Most Clutch ISU Player
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I loved Michael Nurse and Kantrail Horton... they made HUGE shots as role players to Fizer and Tinsley. Fizer and Tinsley usually found one of those two guys for a dagger or a huge shot to start a huge run... they were two of my favorite guys that would come through for us!
I'll say Dedric as well, that guy could hit anything with the game on the line. Free throws vs. Kansas in the Big8 championship anyone? Also props to Hoiberg. My all time favorite Cyclone game was vs. Kansas at Hilton in 1994. Hoiberg drained two straight threes to give ISU the wind. When the second one went down an all out riot ensued in Hilton.
I'm as big of a JT fan as there is and it's really not fair and it was a freak thing but that was the first thing that came to mind when I considered him. However, other than that he would absolutely take over games down the stretch. It just seemed like he could be fairly quiet for most of the game and then score 6 or 8 in a row in crunch time.
I'd have to say Willoughby, with an honorable mention to Hornacek. I still can see him nailing that long jumper to beat Miami (Ohio) at the last second in the tournament.
Another vote for Willoughby. His senor year against Kansas(?) where he lit it up, and was playing on two sprained ankles.
Honorable mention to Nurse. He literally saved and won his first game back from his infamous truck accident.
Honorable mention to Nurse. He literally saved and won his first game back from his infamous truck accident.
JT has to be the man in clutch time, even though like all of us I could have strangled him for the Hampton incident.
what was worse if i rememer correctly, he didn't have to take that shot. They were up 1 i believe and could have ran the clock down and pry got that same shot because tinsley was amazing at getting into the paint. correct me if im wrong but is that what happend?
Sullivan for 3 AND THE WIN!!!
Just seeing him catch the ball on the baseline from 3 and you already knew it was going in.
Just seeing him catch the ball on the baseline from 3 and you already knew it was going in.
No one is saying that Jamaal Tinsley was not a great player for us adn got it done down the stretch mroe than once. He was one of the greatest Cyclone basketball players of all time.
What they're saying is that you cannot crown a man as the most clutch performer in our school's history when his career was ended by one of the biggest choke jobs in the history of the NCAA tournament.
What they're saying is that you cannot crown a man as the most clutch performer in our school's history when his career was ended by one of the biggest choke jobs in the history of the NCAA tournament.