Arkansas in 1994 - everyone wandering around campus not knowing what to do.
I will also add in Lehigh and Mercer.
Also, not of the magnitude of some of the final four games, but the 1998 Kentucky game was really painful.
Arkansas in 1994 - everyone wandering around campus not knowing what to do.
I will also add in Lehigh and Mercer.
Also, not of the magnitude of some of the final four games, but the 1998 Kentucky game was really painful.
Me too. It was a deflating end to a rags-to-riches (emotionally) freshman year for me.
Getting knocked off the mountaintop (1999) comes really close too. [here, by mountaintop, I don't necessarily mean we were "defending champs" - just the acknowledged best team - and in 1999 we were, by FAR]
In 1986, we had never been to the mountaintop, as far as I knew; I felt we were still sort of upstarts as a program (despite 1978 really being more upstarts like that, and having some serious success in the early to mid 1960s under Bubas ... but I knew of none of that at the time).
JJ Redick and Shelden Williams senior night.
Convinced myself a loss was impossible...sigh.
Top three in my personal journal of pain have to be:
3) ‘86 MBB loss
2) ‘99 MBB loss
1) ‘06 WBB loss
The last one actually made me sicker physically than the two men’s losses, probably because I was watching it with my two young daughters who idolized the women’s team. Still makes me queasy to think about.
One other that always sticks out Is 1998 Kentucky. To this day, an 18 point lead feels like certain doom.
2004 loss to UConn in the final four was, for me, worse than the 1999 Championship game, because if the refs had called the foul and let JJ shoot the free throws, we would've won. Awaiting us was Georgia Tech, for crying out loud.
Had I listed more than three the 2004 and 1998 games would have been #’s 4 & 5.
8 points, 17 seconds. Nothing else even comes close. GTHc GTH. 9F forever.
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'04 was worse than '99 because '04 was (at least in my mind) going to be revenge for '99, with UConn playing the favorite this time around. And we had them, we had our revenge, until we faceplanted at the end.
'94 was also tough because Grant, my favorite and everyone's favorite player, almost ended his career winning his 3rd championship in 4 years. It was almost a picture-perfect ending. So close.
'86 was of course the very worst. Absolutely devastated for the seniors.
Nobody going with Arizona 2011? Talk about hard to watch...
The Nightmare on Halloween is up there. People have brought up a bunch of other "good" ones...hard to pick only one. Several of these make me a little bit sick thinking about them even still.
This is the worst thread ever.