Reply to thread

Message

[QUOTE="HooperScooper, post: 3497456, member: 10"]
At least he thought it would be very close.  I'm looking at you Pat Forde and Lean Robbins, just to name 2.

Looking at that list of predictions reminds me of what happened before the game.  My friends and I were hanging out at Ferg's, a sports bar near Tropicana Field, before the game and they were broadcasting a national sports radio show from there (don't remember who it was).  We were standing next to their set and the host says Duke is going to win and they just beat the second best team on Saturday already.

They go to a commercial break and we asked the guy why he said that since UConn had already beaten Michigan St. handily earlier in the season.  I'm not sure he even knew that.  He told us UConn was going to get killed.  We said something about how he had no idea how good UConn was.

It was at that moment that it really started to hit us that almost everyone thought Duke was going to win big and that many times teams that are favored by a lot don't win.  We are Giants fans and we were relating this to Super Bowl XXV when the Giants beat the favored Bills.  And then it happened.

I still think about that story all the time when teams are heavily favored in big games.
[/QUOTE]

Verification

First name of men's bb coach