The play you first think about by player...

[nomar]

Dyson completely posterizing somebody @ MSG and it being called an offensive foul.

Ha, I was there, and and I DVR'd the game, and as soon as I got home I rewound and re-watched that play about 20 times in a row. What a BS call!!!

 

[geordi]

Rod Sellers smashing Chrissy's head into the court.

 

[beakumhawks]

Mario Chalmers

 

[Inyatkin]

Also not mentioned:

Antric Klaiber sitting in Calhoun's doghouse.

I was going to say Antric Klaiber's cameo in the '99 title game. I still think that was Calhoun's way of saying to K, "You think I'm scared of you? I'm not."

 

[alfonse]

Scott Burrell Jumping over a player on an upfake, on the way back down on the other side stealing the ball.

 

[tcf15]

Dyson completely posterizing somebody @ MSG and it being called an offensive foul.

Ha, I was there, and and I DVR'd the game, and as soon as I got home I rewound and re-watched that play about 20 times in a row. What a BS call!!!

Such BS. But seeing this play just gets me excited to see Rodney Purvis and Prince Ali play here. I'm sure those two will have the chance to throw down some nasty dunks like Dyson's.

 

[pepband99]

As great as that dunk was, Raf's call is even better.

rooster THAT BABY!!!

I seriously rolled off my couch laughing when he said that.

Seriously? We can post a youtube of this, but can't say it? Well done!

 

[tzznandrew]

Ben Gordon - Game winning drive in the '04 BET title game vs. Pitt.

A game I wish I could rewatch. Both that (and the 2002 title game) were fantastic. It would be nice if some entitity would load those up for watching, as the NCAA did with the vault.

 

[Walker11]

Bazz: Steal leading to lay up and one against Kentuck his frosh year in Maui. Just the intensity going against Doron Lamb was what sold me on him. He had something to prove that game.

I was going to pick the same obscure play. The birth of the reach around bandit. I think it sticks out because we had to "settle" for Bazz after missing out on Knight and Lamb and it was great to see Bazz stick it to them. Great thread btw. Hopefully his most memorable moment is yet to come.

 

[SixRings]

As great as that dunk was, Raf's call is even better.

rooster THAT BABY!!!

I seriously rolled off my couch laughing when he said that.

For those of you without sound it was

"(slang for male genital that rhymes with sock) that baby!!!!

That was Verne Lindquist I think. Classic.

 

[aceboon]

I was going to pick the same obscure play. The birth of the reach around bandit. I think it sticks out because we had to "settle" for Bazz after missing out on Knight and Lamb and it was great to see Bazz stick it to them. Great thread btw. Hopefully his most memorable moment is yet to come.

He stared D. Lamb down too after the foul, you could tell right at that moment that Bazz was a bad ass.

 

[aceboon]

For Lamb I would have to go with the 3 agaisnt SDSU off of AO's offensive rebound when the team was clinging to a 1 point lead. I can still hear that call like it was yesterday.

Lundquist: "on the floor, Lamb for 3..."
Raftery: "woooh, dagger!"

 

[Dave]

A game I wish I could rewatch. Both that (and the 2002 title game) were fantastic. It would be nice if some entitity would load those up for watching, as the NCAA did with the vault.

I've been hoping to find that game somewhere too, that one and the five 2011 BET games.

 

[pepband99]

For those of you without sound it was

"(slang for male genital that rhymes with sock) that baby!!!!

That was Verne Lindquist I think. Classic.

No, Raf. It was an ESPN broadcast, so couldn't have possibly been Verne, even if the idea that it took a good rational thought precludes it from being him, anyway.

 

[Kitaman]

K-Free snatching a rebound over battier who tried to draw a charge. Kevin stood over him, glaring (menacingly) essentially calling him a punk and to play men's basketball.

Big moment in that Championship game for me, I knew then that we were going to win!

 

[RichZ]

Great thread! Reading brought back a whole lot of fond memories.

I agree about Bazz's rebound/putback/help up Kromah and speed back on D sequence last night. Everything you need to know about Bazz in 3 seconds.

Can't think of Kemba without thinking of McGhee on the floor.

A hole bunch of floaters in the lane come to mind with the mention of Jeremy's name.

Cant think of Edzilla without seeing Mr. Softee from Arizona running to get out of his way as he drove the lane for a monster jam.

When I think of Ricky, two images pop into my head. First it's the look on his face in the Gtown game when he was throttling Allen Iverson. Didn't see that look again until Langdon's travel. But the 2nd image I see is Ricky driving to the iron in the first half of the 99 championship.

