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Nine Years Ago Today

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.)
 
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Fatroony5 said:
It’s one of those plays where you’ll never forget where you were when watching it. Still get chills everyone I watch it.
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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
 
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.......
 
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.
 
Doctor Hoop said:
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.)
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Why would you ever watch that Syracuse game? There is absolutely nothing redeeming about it.
 
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An unbelievable moment - and the call was spectacular. Love it when the call matches the moment.
 
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:

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August_West said:
Why would you ever watch that Syracuse game? There is absolutely nothing redeeming about it.
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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).
 
FatHank said:
You won't see Jimmy C jump many times but that was one of them. :)
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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.
 
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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.
 
I'll never forgive my teacher not allowing our class to watch the end of this game while the rest of the school was.
 
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.
 
Fatroony5 said:
It’s one of those plays where you’ll never forget where you were when watching it. Still get chills everyone I watch it.
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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.
 
Travelman32 said:
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.
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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.
 
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Hans Sprungfeld said:
"Got a mismatch..."
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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.
 
intlzncster said:
take that back. i suppose with the slightest of exceptions for the SU Lax team only if you must
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I didn't attend SU, but I also didn't attend UConn. However, the Huskies have been my hoop team since the days of Jimmy Foster and Tony Hanson. You UConn alums have a more visceral hatred for them than I do, though I did find the "Louie & Bouie" SU duo maximally annoying.
 
intlzncster said:
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:

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I've wanted this shot as a poster forever like KO did in his office back in the day. Have yet to find anywhere or anyhow I can get it.
 
So, my story is that I had tickets to this game, as my office at the time was a few blocks away. Unfortunately, I had clients in from out of town and was tied up in meetings.

I was hopeful prior to the start of these meetings that I would at least be able to catch the second half, but it wasn't meant to be.

I can still remember that I couldn't keep focus during the meeting and that I was receiving sporadic updates from friends on my phone about the game.

Well, I was able to redeem myself by attending every game the rest of the tournament and it was unbelievable.

My favorite moment was when Kemba stole the ball in the championship game and dunked it on the break. I went insane and knew we were going to win...I cannot wait until we are back at the Garden...
 
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