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Posted by UNC-HEELS (Member # 2523) on 07-20-2007, 01:41 PM:

Obviously this has to arguably be one of the best.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/writers/best_game/06/11/wolff.best/index.html

I would list in no particular order, the UNC vs Georgetown 82 /UNC vs Kansas 1957

Maryland vs NC State (ACC tourney)1974

Maybe in that mix, NCST vs UCLA 1974

I am listing these games because I remember them best in more detail. I chose these games because of what was on the line at the time and the games were close from tip to close!

Certainly there are games from which there were amazing comebacks, I.E. UNC vs FSU down 23 with approx 9 minutes left and many other schools like UK and Duke in the ncaas with Duke leading most of the game and losing its lead in the closing stages to lose to UK.

But I am looking at games I can remember from the opening tip to the close of the game that consisted of one big play after another by both teams. Anyway, there are numerous games that would just as easily fit in this category, but would be interested to get other opinions to remember the other great games.

Posted by Bama Cat (Member # 153) on 07-20-2007, 02:11 PM:

From a UK standpoint there is only one game that fits the #1 category and that is the comeback from 30+ points against LSU.

Posted by mr_ukkid (Member # 2304) on 07-20-2007, 03:34 PM:

My top 3 in college basketball and I am still classified as a youngin....so my games are pretty recent. However, my top three in college basketball that I personally saw would have to be:

1) 30 pt comeback UK vs. LSU

2) Unfortunately the '92 UK vs. Duke game don't like the outcome, but that was one heck of a game

3) IT was a tie between, 1985 Championship Game Villanova vs. Georgetown. I was personally at that game in Rupp Arena. Villanova was the Cinderella team and had no shot at beating Georgetown. What a great great game and 1987 Championship Game between Indiana last second shot by Keith Smart to beat Syracuse in New Orleans. I was personally at that game too and had a good friend on that Indiana squad by the name of Steve Eyl.

Posted by UNC-HEELS (Member # 2523) on 07-20-2007, 03:41 PM:

Mr_UKkidd,

Forgot that one, it was a great game. What was that kids name? BJ Armstrong. Thats it. And sadly enough, did he not have a cocaine problem shortly after the ncaa? May have that wrong, but seemed he befell some kind of problem after the championship.

Posted by uncSUCKS (Member # 2148) on 07-20-2007, 03:57 PM:

1-UK/Duke '92
2-UK comeback against Duke in '98
3-UK comeback against Utah in '98
4-UK comeback against LSU

Posted by prophet (Member # 2089) on 07-20-2007, 04:07 PM:

UK 106 Vanderbilt 44 2003

I wish they were all that great!

Posted by jholder (Member # 1020) on 07-20-2007, 04:30 PM:

1 UK-Duke in '92

2 UK-Duke in '98

3 UK-Arkansas in the SEC tournament championship game that went into triple overtime with UK winning on Epps free throws.

Posted by SCWC (Member # 2464) on 07-20-2007, 05:58 PM:

For old time Kentucky fans, obviously March 22, 1975 when Kentucky beat IU 92-90 to end an undefeated season for the Hoosiers after having been humiliated by IU earlier that season by a score of 98-74 on December 7th (Robey, Phillips, Givens and Lee's freshmen years at UK). That was one of the best played games from start to finish I have ever seen in my many years of watching UK and college basketball in general. I guess it makes it very special if it involves your team. MY second choice is the UK Comeback over Duke in 98 and it is very hard for me to distinguish between those two games. To me, no ACC game ever compared to some of the UK rivalry games, but I am a UK fan, not an ACC fan like the people at ESPN, Sports Illustrated etc who determine such things.

[ 07-20-2007, 06:03 PM: Message edited by: SCWC ]

Posted by Wildtut (Member # 2225) on 07-20-2007, 08:32 PM:

scwc i still have a newspaper of that win i have it in plastic so it will keep on the frt page its says the kittens finaly grows up remember that game real well.

Posted by Bama Cat (Member # 153) on 07-20-2007, 09:08 PM:

Another one I forgot I attended in Rupp. It was a tournament game and I believe the last time alan Houston played against UK. It was a route and Houston couln't find the basket all night. don't remember the score but it was a romp.

Posted by Bluecat (Member # 516) on 07-21-2007, 12:20 AM:

I have so MANY GREAT memories of Kentucky basketball. Picking only three just does not do the topic any justice.

UK 92-90 over IU tops the list to go to the Final Four in 75', Has that really been 32-years ago?.

The great comeback at home against Kansas with Dwight "the blur" Anderson stealing the ball and
Kyle Macy winning it at the end was great.

The GREAT comeback against Mississippi State in the LAST GAME UK played in the Colesium stands out
with UK winning in overtime.

Kentucky blowing North Carolina out in Freedom Hall in 1974 after trailing midway in the first half by sixteen points.

The COMPLETE DEMOLISISHING of ul at Freedom Hall
when Rex Chapman was a freshman. I can still see him making all the threes from downtown. Some had to be from thirty feet. Crum could only stand and watch as Kentucky OWNED them by 85-51!.

That Loss sit the Louisville program back by ten years easily!.

The Mardi Gras Miracle has been mentioned.

The 1963 comeback against Duke in the Sugar Bowl
as Terry Mobley hit the game winner with three seconds left.

Number 1 Kentucky beating Number 2 Duke in the 1966 Final Four, GREAT GAME!. Duke had Two All-Americans, Bob Verga and Jack Marin, and a center named Lewis that wasn't bad either.

Kyle Macy beating Magic Johnson and Michigan State in the 1978 Mideast Final game. Robey sat
pick after pick and Macy did the rest.

