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I remember shaking my head watching Ivy play. He would hit an outside shot (pre-3 point era) and he'd hold his fist up all the way back to the other end of the court...even though we were down by 30.
NOT from ISU MBB twitter, but related. I had to pause to connect Charles Jackson III to Tre Jackson.
Okay, what time is the Northwestern exhibition and where can I watch? Can't find that info anywhere.
Website (Cyclones.com) shows 12:00pm Sunday on ESPN+
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Hercle Ivy was a 3 point sniper before there was a 3 point line.
No WONDER it's sold out. All the FB recruits are getting the seats.
I hope it is a madhouse. It's tough when the students are on break. Fans tend to sit on their hands and not participate in the action. Without the students its so much quieter and most people just sit there with their arms crossed.....
Probably don't need to tell most on here, since they are clearly "FANATICS" but "participating" is more involved and more valuable to your team than "spectating." Please get LOUD on D. Ok State is probably the second best team visiting Hilton so far this year after the Hawks. Won't be a pushover and need the noise.
I think your take is dated.
Last week against WVU the place exploded, especially when JJeff got his triple double.
Nah. Not loud enough consistently.
Needs to be more consistently loud; it's not consistently loud enough, and particularly when the Cyclones are on D- not after we score or Jefferson gets his double-double. The fans who don't understand basketball well enough are the ones clapping and cheering after buckets. That's easy; cheering on D is when it matters and disrupting the other teams communication and the refs and making them feel the intensity.
If you think cheering after a double-double makes the Magic, or makes it intimidating and consequential - you're wrong. I remember it louder more consistently when we had more of a "yearning" fan base - even during break games. A fan base that wasn't spoiled by success yet. I remember a fan base in the 90s that hadn't had as much success, and there were other factors then that contributed to a louder environment. There was less manufactured noise from the fake, artificial beats they play now that drown out the band during timeouts or drown out spontaneity. The more authentic, fan-centered participatory, "clap, clap, clap, clap, clap" at the introduction of the opposing teams' players is dead... basically isn't done or discernible anymore. That stuff required fans to be part of the action. What has also happened, there's more donors and an older demographic sitting in the parquet than the 80s and 90s. They're just quieter, older, more reserved, for more of the time. I get why they're there, but it does affect the atmosphere. Also, the students are crammed behind both baskets and there's now "gates" up in front of them and they were moved back from 20 years ago when they were closer to the court and could spill out onto it with jumping around and theatrics. The students lost about two rows of seats when that happened in the past 10 years or so.
There's also no seating behind the coaches anymore. You have to go way back into the 80s to see that, but that helped make Hilton raucous and louder as well. I recognize that was a VERY long time ago, but those changes matter.
Hilton can still be loud, but those of us who have seen hundreds of games from the '90s, 00s, 10s and now 20s and have been paying attention can tell that it's a little bit more sterile, a little bit less rowdy most of the time now than it's hey day. It can still explode and have very solid games - like the Iowa game earlier this year - where the parquet gets into it more and stands more often, but not as much as it used to. Particularly in games like the West Virginia's of the world.
My point is that fans make a difference, and as someone who has seen the consistent craziness of Cameron Indoor in person, and seen hundreds of games at Hilton over the years, it just is on average consistently quieter now. Not a lot, but a little, and that makes a difference.
I understand some parts of this take and disagree with others. One thing I think that does bring the magic and is something you don’t see very many places is many times the crowd can sense a lull in the momentum or that the team is struggling. For example, down 10 pts early to a bad team. That situation puts many arenas to sleep. Often times in this situation, the Hilton crowd will rise up “willing” the energy back into the atmosphere.
