We asked visitors to KUSports.com to rank the most memorable moments in Allen Fieldhouse’s 50-year history, and they responded with 11,150 votes. Here are the results:
1. Wilt Chamberlain scores 52 points in his college debut, an 87-69 victory over Northwestwern on Dec. 3, 1956.
6% — 691 votes
2. KU registers an astonishing 150-95 romp over Kentucky on Dec. 9, 1989.
5% — 645 votes
3. Wilt Chamberlain returns Jan. 17, 1998, as part of KU’s 100th anniversary of basketball.
5% — 618 votes
4. Nick Collison and Kirk Hinrich combine for 43 points March 1, 2003, in their last fieldhouse game.
5% — 570 votes
5. Raef LaFrentz, Billy Thomas and C.B. McGrath finish their careers undefeated (58-0) at home.
4% — 531 votes
6. Bud Stallworth drops in 50 points, many from long range, in a 93-80 victory over Missouri on Feb. 26, 1972.
4% — 497 votes
7. KU spills Missouri, 80-70, to wrap up the 100-year anniversary weekend celebration Feb. 8, 1998.
4% — 451 votes
8. Terry Brown drills a school-record 11 three-pointers and scores 42 points in a 105-94 victory over North Carolina State on Jan. 5, 1991.
3% — 403 votes
9. Kansas wins the last meeting between Phog Allen and Oklahoma State’s Hank Iba, 56-55, Jan. 31, 1956.
3% — 368 votes
10. Allen Fieldhouse opens with a 77-66 victory over Kansas State on March 1, 1955, as Gene Elstun scores 21 points.
3% — 360 votes
11. Danny Manning scores 40 points in a 70-60 victory over Notre Dame on Feb. 8, 1987.
3% — 339 votes
12. Nick Collison scores 24 points and collects 23 rebounds before fouling out in a 90-87 victory over Texas on Jan. 27, 2003, prompting TV analyst Dick Vitale to give Collison a standing ovation from press row.
2% — 333 votes
13. KU thumps Oklahoma State, 75-57, in the final home game for seniors Danny Manning, Chris Piper and Archie Marshall.
2% — 321 votes
14. KU’s Lynette Woodard explodes for 44 points, most ever by a women in the fieldhouse, in a 101-64 win over Iowa State in February, 1979.
2% — 299 votes
15. Several KU students unveil a banner made of shower curtains that reads, “Pay heed all who enter: Beware of the Phog” prior to a Feb. 22, 1988, game against Duke.
2% — 287 votes
16. Jacque Vaughn’s three-pointer at :0.2 in overtime gives KU an 86-83 victory over Indiana on Dec. 22, 1993.
2% — 269 votes
17. A school-record nine Jayhawks score in double figures in a 127-82 victory over Iowa State on Jan. 7, 1989.
2% — 245 votes
18. KU trails UCLA by 15 points at halftime, but rallies to win by 15 (85-70) on Dec. 1, 1995.
2% — 231 votes
19. Danny Manning tallies 27 points in a 100-66 blasting of Missouri on Feb. 11, 1986.
1% — 208 votes
20. Danny Manning’s jersey No. 25 is retired Dec. 1, 1992.
1% — 200 votes
21. Wilt Chamberlain collects 46 points in a 102-46 massacre of Nebraska on Feb. 8, 1958.
1% — 194 votes
22. Anthony Peeler scores 43 points, but KU tops Missouri, 98-89, on March 8, 1992.
1% — 193 votes
23. A crowd of around 14,000 shows up Nov. 19, 1955, to watch KU’s freshmen sting the varsity, 81-71, behind Wilt Chamberlain’s 42 points.
1% — 192 votes
24. Bill Bridges retrieves 30 missed shots in an 86-69 season-opening victory over Northwestern on Dec. 3, 1960.
1% — 152 votes
25. Jo Jo White scores 30 in his last KU game, a 80-70 victory over Colorado on Feb. 1, 1969.
1% — 138 votes
26. Approximately 6,000 show up for the first Late Night extravaganza Oct. 14, 1985.
1% — 133 votes
27. Coach Roy Williams tries to start six seniors plus Raef LaFrentz before waving walk-ons Joel Branstrom and Steve Ransom off the court Feb. 22, 1997.
1% — 127 votes
28. Wilt Chamberlain grabs 36 rebounds in a 90-61 rout of Iowa State on Feb. 15, 1958.
1% — 127 votes
29. Oscar Robertson scores a fieldhouse-record 56 points, lifting Cincinnati to a 97-62 NCAA Tournament victory over Arkansas on March 15, 1958.
