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Title: Forgetting can be a gift--the MU basketball moments you'd most like to forget
Post by: HouWarrior on July 23, 2010, 04:08:37 PM
Dean Smith is losing his memory. http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/news/story?id=5388500

This is sad, for a great coach and good man. I will admit to my cruel thought, as to whether he'd like to forget a night for UNC, at the OMNI in 1977...a night that I will keep as my best memory of MU basketball...one I hope at my advancing age or w/alzheimers I do not ever forget.

I wish, however, I could forget some real painful BB moments.

I was at UH law, when Derek Whittenberg of NC State cut the heart out of our PHI SLAMMA JAMMA team', in the NCAA champ game, making Coach Valvano  famous, and preventing Guy V Lewis from Naismith hall of fame entry. (this was soothed a bit watching Clyde Drexler, and Hakeem win NBA, with Rockets,  in 1995)

MU BB moments I would love to forget, include:

74 finals loss
76 loss to Indiana
78 team failing to go further.
Oniels Sweet 16 team loss
2003 Final 4 loss
Creans departure/handling
Washington NCAA loss
Mizzou NCAA loss

Its the offseason--please share your MU moments which most hurt, or which you'd like to forget---forgetting can be a gift, especially if it stops a lingering hurt.
Title: Re: Forgetting can be a gift--the MU basketball moments you'd most like to forget
Post by: Windyplayer on July 23, 2010, 04:14:42 PM
2003 MU-Louisville game: Reece F'ing Gaines draining an ill-advised three in the BC to win the game.

Title: Re: Forgetting can be a gift--the MU basketball moments you'd most like to forget
Post by: Cooby Snacks on July 23, 2010, 04:19:43 PM
Just within the last few seasons...

It took me a while to get over the Stanford game in 2008.

The Michigan St. NCAA loss was painful, but for a different reason.

The North Dakota St. game...ouchers.
Title: Re: Forgetting can be a gift--the MU basketball moments you'd most like to forget
Post by: Litehouse on July 23, 2010, 04:20:34 PM
Arkansas in '96 hit me really hard.
Title: Re: Forgetting can be a gift--the MU basketball moments you'd most like to forget
Post by: MUfan12 on July 23, 2010, 04:33:06 PM
The toughest I've experienced in chronological order-

-Duke loss in 94. Every freaking call against MU. They would have beaten Purdue as well.

-End of the NIT Final against Virginia Tech. Seems small time now, but that was a fun run that ended cruelly.

-The Gaines shot in 03. Seated in the end zone with all the Red Pleather. Convinced that was a circle of hell.

-Kansas. This one has been basically purged from the memory banks, thank God.

-Stanford loss. This one was tougher than Mizzou and Washington for me, because MU actually had a full deck. So many chances to win that game. Ultimately undone by the inability to adjust defensively. TC let Stanford play "tall kid in gym class" and throw it over the top every single time.
Title: Re: Forgetting can be a gift--the MU basketball moments you'd most like to forget
Post by: mugrad2006 on July 23, 2010, 04:36:28 PM
1/26/2005 loss to Louisville 99-52.  Diener had gone down, and we couldn't even get the ball across half court.

Won't forget that one.
Title: Re: Forgetting can be a gift--the MU basketball moments you'd most like to forget
Post by: Nukem2 on July 23, 2010, 04:43:00 PM
Don't know that I'd want to "forget" any of these moments.  Remember, these are all "big" games.  Rather remember that we wuz actually in those games with opportunities.  Better than not being in those situations.
Title: Re: Forgetting can be a gift--the MU basketball moments you'd most like to forget
Post by: bobnoxious on July 23, 2010, 04:43:21 PM
Western Michigan in the NIT and Jerry Smiths 3 at the buzzer against Louisville
Title: Re: Forgetting can be a gift--the MU basketball moments you'd most like to forget
Post by: HoopsMalone on July 23, 2010, 04:51:12 PM
Dominic James' foul on the three point shooter at the end of the Georgetown game in 2008.

