What is your favorite LNC "Moment"

[BigTime]

Nice thread on all-time best LNC game. Let's continue that slow season theme and take it to your favorite all time LNC "moment".

I know the Tubbs speech will be tough to beat, but, I wasn't there so...

Mine:

The Norman Bedlam game in 2006. Just a couple of seconds left (I think like 4) on the clock. OU down 1. Game is over for all intensive purposes. Terrell "Relly Rell" Everett takes the ball down the floor and Byron Eaton - Good in the neighborhood attempts to take a charge 65 feet from the basket on Relly (they aren't really the "brightest orange" after all). Ref calls a block. Place goes crazy. Relly calmly hits both FTs and OU wins! Part of what made it so great was that Sean "Ratboy" Sutton ended up on the ground in a sweaty heap after the call in pure disbelief.

Awesome moment during an awesome game. :OU-logo:

 

[jmizzy4ou]

I have two. I was a student in 85 or 86, but we played NC St. after the Chris Washburn teammate theft deal. It was very cold & icy outside, and they came through the dorms saying any students who braved the weather could get in free. Me & my buddies walked/slid across the ice to the LNC, and saw a great game between two very good teams. The students gave Washburn the blues with various creative ways to remind him he stole his teammates television from his dorm room.

The other would be when Tark the Shark and his Runnin' Rebels came in with their roster of NBA prospects. Choo Kennedy, David Johnson, and the entire cast played lights out that day and knocked the Rebels off. The LNC was jumping like I had never seen on that day. Choo Kennedy owned the final few minutes of a back & forth game.

That's just quickly off the top of my old head, which doesn't remember details as good as it use to. :OU-logo:

 

[Max Power]

In addition to those listed, Buddy's Tip in to beat the Hawks this year was very satisfying

 

[MsProudSooner]

Ernie Abercrombie's 3 to beat KU was pretty big.

 

[SoonerBounce13]

I have two that stick out. I didn't start going to games until the early 2000s.

The Baylor game where crocker hit the four point play and jerrels missed the two free throws.

Bedlam when we opened the game on that crazy run

 

[KBaden145]

Ernie Abercrombie's 3 to beat KU was pretty big.

Corner 3. My pick also...


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[thebigabd]

Nice thread on all-time best LNC game. Let's continue that slow season theme and take it to your favorite all time LNC "moment".

I know the Tubbs speech will be tough to beat, but, I wasn't there so...

Mine:

The Norman Bedlam game in 2006. Just a couple of seconds left (I think like 4) on the clock. OU down 1. Game is over for all intensive purposes. Terrell "Relly Rell" Everett takes the ball down the floor and Byron Eaton - Good in the neighborhood attempts to take a charge 65 feet from the basket on Relly (they aren't really the "brightest orange" after all). Ref calls a block. Place goes crazy. Relly calmly hits both FTs and OU wins! Part of what made it so great was that Sean "Ratboy" Sutton ended up on the ground in a sweaty heap after the call in pure disbelief.

Awesome moment during an awesome game. :OU-logo:

I hate to be that guy, but the phrase is "for all intents and purposes".... not "intensive purposes".

Common mistake. Nothing to see here.

 

[1390]

For pure moment one of my faves is Najera kissing the OU symbol on the floor of the LNC in the 2nd half of his last home game vs Mizzou when OU blitzed the tigers in the 2nd half and won 83-57

 

[redfirecracker]

Does anyone remember a game where Corey Brewer (who was sort of carrying the team as I recall) made a miracle shot from under the basket as he was being fouled... the student section erupted chanting COREY - COREY - COREY.

The way I remember it, he sort of humbly hung his head for a second then faced the student section and raised the roof on us. Which I thought was the coolest thing because I had never seen that before (I'm thinking this was early 1997).

 

[soonerpd]

I have three moments that stand out in games I attended. The first was my first game ever attended, the OU Missouri game in '77. It was standing room only and we were down 7 with about a minute to go to a highly ranked team - we somehow won. The place erupted and I was hooked.

The second was about '81 or '82. We had made the post season for the first time under Tubbs - the NIT. We were hosting - can't remember who - and were down about 21 and all looked hopeless. One of my favorite all-time Sooners, Chucky Barnett, stole the ball, took it the length and finished with a 360 Slam. The crowd erupted, the team ignited and they stormed back to win - think going away.

The third is of course the Tubbs address to the crowd mentioned by the OP that ignited the comeback from another 21 point deficit to Missouri.

It would be hard to pick from those three.

 

[cvangild]

Nothing comes close to the Mizzou/Tubbs mic game. The Vegas games were great too.

 

[DenverSooner]

Nothing comes close to the Mizzou/Tubbs mic game. The Vegas games were great too.

