Biggest OoC Road win ever?

[Travelman6]

Was last night it? Over a ranked Kansas team in one of the hardest places to play.

If not best, top 5 ever? Winning at #4 Stanford was huge too in 1999 and at Arizona in 2001 in over time. In 2010-11 they won at Texas by 1. At Indiana in 2008 by 5.

Thoughts?

 

[Scot-e]

Final Fours count as road wins?

 

[businesslawyer]

Was last night it? Over a ranked Kansas team in one of the hardest places to play.

If not best, top 5 ever? Winning at #4 Stanford was huge too in 1999 and at Arizona in 2001 in over time. In 2010-11 they won at Texas by 1. At Indiana in 2008 by 5.

Thoughts?

The ‘99 win at Stanford is a great comparison, because we beat the #4 team in the country with Rip on the bench injured.

 

[Boost'ED]

Back in 2002, winning at #10 Arizona with a freshman Emeka (almost had a triple double) and Ben was very memorable for me.

What a precursor for our 2nd Championship.

 

[Travelman6]

Final Fours count as road wins?

Sorry, I should have specified regular season / not neutral, but true road games.

 

[Spaceman213J]

Back in 2002, winning at #10 Arizona with a freshman Emeka (almost had a triple double) and Ben was very memorable for me.

What a precursor for our 2nd Championship.

Was that the game that several writers and analysts went back and said Okafor should have been credited with at least 14 blocks and they only gave him 9?

 

[inWV]

The ‘99 win at Stanford is a great comparison, because we beat the #4 team in the country with Rip on the bench injured.

One of the games when you realize the roster is legit.

 

[Gurleyman]

With Kansas being a little down by their standards and missing Peterson, I wouldn’t rank it as highly as Stanford or Arizona.

One other one that maybe deserves a shout out as an honorable mention if not top five was beating Virginia 77-38 in 1993-94. Don’t think Virginia was ranked - but we were coming off an NIT year and it sent a little message that we were back in a big way.

 

[freescooter]

The ‘99 win at Stanford is a great comparison, because we beat the #4 team in the country with Rip on the bench injured.

Very nice win last night in a tough place to play, but 1999 Stanford was much bigger and it isn’t close. Stanford was ranked #4 at the time. Rip was out and he was a far bigger piece than Tarris. Voskuhl played but was limited due to a foot injury. And Kansas was without Peterson which kind of balanced things.

Depending on on how far back you want to go, you could argue beating Georgetown at Georgetown in 1982 when the Hoyas went on the the NCAA title game was pretty big. Georgetown had a guy named Ewing. Karl Hobbs led UConn. UConn lost to Dayton in the first round of the NIT.

 

[HooperScooper]

We should not dismiss how hard it is to win at Allen Fieldhouse. I was just watching the first few minutes of the game and in the pregame (that I missed last night) they had a graphic that Self was 24-4 against higher ranked teams at Allen Fieldhouse. 24-5 now. 😀

 

[Letsgohuskies11]

At Indiana in 07-08'? Indiana was #7, I believe there was some drama at the time like Wiggins was suspended or Dyson wasn't playing as well. Calhoun mentioned after the game being covered in sweat from hugging every player

 

[Mike Honcho]

At Indiana in 07-08'? Indiana was #7, I believe there was some drama at the time like Wiggins was suspended or Dyson wasn't playing as well. Calhoun mentioned after the game being covered in sweat from hugging every player

Great memory. UConn won 68-63 and all five starters tallied double-digit points.

NYTimes article:

Connecticut Coach Jim Calhoun has suspended the starting guard Jerome Dyson, the team’s second-leading scorer, and the backup guard Doug Wiggins indefinitely for violating team rules, university officials announced Friday.

UConn (13-5, 4-3 Big East) did not release the nature of the allegations.

The suspensions came as the Huskies prepared for a game Saturday afternoon against No. 7 Indiana at Assembly Hall. Calhoun went public with the suspensions at the team’s hotel in Bloomington.

Dyson and Wiggins, both sophomores, did not travel with the team to Indiana.

“It obviously isn’t something that is making me particularly happy,” Calhoun told The Hartford Courant on Friday. “This particular suspension is mine, no one else’s. I took the action based upon what I felt was in the best interest of our basketball team and the university.”

Calhoun told the newspaper that neither player was arrested and that the discipline was not related to grades.

 

[InTheRed]

With Kansas being a little down by their standards and missing Peterson, I wouldn’t rank it as highly as Stanford or Arizona.

One other one that maybe deserves a shout out as an honorable mention if not top five was beating Virginia 77-38 in 1993-94. Don’t think Virginia was ranked - but we were coming off an NIT year and it sent a little message that we were back in a big way.

They were ranked 5th or 6th in the country. They ended up not being that good, but we were coming off a first round NIT loss the year before and it was thought we would get smoked in this game.