Which NCAA Win/Loss is Your Favorite/Worse Memory

[Husky_U]

Best: Kemba's 11 game run (NCAA & BET)

Worst: George Mason OT loss (NCAA) & the 6OT Cuse loss (BET)

[GoldenWarrior11]

Best: complete dismantling of Kentucky in the Elite Eight in 2003, advancing to Final Four.

Worst: losing by 1 in 2nd Round to Stanford and the Lopez twins in 2008. Should have been a Sweet 16 team.

[Trifecta]

Best:
2002 victory over Florida in 2OT. Terrell Taylor coming off the bench to score 28 points, including 8-10 from 3PT range, after being held scoreless in the 1st half. His buzzer-beater was an iconic shot and it felt like this really put CU back on the map for the first time since the 70s.

Worst:
2014 loss to Baylor has the be the obvious one. We had the best seed in program history, with the best player in program history, and laid an absolute egg in losing 85 - 55. While this is the obvious one for most Jays fans under 40, I feel like a majority of our 1st round tournament losses in the past decade were all gut-wrenching games because of missed opportunities.

Honorable mention, make-you-want-to-drink games:
- 2001 Iowa: we had a sizable 1st half lead, let them go on like a 12-0 run or something to end the first half, and couldn't seize momentum back. Korver was like 2-15 or something from 3PT
- 2003 Central Michigan: down 16 at half, came roaring back but didn't have enough to finish it. Revisionists tend to blame this on not being able to match up with future NBA center Chris Kaman, but he didn't hurt us. I think they had another dude drop a 30 piece on us. This was disappointing because the hype-train was in full effect this season and if we had won, we had a crack at a very vulnerable Duke team in the next round. I think JJ Redick was a frosh on that team
- 2005 West Virginia: Damn Pittsnogle! Opened the game on a 10-0 run, gave an 0-10 right back. Tight game throughout, and then a terrible pass leads to a breakaway, wide-open gaming winning layup for WVU

[Friarsfan94]

I'm 27, so not TOO much to go on and a lot more bad than good in my lifetime as a Providence fan lol, so not too much to point out, but I'll give it a go. I was like 2 and a half years old when Shammgod missed the 8 footer against Arizona in the Elite 8, so I'm not going to count that for the worst.

Best:
Win over USC with Bullock's game-winner in the final seconds off the baseline inbounds play in 2016, and Bryce Cotton's run to the Big East Championship in 2014.

Worst: 3 way tie
1. Getting smoked by Pacific in 2001 in the 5v12 game
2. Tyler Harris going head down into 3 UNC defenders, up 1 or 2 points, with the ball, and momentum, against North Carolina, getting swallowed, and UNC coming back down and scoring.
3. Last year's tournament getting robbed from Luwane Pipkins.

[billyjack]

Friars, must be described in 2 parts:

For fans born in 1962 or earlier: includes my brother.

Best: 1973 - beating Maryland in the Elite-8 game. Then the first 10 minutes of the Final Four game... Ernie D throwing behind-the-back halfcourt passes vs Memphis State, hitting teammates in stride like they were in a layup drill, up 8 already and running them off the court. Would've won by 30. Dreaming of a Finals matchup vs UCLA and Bill Walton.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EhZ8xf9zI1c. ... from the 2:20 mark to the 3:30 mark... so freakin amazing...

Worst: 1973 - at that 10 minute mark, our center Marvin Barnes blowing out his knee. Game changed dramatically, Friars were still tied late but ended up losing.


For fans born after 1963 and later: includes me.

Best: 1987 - Final Four run, crushing Alabama and Georgetown. After 9 seasons of suckitude, this was the most unbelievable meteoric rise imaginable under Pitino. The dude can coach.

Worst: 1997 - Elite-8 game, refs cheated for Arizona, complete joke, fouling out Croshere mid-2nd with a series of bogus calls... PC came back in last 4 minutes to tie on a steal and corner 3 pointer by Jamel Thomas with like 12 seconds, then immediately stole the ball, but Shammgod missed a 10 footer. Shamm was afraid if he drove for a layup the refs would screw us with an offensive foul. Most frenetic final minute imaginable. Friars lost in OT to the eventual Arizona champions.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tzdhziVzB74&t=1017s. ... real excitement starts at the 17 minute mark, for 90 seconds.

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[GumbyDamnit!]

1. Obvious. #Bang. Never thought ‘85 could be eclipsed but Mr Jenkins helped do just that.
2. When that Kittles-Williams-Lawson team lost to ODU. Lawson missed a bunny that was half way down and somehow bounced out at the buzzer. Lost in OT. That team was LOADED. If there was a way to throw Jay W in a time machine and have him coach that group we’d have 4 banners instead of 3. That era had 4 pros on the roster yet couldn’t get out of the first weekend. Lappas does a good job in the booth now but he was brutal on the sideline.

[Novachap]

1. Obvious. #Bang. Never thought ‘85 could be eclipsed but Mr Jenkins helped do just that.
2. When that Kittles-Williams-Lawson team lost to ODU. Lawson missed a bunny that was half way down and somehow bounced out at the buzzer. Lost in OT. That team was LOADED. If there was a way to throw Jay W in a time machine and have him coach that group we’d have 4 banners instead of 3. That era had 4 pros on the roster yet couldn’t get out of the first weekend. Lappas does a good job in the booth now but he was brutal on the sideline.

Gumby, guessing we are pretty close age wise... spot on.

1985 was crazy and living in Philly at the time while enjoying the whole experience was special.

2016 was such an incredible relief, so exciting-and a phenomenal game. My all time favorite. 2018 was almost expected, loved that team the most.

Echo you on that Old Dom loss with the kittles team. So much talent on that one- never forgave Lappas

2015 loss to NC state really sucked too. Such a good team. I felt like the whole season was wasted afterwards.

[cu blujs]

Creighton was actually down 26 to Central Michigan with about 16 minutes to go. a 16-1 run made it an 11 point game, and Creighton cut it to 7 a few minutes later. After giving up some ground back to double digit deficit, CU cut the lead to 2 with a couple of minutes to go. But, they ran out of gas, turning the ball over 3 times in the final minute. At the time, CU's highest seed ever (6). Really was the start of a 3 game stretch of bitter first round disappointments, late turnover to WV mentioned by Trifecta - and an OT loss to Nevada the following year.