I have to agree. Tubbs' comment was the best thing I ever saw at the LNC. Part of what made it so great was his non verbal and the way he said it. His expression when he got the T was like utter confusion and disbelief. Obviously he wanted and expected the T but he played it perfectly.

The thing people need to know that were not at the game and did not see it is that Missouri and OU were both every good and Missouri was literally running OU off the floor in the first few minutes of that game.

Here is youtube clip but it ends too early.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YglrzDO2etA

Here is an article about it and some other things Tubbs did.

 

[WTSooner]

There are lots.

The one I saw live was the OU/Maryland game referenced in the other thread.

Sometime in the first half, Jabahri Brown steals the ball around his defensive FT line. He dribbles the length of the court, under control, and throws down an athletic dunk.

I knew at that moment we had a special team. I believe that was only JB's second game in an OU uniform. He gave Kelvin something he never had.

 

[DenverSooner]

There are lots.

The one I saw live was the OU/Maryland game referenced in the other thread.

Sometime in the first half, Jabahri Brown steals the ball around his defensive FT line. He dribbles the length of the court, under control, and throws down an athletic dunk.

I knew at that moment we had a special team. I believe that was only JB's second game in an OU uniform. He gave Kelvin something he never had.

I remember that from TV or think I do. I think you have to be at the LNC to fully appreciate great moments like that.

 

[NMSooner'80]

I picked the OU-UNLV game of '87 in my thread as the greatest game ever at the LNC. But probably my favorite moment was when the '79 team won the regular season Big 8 title outright in the regular season finale. That was a 65-52 win over K-State, which back then was a better program than KU was.

Students (myself included) started getting ready to rush the court with just under a minute to play, because OU had a 13-point lead and there was no shot clock or three-point line then. When that clock hit 0:00, we turned it loose and celebrated with the players, even several minutes later when our guys cut down both nets. The Big 8 network stayed with the celebration during the telecast and also did live postgame interviews with Stotts, McCullough, Carrabine and Bliss.

In the '78-79 school year, OU won a co-championship in football (the fluky loss to NU was avenged, though, in the Orange Bowl), men's basketball and baseball. We might have won wrestling, too, but I'm not really sure.

 

[DenverSooner]

I thought of a cool LNC moment. If I recall correctly, a car dealership was offering a free car if you made a half court shot during half time. This went on for a while with everyone missing. One day, if I recall correctly, a student hit it and won a car. They ended that promotion. I would guess this occurred in the 90-93 era. I hope I am remembering something from OU games and not a game I watched on TV but I really wouldn't have seen it on TV because you don't see the half time stuff and everything wasn't on TV back then like it is now.

 

[Sooner24]

I picked the OU-UNLV game of '87 in my thread as the greatest game ever at the LNC. But probably my favorite moment was when the '79 team won the regular season Big 8 title outright in the regular season finale. That was a 65-52 win over K-State, which back then was a better program than KU was.

Students (myself included) started getting ready to rush the court with just under a minute to play, because OU had a 13-point lead and there was no shot clock or three-point line then. When that clock hit 0:00, we turned it loose and celebrated with the players, even several minutes later when our guys cut down both nets. The Big 8 network stayed with the celebration during the telecast and also did live postgame interviews with Stotts, McCullough, Carrabine and Bliss.

In the '78-79 school year, OU won a co-championship in football (the fluky loss to NU was avenged, though, in the Orange Bowl), men's basketball and baseball. We might have won wrestling, too, but I'm not really sure.

That was my first game at the LNC. Starting the next year I attended nearly every home game for a several decades. Still go to a majority of the games today.

 

[NMSooner'80]

I have three moments that stand out in games I attended. The first was my first game ever attended, the OU Missouri game in '77. It was standing room only and we were down 7 with about a minute to go to a highly ranked team - we somehow won. The place erupted and I was hooked.

The second was about '81 or '82. We had made the post season for the first time under Tubbs - the NIT. We were hosting - can't remember who - and were down about 21 and all looked hopeless. One of my favorite all-time Sooners, Chucky Barnett, stole the ball, took it the length and finished with a 360 Slam. The crowd erupted, the team ignited and they stormed back to win - think going away.

The third is of course the Tubbs address to the crowd mentioned by the OP that ignited the comeback from another 21 point deficit to Missouri.

It would be hard to pick from those three.

That NIT game in '82 might have been the UC-Irvine game. I was there. OU fell behind something like 40-23 (and UCI didn't even have its best player for that game). I have some recollection of Barnett having a big steal and dunk to highlight the turn-around.

But, I think it was almost a calamitous final minute against Irvine. We almost blew a 10-point lead in the final 1:30 but held on for the win. That place was LOUD during that big comeback, though.

 

[Sooner04]

The Irvine game. I was there, in utero.

 

[vbdad]

Anthony Bowie's follow slam against Georgia Tech.

Any time Wayman turned from the left block and flicked up that magical turnaround jumper.