how the hell does this happen?

An ovc team gets an sec at their place and the ovc has no record/ history of excellence???

Whens last time we even hosted a big ten in bball? Wisconsin 2000????

#rantover

Kansas State came to the Convo in 2005. Great game. Huskies won in overtime. Big crowd as well.

(12-12-2015 05:15 PM)northernbear1 Wrote:  Kansas State came to the Convo in 2005. Great game. Huskies won in overtime. Big crowd as well.

yeah, that game was awesome to be at.

I was living in South Dakota at the time, so it must have been something like 2001-2003 era, but I know there was a game when NIU and CMU were kind of both good, and NIU and CMU squared off in DeKalb with Kaman on CMU. I think they drew in excess of 5000 fans but not sure. NIU lost that game but I heard the environment was incredible for that too.

(12-12-2015 04:48 PM)jjprender Wrote:  how the hell does this happen?

An ovc team gets an sec at their place and the ovc has no record/ history of excellence???

Whens last time we even hosted a big ten in bball? Wisconsin 2000????

#rantover

Best bball game I've ever attended at NIU. Chick Evans was booming that night.

(12-12-2015 10:37 PM)MaddDawgz02 Wrote:  I was living in South Dakota at the time, so it must have been something like 2001-2003 era, but I know there was a game when NIU and CMU were kind of both good, and NIU and CMU squared off in DeKalb with Kaman on CMU. I think they drew in excess of 5000 fans but not sure. NIU lost that game but I heard the environment was incredible for that too.

I was at that game and sat in the upper deck corner so there had to be 7K there. It showed me how the Convo can be with a full crowd. Just looked at the box official attendance was 6,813

(12-13-2015 08:53 AM)golf4501 Wrote:  

(12-12-2015 10:37 PM)MaddDawgz02 Wrote:  I was living in South Dakota at the time, so it must have been something like 2001-2003 era, but I know there was a game when NIU and CMU were kind of both good, and NIU and CMU squared off in DeKalb with Kaman on CMU. I think they drew in excess of 5000 fans but not sure. NIU lost that game but I heard the environment was incredible for that too.

I was at that game and sat in the upper deck corner so there had to be 7K there. It showed me how the Convo can be with a full crowd. Just looked at the box official attendance was 6,813

Yup...that was a great atmosphere. When we closed down Chick Evans too...another great one. Unfortunately I missed the Wisky game.