While this isn't technically correct, since it was a Sweet 16 game, for all intents and purposes it is, since we would have gone on to play BCU and at that point I think we had beaten them 18 or 19 times in a row. For me, the 3 year stretch of losses in the tourney that this started were the worst: First, we needed only 1 free throw from a guy who had gone 20/20 from the line just a couple weeks before, then we play one of the best games we've ever played in the tourney only to lose to UCLA, followed by maybe our worst performance ever in the tourney, somehow only scoring 55 points and losing to Miss St. At that point, I really thought we'd never make a Final Four.
Remember that game when uconn was like 9th in the country and umass led 34 to 9 at the half? Worst half ever, than uconn storms back and scores 50 in the second and wins with relative ease (well, considering the first half any way) 59-48. That was an amazing second half, one of the best I have ever seen. 50 to 14 in the second half, lol.
The 6 OT game didn't really bother me that much, other than the fact it was Cuse, cuz it didn't really have much meaning. Frankly, the worst part about it was they had long stopped selling beer at the Garden, but you couldn't leave.....so all those OTs ending up being literally sobering.
If it was not cuse, no big deal. Even though it was the cuse, it was not the worst loss. After 6 ot, I can not complain, Uconn showed they had heart, that was what really mattered and that took them places later in the year!
How can it be anything else? Worst gut punch ever. I was literally in a daze.
He hits that shot all the time in practice
Is this where you would put the 1998 Tournament loss to UNC in Greensboro?
Yep. More like a kick to the nads that pushed them into the gut. Two games in a row that went last play. That dream season had a nightmare ending.