I can't recall the game it was in, but when I think of KO the player, I think of him making a 3 pointer that was almost a Lamb-esque floater. He was coming down court hard and left the ground just outside the 3 point line, but didn't release the ball until he was just about to touch down again, inside the FT line. Opposing coach almost had a stroke when they called it a 3!

I can still picture Lyman leaning on Shaq and keeping him too far from the hoop to dunk.

 

[BoatShow]

I still think of Omar as the guy whit the three with 2 seconds left to tie Grown last year.

 

[ZenConn]

Rash blowing on his fingers vs Alabama in the 2004 NCAA Tourney.

 

[Tenspro2002]

It's almost as interesting who hasn't been mentioned in this thread as much as who has.

Has anybody submitted a Rudy Gay moment? It's amazing to think, but a player of his caliber -- when all is said and done -- had a fairly unremarkable career here.

 

[OkaForPrez]

It's almost as interesting who hasn't been mentioned in this thread as much as who has.

Has anybody submitted a Rudy Gay moment? It's amazing to think, but a player of his caliber -- when all is said and done -- had a fairly unremarkable career here.

I had one but you are right. Not really a significant play, just a sick dunk.

 

[Marat]

I had one but you are right. Not really a significant play, just a sick dunk.

You know, Rudy had a collection of terrific dunks, etc - 360, head flying above the rim an oop, a dunk in traffic against a cupcake, cradle dunk vs Cuse in BET, etc. I even created a video on his dunks that's still on youtube. But, for me it was a play that is not in the video. When he was a freshman and Indiana came to Hartford, there was a play when Rudy came out of nowhere to follow someone else's missed shot with a one hand stuff dunk that brought the house down.

 

[OkaForPrez]

One more thing on the bazz follow and help up. Imagine if Aaron Craft did that? 20 minutes on sportscenter.

 

[CTBasketball]

Shabazz's 2 consecutive steals vs. West Virginia in the 2012 BET that solidified the comeback. Wasn't really a career defining moment, but that's when I knew Shabazz was going to be great.

 

[mauconnfan]

So many good one's mentioned so I do not want to repeat…….

How about the 3 FT's for Boat in his first game with no time on the clock down 3?

 

[joober jones]

Ruslan Inyatkin's one and only dunk

 

[Dove]

KEA: the last two points he scored v. Duke

Cup Cormier (yes, Cup): that stoopid hesitation move as he began a drive to the hoop.

Dove: those beautiful intercepts of passes in the lanes

Thabeet: at the Dome down low when a Cuse big gets ball, turns and sees monster Thabeet, pisses a little, passes out to a guard.

Doron: long darts to a breaking Donny

Eddie Williams: mmm, I got nothin'

 

[8893]

Donyell- 360 degree dunk....

Thank you for posting that. It's not the first play that comes to mind when I think of him, but it is a much nicer image than the one that is.

 

[AtlantaHusky]

Chris Smith pulling in the hottest chick of my dorm. Which was probably the hottest chick on campus.

 

[joober jones]

Some others include
Okwandu - steal and dunk as the first play of the game
Armstrong - Blocking an attempted 3 by a Quinnipiac player before it could get 2 inches above his hand
Thabeet - Pass to Jim Calhoun during his freshman year
Beverly - The steal and slam in 2 consecutive games. Didn't know he could get up that high.
Rudy Johnson putting up 26 points extremely quickly before twisting and ankle and missing the rest of the game
Boone - That weird hand-check thing he did that somehow improved his FT shooting
Napier/Walker - Everything

 

[AZHuskiePop]

The Roscoe Smith heave still makes me laugh when I think of it.
Tate George fumbling the ball out of bounds against Duke instead of just smacking it down court and letting the clock run out.

I still have nightmares of me screaming at Tate bat the ball we don't need a steal That was 24 years ago and it still hurts. But people that didn't experienced that low truly miss the beauty of our redemption within the decade.
For youngsters that set up Christian Laettner's final shot to send them to the final 4

Ollie letting Toby Bailey get behind him on the break over and over
Kemba splitting the double team against Texas and then launching a scoop shot....from 25 feet out and hitting it.
Henefeld waiting for a free throw and ignoring Mourning's anti-semitic trash talk and proving it on the floor.
Robertson's Tomahawk is still one of the best dunk's I have ever seen.
Saunders stuffing Elton Brand in the Championship game, getting called for the foul despite getting all ball, and staring down Brand who couldn't even look at Saunders because both players knew Saunders got all ball.
Denham's 3 in Maui.
Okafor scooping a loose ball up off the floor and putting it in with about 2 minutes left to keep us in the game against Duke in 2004.
Freeman fighting through the taller Gonzaga frontcourt in 1999. It felt like he got blocked 5 times in that game, but the boxscore only had 2 I believe.