Best dunks in ISU history

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Oh come on just give it to Big Ham

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BLqi1_9fqs&feature=related]YouTube - Justin Hamilton throws it down[/ame]
 

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Actually I have always loved #1 on Clarks Highlight film. The whole sequence of the throw down against Virginia is amazing.
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZcDcBRP-b0&feature=related]YouTube - Rahshon Clark Top 10 Dunks[/ame]
 

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Hornacek's inbound pass and subsequent dunk by Elmer Robinson against Michigan late in the game. It helped seal the win against the mighty Wolverines in the NCAA 's and put ISU in the Sweet Sixteen. I think it was after this game that Johnny got off his famous quote about kicking Vitale's *** on ESPN.

It wasn't the greatest dunk, but it was one of the most meaningful.
 

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Hornacek's inbound pass and subsequent dunk by Elmer Robinson against Michigan late in the game. It helped seal the win against the mighty Wolverines in the NCAA 's and put ISU in the Sweet Sixteen. I think it was after this game that Johnny got off his famous quote about kicking Vitale's *** on ESPN.

It wasn't the greatest dunk, but it was one of the most meaningful.

That Orr quote came during the selection show on ESPN. Not sure which year, but I'm pretty sure it was the year we were 5-9 in a ridiculously difficult league and Vitale didn't think we should've gotten in.
 

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That Orr quote came during the selection show on ESPN. Not sure which year, but I'm pretty sure it was the year we were 5-9 in a ridiculously difficult league and Vitale didn't think we should've gotten in.

Yea, that may have been it. The memory's not what it used to be. Johnny at his best though...
 

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The Grayer dunk was over Greg Dreiling. I have it on VideoTape. Definitely not Danny Manning.

Manning was guarding him and Grayer took a pass on the right wing and drove right around Manning and then jumped through the friggin roof to cram it over Greg Dreiling.

Manning was left holding his jockstrap, but the dunk was 200% over Dreiling.


The Grayer dunk was one of the most amazing I have ever seen, because it came out of no where. I was thinking it was earlier than 86, but it was definitely from the right baseline at the Big 8 tournament. People were talking about that dunk for a week after.
 

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It wasn't over Manning, it was Greg Dreiling, a 7 footer. Big 8 tourney in Kemper. ISU started slow. Refs were bad. Grayer got ****** and took it to the rack over Dreiling. I was sitting right behind the basket and will never forget it. Don't think I could rank them, but this dunk and Fizer over Mihm are easily top 5.

For those of us that are older, Terrance Allen used to absolutely sky as well. Back in 83/84, we ran an inbounds play under our own hoop, TA came straight down the lane and rocked the house. AWESOME!

Cato's spin move versus Cincy was awesome because he was not great in space and shocked everyone. By the way - it made One Shining Moment that year. Available on iTunes.

T was in my basketball officiating PE class. Gary Greenlee used to make us take turns throwing the ball up with T jumping just becaused he could jump so high. He told us if we could throw it up correctly for someone like T, we could get by in any high school game! T was a good rebounding guard too.
 
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Fizer over Mihm for me. Pretty much was the statement that ISU had arrived that season and also Fizer's 35 points on a guy at the time many thought was the best post player in the country put Fizer on the map as well. That was one of the loudest times I've heard Hilton.
 

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Hornacek's inbound pass and subsequent dunk by Elmer Robinson against Michigan late in the game. It helped seal the win against the mighty Wolverines in the NCAA 's and put ISU in the Sweet Sixteen. I think it was after this game that Johnny got off his famous quote about kicking Vitale's *** on ESPN.

It wasn't the greatest dunk, but it was one of the most meaningful.

Elmer was an amazing athlete. He could score big in a game, then completely disappear in them. My first intro to Elmer was the championship game of intramural 3-on-3. I was week, but we had a quick guard and a 6'9" center. We didn't know who Elmer was, but you couldn't pass around him. He was so quick and had such long arms he had a ton of stolen passes. After the game was said, "you should try out for the team." That was when he told us he was already accepted on the team. I can't remember if he had redshirted, transferred or had academic issues. dude had some off court challenges.
 

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The Grayer dunk was over Greg Dreiling. I have it on VideoTape. Definitely not Danny Manning.

Manning was guarding him and Grayer took a pass on the right wing and drove right around Manning and then jumped through the friggin roof to cram it over Greg Dreiling.

Manning was left holding his jockstrap, but the dunk was 200% over Dreiling.
Put it on Youtube....
 

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Someone should put the Fizer dunk on youtube as well...
I've seen a myspace video but the quality is horrible.
 

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My personal favorite was stinson stealing it spinning passing to blalock, who behind the backed it to clark...

I absolutely agree!! That whole sequence was amazing. You could absolutely see that play coming, yet it almost seemed unreal at the same time! That's just amazing court awareness all the way around!!
 

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My favorite of all time was Mike Taylor going 360 at Nebraska!

I hope someone can still find a link to that one.
 

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The Grayer dunk was over Greg Dreiling. I have it on VideoTape. Definitely not Danny Manning.

Manning was guarding him and Grayer took a pass on the right wing and drove right around Manning and then jumped through the friggin roof to cram it over Greg Dreiling.

Manning was left holding his jockstrap, but the dunk was 200% over Dreiling.

Pretty sure it was Ron Kellogg he jumped over, not Dreiling, and definately not Manning. But either way it got me out of my chair when he put it down.

And I will go with Fizer over Mihm as well. You have to rate the competition, what was at stake etc.

Robinson's dunk against Michigan had significant meaning, but it was your basic two handed breakaway, nothing spectacular
 

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Grayer over Derrick Cheivous of Missouri in '85? at Hilton in the closing minutes.

It was like an exclamation point that brought the house down and left Chevious flat on his back.

Did anyone else see that one? It was the ultimate smack-down!
 

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You may be right, many, many years and beers ago. But I thought for sure it was in traffic, and that doesn't sound like Grayer to hot dog on a fast break.
It was a fast break AND in traffic. And as you say, Grayer wasn't one to hot dog on a break. I think reversing it was the ONLY way he could have made the shot because of the way his body was going.