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Another amazing game: the 2004 BE Championship against Pitt. An all-out war of attrition, dominated by Ben Gordon who simply owned MSG with majestic shots in the biggest moments.

I bought four 6th row tickets behind the Pitt basket from a Syracuse fan after the fruit lost. For all the great games my now-college aged kids have seen live, they still talk about the intensity that never stopped in that game. Memorable.
 
1998 sweet sixteen against UW. That game was intense and the final play convinced me, regardless of what happened against UNC, if RIP came back UConn would have a very good chance of winning it all in 1999.
 
Road win at #7 Indiana in 2008. Nobody had us winning that game. We were unranked, coming off a disappointing season and without Doug and Dyson who were suspended for smoking trees. JC got real emotional in the post game presser. Definitely one of my favorite wins and it pretty much sums up what UConn bball is all about.

 
So many to chose from but:

2002 Big East tournament championship game vs. Pitt. 74 to 65 victory
Double over time, me and my sister got tickets up in blue section(When the garden had a blue section).
It was one of those games that is etched in my UCONN memory forever!

I will never forget I got a standing ovation when I was running back from getting a beer and I slipped down 5 stairs on my butt. I held that beer tall and high and never spilled a drop! That was the moment I knew the night was ours!!
 
Probably the Duke game in 2004. I was too young to really appreciate '99, but was in high school in 2004 and fully engaged. When Rashad hit that huge 3, I nearly hit the ceiling. Then Emeka took over. I remember being so excited that we were gonna get the chance for revenge on Georgia State, although I had no idea we'd run them out of the gym like we did. Think we were up 20 at halftime. That team was flat out dominant.
 
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I've been watching since Dream season and even earlier, wow that dream season, Tate if only... The Michigan State game for sure and when Giffey hit that dunk in the second half, that Garden was nuts! Another great game was against Texas in January 2010 at Gampel- Texas came in ranked #1, UConn took them apart, the monster dunk by Stanley early in the game off the half-court pass was unbelievable, that was the greatest dunk I've seen in a UConn game. What a talent he was ! Talk about a loud gym!
 
Even though we lost, which was terrible, 6 OTs was a really special game to be at. I'll never forget that night and I can only imagine how I would feel about it if we came out on top.
 
seeya27 said:
Another amazing game: the 2004 BE Championship against Pitt. An all-out war of attrition, dominated by Ben Gordon who simply owned MSG with majestic shots in the biggest moments.

I bought four 6th row tickets behind the Pitt basket from a Syracuse fan after the fruit lost. For all the great games my now-college aged kids have seen live, they still talk about the intensity that never stopped in that game. Memorable.
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That was one of the most memorable games of my life, and one that is in the pantheon of most painful UConn victories (along with '99 Gonzaga and '04 Duke).

I scalped tickets outside MSG for me and two friends--after successfully scalping for literally hundreds of events in this country and abroad--and got burned with fakes for the first and only time in my life. I actually found the guy again after we got turned away at the door and I went ballistic on him. I was foaming at the mouth, calling for the cops, and scaring off dozens of other sales from other unsuspecting dupes (many with young kids, the only part I am proud of). The folks around him warned me to get the hell away before I got hurt, and my buddies somehow found me and wisely pulled me away. They then secured other decent tickets, which coincidentally happened to be among Jamie Dixon's extended family.

When we were down eight points with like eight minutes left, it felt like 20 points. Emeka was hurting and Ben took control.

The ultimate win was unbelievable and made everything up to that point totally worth it.

Made plans for San Antonio a few days later, only to relive similar trauma (not scalping, but brutal win) vs. Duke. And then the cakewalk vs. GT.

Man, it's so great to be a fan of this team.
 
ucp990411 said:
1967. Wes Bialasuknia goes for 44 vs New Hampshire at The Field House. I was hooked.
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yeah I was 12 years old and with my father - a season ticket holder then and until 2008 when he passed away - I think that was the game that placed Wes as the nation's scoring leader at that point. Lots of GREAT memories in that fieldhouse - I remember Cliff's first game and the guy behind us kept making fun of him and my father turned around - told the guy to shut up and he would be seeing Cliff playing for a longtime. The guy laughed and told my Dad he was an idiot.................
After seeing so many games and so many BE tourney games I think of all the 100s of games - the one that resonates with me is the 2004 BE final vs Pitt. Okafor was in pain and Ben looked a bit off in the first half BUT those warriors would not die and beat a really strong Pitt team on shear guts and emotion- also the 2011 BE final vs Louisville was special.
 
Can't believe nobody else had this one...team down 11 with 3ish to play and then Jesus shows up


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2014 Elite 8 vs MSU
A home crowd atmosphere at the Garden against an MSU team that literally every ESPN expert picked to win it all. You had a ton of alums there and of course HOF Coach Calhoun in the stands sitting with RIP.
 
