What was your first/earliest memory of...

[Old Friend]

"I remember where I was when _______________!"   Indiana basketball division

Mine, 1975 losing to Kentucky in the Elite 8.   I was 5 and I was crushed.

[JSHoosier]

Mike Lewis inbounding the ball off an Iowa player's face.  Sitting in the living room watching the game with my dad.

[rcbowla]

1987 Final 4 vs UNLV on my dad's lap in the recliner while my 3 brothers were laying on the floor and everyone yelling a lot. There is a photo somewhere to verify this. I was a couple months short of 5 years old.

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[rcbowla]

Great topic btw

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[Hoosier Roots]

Mine is probably going to some game in 2004 when I was around 6. I remember being way more interested in the cheerleaders than the game though haha


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[jk34]

When we beat the Soviet Union at Market Square! 

[mdn82]

I am like rcs29. 87 tournament. I had uncles at Purdue at the time. My whole family is a Purdue family on my dads side. My dad, aunt, and two uncles went to Purdue. I remember being with my grandparents watch most every game that year in the tournament. I was hooked and my family was pissed at my grandparents.

 

Edit: Anybody that knows me on here knows my grandparents had season tickets to IU games. Without them I don’t know how I would have ended up. Grandma was diehard PU fan cause of her kids, but grandpa taught us right.

 

 

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[Brass Cannon]

I can’t remember a game detail but my school used to do a big sheet each time IU and Purdue played. And you signed who you thought would win. 
 

So in kindergarten I picked a side

[Demo]

Earliest really clear recollection is from the ‘73 Final Four game against UCLA. Steve Downing gave Bill Walton all he wanted. I was 11. Have a lot of earlier memories than that of the Pacers. Not sure why that is.

[MikeRoberts]

First IU memory was the 87 championship game and my parents going nuts - I was 5.

I fell in love with indiana basketball in 93 when I went to a game with my dad and saw Cheaney, Graham, Bailey, Henderson etc play.

I was hooked


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[Loaded Chicken Sandwich]

First legitimate memory was at Hoosier Hysteria when AJ Guyton was still. Came up and gave a high five to my brother and his friend. But we also went to a couple of Atheltes in Action games back when that was a thing. I born a Hoosier but 2002 did get me hooked more than anything. Was raised on Knight basketball though.


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[LamarCheeks]

We beat Michigan in the 1976 NCAA title game to finish unbeaten. I was 7. My mother, an IU alum, shed tears of joy. 

[tomallenfan]

Kirk Haston’s buzzer beater against Michigan State in 2001. I called my dad who was at work and remember screaming at the top of my lungs on the phone (probably attributing to my father’s partial deafness)


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[NOLA Hoosier]

My first word: “Uwe.” 

[Honkyman]

The first IU basketball team I followed was the 1964-65 IU team with the Van Arsdale twins and Jon McGlocklin which was just after my family moved to South Bend from Chicago. I was already a big college basketball fan having followed Loyola win the national championship in 1963. All three Hoosiers were future NBA players. It was also Branch McCracken's last season coaching. By then the two time national champion coach had lost his touch but those three were remarkable to watch.

[Class of '66 Old Fart]

Our Splendid Splinter Jimmy Rayl.  That nickname hooked me.

[lillurk]

I vaguely remember watching Damon Bailey, must’ve been his senior year, 93-94. I would’ve been 5. First really specific memory is asking my dad why Brian Evans cut out of bounds on the baseline all the time, specifically at AH, so 6 or 7.

[HoosierFan1994]

Beating Duke in the 2002 Sweet 16. I remember watching it with my dad in the living room going nuts. That whole run was fun. I know where I was for every game. 

[yogisballin]

1987 Final 4 vs UNLV on my dad's lap in the recliner while my 3 brothers were laying on the floor and everyone yelling a lot. There is a photo somewhere to verify this. I was a couple months short of 5 years old.

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I was about 7 months shy of 5 but I do remember my dad over this game right here


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[GloryDays]

21 hours ago, Demo said:

Earliest really clear recollection is from the ‘73 Final Four game against UCLA. Steve Downing gave Bill Walton all he wanted. I was 11. Have a lot of earlier memories than that of the Pacers. Not sure why that is.

That's mine also.I remember some real bad offensive foul calls on Downing fouling him out.I think TV Teddy watched and used that game as a model for calling the IU Duke final four game.