I've been an OU basketball fan longer than you've been alive. I was attending games before your parents were married. I can remember when the OU team played on a tartan surface under the wood court in the LNC. I remember watching former Big 8 greats Ed Nealy, Rolando Blackmon, Darnell Valentine, Steve Stipanovich, and Jon Sundvold come to Norman before packed raucous crowds and losing to the home sooners. I was there when Bliss left and Tubbs was hired and everybody thought the basketball program was going back to the cellar. Then I was there when Tubbs left and Sampson was hired and everybody again felt the program was headed to the doldrums. I've seen the program reach heights never before seen in OU mens basketball history. I can remember when Nebraska, ISU, KSU, Mizzou, and OSU all led the overall basketball series with OU but now OU leads every series.