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Message: [QUOTE="LStudfellow, post: 4980737, member: 5436"] Only underrated by those who did not witness it. Anyone who watched that game, that season and who understands the progression of UConn men's basketball to where it is today realizes that Nadav's performance that night was the first "holy crap, we really can compete with the big boys" moment for this program. Anyone who points to the Syracuse win 5 nights earlier does not understand that we beat Syracuse every 3rd or 4th game at that time, no matter how individually talented they were, because Boeheim was an average-at-best in-game coach, and his teams consistently under-achieved and would lose head-scratchers. But Georgetown was a whole other kettle of fish. They were THE bullies of the Big East from the time Patrick Ewing pulled on that uniform for the first time right up until then. Georgetown wouldn't just beat you... they would try to take your manhood away. They tortured us for years, beating us in 15 out of the last 16 games played up until that night. You knew that in order to lay claim to any sort of advanced real estate in the conference, you had to beat Georgetown to be legit. It was arguably the most important regular season game we have ever won... and there is no way we win it without Nadav. He did everything for us that night, but most importantly he made big play after big play after big play every time Georgetown threatened to wrestle the game away from us in the 2nd half. Watch it and you will see exactly what I mean. Up until then we almost always lost those games. We were the little brother who couldn't quite get over the hump. We took our lumps, a pat on the head, and a "see you when you are worthy" dismissal from Georgetown. Until that night. But not THAT night. Not THAT game. And everything has been different for this program since then. It can not be overstated the importance of that game to the trajectory of our program since that night. And Nadav's performance was the single biggest reason why. That was the night that started the legend of Nadav Henefeld. [/QUOTE]

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