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[QUOTE="boog204, post: 4999179, member: 880"]
Totally get the cheese, for sure... Obviously, in that moment the cheese tasted quite good.

I think we do need to recognize context here. At that point in our evolution JC was still known as a coach couldn't "win the big one." We had been to three Elite Eights and lost to better teams and had gotten upset (and played horribly) in two sweet sixteen losses with teams people thought were championship level and blown out in another. So while everyone knew JC was a good coach who had a built a program out of nothing, there were still tons of doubters regarding if he could get us to a final four. I remember being far more tense for the Gonzaga Elite 8 game than the championship.

And, stupid as it was, very few people besides us (and probably including some of us) thought we would beat that Duke team. I know I was having doubts if we could hang as we started out down 9-2 at the first TV timeout. Momentum shifted completely with the famous KEA diving on the floor play to feed Rip who scored over a flopping Langdon.
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