33 Years Ago Today

[Farnsworth]

I was very drunk at that game.

I was 8, but pretty sure I wasnt...

Would have been awesome to see 1990-2002 in person before I attended in ISU Fall 2002.

 

[TitanClone]

I was very drunk at that game.

I was in my moms belly

 

[Tpups21]

Can remember that game like it was yesterday. Still miss the old lighting in Hilton.

 

[CyNews]

Everyone has the game that made them believe in Hilton Magic. This wasn't the first time I saw a great comeback (hell, I think the week before there was a pretty decent comeback against Oklahoma), but it was my first core memory at Hilton. I remember being really pissed at halftime and I remember losing my god damned mind in the second half. My mom, who wasn't at the game, starting taping it with about 7 minutes left. And I watched the hell out of that tape. So much so that when cyclones.tv had a replay of the game some 20 years later, I STILL knew the exact words the announcers said and their exact inflection.

And games like this are the reason why I will never understand why anyone would prefer watching at home to being there in person.

And the floor shook

 

[clonehome]

I worked for the Sports Info dept my senior year and sat courtside at about the foul line for Alexander’s 2 FTs, across from the OSU bench. Still my favorite game of all time. Justus went off late in regulation and overtime to will us to victory.

 

[Die4Cy]

Hoiberg had had a really nice season to that point, but the game winning basket in this one was around the time the Mayor stuff really started to take off.

 

[Lexclone]

Student rotation tickets with my dorm floor (Friley) had us 2/3 the way up in the upper deck but center court-ish. Even up their my ears rang for an hour after that game due to the din during Alexander’s free throws.

I remember Mikalik jawing pretty heavily with Byron Houston during the comeback. He’s still on of my favorite Cyclones.

 

[flycy]

And the floor shook

This guy is right, when we say the floor shook it is not figurative, the floor and everything around was actually vibrating from the noise.

 

[casey1973]

This guy is right, when we say the floor shook it is not figurative, the floor and everything around was actually vibrating from the noise.

I was there. 50 yard line 1st couple rows in the balcony and I swear it was shaking there and probably lost some hearing that day.

 

[acoustimac]

Everyone has the game that made them believe in Hilton Magic. This wasn't the first time I saw a great comeback (hell, I think the week before there was a pretty decent comeback against Oklahoma), but it was my first core memory at Hilton. I remember being really pissed at halftime and I remember losing my god damned mind in the second half. My mom, who wasn't at the game, starting taping it with about 7 minutes left. And I watched the hell out of that tape. So much so that when cyclones.tv had a replay of the game some 20 years later, I STILL knew the exact words the announcers said and their exact inflection.

And games like this are the reason why I will never understand why anyone would prefer watching at home to being there in person.

I was a grad student and was at this game. I have never heard Hilton be as loud as it was when those last free throws were shot. I was about 5 rows up in the north upper deck and it was shaking. I’ve never experienced that since either.

 

[NWICY]

There was an old ISU newspaper called Cyclone Illustrated (many on here will remember it many may not) and there was an issue with the cover photo of Alexander shooting into the craziness behind the basket. Wish I still had that because my and my brother are visible in the pic.

LOL Steve Deace in another life ran it had a subscription and then it just quit coming. I think I'm remembering this correctly. It wasn't a bad magazine tbh.

 

[NWICY]

Hand made signs don't see many of those anymore.

 

[Cyclonepride]

Back when the broadcasts actually allowed the crowd noise to be its own thing. Just insane watching it, wish I had been there.

 

[CycloneRulzzz]

Watching the video and shots of that old school scoreboard brings back memories. Loved that scoreboard.

 

[CyNews]

LOL Steve Deace in another life ran it had a subscription and then it just quit coming. I think I'm remembering this correctly. It wasn't a bad magazine tbh.

It was best when Deace wasn’t there.

 

[Peter]

Can remember that game like it was yesterday. Still miss the old lighting in Hilton.

Old lighting made crowd watching a much bigger part of the game. You could see everyone losing their goddamn minds and people fed off it. The old people especially had nowhere to hide and it wasn’t all on the student section to bring the noise.

 

[AlaCyclone]

I was there.
Row 2 under the opposite basket.
What a game!

 

[AlaCyclone]

I was about 12 rows up behind the OSU bench near center court. It was my first year at ISU and these were one rotation of the tickets I got in the student lottery. Probably takes $20,000 in annual donations to sit there today. A great memory.

At the game yesterday I was thinking how awesome it was to have the student ticket seats rotate back then. I had great seats for both the Iowa and Okla. State games in 1991-2.

 

[clonehome]

LOL Steve Deace in another life ran it had a subscription and then it just quit coming. I think I'm remembering this correctly. It wasn't a bad magazine tbh.

I thought a guy named Todd Stevens ran Cyclone Illustrated and he wrote a lot of the content. I enjoyed that publication for many years.

 

[NWICY]

I thought a guy named Todd Stevens ran Cyclone Illustrated and he wrote a lot of the content. I enjoyed that publication for many years.

I think he started it? Man it's a long time ago and I'll believe you