2025-2026 B1G Basketball Thread

[betarhoalphadelta]

UW beat Purdue in the 2000 Elite 8 to get to MSU.

Ahh, yes... My first and only [and hopefully forever "only"] experience with tear gas. 

[medinabuckeye1]

Ahh, yes... My first and only [and hopefully forever "only"] experience with tear gas.

I want to hear this story.  

FWIW:  Mine was October 30, 1993.  I was a freshman sitting in the student section at Ohio Stadium and Ohio State beat Penn State in the first league match between the Buckeyes and Nittany Lions.  This was MUCH more surprising at the time than it is in retrospect.  At the time tOSU was coming off of about 15 years of being down (relatively, by Ohio State standards) and PSU had won a couple fairly recent NCs.  We students thought we should tear down goal posts or somesuch to celebrate and the dumb ones (freshman) were at the front of the pack when the Columbus Police Department deployed their ginormous industrial tear gas sprayers at the crowd.  

[FearlessF]

geez, I don't think they've ever used tear gas in Lincoln for tearing down goal posts or court storming

[bayareabadger]

Ahh, yes... My first and only [and hopefully forever "only"] experience with tear gas.

The good stuff.

[betarhoalphadelta]

I want to hear this story. 

FWIW:  Mine was October 30, 1993.  I was a freshman sitting in the student section at Ohio Stadium and Ohio State beat Penn State in the first league match between the Buckeyes and Nittany Lions.  This was MUCH more surprising at the time than it is in retrospect.  At the time tOSU was coming off of about 15 years of being down (relatively, by Ohio State standards) and PSU had won a couple fairly recent NCs.  We students thought we should tear down goal posts or somesuch to celebrate and the dumb ones (freshman) were at the front of the pack when the Columbus Police Department deployed their ginormous industrial tear gas sprayers at the crowd. 

Yeah, after that game there were a bunch of students amassing on the road in front of Cary Quad (one of the dorms) at Purdue... The usual stuff... Couch(es) lit on fire, people milling around. Not actually anything crazy. Myself and two others had walked down there from the fraternity to check it out.

There had been a similar gathering two days before in celebration after the Sweet 16 win. It seems West Lafayette PD had had enough of that.

So we see the riot police lining up down the street at a stop light. I remarked to my friends "well, I think we should head to the periphery of this" and we did. We see them start marching towards the crowd and then hear a couple repeated "thump" sounds of launching a big heavy projectile and see the canisters rolling into the crowd spewing gas. Then... "Uhh, I think it's time to leave" and we did.

So we weren't in the middle of it, and we weren't hit with it MUCH being on the periphery and leaving immediately. But we all got a little whiff here and there as we left, and it was... Unpleasant.

[SFBadger96]

Near annual “confidence” training: see, that gas mask really works. The chem guys loved to fill that little shed up so you *know* the mask and gear were doing there job, until they weren’t.

[ELA]

The artist formerly known as IUPUI taking on Cleveland State in the first conference tourney game of the year. 

[ELA]

https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/48077130/usc-leading-scorer-chad-baker-mazara-no-longer-program

WTF?

Father Time is undefeated.  Probably wanted to spend time with his kids before they went off to college