Jerry Smith's buzzerbeater against Louisville in 2007.

D-James going down against UConn when MU was about to make a run in the conference in 2009.

This past year's loss to DePaul.
Title: Re: Forgetting can be a gift--the MU basketball moments you'd most like to forget
Post by: Golden Avalanche on July 23, 2010, 04:52:52 PM
One thing we need to forget as a program are the fucking heartbreaking losses in March. Enough with Stanford. Enough with Missouri. Enough with Washington.

We need to learn how to win in late March.


P.S. I'd like to forget DJ's injury against UConn. That was a really, really good time that was robbed of finding out what its destiny held.
Title: Re: Forgetting can be a gift--the MU basketball moments you'd most like to forget
Post by: willie warrior on July 23, 2010, 04:55:12 PM
~~Al McGuire's passing

~~The Kansas debacle in the 2003 Final 4

~~The Michigan State NCAA game that we had about 9 points in the first half

~~Any loss to Notre Dame and we have had plenty
Title: Re: Forgetting can be a gift--the MU basketball moments you'd most like to forget
Post by: ChicosBailBonds on July 23, 2010, 04:55:19 PM



Tyrone Baldwin over and back against Wisconsin
Polonowski scoring for the other team...ON PURPOSE
DJ breaking his leg
The Dukiet years
Amoroso vs Louisville lane violation
DePaul 2009
Al's T against NC State

Title: Re: Forgetting can be a gift--the MU basketball moments you'd most like to forget
Post by: Spaniel with a Short Tail on July 23, 2010, 05:17:50 PM
You're being quite kind to call what Amoroso did a "lane violation" but that's some good recall.  I HAD purged that from my memory...until now.  :P
Title: Re: Forgetting can be a gift--the MU basketball moments you'd most like to forget
Post by: mumike22 on July 23, 2010, 05:42:11 PM
How about the big east tourney game against nova? Whether conference tourney games matter or not...we lost to a final 4 team on a rim bouncing shot.

Also - don't remember the year but when we lost @ wisc and scott merritt decided to take matters into his own hands at the top of the key in the final seconds.
Title: Re: Forgetting can be a gift--the MU basketball moments you'd most like to forge
Post by: 4everwarriors on July 23, 2010, 06:11:57 PM
Meminger's disqualifying offensive foul vs. tOSU in the Mideast Regional at Athens, GA.

Whitehead's swinging elbow foul vs. Miami of Ohio in the Tourney.

and

anything Crean related from the beginning of the 2003 FF game vs. Kansas to the present and beyond.
Title: Re: Forgetting can be a gift--the MU basketball moments you'd most like to forget
Post by: Lennys Tap on July 23, 2010, 07:02:02 PM
Ric Cobb's missed free throw at the end of regulation and Rick Mount's 25 footer at the end of overtime in the regional finals in Madison in '69. Would have been Al's (and MU's) first final four.
Title: Re: Forgetting can be a gift--the MU basketball moments you'd most like to forge
Post by: 4everwarriors on July 23, 2010, 07:44:14 PM
Quote from: Lennys Tap on July 23, 2010, 07:02:02 PM
Ric Cobb's missed free throw at the end of regulation and Rick Mount's 25 footer at the end of overtime in the regional finals in Madison in '69. Would have been Al's (and MU's) first final four.


Man, listened to that game on the old Victrola. I remember it today like it was yesterday. UW's Fieldhouse was a fire disaster waiting to happen. Would've curtains if your seat was on the 3rd level.
Title: Re: Forgetting can be a gift--the MU basketball moments you'd most like to forget
Post by: NCMUFan on July 23, 2010, 08:09:30 PM
Quote from: windyplayer on July 23, 2010, 04:14:42 PM
2003 MU-Louisville game: Reece F'ing Gaines draining an ill-advised three in the BC to win the game.


