Just curious... Were you old enough to enjoy and appreciate the amazingness that was Wayman Tisdale? He had an unstoppable turnaround jumper. I was lucky enough to be at OU his JR (and final) season. I also worked part-time for the Big 8 Conference Headquarters my senior year in high school and got to have a press pass for the conference tourny. During that my boss, Tracy Dittemore, arranged to have me meet Wayman, which was such an amazing experience since Wayman was my idol.
For Chistmas before that tourny Tracy also gave me an autographed pic of Wayman that listed some of his amazing accomplishments to that point that was signed "To Mark, Best wishes, Wayman Tisdale". I'm not saying all this to brag about meeting Wayman and such, but just enjoying remembering how awesome it was.
When I got to OU, because I had connections in the Sports Information Department from working in the Big 8 Conferene Headquarters, I was able to work (on a voluntary basis) for them during the football and basketball seasons. I had a press pass and was in the press box during football games (which was really hard because you aren't supposed to go nuts cheering when the team kicks a$$). I also had a press pass for the basketball games which was much cooler because I got to sit on the floor at the end of the scorers table by the visiting teams bench (and boy could Norm Stewart cuss up a storm). It was so amazingly cool to see Wayman playing from that close (at times only 3 or 4 feet or so away from me).
Anyway, before I got sidetracked remembering how awesome that was and how lucky I was, I was going to tell you that Wayman was the first player ever to be named First Team AP All-American as a Freshman, Sophomore, and Junior. So yeah, Wayman is most definitely, by far and away, the Freshman record holder for scoring at OU.
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