I want them to show that last second three pointer by Braylon Mullins on tv for every NCAA basketball event for the next 34 years.
Think they will?
Think they will?
Replacing the Laettner shot?
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They will never let that clip go. My sons 1 and i have confidence that my grandchildren will be seeing that every season far down the road
The Mullins tape has already been confiscated and burned.
That sequence and Mullins shot was 10x the play that the Hill/ Laettner shot was from 1992!
One time I don’t mind knowing UK plays second fiddle to Duke for something historical
One time I don’t mind knowing UK plays second fiddle to Duke for something historical
Espn honestly used last night's shot, to remind us more about Laettner. It wss so pathetic watching them attempt to change the discourse away from Duke choking.
Don't be silly. Duke losing will never be part of the montage. If Duke has beat UCONN on the same shot, THEN it would be aired constantly for the next 100 years.
It finally feels like The Laettner Shot of 1992 has been replaced in the college basketball collective memory, and Duke can now carry that weight for a few decades.
It should have been put to rest before -- after the Comeback Cats of 1998, or the Kris Jenkins last second shot to beat UNC, or whenever. But I'm finally seeing national writers saying "There is a new Laettner Shot." (Here's a link to an Athletic piece probably behind a paywall, but the title says it all: "I WITNESSED CHRISTIAN LAETTNER'S SHOT. UCONN'S GAME WINNER WAS BETTER." https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7157051/2026/03/30/uconn-duke-game-history/ )
For my part, I never saw the Laettner shot, as unlikely as that sounds, at least not real-time (you could hardly miss the 70 million reruns.) Why, is a long story, the short version being I was working as a correspondent and driving from Baghdad to Amman, Jordan (there was a post-Desert Storm air blockade over Iraq.) I got back to a hotel in Jordan, called my parents to tell them I was safe, and the game had just ended. My dad and brothers could not have cared less about my journey, they just wanted to talk about what they'd just experienced watching the game. That told me what the shot would come to mean to Kentucky fans.
It should have been put to rest before -- after the Comeback Cats of 1998, or the Kris Jenkins last second shot to beat UNC, or whenever. But I'm finally seeing national writers saying "There is a new Laettner Shot." (Here's a link to an Athletic piece probably behind a paywall, but the title says it all: "I WITNESSED CHRISTIAN LAETTNER'S SHOT. UCONN'S GAME WINNER WAS BETTER." https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7157051/2026/03/30/uconn-duke-game-history/ )
For my part, I never saw the Laettner shot, as unlikely as that sounds, at least not real-time (you could hardly miss the 70 million reruns.) Why, is a long story, the short version being I was working as a correspondent and driving from Baghdad to Amman, Jordan (there was a post-Desert Storm air blockade over Iraq.) I got back to a hotel in Jordan, called my parents to tell them I was safe, and the game had just ended. My dad and brothers could not have cared less about my journey, they just wanted to talk about what they'd just experienced watching the game. That told me what the shot would come to mean to Kentucky fans.
The Laettner shot will always be in the forefront over ANY other shot because Duke won.
For me that was the Rocky moment for UK basketball. It was a soul crushing defeat but it signaled the Cats were back from near death penalty and heralded a golden era. I was in high school and cried like a child.
I think what happened yesterday is worse than the Laettner shot. The shot in 1992 was a game that was played at the highest of levels, and the shot was just great execution of a whole court play that broke my heart and many UK fans hearts, but we see the untouchables as some of the finest UK players of all time. What happened yesterday was a collapse by Duke blowing a 19-point lead and committing a turnover in the waning seconds allowing UConn to get off their miracle shot. While we see heart break but remember the 1992 team fondly. They will see heartbreak and remember the collapse and the turnover.
It truly was one of the great all time tournament games with a win in OT. While people can blame Pitino for not guarding Grant Hill’s inbound, the “mistake” is not as blatant as what happened last evening.
It was also in arguably the greatest CBB game ever played.
**** they done called the FBI to confiscate all video of it and sent ESPN a letter saying they fixed it.
THIS X10
yesterday pales in comparison to the incredible game that was 92'. Both teams, the defending champs, played at the highest level I have ever seen in any game played at by both teams - at the same time - against each other thru OT - for such high stakes.
Some of us were there. Others, like most, me and my family, we watched.
But right before Laettner hit that shot, I said they'd make the shot to beat us to everyone there with me..
And why ? A Psychic premonition ? Maybe. Because it did happen.....
But when everyone turned towards me and stared at me after he made that shot, all I said was : Look how much it means to beat "little old" Kentucky again. They're the defending champs. They SHOULD win the game, and just look at them running aorund like children celebrating beating poor old Kentucky. Mark my words, Kentucky will win a title within the next 5 years.... it's a new day for Kentucky.... besides, indiana would kill us in the final four even if we had made it past the blue devils. It's all staged anyway. "
lol
pUKe beat the Hoosiers and went on to repeat, and we won that title within 5 years, and went to 3 consecutive title game appearances in the golden era that was.
Other posters have said it : It was a signal that Kentucky was back again. And it was.
Remember back in the day they celebrated getting US out of the tournament and calling us the evil empire. I think it's kinda' fitting pUKe is the one that everybody celebrates getting out of the tournament for a change. Even if they are the media darling and get every break imaginable thru a season.
Funny, also, it was Roger Ayers calling the game, and there at the end watching them choke away, there was nothing he could blow his whistle about to alter it when it happened. Besides, the NCAATSC took the gamble if they couldn't get both UConn and pUKe into the final four, they had a really good shot at getting at least one of them there. And so it is.
So we had what, the first sweet sixteen in forever without either UK, UCLA, ***UNC, or KU making it? hmmm.
Now we only have to get UConn out of it, and seriously, they aren't gonna win it. My gut couldn't be firmer about UConn NOT winning it this year. Personally, I'd take Illinois in the game. But the winner this year is who I have had all along ....
Arizona.
but enough of my rambling.
TLDNR,
Laettners shot and game was 100X the quality of yesterday. But it's good everybody likes having pUKe get knocked out of it. They shove them down our throats all year every year.
With AI, they will just swap the Duke jerseys for UK ones and gaslight the public to think it happened.
I am kidding...sort of.
I am kidding...sort of.
I have no argument either way on replaying the shot.
Kentucky-Duke 1992 was one of the greatest college games I ever saw. and I am writing from a neutral perspective as I am from Arkansas.
Both teams made great play after great play in that game. Kentucky's drive and resilience at the end of regulation and OT were amazing and though I don't like Duke much, they had one of the great teams.
It was a game that neither team deserved to lose.
Yesterday was a lot different. Uconn played pretty poorly in the first half and Duke didn't maintain intensity in the second half.
The Conn. player made a money shot for sure but there was no comparison in the two games...for me at least.
Kentucky-Duke 1992 was one of the greatest college games I ever saw. and I am writing from a neutral perspective as I am from Arkansas.
Both teams made great play after great play in that game. Kentucky's drive and resilience at the end of regulation and OT were amazing and though I don't like Duke much, they had one of the great teams.
It was a game that neither team deserved to lose.
Yesterday was a lot different. Uconn played pretty poorly in the first half and Duke didn't maintain intensity in the second half.
The Conn. player made a money shot for sure but there was no comparison in the two games...for me at least.