The company I worked for at the time, sent me and 3 other guys to the Final Four in Atlanta in 2002. (I worked for a company that filmed sports educational videos with lots of college coaches) Anyway, one of the guys I was there with, Thom, was a basketball coach who had quite a few connections on the collegiate level. He worked as the company's recruiter, using his connections to get coaches interested in making films with us.
Well, that particular week was the week that FSU hired Leonard Hamilton to be their head coach. Leonard was good friends with Thom, and he decided that he wanted him to be one of his assistants. Thom was on the fence, not sure if he wanted to move his family from Iowa, but Coach Hamilton put on the high pressure sales pitch and really tried to entice him. He was affiliated with Adidas at the time, and during the Final Four, all of the athletic gear companies have these big events with lots of gladhanding and whatnot. Anyway, Leonard kept inviting us to all these private parties that all of these big name coaches were attending, hoping to convince Thom to work for him. So, by proxy, we were introduced to all kinds of sports figures: Bill Self, Jay Wright, Alford(bleh), Mike Brey, Charlie Steiner, etc.
After we left a party one night, we walked back to the Omni hotel, and decided to grab one last drink before turning in. It was probably 1 AM, and we were already pretty loaded, so we found a little booth in the corner of the room. There was this bigger group of about 10-15 people right at the bar making a ton of noise and laughing really loudly. I went up to get another drink, and who is at the center of the crowd? Larry Eustachy. He is drunk as a skunk, and completely the life of the party. I'd never met him before, but he saw the ISU logo on my shirt, and immediately was like "Hey, come here!" I walked over to him, and went to shake his hand, but instead, he put his arm around me, turned to the group and said "THIS guy knows what I'm talking about! Tinsley was shaving points, wasn't he!" The whole group just blew up laughing at that. He let go, and I made my way back to my group, pretty much shocked at the incident.
The next morning, Leonard invited us to another event, some brunch being put on by another group. When we got there, the host noticed that one of the guys in the group was wearing an Iowa State shirt and said, "Hey, we've got someone else here from Iowa State. I'll sit you next to him." That person ended up being Johnny Orr, and hands down, that was the most entertaining brunch I've ever been to.