Your first TBA game?

#26
#26
I don't remember the date, but it was Pearl's second year with Chris Lofton having his best season (junior year) against USClite. Lofton sprained his ankle that game. And with about five seconds and up by three, JaJuan Smith had a breakaway to seal the game, except he threw it off the backboard and tried to do a 360, but he lost it. USC got the rebound and shot it but missed from 60 ft. I couldn't believe what happened.
 
#27
#27
My dad has has season tickets back to Stokely. Hardly used to miss a game. My first game in TBA was against Marquette on opening night. I wanna say like 83. I was just a kid. My pops made front page of News Sentinel for an interview because he used to sell popcorn just to watch games in old Alumni Gymnasium. Then when he was an adult when Stokely opened. He is 77 and still rarely misses a game. I never used to till past 2 years work has demanded me work every Saturday and well gotta feed the Wifey and little girl.
 
#28
#28
Shaun1985 said:
Wow. Some of you old timers lol. Pretty awesome! How was the atmosphere in Stokley compared to what you see now? I know there are more fans, technology and the uniforms shorts are longer lol but you get what i'm asking.
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I was a student at UT when Stokley opened and saw every game played there for the first three years. Then I was off to Atlanta and had very little time or money to see games for the next 10 -12 years. The atmosphere was unbelievable especially after Mears arrived. Tickets were almost impossible to get, so they had to build something larger. Hate to see Stokley being demolished. I holds a lot of good memories.
 
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#32
#32
January 2010 against #1 Kansas. Greatest basketball game I have ever attended. I sat right behind the student section when McBee hit that shot and it was the loudest I have ever heard a crowd yell and I went to the UK vs. UNC game last year.
 
#33
#33
Don't recall the year, but Chris Jackson and Shaq were in town. I was in the finals of a University 3 point competition at halftime. I was ridiculously nervous and missed the first shot by about 3 feet to a chorus of boos.
 
#34
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VOLINVONORE said:
I was a student at UT when Stokley opened and saw every game played there for the first three years. Then I was off to Atlanta and had very little time or money to see games for the next 10 12 years. The atmosphere was unbelievable especially after Mears arrived. Tickets were almost impossible to get, so they had to build something larger. Hate to see Stokley being demolished. I holds a lot of good memories.
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Very impressive.
 
#35
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Spartacavolus said:
Don't recall the year, but Chris Jackson and Shaq were in town. I was in the finals of a University 3 point competition at halftime. I was ridiculously nervous and missed the first shot by about 3 feet to a chorus of boos.
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Probably 91-92? eh wish I was old enough to remember when Shaq played at LSU but I was only 5 or 6 at the time.
 
#36
#36
I am pretty sure the first game my dad took me to, or at least the first I remember was the 1999 Kentucky game.

I may have seen some games in the Alan Houston era, I'm not sure but i was too young to remember it if so.
 
#37
#37
Shaun1985 said:
Wow. Some of you old timers lol. Pretty awesome! How was the atmosphere in Stokley compared to what you see now? I know there are more fans, technology and the uniforms shorts are longer lol but you get what i'm asking.
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I'm too young for Stokely, but my dad went to a ton of games there. He says the atmosphere was incredible. The small building and low roof made it extremely loud. He says he remembers seeing the goals shaking from the noise at a Kentucky game one year.
 
#38
#38
2001 vs Vandy. We spanked them in Green's last year.

Ive been back 10 or so times and never seen the Vols lose. Anyone want to buy me season tickets?
 
#39
#39
Vol_51 said:
2001 vs Vandy. We spanked them in Green's last year.

Ive been back 10 or so times and never seen the Vols lose. Anyone want to buy me season tickets?
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How about you start showing up when we play Kentucky here and at Rupp. If you can overcome that slophouse up there I will pay for you to sit next to the court. But lose once and you are forever a sham and Im revoking the ticket for myself. lulz
 
#40
#40
DeepSpringsVol said:
How about you start showing up when we play Kentucky here and at Rupp. If you can overcome that slophouse up there I will pay for you to sit next to the court. But lose once and you are forever a sham and Im revoking the ticket for myself. lulz
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I was at the 2010 UK game at TBA when we upset Wall and company
 
#42
#42
'07 MTSU game. JaJuan went off and we beat them by 69, which is funny because my old roommate said, "I hope we beat them by 70!" as I was heading to TBA.
 
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