What was the first MU game you attended?

[Badgerhater]

Mine was Thursday, January 9, 1997.   Beat DePaul 61-49 at the BC.

[ATWizJr]

Couldn't tell you, but Kojis was playing.

[Earl Tatum]

Can't remember the year. But it was against Xavier, who was then a patsie. Do remember, Brell, Meminger,
and Sewell playing. One game I do remember--against DePaul--Joey Meyer was ejected from the game in
the first minute for a foul against Jeff Sewell. Ray Meyer was coaching and Joey had those horned- rimmed
glasses. Looked like a freek..

[Nukem2]

Couldn't tell you, but Kojis was playing.

Same for me.  Some time in 1959.

[HouWarrior]

I lived in Madison back then-

Thursday, March 13 1969 -

NCAA Mideast Regional Semifinals (at Madison, WI)
MU 81 UK 74
Adolph Rupp, Dan Issel for UK
Al McGuire, George Thompson, Dean Meminger, Ric Cobb for MU

Contrary to the movie "Glory Road" (involving Texas Western beating UK in the NCAA, in 1966), some say it was this game that sealed Adolf Rupp finally integrating his all white UK squad with african american players

http://www.jrn.com/tmj4/news/137426413.html

http://www.bigbluehistory.net/bb/statistics/Games/19690313Marquette.html

[mujivitz06]

Remember it specifically. Marquette vs. San Francisco Feb. 27th 1994. We won 86-65.

[MU Fan in Connecticut]

Would have been Freshman year for first home game/exhibition game at the MECCA back in 1987.  

Upon further review and a Google search it was:
http://goldeneaglefan.com/marquette-basketball/schedule/1987-1988

The University of Hartford on Monday November 30, 1987 and we won 70 - 61.

I now remember the game because UHart was one of the schools I was considering and found it coincidental it was the first game Marquette played against.

[Galway Eagle]

Marquette vs Syracuse Senior Day/Incoming freshmen game.  Lost in OT.  I could be wrong but I think that's the highest attended game ever right?

[swoopem]

First MU game was February something 2006 at Notre Dame. I was a senior in high school visiting my brother at MU and one of his roommates scored some tickets so we road tripped down. Our tickets were in their student section and we were all wearing those "Notre Dame is French for Our Bitch" shirts so we ended up getting kicked out of the section because those sissies couldn't handle it and told on us. One of the ushers was cool and showed us to some open seats in the MU section so we finished the game there. Needless to say we won.

First home game was an exhibition my freshman year (2006) vs. Cardinal Strich and obviously my first real game was whoever we opened with that season. 8 years later I'm still a season ticket holder.  

[CTWarrior]

12/4/79, a 57-54 win over Fresno State.  Had to look up the date, but for some reason I remembered the game and the score.  I remember thinking, "We aren't that good" after the game, as barely pulling one out at home over Fresno State was nothing special.  I was also surprised that Sam Worthen wore regular Chuck Taylors which he colored in stripes with magic markers, although the Sam Worthen part may be a drunken dream.

I also remember the next two games were losses to Michigan and Wisconsin, both teams featuring guys I played against in high school in Bridgeport, CT, John Garris (Bassick High, later transferred to BC and played a year or two in the NBA for the Cavs) and Wes Matthews And Darnell Reid (Harding High, we all know Wes.  Reid was like the 6th best player on those Harding teams, but Wisconsin took him to help land Matthews.  Those Harding teams were awesome, also included John Bagley, who had a long NBA career, Mike McKay a four year starter and star at UConn and Cedric Cannon, a D-2 All-American, I think.  And they didn't even win the state Class L title.).

[Ari Gold]

can't remember much about the game but it was the mid 90s. My dad and I got my godparent's tix. What I remember most was how my dad referenced Marquette basketball as an "After Dinner Game" - something you attended to talk to your clients or impress the right people, not actually get into. Thankfully so much has changed.

[kryza]

Coppin St in 2003, we won by like 20. It was the first home game during my freshman year. I've probably only missed a dozen or so home games since then =)

[Mike Deane]

Couldn't tell you either.  It was against Notre Dame in 1985-86 season.

[TAMU, Knower of Ball]

1990 home game against badgered. I was one. I'm told we won that game. First game I can remember was unfortunately a home loss to Appalachian state

[Newsdreams]

Dec. 1st 1979 blew Eastern Montana away. Same year we beat both Duke and ND while they were ranked #10.

[brandx]

I actually attended my 1st MU game to see someone else. LSU and Florida St. were playing in the 1st game of the Classic and my dad took me to see Pete Maravich. Fun to watch, but he was nowhere near the player that Dave Cowens was.

And then I got to see 'Brute Force' in the 2nd game and have been an MU fan ever since.

[tower912]

Exhibition against the Chinese national team, November 1984.

[Spotcheck Billy]

I was 13, it was January 12, 1974, a win against DePaul. My parents would never spend $ on tickets to any events be it MU or Summerfest or State Fair but a classmate who's father was a dental alum had season tix and gave me a pair for this game so I took my dad. Sadly it was also my last game for roughly another decade.

[ChitownSpaceForRent]

February 27 2011 vs. Providence. Junior had a double, double and that was really the first time I spent any attention to MU. Probably the reason why I was such a big JC supporter and backer.

[ChitownSpaceForRent]

Actually thats a lie. The first time I saw MU play was at the Allstate Arena against Depaul. Cant remember the day but I know is was more than a few years back and Depaul won because Sammy Mejia had a monster game. I didn't count that one though cause I was cheering for Depaul.

[Coleman]

Final Four year - December 14, 2002 (thanks Scoop wiki). I was a junior in high school, and my dad brought me. He's not an alum, but he knew I was semi-interested in MU at the time.

We beat the Badgers 63-54 at home. Was a great game with an awesome atmosphere and we basically dominated from start to finish. That was the day I decided to attend MU. Seeing Wade, Deiner, Novak, etc. all on the court for MU was pretty amazing.

[Norm]

Would have been Freshman year for first home game/exhibition game at the MECCA back in 1987. 

Ditto. Was it Athletes in Action?

[oshkoshbgosh]

As a UW student in '69 or '70, several of us walked through a snow storm to see the Warrior freshmen play the Badger fresh. I remember Larry McNeil and Marcus Washington matched up against Kim and Kerry Hughes. MU won big.

[Skatastrophy]

Crean's first game coaching in '99. Against Nike All-Stars or some other stupid crap.

[SaveOD238]

Marquette-UConn.  The Steve Novak game.

Full disclosure: My family had just moved to Illinois from Connecticut and another CT transplant family we met took us to see the Huskies.  I was cheering for UConn.  Fortunately, I've come around since then.