Dockery's buzzer beater

[JasonEvans]

DBR posted a video link in their article. I actualy think this video has better video and more of the post-shot reaction.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxyO4AKMveY

[weezie]

That's a fine way to begin a Monday morning :cool:

[wsb3]

DBR posted a video link in their article. I actualy think this video has better video and more of the post-shot reaction.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxyO4AKMveY

No doubt. This one is better...

[DukePA]

Outstanding! That was my first ACC game as a Duke student. I was in my first semester of PA school and 44 years old :)

[Trapper_John]

I was sitting up maybe 2 rows below the crows nest for that game. When they scored to take the lead, there was a VT fan on my row yelling into his cell phone so everyone could hear, "THEY ALL LOOK LIKE THEY'RE GOING TO CRY!!!". Strangely, 1.6 seconds of game time later, he was nowhere to be seen...

[Lunchab1es]

I was there, about 5 rows back from midcourt. Lots of hugs and high fives with strangers that day. One top my favorite memories.

[Tom B.]

If I recall correctly, that shot basically wrecked Virginia Tech's season.

The previous season, Duke had whomped Va. Tech by 35 in Cameron (100-65), and Seth Greenberg was ejected. So when they came back to Cameron in December of 2005, they had revenge on their minds. They were 5-2 coming into that game, and scoring an upset over Duke (ranked #1 at the time) in Cameron would've given them a huge morale boost.

Instead, Dockery ripped out their hearts, and they never really recovered. They ended up going 14-16 overall and 4-12 in the ACC (tying for 10th place in the final conference standings).

[wsb3]

Outstanding! That was my first ACC game as a Duke student. I was in my first semester of PA school and 44 years old :)

Not a bad start...😃

[Newton_14]

True story. Thanks DBR and Jason for reminding me of my sin! I was at home watching upstairs that fateful Sunday Night. Was on the edge of my seat living and dying with every seemingly important play or basket. When the Hokies get the tip-in to take the one point lead with 1.6 seconds left, my heart dropped to the soles of my feet. We had lost to freakin vatech! The Vatech players in the huddle during the ensuing timeout were celebrating the win with glee. I hated Vatech and was going to take hell at work here in the triangle area the next morning. So I say to myself "I am not going to watch Vatech celebrate on our floor, taunt the Crazies, etc. Finger meets Off Button on the remote. I go to bed steaming mad.

The Morning After
> My commute is 40 minutes give or take and during those days I always listened to 850 The Buzz the local sports radio station, but today I have it on music. However, there is other sports news/scores I am interested in, so I finally decide to flip over to 850. The plan was to stay there long enough to get the info I wanted and then turn it back to music when the Duke Bashing (err I mean reporting the big Vatech upset) started. And surely the bashing would start. Just a matter of when.

So I flip to 850 and cringe. They go thru an entire segment and then to break and then another segment and not one single mention of the big Hokie win. This is weird I say to myself. Something isn't right. Finally, as they head into another commercial break, the host says "More on Duke's WIN over the HOkies last night when we return"

UUUUUGGGGGHHHHH! Worst feeling in the world. Couldn't even celebrate the win because I bailed on the guys, giving them no shot to win that damn game. But they did. And I missed history.

Lesson Learned. So every time this game is mentioned I relive that moment. It sucks. Don't ever do it.

[LasVegas]

Similar story with me as well, watching the "rivers" game with all my friends in the dorms at Duke. I stormed out with about 1 minute left. I could literally hear the screaming walking home outside. I just kept walking. The walk of shame.

[JasonEvans]

It is March 24th, 1990. Me and all my buddies had graduated from Duke almost a year ago and were experiencing our first NCAA tournament as alumni, not students.

