Official Games Thread/Roll Call: CU vs Oregon State

[Mick Ronson]

i can't speak to Meeley much, but Chauncey's 2 teams were pretty good. not great. Vandiver played on the teams that got Tom Miller fired. Higgins lost A LOT of games at CU with BZ.

best CU basketball in the last 20 years was the Pelle/Morandais/Harrison/Blair Wilson team that beat two final four teams at the CEC--Texas (with TJ Ford) and KU (Heinrich and Collison). Morandais makes a FT on the road in Lincoln, CU is 11-5 i think in conference instead of 10-6 with an OT loss to NU. and then get the worst thing ever in March: Tom Izzo in the first round. that team could have done some damage if they didn't have to face the anti-Ricardo in Izzo. at 11-5, you are 5-6 seed, not 10 or whatever. also, have to remember the Big XII was tough tough tough then with Sutton, Self, Knight, Sampson, Barnes, Gillespie, etc.

 

[Shldr2Shldr]

His blue shoes were the sprinkles on the donut!

I found out the reason for the blue shoes.



Meant to honor Native American history month. Burton is apparently the first scholarship native american player in the Pac-12

 

[RK]

I found out the reason for the blue shoes.

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Meant to honor Native American history month. Burton is apparently the first scholarship native american player in the Pac-12

They were still ugly.

 

[Buffalo Brad]

I found out the reason for the blue shoes.

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Meant to honor Native American history month. Burton is apparently the first scholarship native american player in the Pac-12

Got it. Thought it was strange that there was not any consistency in the shoes they wore. Looked like they did not have a shoe sponsor

 

[PuebloBuff]

I agree with Mick. The team with Harrison, Pelle, et.all was easily our most talented team in the last 25 years. On talent alone I could go along with the idea that they would have done some damage with a better draw. But, to me, the most striking thing about that game with sparty was just how much tougher and how much harder Izzo's guys played than ours.

 

[Deleted member 807]

One big benefit of beating Oregon State is that a person or two in the White House are likely to be paying attention.

Colorado sent a nice "Hello"