The followup game in Louisville when Marquette was down like 18 at half time more than made up for it.  It was like Wade and company started firing on all cylinders and no one was stopping that steam roller.

http://www.espn.go.com/ncb/recap?id=230580097
Title: Re: Forgetting can be a gift--the MU basketball moments you'd most like to forget
Post by: HoopsMalone on July 23, 2010, 08:16:58 PM
Here is one that was almost as tough as many of these in the moment:  J-May quitting the team

J-May leaving, however, has faded into distant memory and no longer really concerns anyone.
Title: Re: Forgetting can be a gift--the MU basketball moments you'd most like to forge
Post by: Lennys Tap on July 23, 2010, 09:06:20 PM
Quote from: 4everwarriors on July 23, 2010, 07:44:14 PM

Man, listened to that game on the old Victrola. I remember it today like it was yesterday. UW's Fieldhouse was a fire disaster waiting to happen. Would've curtains if your seat was on the 3rd level.

MU had spanked Adolph Rupp and Kentucky in the semis on Thursday. We were prepared to take over a Madison bar after the game. Instead we got an eighty mile car ride back to Milwaukee during which very little (other than an occasional s**t, f**k, c*********r or m**********r) was said. That one still hurts.
Title: Re: Forgetting can be a gift--the MU basketball moments you'd most like to forget
Post by: HouWarrior on July 23, 2010, 09:23:03 PM
Quote from: Lennys Tap on July 23, 2010, 07:02:02 PM
Ric Cobb's missed free throw at the end of regulation and Rick Mount's 25 footer at the end of overtime in the regional finals in Madison in '69. Would have been Al's (and MU's) first final four.
Good one. 69 team was worthy.
Rick Mount/Jon McGlocklin---incredible pure jump shooters.
Was it the next year--70 we went NIT to smoke pistol pete--good memory--but a what ifending, ie, ....what if we had gone instead to ncaas















mount
Title: Re: Forgetting can be a gift--the MU basketball moments you'd most like to forget
Post by: 77ncaachamps on July 23, 2010, 09:28:51 PM
Most if not all have been mentioned:

- all Louisville buzzer beater losses
- NIT and the "phantom" foul vs Faisal
- Stanford and Washington....ugh....hard to get those out since I was t the games
- Final Four drubbing. MU alums nationwide are ecstatic and form Final Four viewing parties only to witness a St. VALENTINE's day massacre
- loss to nova in the BE tourny
- loss to Felix and Alabama in the NCAAs
- (nit exceutiating but still one I'd like to forget) losing AT Santa Clara when we were ranked. The year before we beat a ranked Steve Nash led SCU trash at the Mecca
Title: Re: Forgetting can be a gift--the MU basketball moments you'd most like to forge
Post by: TallTitan34 on July 23, 2010, 09:33:40 PM
The Lopez Twins
Title: Re: Forgetting can be a gift--the MU basketball moments you'd most like to forget
Post by: ATWizJr on July 23, 2010, 11:30:59 PM
Two Tourney losses:

Loss to Rick Mount and Purdue
Loss to Miami of Ohio
Title: Re: Forgetting can be a gift--the MU basketball moments you'd most like to forget
Post by: Warrior on July 24, 2010, 01:37:49 AM
Everything mentioned so far was awful, except Maymon quitting the team (good riddance). The worst for me was the 2003 Final 4 loss to Kansas. The Stanford loss in the Tourney a couple years ago is right up there. We are due for some better luck in late March, that's for sure...
Title: Re: Forgetting can be a gift--the MU basketball moments you'd most like to forget
Post by: MUSF on July 24, 2010, 02:01:03 AM
Mike Deane's final season.

Mike Bargen was our best athlete.  How far we have come.
Title: Re: Forgetting can be a gift--the MU basketball moments you'd most like to forget
Post by: PE8983 on July 24, 2010, 06:43:17 AM
1986 loss to #1 North Carolina at home after holding a big lead late in the game.
Title: Re: Forgetting can be a gift--the MU basketball moments you'd most like to forget
Post by: willie warrior on July 24, 2010, 07:00:16 AM
Quote from: PE8983 on July 24, 2010, 06:43:17 AM
1986 loss to #1 North Carolina at home after holding a big lead late in the game.
I remember that game--we were at it. Thought we had it only to blow it in last few minutes. Joe Wolf was on that carolina team--wanted to whup them so bad. What a bleeping disappointment.

