This Day in Dome History: December 8

The Carrier Dome has hosted five Syracuse men's basketball games, one concert and the football appreciation dinner on this date during the past 25 years.

The men's hoops squad has a 4-1 record on this date in the Dome. Its only defeat was an 82-68 loss to North Carolina State in 2001. Preston Shumpert scored 29 points and Jeremy McNeil pulled down a career-best 13 rebounds.

The Orange has won three Carrier Classic titles on this date. SU won the 1984 title with a 68-58 win against Lamar. Sherman Douglas scored 22 points in the Orange's 83-76 win against Cornell in 1984. In 1990, Syracuse topped UNC Charlotte, 113-99 in the championship game. John Wallace scored 27 points to lead the Orange to an 83-60 win against Columbia in its first-round game of the 1995 Carrier Classic.

In 1994, the Mick Jagger and the Rolling Stones performed in front of 36,730 fans in the Dome.

More than 23.5 million people have passed through the revolving doors of the Carrier Dome since the building’s first public event on September 20, 1980. Throughout the 2005-06 SU athletics seasons the University will celebrate the first 25 years of the Loud House.

In the first 25 years of the Dome, more than 1,740 events were staged, including collegiate, professional and high school athletics events, University commencement, concerts, a circus, and community events. These activities are chronicled in the more than 100 photographs that are currently in the concourse of the Dome. Fans who attend events in the Dome can re-live the memories with these photos.

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