1% — 126 votes
30. Oklahoma players clip the nets Feb. 22, 1984, after spilling the Jayhawks, 92-82, in overtime and clinching the Big Eight championship.
1% — 126 votes
31. Steve Woodberry hits a three-pointer with 1.5 seconds left, giving KU a 62-61 victory over Oklahoma State for Roy Williams’ 150th win.
1% — 120 votes
32. Roy Williams decides to leave KU, telling reporters in a brief fieldhouse press conference on a staircase in April of 2003.
1% — 119 votes
¢ Harry Belafonte, 1968 — First event in Fieldhouse concert series
¢ Sonny and Cher, October 13, 1973 — 14,777 attend
¢ Bob Hope, 1982 — final Lawrence appearance for famed funnyman
¢ Robert F. Kennedy, March 19, 1968 — Three days after he declares for presidency; crowd estimated at 20,000 (largest in Allen Fieldhouse history)
¢ Dole and Clinton — May, 21, 2004
¢ “The Day After” — Fieldhouse serves as site of triage for wounded in move taping on November 14, 1983
¢ First graduation, May 31, 1959 — Ceremony moved inside for first time due to inclement weather
¢ First track meet, February 2, 1956 — KU defeats Oklahoma in front of crowd of 2,000
¢ Jim Ryun, Feb. 23, 1967 — Ryun sets a world record in the 880 with a time of 1:48.3 in a dual meet against Oklahoma State
¢ Kansas University volleyball — School-record 14,800 fans watch a pre-Late Night match with Missouri on October 18, 1996
— Mike Rigg, Sunflower Broadband
33. Oklahoma State’s Randy Rutherford scores 45 points, but KU holds 7-footer Bryant Reeves scoreless in a 78-62 victory that gives the Jayhawks the league title March 5, 1995.
1% — 119 votes
34. Alonzo Jamison shatters the backboard with a dunk during the 1988 Late Night.
0% — 101 votes
35. Fans are astounded during a game with Kansas State on Feb. 20, 1965, when a pair of 6 x 12 banners saying “Go Cats, Kill Snob Hill Again” unfurl on the east and west sides of the scoreboard with eight minutes left in the first half of KU’s 88-66 win.
0% — 93 votes
36. KU downs Oklahoma State, 64-48, Feb. 3, 1969 for the 1,000th win in school history. Coach Ted Owens had torn the seat of his trousers in the second half and had to wear a towel around his waist in a postgame ceremony.
0% — 91 votes
37. An alumni game fills the fieldhouse Feb. 7, 1998, featuring such former players as Kevin Pritchard, Walt Wesley, Bud Stallworth, Ron Loneski and John Douglas.
0% — 88 votes
38. Adolph Rupp, a member of KU’s 1923 national-championship team, brings Kentucky to Lawrence for the first time Dec. 14, 1959.
0% — 77 votes
39. Days after winning the 1988 NCAA title, coach Larry Brown holds an afternoon news conference in the fieldhouse to announce he has turned down a job offer from UCLA.
0% — 76 votes
40. Larry Bird tallies 22 points and grabs 13 boards in Indiana State’s 86-69 victory over Virginia Tech in the NCAA Midwest Regional final March 11, 1979.
0% — 68 votes
41. Lynette Woodard scores 24 points in an 80-59 victory over Stephen F. Austin and becomes the all-time leading scorer in AIAW history.
0% — 65 votes
42. Marian Washington posts her 500th career victory, a 58-54 decision over Oklahoma on Feb. 20, 1999.
0% — 63 votes
43. Coach Dick Harp goes on the PA system Feb. 23, 1958, to beseech KU fans to stop booing Missouri’s Mike Kirksey on the free-throw line.
0% — 58 votes
44. Mitch Richmond scores 35 points as Kansas State halts KU’s 55-game home winning streak, 72-61, Jan. 30, 1988.
0% — 54 votes
45. KU clobbers Brown, 115-45, Jan. 3, 1989, for the most lopsided victory in school history. Milt Newton leads the Jayhawks with 23 points.
0% — 52 votes
46. Four-time Olympic champion Al Oerter is among the KU competitors Feb. 3, 1956, in the first indoor track meet in school history.
0% — 50 votes
47. Iowa snaps KU’s school-record 62-game home win streak Dec. 8, 1998.
0% — 50 votes
48. The Harlem Globetrotters, featuring Lynette Woodard, appear Feb. 10, 1987.
0% — 50 votes
49. A sellout crowd watches Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls knock off the Seattle SuperSonics in an NBA exhibition game Oct. 11, 1997.
