Best game you ever saw?

[t7017s]

Ummmmm....I'll go out on a limb and say WSU 5 - UT 3 in Omaha. It wasn't the greatest played game of all time......but IT'LL DO!

was that game the same year as the driefort game mentioned above?

lol... No that was the national championship game in 89 my friend. Darren was not a shocker yet.

[SpanglerFan316]

Ummmmm....I'll go out on a limb and say WSU 5 - UT 3 in Omaha. It wasn't the greatest played game of all time......but IT'LL DO!

was that game the same year as the driefort game mentioned above?

lol... No that was the national championship game in 89 my friend. Darren was not a shocker yet.

Does "driefort" refer to Darren or Todd? (Todd did play in 1989 as a freshman.) :D

[rrshock]

Darren was the one who hit the bomb. So it was in 1993ish.

I remember watching the 89 champ game. But for some reason beating Creighton in 91 still stands out as the best one I've seen. I saw a few good ones over the years at WSU regionals. Particularly right before they switched to the current format. Unfortunately, WSU lost most of them.

[lostshocker]

Ummmmm....I'll go out on a limb and say WSU 5 - UT 3 in Omaha. It wasn't the greatest played game of all time......but IT'LL DO!

was that game the same year as the driefort game mentioned above?

lol... No that was the national championship game in 89 my friend. Darren was not a shocker yet.

Does "driefort" refer to Darren or Todd? (Todd did play in 1989 as a freshman.) :D

no, i am just a moron at times. the 89 championship kind of pre-dates my following of the shockers. i became a fan of them over the next 4 years watching them in the CWS. growing up in nebraska does have some advantages.

[shockball]

Best game ever had the throw. WSU 5 Texas 3 was the best one I was at.

[engrshock]

There are many best games but usually the "best game" must include a dramatic finish for high stakes. There are plenty of Shocker games to mention but with respect to other games I would include the World Series where Kirk Gibson (Game 1 - 1988) came out to bat not even able to run and stroked a home run after fouling a bunch of pitches off and barely being able to stand back up. Another would be Game 6 - 1993 for Toronto where Joe Carter hit a walk-off home run jumping on each base as he crossed them.

[SubGod22]

Game 6 of the 1985 World Series :D

[shox8498]

Best game ever had the throw. WSU 5 Texas 3 was the best one I was at.

Ditto......but in reverse. I was just slightly more satisfied with watching WSU beat UT in the CWS final than watching WSU beat CU with Audey's throw.

Several Regional games at the Eck come to mind in the early '90's.....beating OSU, beating Baylor, beating California....coming back two years ago to beat Arizona twice and get to our first Super Regional......McKeever and the Shocks beating Okie State again (twice) in Stillwater this season.....can't claim to have seen the last two, but those are the only exceptions.

Wins over UT and CU easily top the list, though.

[William]

It is hard to remember these things, but here are a few that stand out.

Villanova - Georgetown 1985
Kansas - Oklahoma 1988
Kansas st. - Oklahoma big XII championship 2003
Boise st. - Oklahoma football
Creighton - WSU 1991 cws
Arizona st - WSU 1988 cws
Kansas st - Kansas basketball 2008 Bramlage
Denver - Cleveland 1986 AFC Championship

[shockandawe08]

Well, if we're going to go THERE.......
NC State - Houston 1983 in Albuquerque
Wolfpack Attack vs. Phi Slamma Jamma

"My wife doesn't know it yet, but we're going to have a son and we're going to name him 'Al B. Querque.'" - Jim Valvano

[shocker3]

The best games I saw in person had to be: 1. First WSU win over CU in 1991 CWS (the throw), 2. WSU 5, UT 3 1989 National championship game, 3. WSU over OSU in 2008 regional championship (Mac Grand Slam).

The game that I had the best feeling afterwards had to be the 1989 national championship game. No game has come close to that one, but the 1991 WSU-CU game was definitely a better game.

I was tense and on the edge of my seat for the entire game. It was amazing how quiet those 20,000 Creighton fans got right after "the throw" (the few hundred Shocker fans in the stadium did make a lot of noise at that point). :wsu_posters:

[WuDrWu]

The best games I saw in person had to be: 1. First WSU win over CU in 1991 CWS (the throw), 2. WSU 5, UT 3 1989 National championship game, 3. WSU over OSU in 2008 regional championship (Mac Grand Slam).

The game that I had the best feeling afterwards had to be the 1989 national championship game. No game has come close to that one, but the 1991 WSU-CU game was definitely a better game.

I was tense and on the edge of my seat for the entire game. It was amazing how quiet those 20,000 Nebraska fans got right after "the throw" (the few hundred Shocker fans in the stadium did make a lot of noise at that point). :wsu_posters:

Fixed.

[Awesome Sauce Malone]

There are many best games but usually the "best game" must include a dramatic finish for high stakes. There are plenty of Shocker games to mention but with respect to other games I would include the World Series where Kirk Gibson (Game 1 - 1988) came out to bat not even able to run and stroked a home run after fouling a bunch of pitches off and barely being able to stand back up. Another would be Game 6 - 1993 for Toronto where Joe Carter hit a walk-off home run jumping on each base as he crossed them.

They are showing the 1988 WS Game 1 on espn classic i think tomorrow.

[rrshock]

Just to bring it back, like so many have done before. It just never gets old watching it.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=hjPiLHAKRAw

[Hill Sitter]

Watching 'the throw' will never get old.

What was the regional semi- final game early 90s, at Eck vs Cal maybe? Shocks were down in mid innings and staged big rally to win.