OT: 1996 OU-Nebraska 3 OT game

[sanguinetti]

OU and NU played 4 OT's in 1996. 3 in Norman and 1 in Lincoln. Both Sooner wins.

Erick Strickland was the "other good player" I was thinking in a post above. Thanks to Sooner04 for mentioning Jaron Boone.

Tyronn Lue was the Bugeater point guard.

https://huskers.com/sports/mens-basketball/schedule/season/1995-96

Husker team lost 10 of 11 straight games to end the year and then won the NIT. talk about a weird year for them.

OU loses to Temple in the NCAA. I remember seeing the second half of that game in a bar in Boulder, Colorado.....and we were down 8 but might as well been down 100. That Kelvin team was never gonna score enough to beat that Don Cheney team.

 

[WaymanFan]

That 1996 team was a disappointing after how much they overachieved the prior year. Thanks for bringing to light a couple of the few good memories from that year (beating Kansas at home was other). Kelvin was a great coach, but that was probably his worst coaching year until his last season. Ryan Minor took a step back after an amazing junior year, but what we learned the most is how important it was for Kelvin to have an above-average point guard in his system. He inherited John Ontjes the year prior, but he ran out of eligibility and wasn't effectively replaced.

I was also at a bar watching that Temple game. John Cheney was a heckuva coach, and we just couldn't score. To your point, being down 8 was practically insurmountable. What I remember the most about that game was when Hootie Wiley fouled out and his stats were posted on the screen - 0 points, 0 rebounds. Shortly thereafter, Bobby Joe Evans fouled out and his stats were posted - 0 points, 0 rebounds. By that point, everyone in the bar watching were just laughing while I was doing a face palm. It took awhile for Kelvin to develop into a good NCAA tournament head coach, and now of course, he's a Hall-of-Famer.