New entry in the Pantheon of Painful UConn Wins

[8893]

'99 Gonzaga Elite Eight
'04 Pitt BET
'04 Duke FF Semis
'11 KY NC
'14 St. Joe's, NCAA 2nd Round
'15 Tulsa AAC Semis

Have I missed any?

 

[rip7774]

To me it's Duke in 04 #1 and Kentucky in 11 1a or #2 and all else get in line. But yes, my wife who has adopted UConn (we live in Florida and she is a Vol for life) was like I can't take many more of these, she was feelin stressed!

I had to work the Gonzaga game so never saw that one, but I read one of u guys reference KEA was like 0-for-11 or something insane!

 

[8893]

I had to work the Gonzaga game so never saw that one, but I read one of u guys reference KEA was like 0-for-11 or something insane!

I literally had FF game and plane tickets in my pockets watching us almost lose that game. That's #1 by a long shot for me. That was the most brutal win in history because it seemed like an eternity to get that monkey off our backs, and we almost blew it down the stretch. IIRC KEA had a terrible game, but nonetheless characteristically ran to JC and kissed him and said something to the effect of "This was for you."

 

[BugsyCT]

'98 vs Washington

all our 2006 tourney games

 

[art4life]

'11 Arizona Elite 8? I used to have nightmares that those last 2 shots by AZ went down...

 

[rip7774]

Good points here. That 06 team even had trouble with Albany. Such a talented but flawed unit.

 

[HooperScooper]

'98 vs Washington

all our 2006 tourney games

Oh yes 2006. I swear that first round game against Albany alone took years off my life.

 

[DALTX]

'99 Gonzaga Elite Eight
'04 Pitt BET
'04 Duke FF Semis
'11 KY NC
'14 St. Joe's, NCAA 2nd Round
'15 Tulsa AAC Semis

Have I missed any?

('11 KY was FF Semis)
'90 Clemson NCAA 16

 

[ninety-nine]

I was just about to post Clemson. Instead, I'll nominate the 2011 NC Championship game against Butler (especially the first half), and the 1996 first-round game against Colgate.

 

[8893]

('11 KY was FF Semis)
'90 Clemson NCAA 16

Oof! Conflated the '11 KY FF with the '14 KY NC. #uconnproblems

Good call on Clemson.

 

[UConnDad]

Excrutiatingly painful and then WE WON!!!!

 

[ninety-nine]

I'm willing to bet that a few of our regular season wins against Miami in the 1990's and Cincinnati during the last 10 years should be on this list, too.

 

[UCweCONN]

This was the worst UCONN win I've seen in my 35 years of following the Huskies. Winning ugly, but still winning. Win and advance. I have to think we're due for a great performance.

 

[Calhoun's Court]

It looked beautiful at the buzzer

 

[jdb50]

Iowa in 1999 champ. run was no picnic either. I remember them being real physical and our side taking a beating without the officials noticing much.

 

[HuskyV]

wasn't there a UMass game where we were down 32-9 at half

 

[ConnZag3]

Agree on the 2011 championship game. That might have been the ugliest display of basketball on the biggest stage. Glad I was there and not watching on TV to understand how bad it really was until after the fact.

 

[Tenspro2002]

2011 championship vs. Butler.

It might not have been "painful", since by mid-way through the second half we had a double-digit lead and knew we were going to win, but that was the ugliest game I've seen, maybe even uglier than today.

 

[Thirty Three]

wasn't there a UMass game where we were down 32-9 at half

I remember that one well. Worst half of UConn basketball ever, then they came back in the second half to win it. Insane game.

 

[UConnNick]

The 1970 slowdown game vs. Rhode Island. I believe the final score was 35-32. The week before three of our starters were thrown off the team for allegedly stealing something. The charges were later dropped, but we had to play the Rams at the Field House for the Yankee Conference title without them. I'm pretty sure the score was something like 14-11 at halftime. That was Dee Rowe's rookie season as our head coach. URI grew more and more frustrated the longer the game went on. They had a good, athletic team. I'm not sure, but I don't know if the Rams ever had a lead in that game, and if they did it was very brief and very early on.

 

[8893]

Iowa in 1999 champ. run was no picnic either. I remember them being real physical and our side taking a beating without the officials noticing much.

Good call. I had to give a closing argument in my first trial the next day but I obviously had to watch the game. I ended up using Iowa's fouling us down the stretch as an analogy to my opponent's constant objections to the evidence I had that gutted his case. Clearly at least a few jurors had watched the game, and I won a pretty improbable verdict.

 

[Obrero]

1996 BEC against Georgetown. Smacked around the gym all night, down by eleven with four minutes to play. Ray Allen's game winning prayer at the end was his first basket of the night, IIRC. Then GTown had a layup at the buzzer that missed.