0% — 47 votes
50. KU pounds Washburn, 99-56, on Nov. 25, 2000, for KU’s 500th win in the fieldhouse.
0% — 44 votes
51. In a Feb. 26, 1966, showdown between No. 6-ranked KU and No. 8 Nebraska, the Jayhawks romp, 110-73, and cut down the nets after clinching the Big Eight title.
0% — 52 votes
52. Terry Brown scores 26 points, pacing KU to a 73-60 victory over Miami on Jan. 16, 1991, in a game that nearly was canceled because of the start of Operation Desert Storm.
0% — 38 votes
53. Four days after undergoing surgery to repair anterior compartment syndrome surgery in his right leg, Mark Randall scores 11 points in an 108-71 rout of Marquette 71.
0% — 38 votes
54. A Fill the Fieldhouse promotion Jan. 9, 1994, lures a record women’s crowd of 13,352.
0% — 33 votes
55. KU downs Colorado, 78-63, on March 9, 1957, to capture the school’s last Big Seven title and first title since moving to Allen.
0% — 28 votes
56. A renovation project during the summer of 1974 covers the fieldhouse’s original dirt surface completely.
0% — 26 votes
57. Houston, led by Elvin Hayes’ 19 points, stuns the No. 3-ranked Jayhawks, 66-53, in an NCAA Tournament game in March, 1967.
0% — 25 votes
58. Missouri pops Kansas, 76-49, Jan. 24, 2004, in Marian Washington’s last game as KU women’s coach.
0% — 17 votes
59. Norm Stewart scores 20 points as Missouri hands KU its first loss in the fieldhouse — 85-78 — on Feb. 6, 1956.
0% — 14 votes
60. Kansas leads Jerry Tarkanian’s Long Beach State team, 32-8, at halftime then hangs on for 69-52 victory Dec. 1, 1970.
0% — 12 votes
61. Kansas State’s Bob Boozer scores 32 points in 79-75 double overtime victory over the Jayhawks on Feb. 3, 1958.
0% — 7 votes
62. Eventual national champion Cincinnati trips Kansas State, 69-64, on March 18, 1961 in the NCAA Midwest Regional.
0% — 7 votes
63. Kansas State’s Mike Wroblewski scores 46 points, the most ever by a KU opponent in the fieldhouse, in a 91-72 Kansas State victory over the Jayhawks on Feb. 7, 1962.
0% — 5 votes
Kansas City, Mo ? The University of the Pacific may be in the midst of a 16-game winning streak, own one of four “upsets” in the first round of the NCAA Tournament and stand on the brink of the school’s first trip to the Sweet 16.
But just how much do Kansas University fans know about their team’s foe in today’s 3:50 p.m. game at Kemper Arena?
“Me? Absolutely nothing,” said Jason Adams, a KU fan from Thayer, cheering from the stands Friday night. “I didn’t study my bracket very close. They definitely weren’t my pick.”
Such innocent ignorance is proving pervasive this weekend in Kansas City, even among KU faithful who watched Pacific topple No. 5 seed Providence before the Jayhawks took the floor against Illinois-Chicago.
But the question remains: Are the No. 4-seeded Jayhawks and their fans now overconfident, knowing that Pacific got into the tournament as a No. 12 seed?
That won’t be known until this evening, of course. But until then, KU fans and players can learn something from this little quiz posed to ticket-holding fans — and even a few players — after Friday’s games:
What is Pacific’s mascot?
KU fan answer: “An eagle,” said Dale Wahlers, who took business classes at KU and now works in finance in Wichita. “Isn’t it? I remember it from watching the game. It’s an eagle.”
The Kansas University Alumni Association will conduct a pep rally today for fans prepping for KU’s second-round NCAA Tournament game against Pacific.The pep rally is scheduled to begin at 11:30 a.m. in the parking lot of the Golden Ox, 1600 Genessee St., in Kansas City, Mo. The lot is just north of Kemper Arena, where KU’s game is expected to start about 3:50 p.m. (or 30 minutes after the conclusion of the Oklahoma State-Memphis game, which starts at 1:20 p.m.).¢Team officials had not yet decided Saturday night when the Jayhawks would return to Lawrence after KU’s game against Pacific. |
Correct answer: Wahlers apparently trained his eyes on the wrong team. While Eastern Washington — a loser earlier Friday to Oklahoma State — traveled with an mascot in an eagle suit and Hawaiian shirt, Pacific proudly plays behind an orange-and-black Tiger, reflecting the school’s colors.
Where is Pacific, anyway?
KU fan answer: “They have a dental school in San Francisco,” said Jerry Nossaman, a retired dentist from Lawrence. “I’ve actually been there. I’ve taken a continuing-education class there — two, in fact.”
Correct answer: Nossaman is 33 percent right.
