NMSooner'80
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The dunk was banned in college and high school basketball between 1968-76. It seems hard to believe now. I always thought it was something done to punish teams with dominant big men like Lew Alcindor (now known as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar). The dunk was reinstated in time for my freshman year of college (fall of '76).
I did see three live OU games in the conference season of '76. OU had a smallish team that season, so dunking was barely an option for that crew. But, OU had some guys coming in as freshmen who could throw it down (Al Beal and Clifford Johnson come to mind), so I did see plenty of them until graduation and beyond.
Blake Griffin remains the best dunker at OU, in my opinion. I'm trying to think back to some other fantastic slammers - so I came up with Calvin Pierce, Mike Bell, Skeeter Henry, Harvey Grant, and of course, Wayman Tisdale and Stacey King. I'm not trying to name all of them, of course, but just winging a few since I started seeing OU games in person.
I did see three live OU games in the conference season of '76. OU had a smallish team that season, so dunking was barely an option for that crew. But, OU had some guys coming in as freshmen who could throw it down (Al Beal and Clifford Johnson come to mind), so I did see plenty of them until graduation and beyond.
Blake Griffin remains the best dunker at OU, in my opinion. I'm trying to think back to some other fantastic slammers - so I came up with Calvin Pierce, Mike Bell, Skeeter Henry, Harvey Grant, and of course, Wayman Tisdale and Stacey King. I'm not trying to name all of them, of course, but just winging a few since I started seeing OU games in person.