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To remeber better days...

Didn't watch the game tonight (thankfully). Favorite player would have to be Grayer. The guy was unbelievable! He could practically play any position. He could shoot from all over the floor, in the paint, outside, midrange.. he was a great rebounder, and played great defense. Did everything.
 
crash_zone said:
I believe he was talking about his favorite for the time he was/is in school (he said 2 yrs)....and if you were a cyclone starting last year.....that would be hard to find a favorite player.
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Still...I think I would pick that shortest floor wiper kid over John Neal. He is way more money from 3 world, Neal was awful.
 
Got to be Tinsley......not only was he a great player, but he had this air about him, that he knew he controlled the game and was the best player on the floor.....and the rest of the team really fed off of that.
 
1994, the Mayor drops 32 on Kansas and ISU rolles late for victory 69-65. I have it somwhere on VHS. Think I've watched it like 20 times.
 
beb said:
You have got to be kidding me. His whole carrier based on a couple threes against Iowa.....not that it wasnt nice to win the game, but when ever did he do anything....he was worthless and a waste of a scholarship.........not near on the same level as Sullivan, Horton, Willoughby, or the Mayor.

NO he belongs on the same level as a waterboy for the team.....and maybe if he was good enough in practice he could wipe the sweat off the good players.
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I was talking about the 2 years I've been in college. Last year was a pitiful season. This thread isn't about the BEST player in your time, but your FAVORITE. If it was the best, I'd probably have to say Stinson or Blalock. But as for favorite, definitely John Neal.. This is a question of personal opinion, not definite fact, so don't call my opinion 'worthless'.
 
i feel like i have terrible luck as far as when im at ISU, in between 2 eras.. i started in 03.. so ive been here to see the wayne morgan era and the rebuilding this year and next with GMac, after watching the great years of LE when i was in high school. With football i got here just in time to see the collapse of 03 football and the end of the mccarney era (we'll see what happens with chizik this fall), and this after watching the successes of the program while i was in high school.

now im sure both programs will go to great things after i graduate. ill sure miss the free bowl game trip with the band when theyre going to the places chizik's gonna take em.

so, to answer the question though... sullivan for sure.
 
Dormeezy said:
I was talking about the 2 years I've been in college. Last year was a pitiful season. This thread isn't about the BEST player in your time, but your FAVORITE. If it was the best, I'd probably have to say Stinson or Blalock. But as for favorite, definitely John Neal.. This is a question of personal opinion, not definite fact, so don't call my opinion 'worthless'.
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I'm with ya on that one. Neal was an instant celb. after the 2 threes he dropped on Iowa (which was awesome if you missed it). I was happy to see them using him more later on.
My memory may not be perfect but I remember him more for defense than I do offense. I can see a lot of people listing Neal as their favorite.
 
Since I've never been a student at ISU, I'd have to use the times where I lived with my dad while he was still attending ISU. I'd have to say the one thing I remember is Lafester Rhodes' 54 point explosion in the ot win against Iowa. So I'll go with Lafester!
 
Don Smith. Anybody remember him?
Hercle Ivy.
Lafester Rhoads.
Jeff Grayer.
The guy who played for the Utah Jazz (guard, cant' remember name off top of my head).
Barry Stevens.
 
Re: To remember better days...

Time skews perspective. My opinion is also unfairly compromised watching players only on TV the past 15 years. But I attended games from the mid-60’s to the early 90’s, saw everyone from Vinnie Brewer to Fred Hoiberg. Easily, the best ISU basketball player I saw over that time was Jeff Grayer. But, Bill Cain, was probably the second best, and was the best player when I was at ISU.
 
I've only been a student for 2 years, but I have to pick both Stinson and Blalock. I know a lot of people hate on them because they left after their junior years and the team didn't meet expectations, but the things those two did together on the court were just amazing. They always knew what the other was going to do, always played 39 minutes a game and never ran out of steam, and they played hard at both ends of the floor. They also had the ability to hit that clutch shot. Last season left a bad taste in my mouth, but Stinson and Blalock were really fun to watch.
 
My first few years at ISU- 98, 99, 00: Fizer, Tinsley, Horton, Johnson, Rancik, Nurse, Sullivan...etc. A couple of favorite moments were Tinsley dribbling the ball BETWEEN a defender's legs, and Fizer dunking on Mihm.

My FAVORITE moment of that era though, would be February '01 at Nebraska, which I attended. ISU was down by one as the clock ticked down below 1 second. The Nebraska student section stormed the court thinking they won. The announcer had to call everyone off the court and they put about 1.2 seconds back on the clock. Tinsley inbounded to Rancik, who drilled the layup for the Cyclone victory. I walked out of there wearing my Cyclone hat, proudly working my way through thousands of stunned Nebraska fans!

I won't ruin this post by reminiscing about how that season ended...
 
I would have to say Hoiberg, and I also was there during the "two eras", so Willoughby would also be up there.

1994, the Mayor drops 32 on Kansas and ISU rolles late for victory 69-65. I have it somwhere on VHS. Think I've watched it like 20 times.
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I think that was in January of '05. I was at that game and it was straight up awesome.
 
I, too, have limited experience in ISU basketball, so my favorite is probably Jared Homan. He was the cornerstone of our offense in 2004, as proved in the 2005-06 season.
 
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