A loss to Remember...

[hotterthanyourhusbandTU]

This one hurts quite a bit...

-Wisconsin (up by 13 with less than 4 min left)
-Louisville (up by 12? with two min left)

Both in the tourney...

-UCONN (up by 8 with less than 4 min left)

Cost us the tourney!

Proud of the effort. Wish the result was different.


Honorable mention...

Loss to New Mexico in the 1998 WAC tourney...

This post was edited on 3/14 8:04 PM by hotterthanyourhusbandTU

This post was edited on 3/14 8:05 PM by hotterthanyourhusbandTU

 

[I.I.]

ORU 2000. Up 9 or 10 with two minutes to go and had 5 questionable calls and a three. .
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[hotterthanyourhusbandTU]

Solid one!

Any others? This can be therapeutic...

 

[TUMe]

Originally posted by I.I.:
ORU 2000. Up 9 or 10 with two minutes to go and had 5 questionable calls and a three. .

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The Elite 8 run took away a lot of the sting from that one.

 

[canester2002_rivals]

Wisconsin still hurts deeply.
This is a top 5 loss ever in my mind. I would throw TU having to play a young Phi Slamma Jamma when we were a top 10 team and unfortunately bracketed with them after our first round bye. The Louisville losses was brutal because we lost our PG and we gave the game away and Bonner was thrown into an impossible situation. It's even sadder that he's passed. The other previous Louisville game in the tourney, we were so behind, and came so close in the comeback by Harris and Ross... Hawaii on our home court on a must win game in the WAC finals when it was "our year on a late Saturday night game that went to OT.Not to mention refs taking out key players when we played Clemson and Carolina in other tourney games. All were big.

I will throw out that TU stepped up big time at our first WAC tourney and destroyed a very good Fresno in Vegas to claim that at-large since both were on the bubble.

I will go to my grave disliking Wisconsin and Bo Ryan.

 

[I.I.]

Originally posted by canester2002:
Wisconsin still hurts deeply.
This is a top 5 loss ever in my mind. I would throw TU having to play a young Phi Slamma Jamma when we were a top 10 team and unfortunately bracketed with them after our first round bye. The Louisville losses was brutal because we lost our PG and we gave the game away and Bonner was thrown into an impossible situation. It's even sadder that he's passed. The other previous Louisville game in the tourney, we were so behind, and came so close in the comeback by Harris and Ross... Hawaii on our home court on a must win game in the WAC finals when it was "our year on a late Saturday night game that went to OT.Not to mention refs taking out key players when we played Clemson and Carolina in other tourney games. All were big.

I will throw out that TU stepped up big time at our first WAC tourney and destroyed a very good Fresno in Vegas to claim that at-large since both were on the bubble.

I will go to my grave disliking Wisconsin and Bo Ryan.

Really great list.....I must have been sitting with you. You hit them all.

 

[TU_BLA]

The Louisville '96 game sucked and the Wisconsin game sucked. Those games should have been Ws and TU should have at least one more Sweet Sixteen banner.

The '98 New Mexico WAC tourney game hurt because we had the game won and a win likely gets us into the NCAA tournament. Free throws and for some reason Aelf kept the worst FT shooter on the team on the court. Sad thing is he hit some huge FTs earlier in the year to beat UCLA. What was it, 4 consecutive missed FTs in the last minute?

Yesterday's hurt but you felt it was tenuous at best given the situation and UCONN at home you were never comfortable. The worst part about yesterday was you sort of had this expectation of Haith being able to calm them down, he's done it all year. In 1996 and 2003 you really had no such expectations. Robinson seemed to struggle in key moments of games and we all knew Phillips couldn't coach himself out of a shoebox if he tried and you took the lid off for him.

This team needs to take the ORU loss, SEOSU loss, and this one and bank them for next year. 7 seniors who all contribute heavily coming back with an extreme upside. Shaq played beyond what anyone expected, Ray is better, Swannegan and Curtis provide some savvy and toughness, and Dre still has the upside (he just needs to learn control).
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[quincy101]

That Australian ringer for Whiskey hits a 28 foot three to beat us in the last second. Believe that sucker played for Aussie national team. My wife is a UWhiskey grad & won't let me forget it! I hope Smoo beats UCONN by 20 so those 20,000 screaming fans feel as bad or worse than we all do.

 

[hotterthanyourhusbandTU]

I pray to God that we never experience a Wisconsin-like loss again...

In addition to the gut wrenching loss, it kicked TU into the Dark Ages of basketball that lasted nearly a decade...(post 1980).

As is probably the case with all TU fans, I remember exactly where I was during that final shot...

Fox 'n Hound on 71st and Garnett...it was a packed house...everyone had been drinking, so the atmosphere was awesome.

Right when TU lost, many many beer glasses were thrown...not a good situation!

 

[TUBballJunkie]

Yup. I was among the zombies filing out in silence at Reynolds. I had an awful feeling down the stretch of that one.

My non-sports fan sister was visiting and couldn't understand the mass devastation at all.

 

[TUMU]

The long drive back Sunday night from Austin, TX to Tulsa after we lost to North Carolina in the Elite Eight. I was confident we were going to win when there was something like 4 or 5 minutes left in the game.

We were so close to going to the Final Four.

 

[TUBballJunkie]

What made that drive even more awesome was your car breaking down, nothing being open on a Sunday night and being stranded in Hillsboro for the night.

 

[mcane]

Or in my case having multiple
flight delays and trying to be
polite to condescending UNC fans.
A worse sports depression than
Wisconsin or the 2000 ORU theft.

 

[texcane1982]

Originally posted by I.I.:

Originally posted by canester2002:
Wisconsin still hurts deeply.
This is a top 5 loss ever in my mind. I would throw TU having to play a young Phi Slamma Jamma when we were a top 10 team and unfortunately bracketed with them after our first round bye. The Louisville losses was brutal because we lost our PG and we gave the game away and Bonner was thrown into an impossible situation. It's even sadder that he's passed. The other previous Louisville game in the tourney, we were so behind, and came so close in the comeback by Harris and Ross... Hawaii on our home court on a must win game in the WAC finals when it was "our year on a late Saturday night game that went to OT.Not to mention refs taking out key players when we played Clemson and Carolina in other tourney games. All were big.

Really great list.....I must have been sitting with you. You hit them all.

Good stuff canester.........many have forgotten or don't realize, but those tourney losses to Phi Slama Jama (1982) and Louisville (1984), just so happen to bookend 2 of the greatest teams in the history of college basketball.

The 1983 Houston Cougars, the 1983 Louisville Cardinals.

I don't think Nolan ever got his due credit for what he accomplished during his first 4 seasons at TU.

Nolan's ability to recruit to TU and the MVC were tremendously underrated. His first 4 teams where among the best in all of college baskketball at a time when college basketball was as competetive as it has ever been.


TX

 

[TU Sepp]

The court at the Don/Rey should bear Nolan Richardson's name.

Maybe Dr. Gragg can make this happen!