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Message: [QUOTE="IthacaMatt, post: 4936940, member: 405"] Favorite moments, not necessarily most historically significant. Floyd Little's debut game against Gale Sayers & Kansas. It seemed like every time he touched the football, he was a threat to score. My first in-person game as a 5 year old with my dad, and I was hooked. We saw two more games in person that year. First time I saw a hoops game in person at Manley in the fall of 1971. I forget who we played (either Cornell or Penn State), but it hardly mattered. The pre-game warm-ups were like watching the Harlem Globetrotters pass it around to some serious soul music. The crowd hostility was off the charts intimidating. I had been to Syracuse Blazers hockey games at the War Memorial, and it would sound like this during a fight on the ice. But this was basketball, not hockey, and the yelling, booing, cheering and intimidation went on for the entire game. No wonder we didn't lose there for over 50 games in a row. Again, instantly hooked. The McNabb team's total beat-down of Michigan on national TV after having been robbed the week before at home vs. Tennessee was a moment where I felt that we could still truly play for another national championship. My final top moment was the 1987 final against Indiana, even though we lost on the Keith Smart shot. We were amazing in that game. We deserved to win. I had friends over to watch, and drank literally 20 beers and smoked several joints, and we still not only coherent, but almost straight-up sober because of all the adrenaline coursing through my body. So many great moments (like DC going up to block a shot on the baseline, and just swallowing it up with both hands and coming down with the ball). But the one amazing moment that I'll never forget was a fast break we had, and Sherman (I believe) threw an alley oop on the fast break that was intended for Howard Triche, and an Indiana guy tipped the ball, but Seikaly swooped in and dunked it anyway! Holy cow, such an unbelievable play that I threw myself over backward in the chair I was sitting in, such was my excitement. People will say "how can that be one of your greatest moments, when the championship was SO CLOSE and we lost?" Many of you won't understand, but when I started watching SU hoops, we never had any "glory days" like the football team had had, with the Championship, the great 44s, Larry Csonka, etc. Beating Providence in the national semi-final didn't really prove anything to me. But taking Bobby Knight, already a legend, right to wire, well, from then on I knew we were a "national" program, among the elite. As Coach Knight said to Boeheim at the end, "you'll be back", and we were. We stayed among the elite for nearly the next 40 years. [/QUOTE]

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