Best Cyclone Sports Memory?

[cyclonestunners]

Was this your best Cyclone sports memory? Curious what others top 5 are.
Mine (football wise)
1) Oklahoma State upset
2) Fiesta bowl championship!!
3) ISU hosting gameday (I forget the result )
4) Beating Texas to cement B12 reg season share
5) Insight.com bowl

Note: If this was basketball too, would include the final B8 champ and our first B12 trny champ... and a runner up is our womens bball upset over texas tech in 2000, or beating Uconn in s16.

 

[jdoggivjc]

2000 men's basketball season (sans the MSU game)

 

[JP4CY]

Thug Life kissing Hilton floor is #1. I’ll ponder some more.

 

[Clonedogg]

Was this your best Cyclone sports memory? Curious what others top 5 are.
Mine (football wise)
1) Oklahoma State upset
2) Fiesta bowl championship!!
3) ISU hosting gameday (I forget the result )
4) Beating Texas to cement B12 reg season share
5) Insight.com bowl

Note: If this was basketball too, would include the final B8 champ and our first B12 trny champ... and a runner up is our womens bball upset over texas tech in 2000, or beating Uconn in s16.

I like your FB list, sameizes

 

[SolarGarlic]

1. Fiesta Bowl Champions
2. 2017 win at OU
3. 2020 win at Texas
4. 1998 win at Iowa
5. 2000 Insight Bowl Champions

 

[AlaCyclone]

All listed were AWESOME, but to me, sitting in JTS on 12/5 watching ISU dismantle West Virginia 42-6 to wrap up first place in the Big Xii Regular Season was my favorite Cyclone Memory as a fan.

 

[ClonesFTW]

In no order: 2014 B12 champ weekend, 2019 B12 champ weekend, and rushing the field for Okie State in 2011.

 

[cyclonestunners]

2000 men's basketball season (sans the MSU game)

Fizer's jumpshot against KU is something I will always remember.

 

[cmjh10]

Discovering Juicy Wiggle

 

[CyGuy5]

2011 OSU and 2017 TCU are tied at the top for me

 

[MuskieCy]

After 55 years of listening/watching/being at Cyclone athletic contests, tonight moves to #1.

Donovan Jackson at KU is ALWAYS forgotten.

 

[ISUCyclones2015]

Not sure you can top 2011 OSU. Especially me being in nothing but a speedo and paint.

 

[acoustimac]

Was this your best Cyclone sports memory? Curious what others top 5 are.
Mine (football wise)
1) Oklahoma State upset
2) Fiesta bowl championship!!
3) ISU hosting gameday (I forget the result )
4) Beating Texas to cement B12 reg season share
5) Insight.com bowl

Note: If this was basketball too, would include the final B8 champ and our first B12 trny champ... and a runner up is our womens bball upset over texas tech in 2000, or beating Uconn in s16.

none of the above. For something I attended it would be Basketball beating OSU when the hoop was shaking from the noise and they missed two free throws at the end of the game. Second was this...https://cyclones.com/news/2008/3/19/1414094.aspx

 

[jdoggivjc]

Fizer's jumpshot against KU is something I will always remember.

Fizer's dunk over Mihm is something I will always remember.

 

[Lexclone]

1992 upset of #2Okie State at Hilton. Justus Thigpen got hot in the second half after being benched for the first half. I think it’s the game that Fred said it was so loud at the end he could feel the floor moving. It was incredibly loud even in the cheap seats.

 

[Rogue52]

Fiesta Bowl should be #1, but it’s difficult to move it to #1 because I wasn’t able to be there in person like all the other memories.

Also, a LOT of basketball memories on the list.

 

[SolarGarlic]

I gotta say there are some weird choices in this thread. Everyone has their own experiences tied to specific eras, ages, and individual days. But for pete's sake, we just won the Fiesta Bowl. We used to give up 500 yards of rushing to Oklahoma.

 

[madguy30]

2000 basketball dismantling UCLA in the Sweet Sixteen (and overall watching that team the last month of the season...that hasn't been done since).

2011 OSU game--I went bonkers. Probably the craziest I've gone over an ISU game.

2017 at OU-really start of setting the standard.

2020-That drive to put ISU ahead in Austin doesn't get enough credit.

-While today's game wasn't the thriller or full of fireworks, ISU just won a ****ing Fiesta Bowl in dominant fashion.

It's the best thing I've seen Iowa State football do, and it's not close.

 

[isuclone89]

Beating Kansas in the last Big 8 basketball tournament.

In football this one is tops.
Did enjoy the Nebraska turnover fest.

 

[BCoffClone]

As great as this win was, I'm not sure it makes my top 5 because of the lack of drama. We controlled the game from the start and it really never felt like we were gonna lose. Maybe I'm just not used to that feeling as an ISU fan? Top 5 moments, off the top of my head:

1) 2012 OSU game - I was there, and in hindsight it didn't really propel the program forward the way we thought it might, but god damn that was fun.
2) 2000 MBB season - I was still young, but old enough to remember. Was at the UT game with the Fizer dunk over Chris Mihm. Goosebumps thinking about it.
3) 2014 Big 12 Tourney Championship/NCAA run - Ejim, Kane, Georges. Hardly a Baylor fan in sight. One of the best ISU bball teams ever. That game winning layup by Kane to beat UNC in the Round of 32 will never get old. Just forget about the whole Niang broken foot thing...
4) 2020 football win over Texas in Austin - This win was so important for so many reasons. I'm not sure I've ever felt so much stress, joy and relief in a short amount of time than during/after this game. The fan reactions afterwards said it all.
5) College Gamday in Ames - Forget the game result. To be there in person and see the Gameday set and festivities actually in Ames was so damn cool. Hopefully we will get them again next year under better circumstances.