One Game To Watch

[3uconn]

Looking to watch a game shortly. Any game UConn's been in. Which game would you guys recommend?

 

[Tampahusky]

Elite 8 MSU 2014 #goosebumps

 

[mbt0512]

Looking to watch a game shortly. Any game UConn's been in. Which game would you guys recommend?

Sticking on the Spartans theme, the 70-67 win in 2010 Maui when Kemba went for 30 or 66-62 win in 2012 at Ramstein when Shabazz dropped 25 are also strong candidates..

 

[Matrim55]

Looking to watch a game shortly. Any game UConn's been in. Which game would you guys recommend?

1999 BET title game. Our first national championship team at their very best.

 

[selles]

UConn-Maryland Sweet Sixteen 1995. My favorite pre-1999 tournament game. We were the 2 and Maryland the 3, but we had to spend much of the tournament listening to Dukie V talk about how the seeds should have been switched and Maryland was a juggernaut. Duke stunk that year, so I guess he adopted the Terps. They were good, but we were just too fast.

Bob Ryan's take:

http://articles.baltimoresun.com/19...37_1_jim-calhoun-uconn-connecticut-basketball

 

[Kitaman]

This game is still my favorite (regular season):

 

[UConnTrumbull]

Literally any game from 2014 tourney run

 

[alexd]

The 1999 win at Stanford wthout Rip.

 

[JakeTheDog]

2009 @Louisville

 

[August_West]

2004 FF vs Duke. If you want ultimate satisfaction. We were absolutely Dead in the water. Watching us comeback with 3 minutes left and K melting down like the Wicked Witch of the west actually is my Viagra.

 

[Gurleyman]

Looking to watch a game shortly. Any game UConn's been in. Which game would you guys recommend?

77-74 trumps everything. Greatest sporting event in the history of the universe, given that the Miracle On Ice was just a semifinal.

The other choices are all battling for second.

 

[Matrim55]

77-74 trumps everything. Greatest sporting event in the history of the universe, given that the Miracle On Ice was just a semifinal.

The other choices are all battling for second.

60-54 is close for me, as is the 65-60 win over Georgetown in the 1990 BET semifinals.

Given how young @3uconn is, and what a seminal (yet kind of forgotten) moment that was for the program, that might actually be the best choice. Still one of my favorite games ever, even if it was kind of ugly.

 

[JimHurley]

2014 Final Four vs. Florida

 

[tcf15]

Looking to watch a game shortly. Any game UConn's been in. Which game would you guys recommend?

You can always play UCHG Roulette (crediting 3 for giving me this idea).

 

[OkaForPrez]

You can always play UCHG Roulette (crediting 3 for giving me this idea).

Brilliant

 

[Gurleyman]

60-54 is close for me, as is the 65-60 win over Georgetown in the 1990 BET semifinals. Given how young @3uconn is, and what a seminal (yet kind of forgotten) moment that was for the program, that might actually be the best choice. Still one of my favorite games ever, even if it was kind of ugly.

Almost have to do the Gtown-Cuse back to back in 1990. They're sort of a package deal. Toraino Walker filling in for an injured Sellers and somehow we beat the two best BE programs in 24 hours. Cuse I think we fell behind 12-0 early and shook it off.

The tough part of 3's question is that there are different types of categories - the days we were just brilliant and steamrolled someone (SJU '99, most of 2004 tourney, at Louisville before Dyson got hurt, etc.). The days we dug a huge hole and had a historic rally (down 25 to Pitt and 25 to UMass, the Gtown comeback in 1996). The games that were played at an unbelievably high level (at Arizona in OT, Maryland in 1995 tourney, or perhaps 2002 if you don't mind a loss - I didn't find the 6OT game to be very well played). For history - 1990 and 1999 have good choices, and the last 3 of the 5 in 5 days in 2011.

 

[HuskyFich]

How about Ollie's first game?

Armed Forces Classic.

Michigan State v. UConn

What an electric game with great team play and uni's that need to make a comeback

 

[CardiacAndre7]

This game is still my favorite (regular season):

Beverly gettin up

 

[CTBasketball]

• Villanova @ UConn in 06'.
• Pitt vs. UConn @ MSG in 04'.
• UConn @ Gonzaga in 08'.
• UConn @ Marquette in 09'.
• Syracuse vs. UConn @ MSG in 98'.

 

[nomar]

77-74 trumps everything. Greatest sporting event in the history of the universe, given that the Miracle On Ice was just a semifinal.

The other choices are all battling for second.

I assumed he meant, "other than a game I've already watched 30 times."

 

[Gurleyman]

I assumed he meant, "other than a game I've already watched 30 times."

Although he was in diapers in 1999. Maybe he's never watched the whole thing.

Hidden gems can be found almost any year. For close regular season games, a couple I plan to see again soon are UConn at BC in 1994 (2 OT - rallied from down 19) and UConn at Nova in 2004 (OT - game saving blocks from Okafor). But they might rank behind at Arizona, at Stanford, at SJU (99) and UK in Maui for my favorites in the regular season.

One game I've still never seen: 77-36 over UVA in 1994. That one looks like it was fun. (Edit: would you believe I posted this before seeing your thread about that game - crazy odds on that!).

 

[champs99and04]

One great one that nobody has mentioned was the 2010 Maui Invitational final against Kentucky. That was as thoroughly dominating a half of basketball as the program has had in recent years, and it being against UK made it that much sweeter. I want to say it was like 51-28 at halftime.

 

[dante]

1/26/02 Caron, Emeka and Gordon @ number 10 Arizona

 

[Rico444]

Early 2008 @ Indiana. Dyson and Wiggins were suspended, team won on the road against a top-ten team anyway.

 

[mauconnfan]

Where to start?