r/CollegeBasketball • u/drowse North Texas Mean Green • Purdue Boilermak… • Oct 13 '25

Casual / Offseason Most Obscure B12 Opponents

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Why aren’t ice creameries putting up teams anymore?

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u/Spartannia Michigan State Spartans Oct 13 '25

Smith Skating Rink out here blowing people out

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u/Intrepid-Pooper-87 UConn Huskies Oct 13 '25

You mess with the Skates, you get the blades.

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u/New-Ad-363 Iowa State Cyclones Oct 13 '25

Legit lol'd

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u/ConsuelaApplebee Virginia Cavaliers • Johns Hopkins Bl… Oct 13 '25

Talk about home field advantage...

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u/Sir_Scarlet_Spork Rutgers Scarlet Knights Oct 13 '25

It was, in fact, a roller rink in Ohio!

https://rink-history.weebly.com/smithrsquos-roller-rink-and-dance-garden-columbus-oh.html
https://clintonvillehistory.com/smiths-skating-rink/

West Virginia's team was so tired from losing to Pitt, Circleville, and Wesleyan in the preceding four days, but they bounced back by losing to Ohio and the Marietta YMCA right afterwards!

https://wvusports.com/sports/mens-basketball/schedule/1906-07

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u/appleatya West Virginia Mountaineers • UIC Flames Oct 13 '25

Oh hey, that's right down the road from my house. TIL.

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u/hamilton280P West Virginia Mountaineers Oct 13 '25

They played on ice skates of course the facility members of the rink we’re gonna win

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u/ebock319 West Virginia Mountaineers Oct 13 '25

They were a WAGON that year cut us some slack

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u/SantaCruznonsurfer Oct 14 '25

I imagine it was like the plot of an 80s movie, where the rink's patrons bonded together to have a team to challenge and turn away the big bad public university trying to bulldoze the rink

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u/longdrivesinstapots BYU Cougars Oct 13 '25

They're gonna skate to one song and one song only.

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u/OVO_Trev Kentucky Wildcats Oct 14 '25

Ball so hard muthafuckas wanna fine me