Me and my 3 best friends from school -- Coby, Giraldo, and Mike -- had all taken jobs in the NE, generally around NY (though Coby would drive down from Boston to hang with us on weekends). I had everyone over to my 9th floor apartment in Battery Park City watch the Duke-UConn regional final game. The game goes to OT and we are just going bonkers, jumping all over the place and throwing stuff. It was crazy. With about 40 seconds left, UConn has the ball with a 1 point lead. Suddenly, Mike jumps up and screams, "I can't watch this any more!" He runs out of the apartment. We have no idea where he went, but none of us are going to follow him because the game was still on. So, we saw this happen...

https://youtu.be/y_QA5_30ZDI?t=5541
FFWD to 1:32:24

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_QA5_30ZDI

We go crazy, a dogpile in the middle of the room with the three of us flopping all over each other (my future wife and Giraldo's future wife are watching us and just shaking their heads). We then realize that Mike is nowhere to be seen. He could not take the pressure and does not know what happened (15+ years before smart phones would give you the result on your device). We all vow that the moment Mike comes back, we will pretend that Duke lost.

Mike comes in the door and all three of us scream, "We won!!!" and proceed to dogpile him all over again. He later explained that he had so much nervous energy that he had run all the way down the steps of the apartment building -- 9 floors down and 9 floors back up.

-Jason "I'm betting most of us have a story like this... thanks for making me relive this delicous memory" Evans

P.S. - Hubie Brown calls the play a split second before it happens. Hubie is maybe the best color man ever.

[weezie]

Thumbnail sketch:

Disneyworld, the big old Floridian Hotel. We left the park to watch the game and as it all came to pass, the screaming and crying and bed jumping mania coming out of our room caused another guest to call security. The police came pounding on the door, we were escorted into separate rooms and briefly interrogated. When we were returned to the room, two of the policemen stayed and watched one of the replays on the local news with us.

Then we went to the bar. Husband-of-weezie and very-very-young-adorable-weezie, not weezie and the police. Although, as I recall, they were pretty cute guys...

[Indoor66]

Thumbnail sketch:

Disneyworld, the big old Floridian Hotel. We left the park to watch the game and as it all came to pass, the screaming and crying and bed jumping mania coming out of our room caused another guest to call security. The police came pounding on the door, we were escorted into separate rooms and briefly interrogated. When we were returned to the room, two of the policemen stayed and watched one of the replays on the local news with us.

Then we went to the bar. Husband-of-weezie and very-very-young-adorable-weezie, not weezie and the police. Although, as I recall, they were pretty cute guys...

And that is your story and you are sticking to it, I guess? :rolleyes::cool:

[94duke]

It is March 24th, 1990. Me and all my buddies had graduated from Duke almost a year ago and were experiencing our first NCAA tournament as alumni, not students.

Me and my 3 best friends from school -- Coby, Giraldo, and Mike -- had all taken jobs in the NE, generally around NY (though Coby would drive down from Boston to hang with us on weekends). I had everyone over to my 9th floor apartment in Battery Park City watch the Duke-UConn regional final game. The game goes to OT and we are just going bonkers, jumping all over the place and throwing stuff. It was crazy. With about 40 seconds left, UConn has the ball with a 1 point lead. Suddenly, Mike jumps up and screams, "I can't watch this any more!" He runs out of the apartment. We have no idea where he went, but none of us are going to follow him because the game was still on. So, we saw this happen...

https://youtu.be/y_QA5_30ZDI?t=5541
FFWD to 1:32:24

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_QA5_30ZDI

We go crazy, a dogpile in the middle of the room with the three of us flopping all over each other (my future wife and Giraldo's future wife are watching us and just shaking their heads). We then realize that Mike is nowhere to be seen. He could not take the pressure and does not know what happened (15+ years before smart phones would give you the result on your device). We all vow that the moment Mike comes back, we will pretend that Duke lost.

Mike comes in the door and all three of us scream, "We won!!!" and proceed to dogpile him all over again. He later explained that he had so much nervous energy that he had run all the way down the steps of the apartment building -- 9 floors down and 9 floors back up.

-Jason "I'm betting most of us have a story like this... thanks for making me relive this delicous memory" Evans

P.S. - Hubie Brown calls the play a split second before it happens. Hubie is maybe the best color man ever.

Thanks for posting the whole thing. I had forgotten that Bobby just about through the game away at the beginning of the possession. O.o

[DrChainsaw]

Sadly, this was my last game in Cameron and my wife's one-and-only. I told to her to expect an easy win over Tech and was grumbling about the amount of money I had to pay to the scalper for midcourt tickets.

To this day, my wife gets anxious during Duke games on TV and has to leave the room. Some kind of PTSD, I guess.

