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Best overall: 1999 final, Uconn 77, Duke 74

Best non-NCAA tournament: 2011 Big East final win over Louisville. Have to put this one above the other Big East title wins because it was the only one I was there for. Great game, tremendous atmosphere at the Garden.

Best regular season win: Gampel debut, beating St. John's, who they could never beat and who had BURIED them earlier in the season.

Best non-UConn game: Villanova over Georgetown in the 1985 championship.
 
Best win ever. 1999 NC. Bonus points being that was my first year at Uconn.
Worst loss ever. 2006 George Mason followed by 1994 Florida when Donyell missed the two free throws that could have sent us to the Final 4. Took me awhile to get over George Mason.
 
Javi525 said:
Best win ever. 1999 NC. Bonus points being that was my first year at Uconn. Worst loss ever. 2006 George Mason followed by 1994 Florida when Donyell missed the two free throws that could have sent us to the Final 4. Took me awhile to get over George Mason.
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Ugh. Was in DC for the GM game. I keep dreaming that the Denham Brown 3 goes in. But then I wake up.
 
tcf15 said:
Here you go man (not the full game, just highlights I uploaded a while back):
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This was one of my favorites as well. Emeka was really coming into his own. I feel like that game springboarded me from big fan to the mess that I am now as completely obsessed with all things UConn bball. '04 my favorite team ever!
 
Javi525 said:
Best win ever. 1999 NC. Bonus points being that was my first year at Uconn.
Worst loss ever. 2006 George Mason followed by 1994 Florida when Donyell missed the two free throws that could have sent us to the Final 4. Took me awhile to get over George Mason.
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George Mason demons weren't exorcised until 2011 for me. Couldn't even stand to hear the college mentioned on tv even in other sports. That '06 team took some years off my life with their lackadaisical play!
 
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rip7774 said:
George Mason demons weren't exorcised until 2011 for me. Couldn't even stand to hear the college mentioned on tv even in other sports. That '06 team took some years off my life with their lackadaisical play!
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Exactly how I felt and still feel. That was a huge upset that Uconn had no business losing.

Btw the 2010 team with sophomore Kemba (lead by senior Stanley Robinson) was the most unwatchable for me. Lot of bad losses that year. Not sure what could have motivated that team.
 
Beating Duke in 1999 by far. Duke has ducked playing us for years so that game was a shining moment.
 
Well 77-74 was the best......but

Coming back and beating the Dukies in the National Semi Final in 2004. Josh Boone's tip to Mek and RA drain 3's are quite memorable.

Beating the Johnnies in the BE 99 Championship Game( KFREE was left off the first 3 BE All League teams and came roaring back and won the MVP).

Also no Rip and we go to Stanford and beat them.

And KEA beating PITT and then jumping on the scorer's table is also hard to forget.

I could list at least 50 more.
 
Excluding the 4 title games, mine is the 2009 game at Notre Dame. ESPN Gameday was in the house. We snapped a huge home court win streak. AJ, Hasheem, Adrien, Gavin, Dyson, etc. plus, 1st time seeing UCONN in person. Awesome experience.
 
This year's championship. It turned around the negative commentary about UCONN struggling post-Calhoun and post-APR. There are a lot of fan bases out there that would have loved to have seen UCONN rot on the AAC vine but, after last season, we clearly showed everyone that that is just not going to happen. UCONN is stronger than ever and successfully transitioned from a HOF coach to Kevin Ollie. The true mark of an elite program is winning multiple championships under different coaches and UCONN has now, very firmly, entered that elite tier.
 
"Favorite" loss: it's hard to argue against the 6-OT game. Even though losing to the Fruit is always tough to swallow, that game was very fun to watch. A game that big decided by the deep bench and walk-ons was something I will never forget. The fact that it happened at MSG in a great split atmosphere like that made it even more rememberable. I just wish we came out on top of that game but, meh, I'll take our 4-1 lead over a single game loss any day all day.
 
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1) 1999: UConn 77 Duke 74. I was 9 years old, and I swear it is my clearest childhood memory. I remember, just like it happened yesterday, as soon as the game went final, CBS cut to Gampel Pavilion, and all you could see were thousands of students going crazy. I made my college decision at that moment.

2) 2011: UConn 53 Butler 41. I got to close out my college career the way I "started" it 12 years earlier. Screaming in Gampel Pavilion in a throng of drunken euphoria.

3) 2014: UConn 60 Kentucky 54. All the frustration of the APR ban, the realignment disaster, and the world kicking dirt on our graves lifted all at once.

4) 2014: UConn 60 Michigan State 54. I was fortunate enough to get tickets for the game, and we all know the rest. I swear when MSG alternated shots of Mateen Cleaves and Richard Hamilton, the crowd energy turned for good, and UConn stormed back for the win. One of the greatest fan moments of my life.

5) 2011: Cardiac Kemba. Call me crazy, but once he hit that shot, I got the feeling like the championship was going to return to Gampel. I can't explain it, even to this day, but I just felt it.
 
