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Duke - NC semi, 2004
Butler - NC, 2011
GTown, SU - 1990 @ XL
GTown, BET final, 1996
SU - 6 OT BET loss
 
Huskyforlife said:
haven't been to many games, so i would say 2012 holy cross. but i'm sure posters here have been to many great uconn games over the years.
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Most definitely was the 99 championship. It was like losing your virginity.
 
Don't remember the year but back when PC had Mike Smith and Rob Phelps and we had Donyell and Co., there was a game at Gampel that is still the loudest sporting event I attended. Pre game Brian Fair was draining thirty footers like free throws. It was so loud in there it felt like my insides were vibrating.
 
Maryland at the Carrier Dome. Wasn't the right final score but that was just a ridiculous game.
 
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I was at the HCC for about 85-90% of the games in the 80's - 90's...........the Cuse game was loud in 89-90, the GTown game a few days later was simply the loudest and it wasn't close. Amazing electricity that night, unheard of in UConn lore previously.........the only one close (that I have been to in the last 13 years or more was Kansas when Rip was a frosh and they were #1)........
 
mauconnfan said:
I was at the HCC for about 85-90% of the games in the 80's - 90's...........the Cuse game was loud in 89-90, the GTown game a few days later was simply the loudest and it wasn't close. Amazing electricity that night, unheard of in UConn lore previously.........the only one close (that I have been to in the last 13 years or more was Kansas when Rip was a frosh and they were #1)........
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Yeah that Kansas game was crazy loud too. The crowd was trying so hard to will the (short handed ) team to a win.
Don't know if we will ever see the HCC(XL) get like that ever again...........
 
I had a lower level tix at msg for the 7ot cuse game. Could not go because new born.. probably good thing
 
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BoatShow said:
Omar's tying 3 with 2 seconds left vs GTown last year was likely the loudest I've ever heard Gampel.
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If Niels had drained his jumper after Omar's, and after stealing the inbounds play, yes, the roof would have blown clear off Gampel.
 
Going back a ways, but the '88 NIT semis vs BCU when DePriest locked up Dana Barros 2nd half.
 
BugsyCT said:
Going back a ways, but the '88 NIT semis vs BCU when DePriest locked up Dana Barros 2nd half.
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Good one too at MSG in the semi's......I was also there.......I think for that run though the VCU game at the Field House was as loud as that place has ever seen. As they said the dust was coming down from the rafters and I was in the front row underneath the basket and it was nuts that night!!
 
Though it was a loss and I paid for it at work the next day, the 2009 6OT Big E game at MSG against Syracuse. The crowd for both teams was insane and the game was so intense. At the rate the game was going, most of the fans sitting with me figured we would have to put on a jersey by the morning. Just one of those games that deep inside I know I may never experience again in my lifetime.
 
BugsyCT said:
Going back a ways, but the '88 NIT semis vs BCU when DePriest locked up Dana Barros 2nd half.
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And two nights later, when DePriest posterized three Ohio State players at once. MSG was up for grabs after that dunk...
 
fleudslipcon said:
UConn vs. Arizona - Gampel 2000 71-69 back of basket that had controversial goal tending call.
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I worked at Gampel in operations (btw, for all of the current students, its the best job on campus) from 2000 -2002. I remember that was one of the craziest games i worked.. that and the St Johns game that year was pretty crazy
 
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The Villanova game in 2011 at Gampel where Kemba hit that floater for the win was nuts too. Very loud.

But if Niels stole that pass and hit that 3, the town of Storrs would have exploded in fire and fine German beer.
 
Huskyforlife said:
haven't been to many games, so i would say 2012 holy cross. but i'm sure posters here have been to many great uconn games over the years.
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1989-90 regular season games against Georgetown and Syracuse.
First game at Gampel against St Johns (Won on a tip in at the buzzer)
Big East Tourney final against Syracuse in 1989-90 (First BET Championship)
1999 National Championship Game (77-74)
2009 Final Four
2011 Final Four

Sorry, just too many great games....that's a s close as I can narrow it down.
 
82-83 - Syracuse at the Civic Center (was just a pup, but I remember that game, was a one or two point win)
01 - 02 - Taliek's heave at the BET
04 - Semi's vs Duke
01 - 02 - Putting it on Carolina at Gampel
 
Huskyforlife said:
haven't been to many games, so i would say 2012 holy cross. but i'm sure posters here have been to many great uconn games over the years.
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It was at the Civic Center and about the 250th time in a row we beat the snot out of BC. Oh there was a pretty good G'Town game there as well at about the same time. ( post Ewing)
 
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Without question it's the '96 Big East Championship game. Ray vs Iverson, the comeback, Ray's game winner, the pandemonium.
 
Top 2 are:

2011 BET Final against 'Ville

2010 Texas at Gampel

Have been lucky enough to attend tons of great games, but these two stand up above the rest.
 
Gtown and Cuse home games in dream season
90 BET Championship, the first
96 BET Championship, Ray Ray >>>> the Answer
04 National Semi-Final
11 BET quarter final, Kemba breaks ankles
11 BET Championship, 19k UConn fans in MSG
 
I have a best Uconn game for totally personal reasons. I went to the Uconn - Umass game the night before the Civic Center collapsed. My parents were newly divorced, my older brother who was supposed to go to the game was sick, and despite my mother's protests of bad weather I got to spend quality time with my Dad and watch a Uconn rout over Umass. My Dad's car got stuck driving home and we walked the last mile home. My mother never let me go anywhere after that.

Second favorite game is the Uconn at Stanford game. Totally a Duke atmosphere with the students at center court. I didn't think I was going to make it back to me seat after a bathroom break at half time wearing my Uconn sweatshirt.
 
I have only been to one Uconn game, but it was a good one, it was during the last championship season against Villanova at home. Kemba hit a shot with less then 10 seconds left...It was not a well played game, but it was well worth the drive from Bangor, Maine....It is magical to high five with people you have not idea who they are!
 
UConn9604 said:
If Niels had drained his jumper after Omar's, and after stealing the inbounds play, yes, the roof would have blown clear off Gampel.
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that was the greatest and most exciting game with one of the biggest letdowns...I could only imagine how that would have felt if it were in the Tournament
 
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