Of all the games I saw in Cameron, this comes in second only to Elton's comeback against UNC.

[jv001]

It is March 24th, 1990. Me and all my buddies had graduated from Duke almost a year ago and were experiencing our first NCAA tournament as alumni, not students.

Me and my 3 best friends from school -- Coby, Giraldo, and Mike -- had all taken jobs in the NE, generally around NY (though Coby would drive down from Boston to hang with us on weekends). I had everyone over to my 9th floor apartment in Battery Park City watch the Duke-UConn regional final game. The game goes to OT and we are just going bonkers, jumping all over the place and throwing stuff. It was crazy. With about 40 seconds left, UConn has the ball with a 1 point lead. Suddenly, Mike jumps up and screams, "I can't watch this any more!" He runs out of the apartment. We have no idea where he went, but none of us are going to follow him because the game was still on. So, we saw this happen...

https://youtu.be/y_QA5_30ZDI?t=5541
FFWD to 1:32:24

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_QA5_30ZDI

We go crazy, a dogpile in the middle of the room with the three of us flopping all over each other (my future wife and Giraldo's future wife are watching us and just shaking their heads). We then realize that Mike is nowhere to be seen. He could not take the pressure and does not know what happened (15+ years before smart phones would give you the result on your device). We all vow that the moment Mike comes back, we will pretend that Duke lost.

Mike comes in the door and all three of us scream, "We won!!!" and proceed to dogpile him all over again. He later explained that he had so much nervous energy that he had run all the way down the steps of the apartment building -- 9 floors down and 9 floors back up.

-Jason "I'm betting most of us have a story like this... thanks for making me relive this delicous memory" Evans

P.S. - Hubie Brown calls the play a split second before it happens. Hubie is maybe the best color man ever.

I was on a golfing trip to Myrtle Beach, SC and was on the course the day of the Duke-UCONN game. I was paired with one of my best friends that happened to be as big a Duke fan as myself. We had the radio on listening to the game between shots. The guy that organized the little golf tournament was also in our group and he was really upset that we were more interested in the game than playing golf. When Christian hit the shot, we began shouting and some of our fellow golfers thought someone had made a hole in one. We had our priorities in order that day. GoDuke!

[wsb3]

True story. Thanks DBR and Jason for reminding me of my sin! I was at home watching upstairs that fateful Sunday Night. Was on the edge of my seat living and dying with every seemingly important play or basket. When the Hokies get the tip-in to take the one point lead with 1.6 seconds left, my heart dropped to the soles of my feet. We had lost to freakin vatech! The Vatech players in the huddle during the ensuing timeout were celebrating the win with glee. I hated Vatech and was going to take hell at work here in the triangle area the next morning. So I say to myself "I am not going to watch Vatech celebrate on our floor, taunt the Crazies, etc. Finger meets Off Button on the remote. I go to bed steaming mad.

The Morning After
> My commute is 40 minutes give or take and during those days I always listened to 850 The Buzz the local sports radio station, but today I have it on music. However, there is other sports news/scores I am interested in, so I finally decide to flip over to 850. The plan was to stay there long enough to get the info I wanted and then turn it back to music when the Duke Bashing (err I mean reporting the big Vatech upset) started. And surely the bashing would start. Just a matter of when.

So I flip to 850 and cringe. They go thru an entire segment and then to break and then another segment and not one single mention of the big Hokie win. This is weird I say to myself. Something isn't right. Finally, as they head into another commercial break, the host says "More on Duke's WIN over the HOkies last night when we return"

UUUUUGGGGGHHHHH! Worst feeling in the world. Couldn't even celebrate the win because I bailed on the guys, giving them no shot to win that damn game. But they did. And I missed history.

Lesson Learned. So every time this game is mentioned I relive that moment. It sucks. Don't ever do it.

I sinned as well. So 😠 that we gave up 11 straight points to lose. Went to bed angry. ☎ rang. Ignored it. Next morning I listen to VM. My son calling to say..wow bet you are excited
..What? Go to computer & discover we won.

[Mtn.Devil.91.92.01.10.15]

Sadly, this was my last game in Cameron and my wife's one-and-only.

Sadly?? Sounds pretty damn lucky to me.