How/When Did You Become An MU Fan?

[MU Viking]

I rooted for MU in their Sweet 16 run in 1994 when I was in high school. I committed to attend MU in 1995 and followed them heavily that season too until my freshman year in 1996. I missed 2 non-break home games in seven years as an undergrad and law student (and then very rarely after that while we lived in Wisconsin). Would watch or listen to every road game.

I was a huge Gophers fan growing up, and I could tell the tide had turned big time when I made the road trip through a blizzard to the Barn with a crammed car for the NIT final eight game in 1998. I badly wanted MU to beat Minnesota and we almost did in that raucous little arena. That Minnesota team still had some great players from that Final Four team that was later invalidated due to the academic scandal (Sam Jacobson, Quincy Lewis, Eric Harris, etc.) and ended up winning the NIT that year. We lost to them by 2 with a shot to win the game at the end. I still say Marquette would have brought home the NIT title that year had that 3-pointer (John Cliff, I think?) gone down.