I do recall that the atmosphere was electric---a hell of an atmosphere for a college basketball game.
Title: Re: Forgetting can be a gift--the MU basketball moments you'd most like to forget
Post by: Avenue Commons on July 24, 2010, 07:25:40 AM
94 Duke game
96 Arkansas

2002 Tulsa

Last 4 NCAA tourney exit games.
Title: Re: Forgetting can be a gift--the MU basketball moments you'd most like to forget
Post by: MUDPT on July 24, 2010, 07:40:58 AM
The start of the '08 conference road season:  West Virgina, UConn, and Louisville.  Thought we had a chance to win all three and got smoked in all of them.  And also I will add the Pitt game from the BET semis when we got Higginsed, especially Jerel.
Title: Re: Forgetting can be a gift--the MU basketball moments you'd most like to forget
Post by: QPSS70 on July 24, 2010, 08:41:42 AM

Jim Chones turning pro in the middle of the 71-72 season when we were a top 5 team.

The Bob Dukiet era - including losing to Austin Peay at the Bradlley Center and other "buy" game losses.


Title: Re: Forgetting can be a gift--the MU basketball moments you'd most like to forget
Post by: Goose on July 24, 2010, 08:48:46 AM
Indiana in 76
Miami Ohio in 78
Ohio State when Dean followed out
Anytime during Dukiet Era
When Joe Wolf announced NC
The day Al announced he was going to retire in Dec '76 (still not over that day)
Title: Re: Forgetting can be a gift--the MU basketball moments you'd most like to forget
Post by: Nukem2 on July 24, 2010, 09:33:55 AM
Quote from: Goose on July 24, 2010, 08:48:46 AM
Indiana in 76
Miami Ohio in 78
Ohio State when Dean followed out
Anytime during Dukiet Era
When Joe Wolf announced NC
The day Al announced he was going to retire in Dec '76 (still not over that day)
I was driving back from LaCrosse listening to the radio that December day when the announcement came that Al had announced his retirement.  That was a long ride home.... :(
Title: Re: Forgetting can be a gift--the MU basketball moments you'd most like to forget
Post by: tower912 on July 24, 2010, 09:35:16 AM
Quote from: willie warrior on July 24, 2010, 07:00:16 AM
I remember that game--we were at it. Thought we had it only to blow it in last few minutes. Joe Wolf was on that carolina team--wanted to whup them so bad. What a bleeping disappointment.

I do recall that the atmosphere was electric---a hell of an atmosphere for a college basketball game.

At that game, too.   I wish our fans hadn't thrown the pennies at the UNC guard.  Pop Sims greatest game.   Huge heartbreak

Any of the close ND losses.   David Rivers....I can still see him rolling on the floor after hitting that shot.
The Louisville game and the WMU NIT game without Diener.

Indiana NIT game on St Patrick's day, 1985....finishing with 4 players including the legendary Willie Hines on the floor because everybody else fouled out.  
Title: Re: Forgetting can be a gift--the MU basketball moments you'd most like to forget
Post by: willie warrior on July 24, 2010, 09:58:13 AM
That Indiana game was great--we did only have 4 guys on the floor at the end.

Didn't that go into about double OT?

