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Who can forget the blue devil mascot with the headband reading: "UConn't beat us"?
 
The famous Ricky snarl at 6:10. I always thought that should be our new logo.
 
This is sort of merging threads, but you look at the emotion of the guys on that team who had been there a while when the game ended - Rash in near tears as he ends up with the ball, Jake and Souley locking arms watching the Khalid foul shots with Jake looking like he can't take it any more, Ricky snarling, screaming "they don't know" - the completely disjointed and unorganized celebration as the buzzer sounded with people running every which way not sure what they were supposed to do, etc.

Now Kentucky will be happy if they win it this year, but it just won't mean as much to most of those kids. It can't. Darius Miller, yes - perhaps Terrence Jones, who had to overcome some slumps and people questioning his heart. But for most of them, they haven't gone through the wars and had the near-misses sting, to the point where everything becomes an obsession to try to get to that moment, and winning it for each other and for their program.
 
Notice no texting or talking on cell phones during the game.

Pitino should show this game to his players tonight or tomorrow.
 
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I am loving watching this game, seeing us do all the little things right: boxing out, timely help defense, pushing the tempo, pressing, backdoor cuts, movement without the ball, hard screens. These are the things we couldn't do consistently this year at all but were always so sound at in the past. And I don't think it's any coincidence that all these guys are upperclassmen. This was one hell of a team.
 
Great memories. KEA was so cool under pressure and Ricky never backed down and just shut down Langdon. Not too often I agreed with Billy Packer, but this time I did. No reason for Langdon to bring the ball up against Ricky, he was going against one if the best perimeter defenders ever. That team was one tough group of kids
 
Hugo said:
Great memories. KEA was so cool under pressure and Ricky never backed down and just shut down Langdon. Not too often I agreed with Billy Packer, but this time I did. No reason for Langdon to bring the ball up against Ricky, he was going against one if the best perimeter defenders ever. That team was one tough group of kids
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+1 K said something to the effect of : "I 'll live and die with Trajan with the ball in his hands on the last play." I'm paraphrasing, and I like coach K (and certainly not complaining) but you're the coach of the pre-ordained national champs, down 1 with the ball and a chance to win. Your best shooter, but not best play-maker has the ball going up against an outstanding one-on-one defender. Don't you call timeout? "I like Billy Packer:"Wow. Trajan Langdon with the ball and he's going up against a great defender. What's he doing here?"
 
....how perfect it was that the ball ended up in Rash's hands. The ultimate team guy who did whatever was asked of him over his 4 years. I watched this game at home with 2 old friends (who are actually brothers) & lots of beer. They had gone to UCONN in the late 70's/early 80's...I'll never forget after the game was over, one of them saying..."who would have thunk it???....OUR little university..."
 
This little gem that I came across on this site one time always brings back good memories (although it doesn't give enough credit to Ricky's defense):

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I agree. That type of philosophy had Bill Buckner on the field in Game 6 and Dave Stapleton on the bench.

Huskies4ever said:
+1 K said something to the effect of : "I 'll live and die with Trajan with the ball in his hands on the last play." I'm paraphrasing, and I like coach K (and certainly not complaining) but you're the coach of the pre-ordained national champs, down 1 with the ball and a chance to win. Your best shooter, but not best play-maker has the ball going up against an outstanding one-on-one defender. Don't you call timeout? "I like Billy Packer:"Wow. Trajan Langdon with the ball and he's going up against a great defender. What's he doing here?"
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suzyq said:
But lil Trajan didn't "take him" did he?
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And we all knew he wouldn't. The elephant had already been planted in his head!
 
walker11 said:
It is in the NCAA Vault. I can't direct link for some reason. Go to Vault.NCAA.com and just search either for 1999 or Connecticut under the "Teams" drop down menu.
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I watched the video the day after they lost to Iowa State. Cheered me up.
 
JC should have played that last 2 min every week for those clowns this year.
 
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One of my favorite plays: mid-second half, Moore collects a rebound, dribbles up the floor, flies right past 3 tiring Dookies, passes to the left wing to Rip for a wide-open 3.
Then Wane picks up Rashamel Jones like a stuffed rag doll.
 
It is hard to believe that it's been thirteen years already.

To date myself, my junior year in high school was the year Al McGuire's Marquette Warriors knocked off Dean Smith's UNC Tarheels. I had seen quite a bit of college hoops over the years and throughout my college years (even wanting to believe that with Corny & McKay we had quite a bit of talent) I never fully believed that a northeast school could do what schools like UCLA, Kentucky & Indiana had done. I spent the last few Perno years just hoping that we could become competitive in the BE, win it on occasion, make it to the tiournament on a semi-regular basis and in a great year make a decent run (sweet sixteen, perhaps elite eight).

Leading up to the game I was convinced that the game was ours unless we beat ourselves (something that team did not do) and I was stunned at the comments made by so many experts. It wasn't until shortly before tipoff that it hit that we could possibly lose (not likely but possible). It was a great game and a few things will always stick out,... Rickey Moore, supplying so much energy and offense early on, every sub, Rash, Souley, Saunders, coming in and being all business, our overall performance not dropping a bit. One thing however was that I didn't grasp the magnitude of the game, it didn't initially feel that it was much more than another game until after the game ended. Almost immediatly afterward, Rash had the ball in his hands and he was screaming with joy everything hit me. He was the same kid that I had seen play when he was in HS in Stamford and now he was a member of the national championship UConn Huskies. I remembered seeing HS kids fifteen plus years earlier (Jensen & Smyth were the most prominent but likely the only two who were capable of playing at the highest level) who in my mind I would project as UConn players and in more of a daydream than anything else see as being a major cog in a turning my alma mater into a national championship program. All of a sudden it hit me that this was exactly what happened. The reality of the moment hit me and I was overcome by it.

There have been many moments, primarily the second and third titles, that will always have a special place in my heart but nothing will every compare to what it felt like that night.
 
That was the best one for me as well not only because it was the first but because rash is from my hometown!
 
I remember being down at halftime....and all the Dookies in the bar being all cheerful and all...

So I helped them out by joining in the cheerfulness and fun...positively delighted that we were losing at the half.

One of them asked me why I was so happy that UConn was losing....

And I told him that it couldn't be better for us. UConn was 10-0 when they were losing at halftime, that season!

He seemed a bit more concerned, right after that.

We were 11-0 after that game!
 
patrick said:
That was the best one for me as well not only because it was the first but because rash is from my hometown!
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And so few people are proud of being from Port Chester!
 
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prankster said:
And so few people are proud of being from Port Chester!
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lol Im not to sure if that was a shot at port chester(its going to hell) but i am def proud to be from the same town as Rash.
 
patrick said:
lol Im not to sure if that was a shot at port chester(its going to hell) but i am def proud to be from the same town as Rash.
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The place just hasn't been the same since they closed down the Life Savers factory.....
 
Does this mean Port Chester is going to cut us off from NYC?
 
patrick said:
lol Im not to sure if that was a shot at port chester(its going to hell) but i am def proud to be from the same town as Rash.
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I heard through the grapevine back then that Rash was terrified of Calhoun for most of his first 3 years there.
 
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