Best individual plays in UConn history

[huskiesnyc]

I'm not from Connecticut and didn't become an obsessed UConn fan until I was a freshmen in 2001, so I missed a lot of the pre 99 games. I'm curious to hear what some of your best memories and individual plays in the history of the program are. This thread might be lame, but it's the offseason and this is much better than the "which UConn player do you hate the most" thread. Feel free to add categories I'll start with some very recent history.


Best:
3 point play: Amida Brimah (St Joes)
Crossover: AJ Price (Marquette)
Game winner: Kemba Walker (Pitt)
Rebound: Lasan Kromah (UK)
Dunk: Rudy Gay had plenty
Blocked shot: Okafor (Duke)
Brain freeze: Roscoe (Texas)

 

[Tenspro2002]

Not the biggest play, not the most important play, but that best, most creative individual play I've seen in a while from a UConn player:

Kemba off the backboard to himself vs. Georgetown.

 

[Javi525]

Best defensive play is Ricky Moore's unintentional (or intentional...you be the judge) trip of Trajon Langdon to seal the '99 title

 

[Gurleyman]

Some of the things need sub-categories for significance and artistry. Game-winner you'll never beat the artistry of Kemba making a guy fall down on a double step back vs Pitt, but Tate and Rip had more significant ones.

Best block for significance might be Sellers vs Duke even though we lost in OT. Or Emeka with a buzzer beating block against Nova, even though it was regular season. For artistry, Emeka going up with one hand vs Alabama, then blocking it with his other hand after the double pump. Never seen that before or since.

Best steal for artistry is Burrell leapfrogging Rodney Rogers, but significance is either Perno vs Princeton or maybe Lamb vs Louisville (or SDSU).

Best rebound for significance - Freeman vs Gonzaga, Boone to Okafor vs Duke, Khalid keeping it alive to Rip. Can't think of an artistic one offhand.

Best defensive stop forcing a travel - Ricky.

 

[elduderino]

Dunk

 

[elduderino]

School, Ankle-Breaker, Dagger, Will, Winner

 

[elduderino]

Creative, Unexpected, Uncontainable

 

[DaveHuskiesFan]

I'm not from Connecticut and didn't become an obsessed UConn fan until I was a freshmen in 2001, so I missed a lot of the pre 99 games. I'm curious to hear what some of your best memories and individual plays in the history of the program are. This thread might be lame, but it's the offseason and this is much better than the "which UConn player do you hate the most" thread. Feel free to add categories I'll start with some very recent history.


Best:
3 point play: Amida Brimah (St Joes)
Crossover: AJ Price (Marquette)
Game winner: Kemba Walker (Pitt)
Rebound: Lasan Kromah (UK)
Dunk: Rudy Gay had plenty
Blocked shot: Okafor (Duke)
Brain freeze: Roscoe (Texas)

Oriakhi had a huge rebound vs Arizona for a J Lamb three. Jamal Coombs-McDaniel also vs Pitt to set up Kemba's game winner.

 

[Rico444]

Crossover: Kemba (Pitt)
Game winner: Shabazz (Florida) (mostly because I was there)
Rebound: Coombs-McDaniel (Pitt)
Dunk: Stanley Robinson half-court alleyoop (Texas)
Steal: Kemba (Louisville, BET Final)

 

[elduderino]

Shot

 

[alexd]

Dunk....Toraino one handed put back off a missed 3 vs Nova.....NO, no video yet.

 

[Fishy]

Best Dunks 45-Seconds Apart in the Same Game....

 

[Tampahusky]

Ray Allen bicycle shot over Iverson in Big East final

 

[Tommyboy]

Pass: Caron Butler's falling out of bounds half court behind the back perfect pass to TRob.

Around 50 second mark in this classic video. Would love a high quality version of this video.

 

[elduderino]

Pass: Caron Butler's falling out of bounds half court behind the back perfect pass to TRob.

Around 50 second mark in this classic video. Would love a high quality version of this video.

Totally forgot about that one, thanks for the remind. Unbelievable!

 

[huskiesnyc]

Some of the things need sub-categories for significance and artistry. Game-winner you'll never beat the artistry of Kemba making a guy fall down on a double step back vs Pitt, but Tate and Rip had more significant ones.

Best block for significance might be Sellers vs Duke even though we lost in OT. Or Emeka with a buzzer beating block against Nova, even though it was regular season. For artistry, Emeka going up with one hand vs Alabama, then blocking it with his other hand after the double pump. Never seen that before or since.

Best steal for artistry is Burrell leapfrogging Rodney Rogers, but significance is either Perno vs Princeton or maybe Lamb vs Louisville (or SDSU).

Best rebound for significance - Freeman vs Gonzaga, Boone to Okafor vs Duke, Khalid keeping it alive to Rip. Can't think of an artistic one offhand.

Best defensive stop forcing a travel - Ricky.

I could swear that Emeka buzzer beater block was against Georgetown not Nova. You sure?

 

[CAHUSKY]

Dunk....Toraino one handed put back off a missed 3 vs Nova.....NO, no video yet.

I was going to say it if you didn't. We need the video of that damned thing to see if remotely matches my memory. 1990 or 1991

 

[Fishy]

Best Ankle-Breaking Against a Guy Who Eventually Attacked a Teammate with a Broomstick

 

[RichZ]

Emeka going up with one hand vs Alabama, then blocking it with his other hand after the double pump.

That was one of the first things to come to mind for me, too.

Also, Ricky's first drive to the hoop in the championship. The dookies stood there pointing fingers at each other. I thought it was classic. Whose responsibility was that? Not mine, not mine, etc.

Edzilla driving on Loren Wood and making him go hide in the corner.

Kemba vs McGhee might have been the most perfect play. It was drawn up that way, but Kemba had to execute it, and when he went for the second feint, it was just a thing of absolute beauty.

Caron's behind the back, no look pass as he fell out of bounds.

A ton of Marcus White's offensive rebounds.

 

[Danzz]

All of the above were the most remembered but here is one most of us forget.
Most forgotten:
Murray Williams taking inbound pass and dribbling the length of the court at HCC for a buzzer beater layup against Villanova. This one of the best early wins for JC and a sign of things to come.

 

[elduderino]

All of the above were the most remembered but here is one most of us forget.
Most forgotten:
Murray Williams taking inbound pass and dribbling the length of the court at HCC for a buzzer beater layup against Villanova. This one of the best early wins for JC and a sign of things to come.

I couldn't have forgotten that. Probably wont remember it tomorrow either.

 

[elduderino]

Best Ankle-Breaking Against a Guy Who Eventually Attacked a Teammate with a Broomstick

Excellent category addition.

 

[alexd]

Totally forgot about that one, thanks for the remind. Unbelievable!

and a Justin Brown sighting after the behind the back pass!!!!

 

[alexd]

I was going to say it if you didn't. We need the video of that damned thing to see if remotely matches my memory. 1990 or 1991

It wasn't the 89/90 season, I know that.

 

[alexd]

I could swear that Emeka buzzer beater block was against Georgetown not Nova. You sure?

It was at Nova.