If Haliburton Wins the NBA Finals This Year...
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He’s got a banner in Hilton right now. Tyrese seemed to be surprised and thankful for it.
The most important thing is we keep honoring him. Get him here for a football game this fall. Get him to any basketball games you can.
I suppose one "advantage" with Tyrese to get a jersey-type honor is he continues to embrace ISU, even if he didn't play even 2 seasons.
I don't see a big need to rush the process. Several other possible players whose jersey status is pending in some way or another, I prefer they get there earlier. We can debate the who/when separately, already plenty of threads dedicated to that.
I don't see a big need to rush the process. Several other possible players whose jersey status is pending in some way or another, I prefer they get there earlier. We can debate the who/when separately, already plenty of threads dedicated to that.
I wouldn’t want to follow Michigan’s lead on this. I can certainly see the argument for not jumping to honor someone who realistically didn’t do a ton while in college…but when you have one of the greatest of all time as a graduate, I think you retire his number. You sort of look stupid otherwise.
At this point I would wait to retire his number until his pro career is done though. If he finishes his degree at ISU and is a multiple time all-star, and some combination of NBA champion and league MVP or multiple of one or the other, we could talk about retiring it earlier.
He really didn’t accomplish enough to have his jersey retired. It needs to be about what he accomplished in Ames.
10/4/5 less than 60 games doesn’t hang a jersey
10/4/5 less than 60 games doesn’t hang a jersey
Worth keeping in mind that Tyrese will also hopefully be back a couple more times to hang gold medal banners. He should be in line to have a more prominent role on the 2028 and 2032 Olympic teams.
I'm pretty sure Tyrese won't be forgetting Iowa State. His girlfriend (soon to be wife?) is a former Iowa State cheerleader. Heck, his dog is named Ames.
Love Tyrese. He had single handily made me watch the NBA and he’s been nothing but the best for ISU. But Fizer, Tinsley, Ejim, Niang and Morris better be hanging if his jersey is.
That used to be case, but is no longer. The NCAA used to only allow one or two digit numbers with only 1-5 used. Due to a recent change the NCAA has mostly mirrored the NBA in allowing 0-99 including 00. However in the NCAA a team can't have both a 0 and a 00 while in the NBA they can.
Earlier this year the Pacers set an NBA first by having a starting lineup of Haliburton, Mathurin, Toppin, Nembhard and Bryant. Why was that an NBA first? Because it was an all time low of jersey number sums. 0+00+1+2+3=6
That used to be case, but is no longer. The NCAA used to only allow one or two digit numbers with only 1-5 used. Due to a recent change the NCAA has mostly mirrored the NBA in allowing 0-99 including 00. However in the NCAA a team can't have both a 0 and a 00 while in the NBA they can.
Earlier this year the Pacers set an NBA first by having a starting lineup of Haliburton, Mathurin, Toppin, Nembhard and Bryant. Why was that an NBA first? Because it was an all time low of jersey number sums. 0+00+1+2+3=6
The software the NCAA uses for statistics sees both #0 and #00 just as “0.” Hence, the rule you can have one but not both came to be.
Interesting! But what will happens next when they have a 55 and an 88? The 88 will keep the refs busy, unless he doesn't foul.That used to be case, but is no longer. The NCAA used to only allow one or two digit numbers with only 1-5 used. Due to a recent change the NCAA has mostly mirrored the NBA in allowing 0-99 including 00. However in the NCAA a team can't have both a 0 and a 00 while in the NBA they can.
Earlier this year the Pacers set an NBA first by having a starting lineup of Haliburton, Mathurin, Toppin, Nembhard and Bryant. Why was that an NBA first? Because it was an all time low of jersey number sums. 0+00+1+2+3=6
Wait until 007 shows up. Then things get interesting.
Surprised nobody corrected me when I said the NCAA used to only allow one and two digit numbers with 1-5 used. Actually it was 0-5 but you couldn't use 0 as a first number or alone.
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55. That's 35 numbers. (They previously doubled the available combinations when they stopped alternating odds and evens for road/home jerseys. So a player might wear 1 at home and then 2 on the road. His teammate then would wear 3 at home and 4 on the road and so on.) Now with 00 and 0-99 there are 101 numbers available - almost three times as many.
For some rugby clubs in history their players wore letters rather than numbers for a time. I could see at some point letters being added for football, probably initially just single letters to avoid the possibility of something being interpreted or pronounced as profane (FK, FU?). It might be a tough add for basketball unless all referees and scorer's table personnel learned the ASL alphabet. That could add 26 but more likely 23 if they excluded I, O, and Q to avoid confusion with 1 and 0. They might even have to exclude D and B to avoid confusion with 0 and 8.
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55. That's 35 numbers. (They previously doubled the available combinations when they stopped alternating odds and evens for road/home jerseys. So a player might wear 1 at home and then 2 on the road. His teammate then would wear 3 at home and 4 on the road and so on.) Now with 00 and 0-99 there are 101 numbers available - almost three times as many.
For some rugby clubs in history their players wore letters rather than numbers for a time. I could see at some point letters being added for football, probably initially just single letters to avoid the possibility of something being interpreted or pronounced as profane (FK, FU?). It might be a tough add for basketball unless all referees and scorer's table personnel learned the ASL alphabet. That could add 26 but more likely 23 if they excluded I, O, and Q to avoid confusion with 1 and 0. They might even have to exclude D and B to avoid confusion with 0 and 8.
0 and 00 have been legal numbers longer than 1 and 2 have. The only caveat was (and is) that you couldn't have both. So there were 37 legal numbers overall, but with 0/00 being an either-or, it was effectively 36 legal numbers.
1 and 2 were discouraged from 1927-57, then outright prohibited from 1958-99. This was likely because those were commonly used in other officials' signals.
Home was usually evens (10, 12, 14) with road being odds (11, 13, 15). If you watch the Phi Slamma Jamma 30 for 30, you can see Houston still doing it well into the 1980s. High schools did it forever; thankfully, I think most have finally stopped using the dual number setup.
Yeah, you are right. I always forget about that and confuse the FB addition of #0 with basketball's.
