NMSooner'80
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I only got to see the third of the three games in person, and it was the year after Bo Kimble and that epic senior class graduated. Of course, the star of that team, Hank Gathers passed away on the court at the conference tournament in 1990.
My brother got to see the one game played out at LMU, and it was the one where each team had a 40-point scorer. Kimble scored 46, but Skeeter Henry almost matched him with 41 in a 136-121 OU win. It was also the game right after Gathers collapsed on the court the first time.
I was in Albuquerque at a game the same night that OU hosted LMU when Kimble, Gathers and Jeff Fryer were all juniors. I know OU won by 33, but it was a fairly tight game at the half. As I recall, OU was up 64-63 at the half.
The third game was the year in which both teams were rebuilding. Brent Price set the LNC record with 56 points, one better than Wayman Tisdale's 55-point effort in the fall of '84. OU won that one, 172-112. BTW, Tisdale's school record of 61 points happened in OKC.
The OU team that won at LMU basically beat their team that made the "magical run" in the NCAA tournament after Gathers' death. My brother said that was one of the best basketball games he'd ever seen.
My brother got to see the one game played out at LMU, and it was the one where each team had a 40-point scorer. Kimble scored 46, but Skeeter Henry almost matched him with 41 in a 136-121 OU win. It was also the game right after Gathers collapsed on the court the first time.
I was in Albuquerque at a game the same night that OU hosted LMU when Kimble, Gathers and Jeff Fryer were all juniors. I know OU won by 33, but it was a fairly tight game at the half. As I recall, OU was up 64-63 at the half.
The third game was the year in which both teams were rebuilding. Brent Price set the LNC record with 56 points, one better than Wayman Tisdale's 55-point effort in the fall of '84. OU won that one, 172-112. BTW, Tisdale's school record of 61 points happened in OKC.
The OU team that won at LMU basically beat their team that made the "magical run" in the NCAA tournament after Gathers' death. My brother said that was one of the best basketball games he'd ever seen.