What do you think? Allen anniversary edition
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
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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
Top 10 non-basketball moments in Allen Fieldhouse history (in no particular order)
¢ 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