Where were you 15 years ago today?

[SHUSource]

Were you in Buffalo? I was on my couch after leaving work "sick" at about 11:30 a.m. to see our guys take on Oregon in a game that would feature one of the most fantastic finishes in my NCAA Tournament memory.

Holloway shows Hall the way past Oregon in OT

 

[Flnj86]

I was in Buffalo, watched Sha go coast to coast and hit the winning layup to beat Oregon, then watched Seton Hall hit 15' 3's to beat # 2 seed Temple. Following weekend I was in Syracuse to watch Seton Hall play Oklahoma St at Carrier Dome.

 

[Bluebeard]

Watching on my TV as I left work to watch the end at my house. I worked .6 of a mile back then from my home! I just took an extended break as the game went to OT. I watched the Temple game at my brother in laws 50th birhday two days later. I drove to Syracuse for the Oklahoma St game in the round of 16 and still have my sweet 16 shirt I was handed whn I picked up my tickets at the dome.

 

[Hall91]

stepped out at lunch to go watch this game. Great game/memory, and a key moment for Shaheen. That Temple game was also very memorable.

Hard to believe it's been 15 years.....

 

[PiratePride]

I was in Buffalo at the start of what was the most enjoyable weekend of basketball I have experienced in person.

Bus company had to get an backup driver and the Booster Club bus got a late start as we drove threw snow and made it to he arena just before tip off. What a weekend it was with more of the same against Temple.

The thought of basketball like that with the additional memories of past NCAA's have kept me in Pirate Blue through thick and thin.

At least the women are dancing and I wish them he best!!!!

Go Pirates

 

[SHUSource]

Yup, hope springs eternal. You experience a weekend like that once, and you keep chasing the thrill. We'll get there again...

 

[Piratz]

Unfortunately we couldn't get up to Buffalo that weekend, but hit Syracuse and the Carrier Dome the following Friday as we faced Oklahoma State in the Sweet Sixteen.

That game against Oregon was appointment viewing so I was able to get home and watch. Once Shaheen drove the length of the floor I was literally screaming and jumping in the living room.

Tremendous moment.

 

[bd98]

Originally posted by SHUSource:
Were you in Buffalo? I was on my couch after leaving work "sick" at about 11:30 a.m. to see our guys take on Oregon in a game that would feature one of the most fantastic finishes in my NCAA Tournament memory.

I was in the WABC studio running the board for the broadcast of the game. Because heaven forbid Rush Limbaugh be preempted the game was farmed out to some other station and I was in a tiny little auxiliary studio watching the game on an itty-bitty TV. Sha makes that layup and I'm jumping up and down inside that tiny little studio. Everybody else there is laughing at me.

I'll never forget Warner Fusselle apologizing after signing off for getting too excited on his call. I'm like "Warner, are you nuts? You have nothing to apologize for" RIP Warner, what a great guy.

 

[SHUSource]

Originally posted by Piratz:

That game against Oregon was appointment viewing so I was able to get home and watch. Once Shaheen drove the length of the floor I was literally screaming and jumping in the living room.

Same here. All alone and stomping on the floor of my apartment, which was in a mid-19th century building on top of a bar. After the excitement, I went "downstairs" for some revelry (it was St. Patrick's Day, to boot), and they asked what the hell was going on upstairs. Maybe the first time a bar noticed the noise coming from the apartment upstairs, rather then the other way around.

 

[SHUSource]

Originally posted by bd98:

Originally posted by SHUSource:
Were you in Buffalo? I was on my couch after leaving work "sick" at about 11:30 a.m. to see our guys take on Oregon in a game that would feature one of the most fantastic finishes in my NCAA Tournament memory.

I was in the WABC studio running the board for the broadcast of the game. Because heaven forbid Rush Limbaugh be preempted the game was farmed out to some other station and I was in a tiny little auxiliary studio watching the game on an itty-bitty TV. Sha makes that layup and I'm jumping up and down inside that tiny little studio. Everybody else there is laughing at me.