Pacific, a private university, does have a dental school in San Francisco, along with a law school in Sacramento. But the main campus is in Stockton, Calif.
For the record, Nossaman must not have many Pacific pennants around his office. He guessed that the school’s mascot either was a mussel or a clam.
What conference does Pacific play in?
KU fan answer: “I’m going to guess,” said Cathy Guyer, a 2002 KU graduate now working in Moundridge as a marketer for a lawn-care equipment company. “Is it the Pacific Conference?”
Correct answer: No. The Tigers play in the Big West Conference, whose 10 member schools include eight from California. Among conference members is Utah State, a team that challenged KU last year in the first round of the NCAA Tournament, when KU won 64-61 on the way to the Final Four.
This season, Pacific is riding a 16-game winning steak, which included the Big West Conference Tournament Championship.
Guyer scored well on other Pacific questions, but she had an in. She was recruited to swim for Pacific back in 1998, but opted to go to KU instead.
“I didn’t really like it there,” Guyer said. “There’s a lot of people in that town. It was all dirty, a lot of crime and stuff. I was thinking it was going to be like Pepperdine — you know, Malibu, right on the ocean, fun — but less expensive. That wasn’t it.”
Name a famous Pacific graduate, or a player in the NBA.
KU fan answer: “Um, did Steve Nash go there?” asked Brett Olson, a senior forward for KU. “No, he went to Santa Barbara.”
Kansas University’s on spring break. If you weren’t playing in the NCAA Tournament, where would you want to go for spring break?Asked of KU forward Wayne Simien, an avid angler who considers the Ozarks his favorite vacation destination.“Table Rock Lake, bass fishing. Just fishing, man. The great outdoors. Get away from school a little bit, away from hoop. Be out in the wilderness. Go camping. No TVs. No cell phones. Having a relaxing time.” |
Correct answer: Michael Olowokandi left Pacific in 1998 and became the first player picked in the 1998 NBA draft. He plays for the Minnesota Timberwolves.
Also notable: Alex Spanos is a Pacific graduate. Spanos, a member of the school’s board of regents, owns the San Diego Chargers and owns companies that build and develop rental communities. His name is on the school’s 6,150-seat basketball arena.
Olson, who has a 4.0 grade-point average, actually did well on the Pacific test: He easily identified the Tigers, the northern California location and membership in the Big West Conference — “not the Big Sky,” as he emphasized in the KU locker room.
“Hey, I didn’t study colleges,” said Olson, who’s working on a master’s in exercise science and plans to enter medical school. “I didn’t get my degree in other colleges.”
The Jayhawks figured to go to school on Pacific’s basketball team Saturday, knowing that the success of their studies could make a difference during today’s exam in their packed, 18,000-seat classroom.
Danny Manning, a team manager and director of student-athlete development, knows the team will be ready.
“This is not a series where you play five games and it’s the best of five,” Manning said. “It’s a one-game tournament. Anything can happen in a one-game tournament. And we all understand that.”
Manning already has aced the NCAA test as a player, leading the Jayhawks to a national title in 1988 — a run that ended with an 83-79 victory over Oklahoma in Kemper Arena. Some fans forget that KU had to squeak by often-overlooked Murray State, 61-58, in the second round of that tournament to advance.
Tonight’s second-round game carries the same significance.
“This isn’t a test,” Manning said. “This is like an end-of-the-year grade. If you lose, you have to start over again next year — and I mean the whole grade, not just the class.”
Kansas City, Mo ? The University of the Pacific may be in the midst of a 16-game winning streak, own one of four “upsets” in the first round of the NCAA Tournament and stand on the brink of the school’s first trip to the Sweet 16.
But just how much do Kansas University fans know about their team’s foe in today’s 3:50 p.m. game at Kemper Arena?
“Me? Absolutely nothing,” said Jason Adams, a KU fan from Thayer, cheering from the stands Friday night. “I didn’t study my bracket very close. They definitely weren’t my pick.”
Such innocent ignorance is proving pervasive this weekend in Kansas City, even among KU faithful who watched Pacific topple No. 5 seed Providence before the Jayhawks took the floor against Illinois-Chicago.
But the question remains: Are the No. 4-seeded Jayhawks and their fans now overconfident, knowing that Pacific got into the tournament as a No. 12 seed?
That won’t be known until this evening, of course. But until then, KU fans and players can learn something from this little quiz posed to ticket-holding fans — and even a few players — after Friday’s games:
What is Pacific’s mascot?
KU fan answer: “An eagle,” said Dale Wahlers, who took business classes at KU and now works in finance in Wichita. “Isn’t it? I remember it from watching the game. It’s an eagle.”
