Have you submitted your Anderson Arena memory yet??

[OSUFALCON]

Oh yes I remember him! What he was thinking was he wanted to shoot more! Coach didn't think he played very good defense and he wanted to shoot too much. Coach W. was like the coach from Hooiser's, pass, pass, pass, pass, pass then shoot or pick and roll into a layup or another pass.

I think Szabo was part of that Defiance team that almost beat BG in a real shootout. I think he was from Firelands, OH. I enjoyed those years.

Great years! Charlie Coles was coaching at Central MIchigan and had a player named Melvin "sugar" McLaughlin. Booker T. Walker was at Western Michigan...younger brother to Campy and Cazzie. Alan Rayhorn was at Northern Illinois...kind of a Kevin McHale type body and player. Toledo had Harvey Knuckles and coach Bobby Nichols. Ball State had Ray McCallum...who later coached there. Kent was the league doormat and Akron wan't even in the league.

Yes I remember those players! I was at the game when Coach Larranaga and Charlie Coles almost came to blows up at Rose Arena. This was before anyone knew how bad Charlies heart was.

Do you remember the Freddie Barnes that played basketball for Coach Weinert? He wore #42 I think?

I don't remember a Freddie Barnes that palyed for Weinert. I remember Rosie Barnes. I also remember Greg Kampe who's the coach at Oakland University now. He also was the punter on the football team.

I think he was a transfer from Colorado. His best game ever game on Senior day of Coach Weinert last year. He could block shots and had a soft touch but didn't get used much untill the season was almost over. What about Frank Booker?

[OSUFALCON]

Sworden jumping on Germain Fitch and tearing up his knee...just kidding.

Coach Dan loved that as well!

[h2oville rocket]

[quote="Rollo83"]Booker T. Walker was at Western Michigan...[quote]

Wasn't that Walker D Russell? I think Booker T was in a different field of endeavor. And I think Walker was a cousin of the others, not a brother.

[hammb]

It's sad, but by far my most vivid specific Anderson Arena memory is Mawel Soler shattering the backboard into a billion pieces in warmups.

[factman]

No question........it's BEATING Loyola in Anderson, the year they won the National Championship! Biggest, best and loudest crowd EVER......yes better than MSU!!!

[OSUFALCON]

Booker T. Walker was at Western Michigan...

Wasn't that Walker D Russell? I think Booker T was in a different field of endeavor. And I think Walker was a cousin of the others, not a brother.

Booker James, Western Michigan all MAC first team 1987.

[h2oville rocket]

Booker T. Walker was at Western Michigan...

Wasn't that Walker D Russell? I think Booker T was in a different field of endeavor. And I think Walker was a cousin of the others, not a brother.

Booker James, Western Michigan all MAC first team 1987.

I think Rollo created a monster out of a combination of James and Russell but he specifically mentioned his two-headed guy as being related to the UM Russels so I'm thinking he's talking Walker D who had a cuppa joe in the nba, I believe.

[Peregrinner]

It's sad, but by far my most vivid specific Anderson Arena memory is Mawel Soler shattering the backboard into a billion pieces in warmups.

That was the first BGSU basketball game I ever attended. Showed up late, expecting to have missed part of the game. Turned out I was wrong.

[TG1996]

Without bowing to the obvious selections of the last decade or much of the AD years, my favorite memory is the first-ever game I did for BGRSO, when Michael Huger hit a baseline 12-footer to beat Kent State in Feb. '93.

The women's NCAA games around that time were pretty great as well, despite the result.

[Rollo83]

Booker T. Walker was at Western Michigan...

Wasn't that Walker D Russell? I think Booker T was in a different field of endeavor. And I think Walker was a cousin of the others, not a brother.

Booker James, Western Michigan all MAC first team 1987.

I think Rollo created a monster out of a combination of James and Russell but he specifically mentioned his two-headed guy as being related to the UM Russels so I'm thinking he's talking Walker D who had a cuppa joe in the nba, I believe.

Yes, my bad. I did mean Walker D. Russell.

[tiznow]

Not in any practicular order


1. Last second shot by Kirk Whiteman to beat Toledo, in 1988, my freshman year. It looked like Ed Colbert was going to have to take the shot, but he passed to Whiteman who drilled the three and the crowd stormed the court.

2. Beating Steve Smith and Michigan State in 1991. If my memory is correct, Michigan State took a 12-0 lead to start the game. Heathecoate vowed to never play a MAC school after that. BG also beat them the previous year in East Lansing.

3. Beating Siena, I think in 1990 or 1991 as well. Bowling Green scored 136 points. No defense was played in that one.

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[Lord_Byron]

My memory is going to games in the late '70s and seeing a young boy there with his Dad, the ultimate BG fan.

I saw this strapping young lad looking at Emzer Shurelds' afro with awe and thought to myself -- "There is a future webmaster who will do great things to bring BG fans together and make his dad proud."

[Matty B]

Wow.. Things I'll never forget at Anderson (i'm younger, so these are mostly recent):

- Can't remember the year, but game against Akron squad led by Jimmal Ball and Jamey Bosley where 30 total points were scored in the game's final minute (not exaggerating). Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe Dubrey Black hit a 3 pointer that put us ahead with just seconds to go before Bosley hit a running 35 footer to win it for Akron.. then proceeded to run around the arena with his shirt off

- Brandon pardon behind the back/back between the legs dribble between 2 defenders on a 1 on 2 to get an and-1. The look on DD's face was priceless. After the game "Never in a million years did I think anyone would try something like that in a game."

- DD's "turn the season around" campaign where he'd come out with his sport coat on backward at the beginning of games. The best was when Charlie Coles came out in similar fashion to poke fun at DD.

- Stacey breaking the scoring record.

- the infamous frisbee game vs. the KSU team that went to the elite 8. Although we came up on the wrong end, probably the best game I've ever seen played there

- Same year as above, my ALL TIME favorite moment, Beating Tommy Amaker's Michigan squad at anderson in overtime.. when Keith McLeod shot that three from the corner that rattled around the rim, sat on the top for what seemed like an eternity, with the arena in complete silence for that eternity.. then the ball dropping in and the place erupted into such a frenzy they you could actually SEE the soundwaves and everything appeared to be in slow motion until things "quieted" down. I will NEVER forget that.

[NWLB]

I used to take campus tours into the area, if nothing was going on, and stand them at the center court point where the seating came out. I'd talk about what it was like to attend a game a matter of feet away from the action. You could tell who the sports fans were, watching their reactions.

[KPAFalcon]

• Antonio Daniel’s senior year, Sunday ESPN noon game, packed house, 2nd half AD on a break away, one thing between him and the rim, the Shaq of the MAC (Gary Trent), AD evaluates over him, slams it home and brings the house down.

• Antionio Daniels’s junior year against Miami, the first half Miami puts it to us and we are down big at half, 2nd half starts and it gets worse, Larranaga calls time out and tells the guys they are on their own. BG comes back and wins easily.