I'll never forget Warner Fusselle apologizing after signing off for getting too excited on his call. I'm like "Warner, are you nuts? You have nothing to apologize for" RIP Warner, what a great guy.

Warner was awesome. I never met him, but he made being a sports fan better, between his calls of our games and TWIB.

 

[Piratz]

Warner was tremendous! Used to love when he'd detail Fred Hill's suits in some of the pregames of that era, LOL.

Bottoms!!!!

This post was edited on 3/17 11:35 AM by Piratz

 

[PhikapPirate90]

My wife and I were in Buffalo- my sister in law used to work for the MAAC conference who was hosting this region in Buffalo so she scored us tickets- 3 rows behind the bench in the Oregon section. Tremendous weekend for the Hall- other than the '89 run and the 2 BE championship weekends- maybe the most memorable to me....Between Sha going coast-to-coast for the win, then on Sunday hurting his ankle early versus Temple and Ty Shine doing his best Reggie Miller- totally unbelievable. Side note- my sister-in-law got us tickets for the whole weekend, so we had the privilege of sitting behind the Hofstra bench (Speedy Claxton) where Jay Wright proceeded to use the saltiest language I could ever remember - then sitting behind Bob Knight's Indiana bench where he was as nice as could be- they both lost as I remember - one to Pepperdine and the other to OK State maybe? Then calling Syracuse hotels (on a flip cell phone with antennae) on the drive back from Buffalo to book rooms for the next weekend of games- Totally surreal......

Most importantly we found out soon after my wife was expecting our first child- our oldest son- nice memories indeed.

 

[shu09]

I was in school (7th grade). In between classes I kept going over to my science teacher's room (he was a SH alum) and asking him how it was going. So happy when he told me Shaheen hit the game winner.

 

[HallB]

Was in the New Orleans Hilton Hotel because in a town of a million bars, there were none reliable as much as the Hilton, particular in the morning (as I believe it was a noon start), to put on a non-regional game...and since I was probably the only person in the whole town who cared about SHU basketball, I was the only person in the bar watching the game which was likely a strange viewing for any passersby (I had a few who came to see what I was up to)...and being that I was alone, I was not going to make a scene, but when Sha hit that layup, I went berserk. Received even more weird looks, closed out my tab and went home a very happy and tired man. Ah, I guess that what makes me come back every year, the hope, just the hope that I will have more memories like that...please Willard, please recruit some big men down low, and really, how hard is it to find a pass first point guard???

 

[sami]

Originally posted by SHUSource:
Were you in Buffalo? I was on my couch after leaving work "sick" at about 11:30 a.m. to see our guys take on Oregon in a game that would feature one of the most fantastic finishes in my NCAA Tournament memory.

Rusty Scupper in Princeton/Plainsboro on an "extended" lunch about 6 pints deep. Favorite SHU moment ever.

 

[Bobbie Solo]

i was so nervous during that entire game. My friends were fine, but I thought i was going to throw up all over row in front of me in Buffalo. That was one of the greatest days of my life. And then, after beating Temple...man, you couldn't tell me nothing.

 

[Section112]

Could not get off from work to go to Buffalo. But worked from home and watched the game and ran around my entire neighborhood with my Seton Hall flag when they won. Did it again when we beat Temple. My neighbors thought I was nuts but I flew the Pirates flag in front of the house for about a month after that.

 

[Seton75]

I had to work. A girl I worked with was leaving the company on game day. I suggested we have a going away lunch for her and got it arranged so we had it at a bar with TVs. About a minute into OT, a bartender changes the channel to car racing. I got them to change back, but am not sure I could have held them off for double OT.

 

[buzzershot]

We were in Buffalo with the Booster Club having a great time.

