Top 5 Non Ncaa Tourney losses
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alright I have some more. Obviously my picks will be mostly last 10 years.
-- the BET loss to Cuse when Kennedy hurt his knee. Tough loss and the injury was just terrible. Took all the hype away from our tournament bid.
-- DLo's senior year the loss to Duke. It was Coach K's 1,000th win. We had that fucking game. Just kinda blew it late.
-- that game we had @Creighton where we had an awesome comeback and then Doug McDermott buried a game winner on us. That one hurt. Luckily we avenged that at MSG later that season.
-- I think the Butler loss we took just this season is up there for me. Just knowing that all we really had to do was inbound the basketball and we would've escaped with a win. It stings more than the DePaul game for me because at least the DePaul game, I can accept losing when we got completely outplayed. But the butler game, man we were seconds away from winning
-- the BET loss to Cuse when Kennedy hurt his knee. Tough loss and the injury was just terrible. Took all the hype away from our tournament bid.
-- DLo's senior year the loss to Duke. It was Coach K's 1,000th win. We had that fucking game. Just kinda blew it late.
-- that game we had @Creighton where we had an awesome comeback and then Doug McDermott buried a game winner on us. That one hurt. Luckily we avenged that at MSG later that season.
-- I think the Butler loss we took just this season is up there for me. Just knowing that all we really had to do was inbound the basketball and we would've escaped with a win. It stings more than the DePaul game for me because at least the DePaul game, I can accept losing when we got completely outplayed. But the butler game, man we were seconds away from winning
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L J S A
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The CBI is so bad it shouldn't count as a tourney game and therefore be eligible for this thread./media/kunena/emoticons/grin.png
I remember one possibly CBI game that might have been so embarrassing to be a part of that I was one of only about three posters listening to it on the radio and posting updates. Pretty sure we lost.
I remember one possibly CBI game that might have been so embarrassing to be a part of that I was one of only about three posters listening to it on the radio and posting updates. Pretty sure we lost.
How about the double OT loss at MSG to Georgetown in 2018? Think it was in Jan. just before we beat Duke.
We were still looking for first Big East win..
Ponds got us into OT, and we are up by a few points with less than 30 sec. The Yakwe fouled a 3 pt shooter who made FT's and then made another 3 to go to OT. Then in double OT, Ponds fouled a 3 pt shooter too.
We were still looking for first Big East win..
Ponds got us into OT, and we are up by a few points with less than 30 sec. The Yakwe fouled a 3 pt shooter who made FT's and then made another 3 to go to OT. Then in double OT, Ponds fouled a 3 pt shooter too.
Every single Big East tournament game in the Lavin era. He lost every single one except for against Rutgers and even that was questionable since Brownlee traveled at the end. I remember having high hopes each of those years just to get a tough loss.
Going back a bit further. 2002-2003 BET quarterfinals vs BC. Hatten's final year. Lost in overtime. Hatten missed a buzzer beater at the end of regulation. We eventually won the NIT but that may have got us into the NCAA tournament.
Going back a bit further. 2002-2003 BET quarterfinals vs BC. Hatten's final year. Lost in overtime. Hatten missed a buzzer beater at the end of regulation. We eventually won the NIT but that may have got us into the NCAA tournament.
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MainMan" post=421309 said:
jan 14, 1992 at miami. a tuesday night.
this is espken's 2nd worse game. my worse game.
that night my wife's relative was being waked in flushing.
we drove from franklin by the square on lon gisland for the wake with the game on the radio.
when we got to the wake, i bravely told my wife - you go in, i'm listening to the game.
i listened to the rest of the game on the radio.
it was the worse college basketball game played since marconi invented the radio.
sju lost 45 to 42. miami would go 8 and 24 for the season. one and 17 in conference play. sealy had 15 points.
to make matters worse, when i got home i watched a replay of the entire game on my vcr.
this is espken's 2nd worse game. my worse game.
that night my wife's relative was being waked in flushing.
we drove from franklin by the square on lon gisland for the wake with the game on the radio.
when we got to the wake, i bravely told my wife - you go in, i'm listening to the game.
i listened to the rest of the game on the radio.
it was the worse college basketball game played since marconi invented the radio.
sju lost 45 to 42. miami would go 8 and 24 for the season. one and 17 in conference play. sealy had 15 points.
to make matters worse, when i got home i watched a replay of the entire game on my vcr.
Niagara in the Holiday Festival during Lopez and Hamilton's senior year. We killed them on the glass, won the turnover battle by double digits, seemingly got every loose ball, but lost because, what Depaul was doing inside last night, Niagara was doing from 3 point range. Meanwhile, we shot even more horrendesly then we did last night, and didn't even get the great free throw shooting, which kept the Depaul game close.
Remember a big Xavier game at the garden think it was late in DLos junior year. Making a tourney push and we just didn't show up.
For me the Butler game hurts a lot more than this DePaul one. DePaul played well and were due. 60% from the field and 60% from 3 is a lot more than just poor defense.
For me the Butler game hurts a lot more than this DePaul one. DePaul played well and were due. 60% from the field and 60% from 3 is a lot more than just poor defense.
We lost to Maryland by 30 something at MSG in '06. What made it so bad is I had tickets to the game and felt trapped since the game wasn't as close as the score indicated. Note: I don't leave games early.
Maybe worse...in '04 we followed a loss to St Francis by being blown out by Niagara 102-81, I remember it because Redmen.com had a get together at some pub in Manhattan for the game... It led to my "fire Roberts" rants that got me banned on this site. It only got worse for the program (see above Maryland loss).
Maybe worse...in '04 we followed a loss to St Francis by being blown out by Niagara 102-81, I remember it because Redmen.com had a get together at some pub in Manhattan for the game... It led to my "fire Roberts" rants that got me banned on this site. It only got worse for the program (see above Maryland loss).
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The loss to Niagara in Dec 1984 at Niagara's Civic Center. They charged the court and tore down the rims. If it wasn't for SJU 85 taking care of the team Dr Glick, he would have been swept away in the crowd!
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espken" post=421368 said:
Can’t believe I’m forgetting his name but that might have been the only game where the St Rays shooter actually hit some shots. Think he has 3 threes in the first half. Ricky Torres??
The loss to GTown in the 85 BE Regular season at the Garden after we had beaten them in DC . Next was losing to them again in the BE final that same year . A game I remember where Louie continued to play Mike Moses over Mark Jackson .. The GTown guards ate Moses lunch at will . In the year where we had both , Mullin and Berry , I thought we would have done better against the Hoyas . If we had , we might not have had to face the Hoyas a 4 th time in the NCAA Semi Final and could have faced Memphis instead . And , GTown and Nova would have played in the second semi final . Ah , what might have been .
Yes indeed.Amaseinyourface" post=421388 said:
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The two toughest losses were the De Paul NCAA loss with the officials allowing Comegy to follow up his missed foul shot and sending the game into overtime and the SYR - SJU game at CA with the no charge call giving the basket and game to SYR.
The most humiliating was the SJU - GEO game in Mullins freshmen year at MSG. Long awaited game with both teams having great recruiting classes matching up. Ewing was probably forty pounds less than when he played for the Knicks and was a total gazelle running the court and defending the rim. I forced my two kids who were about ten years old to leave near the end of the first half with GEO ahead 41 to nine.
The most humiliating was the SJU - GEO game in Mullins freshmen year at MSG. Long awaited game with both teams having great recruiting classes matching up. Ewing was probably forty pounds less than when he played for the Knicks and was a total gazelle running the court and defending the rim. I forced my two kids who were about ten years old to leave near the end of the first half with GEO ahead 41 to nine.