NMSooner'80
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It's close to being over already, but I'm sure it'll be shown a few more times on FSN-Oklahoma. Not only did I enjoy seeing OU advance to the West Regional final, I also loved it greatly that it was a beatdown of Arizona. I really learned to hate them during the '88 season, and that hatred has only dissipated slightly. That was truly one of those "we're better people than you are" self-promoting program in the mold of Kansas and Duke of that era.
One thing I remember about it was that almost all of the "talking heads" picked Arizona to win. I had forgotten that there were so many bad calls that went Arizona's way, until we really hit them in the mouth in the final 8 minutes and routed them.
It was also party time in Albuquerque for the many Arizona-haters there. Loot Olson (deliberate misspelling) ran his mouth three years earlier about a one-point loss to UNM, and the UofA fans really got bent out of shape in '02 after Lobo fans showed up to boo them in the first-rounders at the Pit. The idiotic editor-in-chief of the Albuquerque "Urinal" let them write crying letters about how St. Loot and Co. got verbally mistreated by such rude people. It's as if the moron had no idea why the locals hated Loot and Co.
OU really did well against Arizona during the Olson era. It's a shame the '90 team didn't end their long home-court win streak. But OU did get them in the '88 Final Four and then again in Norman in '89. :dance005:
One thing I remember about it was that almost all of the "talking heads" picked Arizona to win. I had forgotten that there were so many bad calls that went Arizona's way, until we really hit them in the mouth in the final 8 minutes and routed them.
It was also party time in Albuquerque for the many Arizona-haters there. Loot Olson (deliberate misspelling) ran his mouth three years earlier about a one-point loss to UNM, and the UofA fans really got bent out of shape in '02 after Lobo fans showed up to boo them in the first-rounders at the Pit. The idiotic editor-in-chief of the Albuquerque "Urinal" let them write crying letters about how St. Loot and Co. got verbally mistreated by such rude people. It's as if the moron had no idea why the locals hated Loot and Co.
OU really did well against Arizona during the Olson era. It's a shame the '90 team didn't end their long home-court win streak. But OU did get them in the '88 Final Four and then again in Norman in '89. :dance005: