Nine Years Ago Today

[BigErnMcCracken]

 

[Fatroony5]

It’s one of those plays where you’ll never forget where you were when watching it. Still get chills everyone I watch it.

 

[Doctor Hoop]

Between this memorable moment, and last night watching the final vs. Georgetown from 1996 (Ray Allen's leaner in the lane) and the 6 OT marathon with Syracuse I'm getting Big East chills again. Was in the crowd for all 3 and remember them vividly. (Surgery today, so I did only make it through 1 OT. I'll watch the rest later.)

 

[CL82]

(Surgery today, so I did only make it through 1 OT. I'll watch the rest later.)

I question your commitment.

Hope it all went well for you.

 

[OEBulldog]

I watched the entire replay of the game the other day. It's easy to forget about the rebound and time out call by Coombs-McDaniel that set up Kemba's game winner. Big pla

 

[Husky25]

Casual hoops fan, but don't get me wrong. UConn needs you.

 

[Woodson]

It’s one of those plays where you’ll never forget where you were when watching it. Still get chills everyone I watch it.

Yep I was thinking the exact same thing. Will never forget where I was, what I was doing and who I was with. Had the same setup first 3 days of the tournament

 

[uconngb]

I was about 50 feet away from Kemba in the 2nd row, exactly even with the foul line. It was awesome.....one of many fine moments over more than 25 Big East tournaments attended in person. Ray's was also pretty cool, I was sitting directly behind John Thompson. It was quite a sweat on the last couple Georgetown shots.......

 

[Inyatkin]

Best thing about being a UConn fan in March. Basically every day is the anniversary of something awesome

 

[Uconn77Duke74]

T'm still amazed at how incredibly badly Pitt played in the post season during its Big East years. They gave us some of the most incredible regular season and BET games.

 

[FatHank]

You won't see Jimmy C jump many times but that was one of them.

 

[August_West]

Between this memorable moment, and last night watching the final vs. Georgetown from 1996 (Ray Allen's leaner in the lane) and the 6 OT marathon with Syracuse I'm getting Big East chills again. Was in the crowd for all 3 and remember them vividly. (Surgery today, so I did only make it through 1 OT. I'll watch the rest later.)

Why would you ever watch that Syracuse game? There is absolutely nothing redeeming about it.

 

[J187Money]

An unbelievable moment - and the call was spectacular. Love it when the call matches the moment.

 

[intlzncster]

The weirdest thing for me RE this shot/moment:

In retrospect, I still think to this day that that shot was to the win the BET.

A couple years ago I saw that it was only the quarters and I was actually taken aback

And we can't not post one of the most iconic pics in MCBB history:

 

[intlzncster]

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There was a high def version of this going round the Yard back then where you could see everybody's faces. Some of the expressions were priceless

 

[Doctor Hoop]

Why would you ever watch that Syracuse game? There is absolutely nothing redeeming about it.

Just that I was there to the end. And that we should have won it in each of the OT's until the last.

Plus, I can't hate SU. My brother went there (lacrosse).

 

[intlzncster]

Plus, I can't hate SU. My brother went there (lacrosse).

take that back. i suppose with the slightest of exceptions for the SU Lax team only if you must

 

[UConnStats]

You won't see Jimmy C jump many times but that was one of them.

Of course everyone will remember the shot, but Calhoun's reaction is up there for me too. He was all of us for a second. A fan, not just the head coach. It was so awesome to catch him like that for a brief moment.

 

[Hoophound]

I always liked how KO stood up when Kemba went into his move. He knew Kemba was taking it but he sat in his chair patiently and stood up right at go time. I love to watch the bench and crowd on some of these old classic videos.

 

[gampelcrazies]

I'll never forgive my teacher not allowing our class to watch the end of this game while the rest of the school was.

 

[Hans Sprungfeld]

An unbelievable moment - and the call was spectacular. Love it when the call matches the moment.

"Got a mismatch..."

 

[MexicoHusky]

Like all of you, this shot is burned in my memory. Every part of it. McGhee falling. The celebration after. The events that followed in the next 3 weeks. Even the pot-bellied security guard at the 24 second mark.

 

[Travelman6]

It’s one of those plays where you’ll never forget where you were when watching it. Still get chills everyone I watch it.

I will never forget. That entire season was what carried me through chemo treatments.

If I remember correctly, that was on a Thursday, the day before I got my bi-weekly chemo session. Usually, those knocked me out for that rest of that Friday and weekend but you better believe I was amped for the semi-finals and finals before finally crashing after.

 

[Fatroony5]

I will never forget. That entire season was what carried me through chemo treatments.

If I remember correctly, that was on a Thursday, the day before I got my bi-weekly chemo session. Usually, those knocked me out for that rest of that Friday and weekend but you better believe I was amped for the semi-finals and finals before finally crashing after.

Wow, thanks for sharing. You are correct tho, it was a Thursday noon game during spring break. So I was on my couch watching at my parents house, I was in school at the time at UConn. I’ll never forget it. Think my neighbors were concerned about how loud I was yelling after he hit the shot.

 

[2north]

"Got a mismatch..."

Calhoun said after he knew they would switch it to create the mismatch. Pitt had plenty of time to switch back when Kemba reset and in hindsight (obviously) should have. No chance Jamal Coombs-McDaniel is shooting it there, even if nobody is guarding him.