How nervous were you

[Gurleyman]

I had a hiccup of angst when we had two possessions where we turned it over against their press and then Hurley turned it over shoving Cam, and it was down to 13, and I started thinking “careful here, this could be a historic collapse.” But nothing materialized.

I may be wrong but I don’t remember them ever having a run - Smith hit a jumper and a three late in the half to cut it from 7 to 2, but that was answered by two of our buckets. In hindsight, it might have been sort of silly worrying about a team making a comeback run that couldn’t sustain anything for more than two possessions.

 

[uconnbill]

When they couldn't hit a three. After the half time, I felt pretty much at ease

 

[jibsey]

I am incredibly nervous fan - really bad. Probably should be medicated during games.

I wasn’t nervous at all in the second half. We really did not even play that well on offense and Purdue couldn’t really get any traction. Game was pretty much over a few minutes after halftime.

I self medicated with 3 brews during the game. It works quite nicely to take the edge off.

 

[RedStickHusky]

When I started counting fouls/minutes left, I got a little antsy. Didn't foresee AK taking a turn.

 

[Mike Honcho]

Was more relaxed last season's tournament run than this year. Struggled with thinking the fickle finger of fate would bite us preventing an historical accomplishment of back to back championships.

That early Tristen foul had me nervous.

That first foul on Clingan had me nervous.

The two quick fouls on Samson had me nervous.

Clingan getting that third foul in the second half with a lot of time remaining had me nervous until Samson made Edey nervous with those back to back dunks. And then he gets number four so I'm nervous again.

The second and third fouls called on Cam made me nervous.

That was my theme. I felt the refs would decide this game. Thankfully they didn't.

Yea, with our bigs getting in foul trouble I started having flashbacks to what we did to Duke in '04 with Youssouf playing the Nick Horvath role and I started to get super nervous.

Fortunately we went small and Alex did an incredible job holding his own against a worn down Edey. (And Edey got away with 1-2 clear out offensive fouls.)

I gotta imagine that playing against Clingan in practice really helped prepare our guys for this moment.

 

[swami7774]

Didn’t have a single doubt after halftime.

 

[Deepster]

Mojo

Those days are over, amigo.

You may as well be posting “rah rah sis boom bah”

 

[polycom]

0%. he game was over when that happened. Purdue had shown their guards weren't in the same league as our guards and that Edey couldn't get enough touches to make it a ball game.

 

[Sibeerian]

I am a basket case during big games. Was nervous until it was obvious mid second half that our lead would not shrink. When I rewatched and saw how we were erasing their perimeter game I wondered why I was ever nervous.

Also that one elbow edey threw into Alex's upper chest was a felony.