I remember that after the game was done, Knight was on the PA system praising Majerus and the team for their guts. Classy act by Knight (mixed in with a number of classless ones throughout the years)
Title: Re: Forgetting can be a gift--the MU basketball moments you'd most like to forget
Post by: brewcity77 on July 24, 2010, 10:11:44 AM
-- The Tulsa loss, ugh.
-- The Reece Gaines Louisville game at the BC. Was there that night, and that was a crushing loss.
-- Final Four loss to Kansas, went to the Annex for that, and by halftime, you could have heard a pindrop, simply heartbreaking.
-- Wade declaring early for the draft. We all knew it was coming, but I'd have loved him to be back for one more run at it during my senior year (or 2...he still had 2 years of eligibility).
-- When Dominic got injured against UConn. My roommate and I were watching the game, and when he went down I really felt like we went from being a Final Four contender to just another tourney team. Our results proved that.
-- Might sound odd, but the FSU and NC State losses this past year. We went from having sizable leads to losing both games, at the time I felt like we were on the verge of breaking into the top 25 but never quite got there.
-- The three losses to start this Big East season, by the end of it my entire feeling was "Oh jeez, not again".
-- Stanford, Missouri, Washington.
Title: Re: Forgetting can be a gift--the MU basketball moments you'd most like to forget
Post by: dgies9156 on July 24, 2010, 10:13:38 AM
OK, now that I have an appointment with my psychiatrist to deal with this trauma, here's some thoughts on the most forgettable moments in MU basketball history:

1) The Miami of Ohio nightmare -- That game featured a poised, senior Marquette team that lost it. If MU played Miami 100 times, they'd win 99.5 of them. This game was a heads-up that Hank wasn't going to work as a head coach. The game was a pure case of a coach's and a senior leadership that was unable to settle a team down.
2) Al's retirement. Al was and honestly, still is Marquette basketball. He's like Hank Aaron to the Braves or Stan Musial to the Cardinals. Someday maybe Buzz will be on the same plain with Al, but he will never replace Al.
3) Changing our Name -- Once a Warrior, always a Warrior. This gold and Golden Eagle crap is, well crap. It has no connection to who we are. We're Warriors, like the folks that assisted Father Marquette in his explorations.
4) Anything to do with Bob Dukiet or Mike Deane -- This goes without saying.
5) Ric Cobb's Missed Ft -- That still hurts.
6) The "double technicals" -- Damnation Al, would you please sit down????? We probably would not have won -- David Thompson was incredible, but really, Al, did you have to????


Title: Re: Forgetting can be a gift--the MU basketball moments you'd most like to forget
Post by: dgies9156 on July 24, 2010, 10:17:55 AM
How could I have missed the Chones thing? Oh my, age is setting in. That hurt because with what Chones had left and what was coming, Marquette had at least one and maybe two more legitimate national championship shots.

Maurice Lucas leaving before 1974-1975 also hurt big time, as he would have gotten us to the sweet 16 that year. We made the NCAA that year, but didn't last long without Maurice. He was grrreeeaaattttt!
Title: Re: Forgetting can be a gift--the MU basketball moments you'd most like to forget
Post by: brewcity77 on July 24, 2010, 10:25:25 AM
Didn't even think of the name change fiasco. I think the Gold crap was worse for me. Golden Eagles just felt like an extension of what was going on throughout sports, I didn't like the change, but everyone was doing it so it made a bit of sense. But the ambush with Gold (seriously?), then putting it to a vote with a bunch of jabroni type names and leaving out the heavyweight Warriors...still leaves a sour taste.
Title: Re: Forgetting can be a gift--the MU basketball moments you'd most like to forget
Post by: tower912 on July 24, 2010, 12:12:00 PM
Quote from: willie warrior on July 24, 2010, 09:58:13 AM
That Indiana game was great--we did only have 4 guys on the floor at the end.

Didn't that go into about double OT?

I remember that after the game was done, Knight was on the PA system praising Majerus and the team for their guts. Classy act by Knight (mixed in with a number of classless ones throughout the years)