The Kansas University Alumni Association will conduct a pep rally today for fans prepping for KU’s second-round NCAA Tournament game against Pacific.The pep rally is scheduled to begin at 11:30 a.m. in the parking lot of the Golden Ox, 1600 Genessee St., in Kansas City, Mo. The lot is just north of Kemper Arena, where KU’s game is expected to start about 3:50 p.m. (or 30 minutes after the conclusion of the Oklahoma State-Memphis game, which starts at 1:20 p.m.).¢Team officials had not yet decided Saturday night when the Jayhawks would return to Lawrence after KU’s game against Pacific. |
Correct answer: Wahlers apparently trained his eyes on the wrong team. While Eastern Washington — a loser earlier Friday to Oklahoma State — traveled with an mascot in an eagle suit and Hawaiian shirt, Pacific proudly plays behind an orange-and-black Tiger, reflecting the school’s colors.
Where is Pacific, anyway?
KU fan answer: “They have a dental school in San Francisco,” said Jerry Nossaman, a retired dentist from Lawrence. “I’ve actually been there. I’ve taken a continuing-education class there — two, in fact.”
Correct answer: Nossaman is 33 percent right.
Pacific, a private university, does have a dental school in San Francisco, along with a law school in Sacramento. But the main campus is in Stockton, Calif.
For the record, Nossaman must not have many Pacific pennants around his office. He guessed that the school’s mascot either was a mussel or a clam.
What conference does Pacific play in?
KU fan answer: “I’m going to guess,” said Cathy Guyer, a 2002 KU graduate now working in Moundridge as a marketer for a lawn-care equipment company. “Is it the Pacific Conference?”
Correct answer: No. The Tigers play in the Big West Conference, whose 10 member schools include eight from California. Among conference members is Utah State, a team that challenged KU last year in the first round of the NCAA Tournament, when KU won 64-61 on the way to the Final Four.
This season, Pacific is riding a 16-game winning steak, which included the Big West Conference Tournament Championship.
Guyer scored well on other Pacific questions, but she had an in. She was recruited to swim for Pacific back in 1998, but opted to go to KU instead.
“I didn’t really like it there,” Guyer said. “There’s a lot of people in that town. It was all dirty, a lot of crime and stuff. I was thinking it was going to be like Pepperdine — you know, Malibu, right on the ocean, fun — but less expensive. That wasn’t it.”
Name a famous Pacific graduate, or a player in the NBA.
KU fan answer: “Um, did Steve Nash go there?” asked Brett Olson, a senior forward for KU. “No, he went to Santa Barbara.”
Correct answer: Michael Olowokandi left Pacific in 1998 and became the first player picked in the 1998 NBA draft. He plays for the Minnesota Timberwolves.
Kansas University’s on spring break. If you weren’t playing in the NCAA Tournament, where would you want to go for spring break?Asked of KU forward Wayne Simien, an avid angler who considers the Ozarks his favorite vacation destination.“Table Rock Lake, bass fishing. Just fishing, man. The great outdoors. Get away from school a little bit, away from hoop. Be out in the wilderness. Go camping. No TVs. No cell phones. Having a relaxing time.” |
Also notable: Alex Spanos is a Pacific graduate. Spanos, a member of the school’s board of regents, owns the San Diego Chargers and owns companies that build and develop rental communities. His name is on the school’s 6,150-seat basketball arena.
Olson, who has a 4.0 grade-point average, actually did well on the Pacific test: He easily identified the Tigers, the northern California location and membership in the Big West Conference — “not the Big Sky,” as he emphasized in the KU locker room.
“Hey, I didn’t study colleges,” said Olson, who’s working on a master’s in exercise science and plans to enter medical school. “I didn’t get my degree in other colleges.”
The Jayhawks figured to go to school on Pacific’s basketball team Saturday, knowing that the success of their studies could make a difference during today’s exam in their packed, 18,000-seat classroom.
Danny Manning, a team manager and director of student-athlete development, knows the team will be ready.
“This is not a series where you play five games and it’s the best of five,” Manning said. “It’s a one-game tournament. Anything can happen in a one-game tournament. And we all understand that.”
Manning already has aced the NCAA test as a player, leading the Jayhawks to a national title in 1988 — a run that ended with an 83-79 victory over Oklahoma in Kemper Arena. Some fans forget that KU had to squeak by often-overlooked Murray State, 61-58, in the second round of that tournament to advance.
Tonight’s second-round game carries the same significance.
“This isn’t a test,” Manning said. “This is like an end-of-the-year grade. If you lose, you have to start over again next year — and I mean the whole grade, not just the class.”