And it was from a 6'0" guy? In the running, at least.
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Emeka Okafor's game saving block at the buzzer against Villanova in 2004. Randy Foye coming at him, Okafor stumbles, recovers and then blocks the shot at the buzzer. That was only his second block of the game. The first block was at the buzzer during regulation and sent the game to overtime.
That's one game I remember well. I was at a bar that had that game and Aqueduct on and you could bet the races. And it wasn't an OTB. Heaven. I remember a balanced scoring attack.As an aside when I was searching for my misremembered Arizona play, I watched some of our 2002 team vs Arizona with Oakafor as a freshman.
Not debateable, it was definitely a clean block by Woods.My vague recollection is that Tony Robertson blocked the shot of a star Arizona 7ft player at the end of the game to win the game. Decent argument that it should have been goal tending but it wasn't called. Given the end of game, game winning circumstance against a highly ranked team, that was pretty big.
Postscript: Nevermind. Bad memory again. 12/09/2000 Robertson' shot with 1.8 sec left was blocked by Loren Woods and goal tending was called, (but was debatable), and we won the game. Not even a UConn block for this thread.
I don’t know if that’s the best block, but it is one heck of a great photo.And it was from a 6'0" guy? In the running, at least.
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funny you should mention this game.. i worked this game when i was going to UCONN, i was just rewatching it this morning and found myself in a shot were the were showing Dave Gavitt and Mike Tranghese in the crowd..My vague recollection is that Tony Robertson blocked the shot of a star Arizona 7ft player at the end of the game to win the game. Decent argument that it should have been goal tending but it wasn't called. Given the end of game, game winning circumstance against a highly ranked team, that was pretty big.
Postscript: Nevermind. Bad memory again. 12/09/2000 Robertson' shot with 1.8 sec left was blocked by Loren Woods and goal tending was called, (but was debatable), and we won the game. Not even a UConn block for this thread.
I remember reading an article where Ben was saying they played a game where everyone on the team would line up to try to score on Mek at practice and none of them could do it. He sounded like they were all in awe.It’s so refreshing & quite frankly, nice to be reminded of actually how GREAT Emeka was here.
Yeah, against Bama in the NCAA’s in Phoenix.I think it was meka who went up to block on one side and ended up blocking it on the other side with his other arm? Does that sound right? Or maybe I’m just poorly explaining it?
I know the best pre-UConn block
Yeah, against Bama in the NCAA’s in Phoenix.
Start at the 1:35 mark.