They also can’t play home games right now because their arena is falling apart. It’s not a serious program.
GAMES OF INTEREST (12.29.23 - 1.3.24) SOUTHWESTERN OKLAHOMA STATE
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I’m almost the complete opposite. I moved west January 1, 1998 and the arena opened that fall. I was a season ticket holder at the CC but have only been able to attend a couple of games at the Reynolds Center. My favorite game downtown was actually a loss. The noise level and game atmosphere during the OT loss to the Nolan lead hogs the year they won the title was the most amazing I’ve ever experienced at a live sporting event. I had my teenage son with me and I don’t think we sat down during the OT.
The Rice Cafetornasium is falling apart? I remember going to a game there in January of 1999, driving down from Waco to watch TU play. Walked up, bought a ticket smack dab in the middle of the Rice donor section. Ruffin slammed a ball at one point and I jumped up and cheered and this old guy turns to me and says "Why don't you go sit with your people?" To which I responded "I would except this is where your ticket office sold me a ticket." He then gets up and says "Well, I'm gonna go and give them a piece of my mind about this."
I just laughed.
A lot of my family from Arkansas were here for Christmas and I took them but they couldn't wear red. Since you are Nevada, I wish you could have been at the Nevada/TU Championship WAC game in 2003. It still remains the loudest I have ever heard in 40 years at a TU game. The tickets were superpriced and only the superfans attended so it wasn't full but every seat in the lower 5/6 th was filled with screaming fans for 40 minutes.
I was hoarse from that game from screaming so loud. ESPN went to that game because of how close it was. That was so long ago and I still get chills thinking about that game.
I was there for that one too. It was loud. I think it was 2 yrs earlier when we hosted and Buzz lost to Hawaii in the championship game. You could hear fans except they were like a lynch mob and they wanted Buzz' head on a platter.
Man! It was SOOOO loud in there I couldn’t believe it! Especially after all the sellouts we had had at that point.
Definitely the loudest crowd I’ve ever heard there!
Don’t get me wrong I do like the Don Rey even though I have seen exactly 3 games there but the convention center was banging when we had a crowd
My first game at Reynolds will be the Tulane game assuming I’m not frozen solid that weekend.
I agree. I went to some big games in the Convention Center but that place seemed to swallow sound. The aforementioned Utah game, a weird 11am tip for a game vs Temple, a game against Southern Illinois when they were really good, and the first time Fresno (w/ Tark and Chris Herren) came to town. That place was rocking. Nothing like the 2000 game vs Fresno in the DonRey, the Swanson 3 to beat Fresno, the game vs Kansas, heck even the watch party for the Elite 8 game...that place was freaking loud as hell you couldn't hear the person next to you if they were trying to tell you something.
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