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Neckfansince71 wrote: Thu Nov 21, 2019 6:09 pm We were in the stands for both games last night. I still like Western Hall! I know that it is not an arena, and really just a field house, but I think the changes over the years has made it a pretty neat place to play. The video boards came in from the cold today, unfortunately a day late for last night's games.

If you had told me that the women would get bombed last night, prior to the game and I would have told you you were crazy. But the women were never in it, got frustrated, and then just lost cohesion. Reminded me of the old "stratego Football Games" that had 22 players who moved via vibration on a large green football field, alot of movement with little to show for it. Bradley looked really good and kept hitting the 3 ball on the left side. They set up for it a number of times and were rewarded with a lead that just kept getting bigger and bigger. Not sure what to say. Thought the women were better or would be better.

I watched the TMartin game last weekend and really felt that the men should have won that game. What was needed was what last night led to a very well played loss last night. The Necks got the shots they wanted at the end, they just did not fall as much as they did for NIU. Really liked the 1-2 punch of Clarr and Arrington!!! They were physically better than WIU was, and their NBA guard was everything they said he was. But the Necks hung in to the end. Would love to have Steson and TMartin back! Getting tired of "close!" ;) jc

I envision a very large video board for the west side of the Hall in the near future. Let's face it, the Hall is a bit quirky, but thats okay.
Western Hall has its own Wicki page, what else could we want. But someone needs to update the page with concerts that have played there over the years. I did not see many of them but IIRC, I saw Pure Prairie League one summer in the late 70s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Hall

There is some history out on the world wide web.

https://www.concertarchives.org/venues/ ... stern-hall
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sealhall74 wrote: Fri Nov 22, 2019 9:57 am Western Hall has its own Wicki page, what else could we want. But someone needs to update the page with concerts that have played there over the years. I did not see many of them but IIRC, I saw Pure Prairie League one summer in the late 70s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Hall

There is some history out on the world wide web.

https://www.concertarchives.org/venues/ ... stern-hall
They just stop listing them after '79 or what?
Maynard Ferguson came back in the late '90s. I also remember seeing Chuck Berry, Ray Charles, Kansas, as well as artists/acts like the Smothers Brothers. MTV's Campus Invasion Tour brought some pretty big-name acts at the time as well: Garbage, Third Eye Blind, Lit, Sugar Ray, and around the same time Adam Sandler performed here also.
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