Your memory is accurate as far as this game goes.   Knight was classy in victory, everybody freakin fouled out.     
Title: Re: Forgetting can be a gift--the MU basketball moments you'd most like to forget
Post by: Ari Gold on July 24, 2010, 12:20:41 PM
James' injury against UConn... devastating.
The Lopez Brothers
Dom fouling on the 3point attempt
Jerry Fucking Smith's homecoming.
DePaul last year (I was at that game... bad memories on and off the court)
Title: Re: Forgetting can be a gift--the MU basketball moments you'd most like to forget
Post by: Sheriff on July 24, 2010, 12:27:04 PM
D Wade's missed layup at the buzzer against Tulsa in first round of 2002 NCAA tourney in St. Louis.
Title: Re: Forgetting can be a gift--the MU basketball moments you'd most like to forget
Post by: Nukem2 on July 24, 2010, 01:07:38 PM
Other than losses to Maine, South Alabama and NDSU,, the most forgettable moment in MU BB history was Amoroso's ridiculous extended foul in the lane against Louisville (uggghhhh).  As far as those NCAA losses, they all hurt; but, we were there nonetheless.
Title: Re: Forgetting can be a gift--the MU basketball moments you'd most like to forget
Post by: dgies9156 on July 24, 2010, 01:44:29 PM
Other than losses to Maine, South Alabama and NDSU,, the most forgettable moment in MU BB history was Amoroso's ridiculous extended foul in the lane against Louisville (uggghhhh).  As far as those NCAA losses, they all hurt; but, we were there nonetheless.


Nukem: Many of us come from a day when Marquette's "being there" was no big deal. It was what you did once you got there that mattered. Getting an invite to the dance is and will continue to be no big deal... it's coming home with the prettiest girl that really matters!

We did that once, in 1977. There are those of us my age and a bit older who think that the Elite 8 and Final Four is, well, a birthright of being a Warrior. That we would be among the best teams in the country.
Title: Re: Forgetting can be a gift--the MU basketball moments you'd most like to forget
Post by: 77ncaachamps on July 24, 2010, 02:33:58 PM
Hard to forget them when some Louisville douche has immortalized them on YouTube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5PH6RowI1A
Title: Re: Forgetting can be a gift--the MU basketball moments you'd most like to forget
Post by: Buchec18 on July 24, 2010, 07:19:55 PM
- Stanford loss in NCAA Tourney
- Mizzou loss with the Lazar over the line (just disappointing as McNeal had a clear path and a decent shot at buzzer)
- Kansas loss in 2003 Final Four (I know we were the underdog, but by god, losing by 30 points?)
- Losing to Duke in the Maui tourney a few years back (Again, were the underdog... but we had so many opportunities, I know you cannot blame it on the refs, but they had a hand in it as well)
- Crean and Treason (Crean leaving for IU)
- I think it was Diener's last year if I'm not mistaken... made it only to the NIT only to get smashed by Central Michigan at the BC
- All those damn Louisville buzzer beaters... effin Reece Gain's I still cannot get that outta my head
- The Florida State loss this year... such a big lead only to lose on a buzzer beater
Title: Re: Forgetting can be a gift--the MU basketball moments you'd most like to forge
Post by: mikem91288 on July 25, 2010, 01:32:15 AM
DJ fouling Wallace while shooting the 3. Still get pissed about that.

The Mizzou loss two years ago .
Title: Re: Forgetting can be a gift--the MU basketball moments you'd most like to forget
Post by: Dr. Blackheart on July 25, 2010, 07:46:16 AM
>>The Crean PG Experiment
>>DJ's injury
>>Jay Whitehead's elbow
>>The bewilderment of the 2010 DePaul game
>>Watching Majerus fritter away the UNC game
>>The apathy of the Dukiet years
>>Marotta vs. Rivers drama
>>KO-never wanting to be here
>>TC-you need another raise, really?
>>Anything Burr, Higgins, Hightower

The close losses to good teams are tough, but it is part of the game.  If we were not good, they would not have hurt...so I have solace in those. 
Title: Re: Forgetting can be a gift--the MU basketball moments you'd most like to forge
Post by: MedicineHatSpanker on July 25, 2010, 05:50:07 PM
Quote from: Lennys Tap on July 23, 2010, 09:06:20 PM
MU had spanked Adolph Rupp and Kentucky in the semis on Thursday. We were prepared to take over a Madison bar after the game. Instead we got an eighty mile car ride back to Milwaukee during which very little (other than an occasional s**t, f**k, c*********r or m**********r) was said. That one still hurts.

