NMSooner'80
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It didn't cost OU a title, in a year the Sooners were probably the most talented team but so unpredictable...
In the 1987 home finale, OU blew a 10-point lead in a little over a minute, and lost by a point to Kansas State in regulation, coached then by a first-year alumnus coach named Kruger. Some freshman point guard from KSU, named Henson, hit a three with just under a minute left, right after OU split a pair at the line, to make it a six-point game. I remember thinking, this might get a bit queasy.
It did, and then some. The moment that still irks me was when Tim McCalister was getting ready to shoot a one-and-one (no two-shot double-bonus back then). The ref handed them the ball, then took it back, because some moronic OU male cheerleader wouldn't get his butt off the court. I said to myself at the time, "here comes a miss." He did.
OU kept missing, and KSU kept scoring, capping it off after yet another OU miss at the line with a Mitch Richmond jumper from the wing. OU had beaten them in Manhattan earlier.
To top it all off, I snuck a nice-looking brunette into the student section for a dinner/basketball date, and she had to see an ending like that. :facepalm
I know people are all over Lon for last night, but our beloved Billy Tubbs was the coach whose team blew that one. And I'm not blaming him at all for that lousy foul shooting in the clutch; just pointing out that it's happened to even Billy.
In the 1987 home finale, OU blew a 10-point lead in a little over a minute, and lost by a point to Kansas State in regulation, coached then by a first-year alumnus coach named Kruger. Some freshman point guard from KSU, named Henson, hit a three with just under a minute left, right after OU split a pair at the line, to make it a six-point game. I remember thinking, this might get a bit queasy.
It did, and then some. The moment that still irks me was when Tim McCalister was getting ready to shoot a one-and-one (no two-shot double-bonus back then). The ref handed them the ball, then took it back, because some moronic OU male cheerleader wouldn't get his butt off the court. I said to myself at the time, "here comes a miss." He did.
OU kept missing, and KSU kept scoring, capping it off after yet another OU miss at the line with a Mitch Richmond jumper from the wing. OU had beaten them in Manhattan earlier.
To top it all off, I snuck a nice-looking brunette into the student section for a dinner/basketball date, and she had to see an ending like that. :facepalm
I know people are all over Lon for last night, but our beloved Billy Tubbs was the coach whose team blew that one. And I'm not blaming him at all for that lousy foul shooting in the clutch; just pointing out that it's happened to even Billy.
