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Was that the biggest shot in UConn history

Biggest UConn shot ever?

  • Mullins for the Final 4- 2026

    Votes: 292 73.7%

  • Tate George - 1990 vs. Clemson

    Votes: 58 14.6%

  • Rip- 98 vs. Washington

    Votes: 13 3.3%

  • Kemba- 2011 BET vs. Pitt

    Votes: 32 8.1%

  • Jalen Adams- 70 footer vs. Cinci

    Votes: 1 0.3%

  • Other

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Total voters
    396
I think it might be. The 1999 and 2004 title games didn’t have a signature shot near the end of the game. 2011 or 2014 either. Kenna’s step back in the Big East tourney arguably got that ball rolling so that one and this one are at the top of the list.
 
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It's this one because of the stakes. FF berth online against modern contemporary peer for supremacy as best program this century.

Add in the comeback aspect and Mullins being a role player freshman.

Yeah, this eclipses all of them.

Maybe more to come this season and we can revisit.
 
Wow. This is tough. I’m very partial to Kemba, and that Tate George play might be the greatest catch and shoot ever for a game winner (on any level), but this got us in the final four. So I’d have to say yeah. This is it.
 
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It was between Tate and Mullins. Both incredible shots, but I went with Mullins because it was Duke. It also was even more improbable because it was truly a miracle that the ball ended up in Mullins hands. It was dumb luck and who better to take the last shot than Mullins.
 
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B1GEast said:
Mullins, he had no business taking that shot with the way he was shooting

He took it anyway

We needed a Hero, Mullins put it on his back. The heart of a champion

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I'm not big on overreactions, but because of the stakes and the opponent, the difficulty of the comeback, plus the legacy battle between UConn and Duke, I have to give this one the nod over "It's late, it's Tate, it's great." Our guys caused a difficult turnover, hit a prayer from the March Madness logo, and stole a Final Four appearance from Duke, much like they did to us back in 1990. That's HUGE. And given UConn's issues with conference affiliation right now, anything that maintains or amplifies the greatness of UConn basketball, especially in direct competition with other blue blood programs, is extremely valuable. This shot will have legs in terms of becoming a modern highlight staple and will help keep UConn top of mind.

But Burrell's full-length-of-the-court pass and George's shot to save UConn from a devastating, heartbreaking collapse with only 1.0 on the clock were probably a better play in a vacuum given the degree of difficulty executing that play. The '90 shot and the '90 season put UConn on the national map, and if we'd lost that game after being up 19 in the second half, UConn would have been known for the worst NCAA tournament collapse ever (at the time). I'm also editing this to agree with other posters that the impact of the Clemson-Duke two-game sequence on UConn player recruiting changed the footprint of the program from regional to national because it drew so many eyeballs, though I don't know that Calhoun wouldn't have still gotten the program there on the strength of UConn's other building-block achievements in '88 and then '90 and '91, when they creatively brought in guys like Henefeld and Gilad Katz (and later, Doron Sheffer) along with the Connecticut top players.

It's tough to say. I do feel like people have kind of forgotten about Tate's shot over the years, at least outside of UConn circles, maybe because it was only a Sweet Sixteen game and UConn wound up getting knocked out by another buzzer-beater two days later. That won't happen with this shot because reaching the Final Four is considered a major goal unto itself.
 
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If we win the title it’s top 3.Rip’s shot eventually led to a title. Brimah’s shot also led to a title.
 
Post Furman thread:

Rocktheworld said:
Survive and advance with your starting PG and major rotation guy out; and another dismal shooting night (1/16 from 3 not counting Karaban). At this point I’m reaching a point k fcontentedness in that I know it’s either: we start hitting 3s and make a deep run, or we keep missing, and the basketball gods have decided it’s not our year.

Nice cherry on top for me is I had a perfect day with my bracket and got 29/32 first round games correct, all second-weekend teams still alive
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Guess the basketball gods smiled down on us tonight in one of the cruelest bait-and-switches ever
 
The Kemba shot the game was tied. It wasn't a "must" make.

The Dream Season and Tate started the entire engine of what Husky Mania is today. If we hadn't hit that shot against Clemson and then lost to Duke in same manner none of these Duke games would have had the same juice. I don't think Duke hates us anywhere near as much as we will always hate them because of Laettner. We were the little brother back then that said "someday" i'm gonna be bigger than you. They unleashed a monster that day.
 
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