Favorite regular season game for me is 2009 Louisville. Bitch slapped the eventually #1 overall seed up and down the court in their own arena. Makes the beatdowns they've given us over the years somewhat more tolerable.

Hasheem and Adrien dominated that game in the front court.
 
Ok, NCAA tourney game, 2004 vs. Duke.

BET game - Georgetown 1996

I like the late comebacks in both of those games.

Regular season - Georgetown at the Civic Center during the dream season. That is the night we arrived on the national stage.
 
tcf15 said:
Here you go man (not the full game, just highlights I uploaded a while back):
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Thanks!
Exciting game with a ton of talent on the floor. U of A had at least 4 NBA players (Bynum, Stoudamire, Walton and Frye) plus Gardner who was an AA and had a very good career overseas and Rick Anderson, who made the All-PAC10 team.
UConn, of course, had Emeka, BenG and Caron, so ultimately higher level NBA players.
 
The worst losses were Florida in '94, George Mason in '06 and the regular season game back in 2007 when Roy Hibbert nailed a 3 at the buzzer to beat us.
 
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ASweet3781 said:
Very easy to argue against it. Calhoun was pissed after that loss. And for good reason.
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I didn't say I liked that loss. Just saying from an entertainment standpoint, it was the funnest to watch while it was being played.
 
dsturdy5 said:
Absolutely annihilating BCU on Troy Bell's senior day.
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What makes that game even sweeter is how much was at stake for BCU. With a win, they would have won their division outright in the Big East and wrapped up an NCAA bid. With a good game, Bell would have become the conference's all time leading scorer. Add in that BCU won in a blowout at Gampel earlier in the season and their fans were very confident on the message boards heading into that game.

As is usually the case, their hopes were dashed. Bell didn't win the scoring title, the team did not get selected to the NCAA tournament and they didn't even get to host their NIT opening round game.
 
I can't argue with any of the NCAA or BE tournament games already chosen. To go with something different, I've always had fond memories of a win over Virginia from the 93-94 season.

UConn went to play at then #12 Virginia early in the season and destroyed them 77-36 (And the Cavaliers were lucky to crack 30). I chose this game because this was the season that UConn started to show they were a program. It wasn't just one year of success or success with one group of players. All the guys from the Dream Season were now gone, but the team kept on winning.
 
Number one was the 1st- beating Duke. Media was saying Duke team was among best ever.
Other great UCONN games - the two times we beat Ky this year and Kemba's year. Any time to beat Calipari is great. Also beating duke in semis.
Also in BET beating GTWON in March when they were hot with Ray Allen's jumper. IMO that moment we officially took the BE torch.
And Tate George's miracle jump shot. That DREAM SEASON was special. AT the time there was question if we belonged.

Greatest/most enjoyable college games - NC vs GTOWN in finals. EPIC. Phil Slamma Jamma losing to NC State. Larry Bird's run to the finals.
 
December 12 1969: a caravan of about 300 Huskies heading to Amherst to watch the team play UMASS and the great sophomore Julius Erving - at time when that school actually got some media attention. weather, lousy bleacher seats, nasty looking cheerleaders with way too much hairspray, fans looking like a Woodstock outtake, No UCONN band.... But UCONN played like men possessed.Bob Boyd and Ron Hrubala (still in the double-double record books) shutting down superstar Erving. Final score UCONN 88-71. Talk about going out of your mind nuts..no Husky could speak for days after the game because we were all too horse from screaming for 2 solid hours and another hour after the game. No cell phones, no internet, no media, no nothin', just a WHUS broadcast in Storrs. Headlines 2 days later!
 
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MJS UCONN'73 said:
December 12 1969: a caravan of about 300 Huskies heading to Amherst to watch the team play UMASS and the great sophomore Julius Erving - ...
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Good one. I was there that day also. Was so i excited that i jumped up, dropped my wallet in the grimy dirt under the stands, and had to search for it after the game..

But as Mau said earlier, the ones that brought tears to your eyes stand out the most. For me, you cant ever top '99 or '14, and the shot by Tate is darn close.
But there are couple of others that are memorable for me that no one has mentioned.

One was the Bialosuknia-Bob Lloyd duel against RU on 2/23/67, when Wes outscored Lloyd 40-39 and UConn won 84-77. First time I can remember feeling the unharnessed energy of a college basketball crowd.

Another was an obscure but relentless 100-79 beatdown of Virginia in the Field House on 12/30/66 when 6-4 Husky center Billy Gray jumped over, through and around favored UVA's two 6-9 centers, Carmichael and Naponick...Somehow seeing the despair and bewilderment of those 2 big guys when Gray dunked all over them caused me to note their names, and i still remember them almost 50 years later
 
As all of the above deserve 'best' rating, for me, and I am surprised it has not been mentioned, it has to be the win against the Jarvis led St John's in 99.
#1 vs. #9 at MSG.
Just an awesome game at which I lost my voice. Back and forth, two tough teams giving it all on the floor.
 
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