla time. I don't believe it was on TV...if it was, I didn't have that channel, but I listened to the whole game on the radio. We had just beat UNLV, but ended up losing to Mich. I think that team had Glen Rice, Rumeal Robinson, Loy Vaught, Sean Higgins, Terry Mills on it if I'm not mistaken. They were loaded...and the next season is when Mich won the NC. We had King and Blaylock back...but had to replace Harvey Grant, Sieger and Ricky Grace...so we were still finding ourselves. Terry Evans was a freshman, Skeeter Henry and Williams "Cheese" Davis were new juco transfers that ended up being great later that year. Good times in those days!!!!

The Michigan game in Maui was actually the following season after we lost to KU in the finals. We didn't have Sieger, Grant, or Grace. Instead it was King, Blaylock, Tyrone Jones, Terrance Mullins, Skeeter Henry, Cheese Davis, Tony Martin, Mike Bell, etc. We beat Ohio State and UNLV to make the finals but lost to Michigan with Rumeal Robinson, Glen Rice, Loy Vaught, etc. The game was on ESPN but like you said it was in the middle of the night. We didn't have ESPN on the farm so if I remember correctly, my brother recorded it from his apartment in Norman (on VHS). He brought it home a few days later and I still watched it even though I already knew we lost. He stayed up to watch it and I think my dad listened to it on the radio. I was never a late nighter so I always fell asleep. Michigan won the NC that year and OU lost to Virginia in the sweet 16. OU's best play of that season was in the first week of February when we routed ISU at home, beat Mizzou at home (Billy Tubbs microphone moment), beat Arizona at home, then won at KU in OT. We played well for another week or so then went to Columbia and lost by double digits to Mizzou with Doug Smith, Lee Coward, Anothony Peeler, etc. From that point on pretty much every game was a struggle, except Nebraska in the last regular season game to clinch the Big 8 regular season title. We pounded them that day. But, struggled in both the quarter and semi final games in KC of the Big 8 tourney. We had to go to 2 OT to beat 8 seed Colorado and then beat ISU on a last second shot by Tyrone Jones. Lost to Mizzou in the finals by double digits again. NCAA tourney started, struggled against East Tennessee State, should have lost -- should have been the first 1 seed to lose to a 16. Played miserably. Somehow won, then looked excellent vs Louisiana Tech, beat them by about 40 in the 2nd round. Then lost to Virginia. Such a disappointment. However, even if we got past Virginia, we weren't getting past Michigan in the next round. They killed Virginia by about 40 to win the Southeast Regional.

FYI...I was 17 when we lost to KU in the final. I cried that day. I've only cried 2 times over OU basketball. That was one but the first was the day Wayman announced he was going to the NBA. If he stays one more year that team was loaded, maybe wins it all though Duke and Louisville were excellent too. ldwt356:

 

[red recluse]

why do you all hit reply on this nonsense?

thebigboxscore strikes again.

 

[coolm]

why do you all hit reply on this nonsense?

Why? chicken thigh