Favorite "Lights Out" Performances

[CascadeClone]

Great ones here. I will throw out Scotty C at Iowa back in 2010. I was at that game.

Iowa led by 9 at half. Clones won by 6.

Scotty had 30 points 10-17 and 7-12 from 3. He had FIVE 3's and 24 points in 2nd half I believe.

Late in the game, after he had already buried a bunch of 3s and ISU had it in control, Clones got a rebound and pushed it out quickly. Scotty was already in the corner calling for the ball as it came over halfcourt. The crowd let out a groan even before the ball was passed to him - they saw it before the defense did, like "WHY DID YOU LEAVE THAT GUY OPEN AGAIN". He caught it, shot it, buried it. It was great. I will never forget that collective Iowa pain & frustration. It sparks joy.

 

[Letterkenny]

Great ones here. I will throw out Scotty C at Iowa back in 2010. I was at that game.

Iowa led by 9 at half. Clones won by 6.

Scotty had 30 points 10-17 and 7-12 from 3. He had FIVE 3's and 24 points in 2nd half I believe.

Late in the game, after he had already buried a bunch of 3s and ISU had it in control, Clones got a rebound and pushed it out quickly. Scotty was already in the corner calling for the ball as it came over halfcourt. The crowd let out a groan even before the ball was passed to him - they saw it before the defense did, like "WHY DID YOU LEAVE THAT GUY OPEN AGAIN". He caught it, shot it, buried it. It was great. I will never forget that collective Iowa pain & frustration. It sparks joy.

Scotty C had a 29pt game against Drake one year. He went 5-5 from 3, 11-11 from the floor, 2-2 from the FT line.

 

[cydsho]

Freddy had like the last 15 points against KU to win in 1995.
Fizer was pretty much lights out the entire conference season in 2000. Absolutely insane.

 

[StevieISU23]

Blythe vs Texas A&M..........................

 

[PineClone]

1992 vs #2 ranked OSU, Justus Thigpen benched for the first half, comes out in the 2nd half and scores 22.

 

[BryceC]

Scotty C had a 29pt game against Drake one year. He went 5-5 from 3, 11-11 from the floor, 2-2 from the FT line.

Same year he went nuts against Iowa too

 

[CYdTracked]

Feels like Jake Sullivan, Michael Nurse, and Kantrail Horton had some games that they were just dropping bombs all game but I'd have to go back and look up some game logs. I know Jake had 1 of those games against Kansas his freshman year in 2001 hitting 6-8 3's to beat the Jayhawks 79-71 Some of the highlights from that game with Pete Taylor on the call for some of them in the video below. It was crazy how open he got even when everyone knew he could shoot the rock. I think everyone was so worried about Tinsley and Horton beating them that Jake benefited as they probably viewed the stocky white kid as the lesser threat. Jake finished 8-11 FG for 22 in that game. Remember being at that game as a student, we beat KU 4 straight regular season games during the 99-00 and 00-01 seasons before Hinrich and Collison ever got a sniff of a win against ISU their junior season.

TJ's teams have been fun to watch lately as were some Hoiberg years but I still don't think anything tops that 2 year stretch that we just steam rolled through the Big 12 and had an electric home court advantage nearly every game.

 

[BillBrasky4Cy]

For one guy against one opponent, Lucca Staiger against Drake was wild. 8/11 from 3 his first year in Hilton (we somehow lost) and followed that up with 10/16 the following year in Des Moines. He averaged less than 10 PPG and averaged 28 per game against them.

Lucca would have been incredible in a Hoiberg offense.

 

[CYdTracked]

For one guy against one opponent, Lucca Staiger against Drake was wild. 8/11 from 3 his first year in Hilton (we somehow lost) and followed that up with 10/16 the following year in Des Moines. He averaged less than 10 PPG and averaged 28 per game against them.

When he was on he was sure fun to watch and he sure had Drake's number those 2 games. Too bad our program was a s-show when he was here before he left. We had a whole year of "free Lucca" to hype him up even too.

 

[bawbie]

The Ejim game is the first one that came to my mind, he was unstoppable that day.

The game Fizer dropped 35 on Texas and the poster dunk over Mihm was the cherry on top of that game he dominated. Fizer's line was:
35 pts
13-25 shooting (2-2 on 3's)
8-9 FT
9 rebounds
5 assists
2 blocks
2 steals
2 turnovers

Yeah, that was the other one I was thinking along with the Willoughby game against Kansas. I was in student seating in the lower bowl for both of them. Fizer was unguardable in that game.

 

[isucy86]

No question for me and not even close. The all time great Cyclone performance was Barry Stevens 40 points to beat #10 ranked Mizzou in OT and marked the BEGINNING OF HILTON MAGIC!!!!

The most dominant performance for me was Melvin Ejim's 48 points & 18 rebound game against TCU. He was 20-24 from the field. He was on fire that day.

 

[gocy444]

First 1:10 of this video. McGee was unconscious that night. Don't want to talk about the end of that game...

 

[VeloClone]

Freddy had like the last 15 points against KU to win in 1995.
Fizer was pretty much lights out the entire conference season in 2000. Absolutely insane.

It was 17 consecutive ISU points by Hoiberg which closed out the game except for a pair of Julo FTs inside the last 10 seconds. Fred did it largely against a box and one designed to stop him. Fred finished with 32.

From 1:04:30...


From the start of the run to the end of the game Fred was 3 of 5 from 3, 1 of 2 from 2 and 6 of 6 from the line.

 

[VeloClone]

Peak Hoiball. Down 22, came back to win easily. Ridiculous.

15:55 - 48-28 OU
9:33 - 50-48 ISU



ISU scoring:
1st Half - 18
2nd Half - 59

 

[TitanClone]

Royce's 1st half vs Kentucky and the entire team in the 2nd half against Oklahoma in 2015 are 2 that come to mind.

 

[jsb]

It's too bad we didn't pull out the win because Curtis Jones's 5 minute stretch against BYU would be right up there.

 

[VeloClone]

Royce's 1st half vs Kentucky and the entire team in the 2nd half against Oklahoma in 2015 are 2 that come to mind.

 

[cytor]

Cujo against BYU in KC. Lights out performance.

 

[cyclones500]

Cujo against BYU in KC. Lights out performance.

For sure. These types of topics don't tend to have recency bias (the longer ago, the better, it seems). And, wins tend to help.

Jones was on FIRE. ISU might've lost by 15+ that day without it.

 

[FLYINGCYCLONE]

Gary Thompson beating Wilt Chamberlain 4 times.