The comeback in 78' vs Florida State, down by ten points at the half coach Hall benched three starters only to see the wildcats come storming back to win.

UK killing Florida State in the 1993 East region finals.

UK stopping Tim Duncan FLAT vs Wake Forest in the NCAA midwest final to go to the 1996 Final Four.

Kentucky STOPPING Alan Houston in the SEC tournament his LAST game at Tennessee by 101-40
in 1993. All-American Houston went scoreless in
his LAST game.

The unforgetables beating Shaq-led LSU by 100-95,
when we had no business doing that BUT we did!.

The Runts beating Cazzie Russell and Oliver Darden in the 1966 Ncaa to make the Final Four.

Great memories, nothing but GREAT memories!!!!!

I can't wait for the NEW GREAT MEMORIES to begin under our new GREAT coach, Billy G!!!!!!!!!!!!!

11-weeks and six days til the MADNESS BEGINS!!!!!

GO BIG BLUE!!!!!

[ 07-21-2007, 12:29 AM: Message edited by: Bluecat ]

Posted by SCWC (Member # 2464) on 07-21-2007, 03:25 AM:

Bluecat, your memory is a lot sharper than mine, you named a bunch of great UK games that has gotten lost in my memory bank.

Posted by Max Beasley (Member # 1320) on 07-21-2007, 06:08 AM:

Thanks bluecat, that was a fun remembrance. I think my 3 would be the comeback versus LSU...Dale Brown had no timeouts and couldn,t stop the bleedin. The loss to Duke by the unforgetables, and the win over IU..even with a hurt Scott May IU was "The Monster" that year and that was there only loss in a 2 year period. Mike Flynn, a former Ind. Mr. Ball came back to bite the guys in red. Also will always remember the unforgetables taking out Oneal, Roberts, Jackson and Co. from LSU....showed what heart could do.

Posted by UNC-HEELS (Member # 2523) on 07-21-2007, 02:43 PM:

I like the blowouts as well, but what I was looking for is what would be considered the great games that were a battle from tip to stern.

One big play after another, the games where the leads were never really established, the back and forth through out. Those were the type of games I was looking for. I know there have been many but over the years have forgotten some of those games.

As for comebacks, I still enjoy the 8 pts down with 17seconds (UNC vs DUKE 1974) no three point shot. Or any number of the UNC vs Duke wars.

But the games I am refering to are the WARS, like the 92 Duke vs UK or the 82 UNC vs Georgetown title game. Where the leads never really got to double digits, or at least not for long.

[ 07-21-2007, 02:51 PM: Message edited by: UNC-HEELS ]

Posted by FlaCatz (Member # 925) on 07-23-2007, 08:38 PM:

My Best 3 games ??????????????????

#1 98 UK-Duke
#2 92 UK-Duke(Laettner stomp and we got screwed)
#3 1973 my 9th grade year, Spin the Bottle with Vicke C, it had all the elements of the previous two; after a very dissapointing initial performance there was a great comeback and well, uh, hmmm, lets just say she didn't stomp on my chest!
[Wink]

Posted by UNC-HEELS (Member # 2523) on 07-24-2007, 01:04 PM:

FC,

LOL dude! Been there. But after a while we just threw the bottle away!

Posted by Trey Ball (Member # 332) on 07-24-2007, 01:31 PM:

quote:
Originally posted by UNC-HEELS:
Certainly there are games from which there were amazing comebacks, I.E. UNC vs FSU down 23 with approx 9 minutes left and many other schools like UK and Duke in the ncaas with Duke leading most of the game and losing its lead in the closing stages to lose to UK.

But I am looking at games I can remember from the opening tip to the close of the game that consisted of one big play after another by both teams.

Duke didn't lead that game from the opening tip by a large margin. That was a game of huge runs by both teams were the lead got to double digits on both sides and the other team would come back. UK just had the last spurt. Duke's 17 point lead lasted a whopping 2:00 minutes of playing time after Wayne Turner decided to abuse Wojo. By the 7 minute mark of he game Duke led by a whopping two points.

A great game that many forget was the very next game that UK played against Stanford a 86-85 OT victory.

P.S. B.J. Armstrong played for Iowa not Villanova. I believe the player you are thinking of is Dwayne McClain.

[ 07-24-2007, 02:12 PM: Message edited by: Trey Ball ]

Posted by UNC-HEELS (Member # 2523) on 07-24-2007, 03:09 PM:

Sorry Treyball,

The way I worded that makes it sound the way you took it. I combined two thoughts there, I know the UK Duke game was close. And I did not mean to refer to that particular game as being one of the comeback games. Sorry, I should have inserted an extra word or two on that thought.

More of the reference I was refering to was the UK vs Duke 92 and the UNC-Georgetown game of 82.
Thats what I meant, so sorry to mislead you on that thought!

Posted by MRB (Member # 1361) on 07-25-2007, 12:06 AM:

The championship year under Tubby coming back against the Dookies in the NCAA Tourneyis high on my list. Always will be.

Posted by catlogic15 (Member # 1227) on 07-25-2007, 08:42 AM:

For sure the '98 UK-Duke game really stands out. Someone mentioned the '75 UK-IU region final and that one was great, too. wasn't that the only game IU lost over two years? Oh, and I still have a T-shirt(smaller now) from '86 that says Big Brother 85, Little Brother 51.

Georgetown-'Nova championship was a great game to watch.

Posted by UNC-HEELS (Member # 2523) on 07-25-2007, 04:14 PM:

What about the IU vs Syracuse game for the NCAA title? was that in 87?