Jan 20, 1990 UConn beats Georgetown 70-65

It was the very first game I ever watched as a kid. They were introduced to me as the Dark Force. They had the Twin Towers, we had Rod Sellers and Dan Cyrulik. They were a powerhouse, we had heart. That was a special game. Every great uconn team since have all shared that trait- hearts big enough to slay dragons- that and testiculos.

This is also the game when I first got the pleasure of watching Johnny “the microwave” Gwynn play basketball like Bo Jackson plays tecmo bowl. So sweet.
 
JimOllie said:
2014 Final Four vs. Florida. The guard play, hard nose defense, and the mindset to never give up perfectly represents UConn.
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One of my picks also, first one that came to mind. Second would be all Kemba's tournament runs.
 
So many
Duke in 99
The shot in 90
Every game from the 1/4 final of the BE to the NC in 11
Duke in 04
The whole NCAA Tourney in 14
That Pitt game with Khalid
The BE tournament in 90
The first game at Gampel
 
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The Smart One said:
i followed them from around 1989 just before the miracle season because my father was into them. I loved them because he loved them so there was no individual game that got me hooked. But one early moment that always stuck out was 1994 big east game vs seton hall 6:30 left in the game uconn up by 4 donyell marshall steals ball just before half court takes it all the way with a 360 degree dunk.
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Similarly, I grew up watching UConn because of my father. He was a huge fan from pretty much forever--driving up to Syracuse for the BET before I was born, etc.--and when I was young he would get so into the games that he wouldn't let me in the room. I remember parts of the Jackson State loss, the Florida loss, the UCLA loss, but those were games he was so upset about he threw me out.

1996 was the first year he really let me watch the games with him, and I remember the end of the Georgetown game as probably the highest point. Then 1998 vs. Washington topped it. By that point I yelled at the TV as much as he did so we had to watch the game in separate rooms and we'd talk and argue in the hallway (much to my mom's dismay). The 1999 title game is probably the happiest I've even been about a sporting event, and is certainly the moment I most cherish with my father. I didn't see a lot of the huge wins with him after--watched the 2004 Alabama game and the 2009 Missouri game...and the 2006 George Mason game, sadly.

But yeah...the 1996 Georgetown game and the 1999 Duke game stand out as emotionally charged games for me.
 
This will probably be unpopular but for me its UConn Butler 2011 Championship. Ugliest game I've ever seen but we asserted our will at the end and for all of Kemba's work to be rewarded with a championship was just priceless to me. Helped that I was a student at the time as well.
 
Blue Blood said:
This will probably be unpopular but for me its UConn Butler 2011 Championship. Ugliest game I've ever seen but we asserted our will at the end and for all of Kemba's work to be rewarded with a championship was just priceless to me. Helped that I was a student at the time as well.
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There was some awesome defense in that game.
 
1996 BET Tournament
Husky toughness never seen gives up and claws back in the closing minutes
Our freshman pg plays big against Iverson
Our leader seals the deal

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2004 BET
Tough physical game where we claw back into the game
The dagger drive by Gordon against 2 Pitt defenders
 
77-74. That is all.
 
Its really hard to pick just one game. We've been very fortunate with success and there are just so many big wins and emotional moments. But if forced to pick one game, its hard to argue against UConn beating Duke in 1999 for the National Championship. That was the game when UConn finally reached the pinnacle of college basketball when most everyone did not give them a chance to win that game.
 
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nomar said:
I didn't think there was another answer.
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To me, there is no other choice for a reason. In this context someone can probably deduce what 60-54, 53-41, and 82-73 have in common. But very few know exactly what is being referenced when those numbers are read outside a Memorable UConn basketball game thread.

There is no ambiguity to 77-74.
 
The 1999 final against Duke will always be my favorite game ever, but to show where everything started, I'll mention a game I've mentioned here before.

My senior year, 1986-87, was Jim Calhoun's first. Cliff Robinson and Phil Gamble were lost to academics at the start of the second semester, leaving the team extremely thin. The last game of the regular season was at the Civic Center against a Seton Hall team featuring many of the players who went to the NCAA final two years later.

After Greg Economou and Steve Pikiell cracked heads, they both had to leave, leaving the Huskies with a lineup of Gerry Besselink, Jeff King, Tate George, Spider Ursery and James Spradling. At one point, Spradling had to go to the bench to have a cut bandaged, and Brian Hall, the soccer goalie, had to come in until Spradling could re-enter.

And despite all that, with Calhoun working the team and the rerfs, the team fought and clawed and pulled out a 60-58 win. I don't know how many of us were at the Civic Center that day, maybe 9,000, but I left that game knowing that good things were going to happen under Jim Calhoun. To me, THAT'S when UConn basketball was born.
 
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