NMSooner'80
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I've been to seven Faith 7 games, including three in the late 70's when the games were played in a small mid-school gym in Shawnee.
Probably my favorite memory was from the first one I saw, in 1977. Texas was supposed to wipe the floor with the smallish Oklahoma squad. But, an OU football recruit named Frank Moore, a 6-5 lineman, played center against 6-11 Notre Dame-bound Gil Salinas and just dominated him. OU-bound Snake Gresham (who unfortunately became a vagabond and played for at least two NAIA schools after one OU season) also played well.
My main other Faith 7 memory came when I saw Stacey King play for the first time in 1985. He had a tall Afro that made him look about 7-3. But, he could run the court and block shots like he was that tall. Later that summer, he got burned by water from a car radiator and wasn't healed in time to do much in the East-West All-State game. That caused a prep journalist to declare that "Man, that Stacey King is terrible...."
The last one I saw was when Ryan Minor played for the Oklahoma team (1992). I believe they lost in overtime. A kid from my parents' neighborhood, Lawton Ike grad Kerry Wright, played center for the Oklahoma team and did pretty well. He signed with Tulsa but wound up eventually at Western Carolina. Saw him at the Pit in '96 play against Purdue in a 1/16 matchup, and his team lost by one.
Probably my favorite memory was from the first one I saw, in 1977. Texas was supposed to wipe the floor with the smallish Oklahoma squad. But, an OU football recruit named Frank Moore, a 6-5 lineman, played center against 6-11 Notre Dame-bound Gil Salinas and just dominated him. OU-bound Snake Gresham (who unfortunately became a vagabond and played for at least two NAIA schools after one OU season) also played well.
My main other Faith 7 memory came when I saw Stacey King play for the first time in 1985. He had a tall Afro that made him look about 7-3. But, he could run the court and block shots like he was that tall. Later that summer, he got burned by water from a car radiator and wasn't healed in time to do much in the East-West All-State game. That caused a prep journalist to declare that "Man, that Stacey King is terrible...."
The last one I saw was when Ryan Minor played for the Oklahoma team (1992). I believe they lost in overtime. A kid from my parents' neighborhood, Lawton Ike grad Kerry Wright, played center for the Oklahoma team and did pretty well. He signed with Tulsa but wound up eventually at Western Carolina. Saw him at the Pit in '96 play against Purdue in a 1/16 matchup, and his team lost by one.