My earliest OU basketball memory is when

[BigTime]

I remember being at a game when I was around 7 with my old man and Calvin Curry raining deep 3s against some scab team.

I also remember being little (7ish again) and watching Jeff Webster against Nebraska on ABC.

I know, I know. I missed some damn good times. I was too young to appreciate Billy Ball.

You?

 

[StatGeek]

My absolute earliest memory of OU basketball was the sweet 16 game vs L'Ville in the 88 tournament, I remember sitting right in front of the TV. I don't remember any of the other games that season, but I do remember getting out of the car the night of the championship game and telling my dad there was no way Kansas could beat us because we had already beat them multiple times and he was trying to temper my confidence.

 

[SoonerSpock]

Eddie Evans, Jack Lee, Brian Ethridge and Tom McCurdy playing on the 1961-62 team. No particular games other than a one point win over Kansas in Norman. We won 7 games that year and beat Kansas twice. All the wins came in the conference except a win over USC to open the season in Norman.

 

[thebigabd]

The very first time I saw OU basketball being played was OU vs Kansas... I just randomly turned the TV on (I was a kid) and watched Ryan Minor play against Kansas. I want to say Kansas had Jacque Vaughan at the time but I could have my memories twisted.

 

[jmizzy4ou]

When I was a kid, my father and I would listen to the games on a small, white radio. My favorite players were Terry Stotts, Al Beal, Chuckie Barnett, Juice Whitley, David Little, and Aaron Curry. Once Wayman came on the scene, OU Hoops became a much bigger deal........

I have attended many, many OU sporting events as a teen, student at OU, and as an adult, but nothing is comparable to the hours spent leaning on my dads shoulder, while we listened to the games on the radio.

 

[bocabull]

I have attended many, many OU sporting events as a teen, student at OU, and as an adult, but nothing is comparable to the hours spent leaning on my dads shoulder, while we listened to the games on the radio.

Not even when Keith Jackson took the tight end reverse 88 yards against Nebraska for a TD in OUs 1985 National Championship season? Hope your pops was around for that one!

 

[sybarite]

1953: OU 78 Nebraska 70 in Lincoln, NE Lester Lane was the point. I was there.

 

[AdaSooner]

I got the thread right this time.

My family and I came to Oklahoma in the late 70s. I was already a football fan, but didn't really start to follow basketball until Tubbs arrived at OU. Billy's first season (9-18 record) didn't give me much to cheer for, but my interest started to peak when his offense began to click in '82 and '83.

By the '84 season when Tisdale, McCalister, Kennedy and a host of outstanding role players led OU to a 30-6 season, I was hooked. Still am, 30 years later

 

[MsProudSooner]

My first OU basketball memory was while I was at OU - probably 1966. A sorority sister was dating one of the players - a guy from New Jersey - and she wanted to someone to go with her. More people go to volleyball games now than went to basketball game then, so you can imagine how sparse the crowd was. We sat in the upper deck, behind the south goal. I have a vivid memory of my friend screaming her boyfriends name while he was shooting free throws. I wished that I was invisible.

 

[jmizzy4ou]

Not even when Keith Jackson took the tight end reverse 88 yards against Nebraska for a TD in OUs 1985 National Championship season? Hope your pops was around for that one!

Hahahaha.... I was at that one. That was my freshman year. Good times!!!!!! Called my dad as soon as I got home. No cellphones then.

 

[152219]

'84 season with Tisdale, Choo, and McCalister

 

[cvangild]

My first was 1985 or so. I remember seeing Tim McCallister for the first time and immediately fell in love with Sooner basketball. I had heard of Waymon and all but had never watched a game.

In football, it was the 1980 orange bowl when we played Florida St. JC Watts was incredible that night. I would have been in 1st grade or so.

 

[KBaden145]

The NCAA tourney game against Indiana and Uwe Blabb in 1983.

 

[Max Power]

Mine is not as fond of memory as most of you. My earliest memory is us losing to the squawks in 88.

 

[Oscar Uniform]

My first game was Wayman scoring 61 in the all college at the Myriad. Everything since then has been a snoozer.

 

[tycat947]

Mine were listening to games with my Dad when OU was playing St Bonaventure and Jacksonville in NIT during Gar Heard and Clifford Ray days. Just before Alvin Adams! A long time ago!

 

[OUPadofski]

My first memory would have ben in 1966 or 1967 (Fr. & So. years), walked into my first OU game and realized that two starters for OU were from the same HS I graduated from, Norman High School, the two players being Rick Kersey and Steve Ayers. I was impressed.

 

[DenverSooner]

Hahahaha.... I was at that one. That was my freshman year. Good times!!!!!! Called my dad as soon as I got home. No cellphones then.

That was my freshman year too. That was a great era of OU sports.

 

[soonersublime]

I remember vaguely the Blaylock King days, I remember vividly the Skeeter Meter days.

 

[NMSooner'80]

Mine were listening to games with my Dad when OU was playing St Bonaventure and Jacksonville in NIT during Gar Heard and Clifford Ray days. Just before Alvin Adams! A long time ago!

That's about my time frame as well. I remember the game with LSU on TV in the NIT when they had Pete Maravich. He was an incredible talent, and they still only beat OU by three points.

My first live game wasn't until my senior year of high school. My folks were at OU when basketball was awful, so they didn't have much interest in going to the games at the Field House. I was 18 most of my senior year, and knew I was going to OU, so I drove up with a friend to see the 1976 Bedlam game at the LNC. That turned out to be the very first win for OU in the then-new arena. OU won, 57-42, and at the time it was the largest crowd to see a home game at OU.

That night was more famous originally for being the night that OU got its 1975 national championship trophies from AP and UPI. But I also think it woke up some people about basketball, since Bliss' young and undersized team was starting to play well. They beat heavily favored, nationally ranked Missouri fairly easily a week or two later, at the LNC, then won at Kansas by a point when that was considered an impossibility.

Although they won only nine games that year, they played decent ball in the league. Bliss signed the Curry-Stotts-Beal led class in the spring of '76, and those in my age group started thinking we could be pretty good in basketball for the first time in awhile.