 

[Seton]

I rode up to Buffalo on the Booster Bus with Bobbie Solo and a couple other students; I had a buddy (in fact I was at the Big East Tournament with him last week) who was the sports editor for the Setonian and he told me if I would write a 200 worder I could have media credentials - my one and only time ever being published.
The craziest thing about that day for me was not the game, it was that night when I went to some club in downtown Buffalo that had to have a thousand people in it; it had three or four floors of dance floors and bars - then I look around the corner on the second floor of the club and there is Msgr. Shereen and about five other priests, Roman collars and all, just soaking it in.
I stumble back to the hotel only to find the OSU cheerleaders partying in the room I was going to crash in (I had firmly lost the ability to get back to wherever the Booster Club hotel was). That sounds like the beginning to a story that I would have liked to have ended differently but I feel like everyone passed out (sans cheerleaders) and I woke up on a couch in a room with three or four OSU band members that no one remembered meeting. The next day I feel like I rode on a bus to Toronto or Niagara Falls, probably with the Booster's. Heck, I think I might have gone to Cooperstown. I am starting to feel like I might have had too much fun that weekend.

 

[donnie_baseball]

Just curious, where was BobbieSolo? Back in his hotel room, complaining online that we wouldn't have won if we hadn't hit all those three-pointers?

I watched all NCAA games, that year, with friends at Ryan's, on South Orange Ave. I'm not sure what year it closed, but it was a great old watering hole.
This post was edited on 3/17 3:01 PM by donnie_baseball

 

[SHUMA04]

I was following the game online from an office in midtown.

Then decided I had to watch the OT so managed to find a bit of pavement outside the ESPN Zone in Times Square. It was too packed inside but there was a throng of people watching from the pavement despite the snow falling.

When Shaheen made the layup at the buzzer, the throng on the pavement was going nuts.

In the excitement somehow I ended up hugging a random girl next to me, and we were both jumping up and down going crazy with the snow continuing to lightly fall around us.

Good times. Too bad they've been far and few between since then.

 

[andover joe]

What a nice run that was! I was working at the Meadowlands, saw the Shaheen runner on one of the monitors, that was great! Then, on Sunday, watched the whole Seton -Temple battle at home, then went to work counsel a Temple grad about the outcome. I seriously considered going to Syra to see Seton-OklaSt, didn't, and, of course, such a disappointing outcome

 

[garyshu71]

Ty Shine

 

[anon_4htvdezyfe7k9]

Donnie - I could be wrong but wasn't Ryan's callindrillo's at that time ? Now the gaslight ? If we're talking about the same place, it being called Ryan's preceded my time at SHU. (Ryan's was actually named after a friend of mine whose Dad used to own it)

 

[Muggsy Blue]

In Buffalo with the Booster Club running the last few blocks to the arena because the damn bus that arrived late at the Seton Hall parking garage got stuck in traffic at 11:40. We arrived in the arena to meet Vinny at the box office to get our tickets. We ran into the game as the horn was sounding for tip off. What an incredible weekend. That night the Booster Club went out together to a steakhouse. The next day we beat Temple(?) and watched as Shaheen hurt his ankle and Ty Shine took over the game. Will it ever happen again? So much joy for Seton Hall fans.

Anyone know anything about what Ty Shine is doing now? I don't think he's ever been back to Seton Hall as has Bryan Caver never been. Good memories from both those kids. It's fun to remember, but sad too.

 

[anon_4htvdezyfe7k9]

Actually Donnie, if I'm not confusing the locations, that would have been the Gaslight at that time, formerly Calndrillo's and formerly Ryan's.

 

[batts]

Driving home from a business meeting on Rte 287 North near Morristown listening to Warner F on the radio. I almost drove off the road during Shaheen's drive to the basket. I literally stopped breathing until he scored.

 

[cernjSHU]

Wow! 15 years ago? Damn, it felt like a few years. It has been 15 years since we had a good run in the tournament. That is really hard to swallow.

 

[piratehall]

tremendous memories. somehow if the administration BOR etc. could read this entire thread maybe that will jar something loose and realize just how much the program means. we shoulnt have moments like these so few and far between.