You eat with that mouth, Lenny?? ;)
Title: Re: Forgetting can be a gift--the MU basketball moments you'd most like to forge
Post by: Lennys Tap on July 25, 2010, 09:10:46 PM
Quote from: MedicineHatSpanker on July 25, 2010, 05:50:07 PM
You eat with that mouth, Lenny?? ;)

At that point in my life most of my nourishment was of the liquid variety.
Title: Re: Forgetting can be a gift--the MU basketball moments you'd most like to forget
Post by: drewm88 on July 26, 2010, 01:43:22 AM
Mine have all been mentioned already

1. Jon Wallace. Don't know why, but this still hurts the most. I can still picture him at the line and hear the crowd. The BC was shaking it was so damn loud. I was certain he was missing one of those.
2. Brook Lopez
3. MSU 07
4. Jerry Smith
5. Kansas 03
Title: Re: Forgetting can be a gift--the MU basketball moments you'd most like to forget
Post by: ohiomarqfan on July 26, 2010, 08:40:24 AM
Grew up in the 80's in Cincinnati so watched them live more than on TV as a kid(games at X, Dayton and an NIT win at UC).
1)Watched the 86 home loss to UNC on TV...very painful.
2)Watched us in person lose at X in 89 (Tony Smith, Trevor Powell), almost beat a good X team.
3)Duke loss in 94 NCAA's. Couldn't see most of the 1st half due to a Clinton press conference...up at halftime then seeing McIlvaine getting dunked on by G Hill.
4)Loss at Cincinnati in 02...Cincy turned out to be a #1 seed that year and I thought we were just as good or better...had already beat them at home, were up 4 or 5 late then a Logan shove on Henry to get on open 3 kept them in it, then a missed 1&1 by us then a last second shot by some big UC lug...Conf tournament in Cincy so we lose again in title and next thing you know we are a 5 seed (should have been a 3) and draw Tulsa.
5)Diener injury...thinking about it now still gives me a knot in my stomach.
6)Stanford loss
7)at WV 2010...of all the games we lost that we shouldn't have lost over the years, this was the game that WE SHOULD NOT HAVE LOST.
Title: Re: Forgetting can be a gift--the MU basketball moments you'd most like to forge
Post by: groove on July 26, 2010, 08:56:56 AM
Quote from: TallTitan34 on July 23, 2010, 09:33:40 PM
The Lopez Twins

Their mom
Title: Re: Forgetting can be a gift--the MU basketball moments you'd most like to forget
Post by: PuertoRicanNightmare on July 26, 2010, 09:32:07 AM
When our spanking new mascot took the court on roller skates beneath an absolute deafening shower of boos. I've never been more embarrassed for Marquette.

Title: Re: Forgetting can be a gift--the MU basketball moments you'd most like to forget
Post by: PE8983 on July 26, 2010, 09:43:46 AM
That UNC guard was Kenny "Penny" Smith...  Not condoning the behavior though of throwing coins on the floor.  MU had a string of blowing late leads for several years, and the fans had had enough.  Pops Sims had a nice game but several bonehead plays down the stretch.  One was from just inbounding the ball on the sideline with no pressure and passed it right to a UNC player for a layup.  Majerus called TO's to calm the players down, but we just choked it away.  Majerus was designated "player of the game" by CBS or whoever broadcast it.  Only time I ever remember seeing a coach get that accomplishment.

The 1985 IU game with four MU players left on the floor in OT was a joke.  They called a BS foul at the buzzer in regulation that sent the Blob (Uwe Blab) to the line where he made two free throws to sent to OT.  Pretty obvious they wanted Bobby in NY City.  That was a long drive back to Milwaukee that night.
Title: Re: Forgetting can be a gift--the MU basketball moments you'd most like to forge
Post by: mu-rara on July 26, 2010, 10:04:35 AM
Quote from: 4everwarriors on July 23, 2010, 06:11:57 PM
Meminger's disqualifying offensive foul vs. tOSU in the Mideast Regional at Athens, GA.

Whitehead's "alleged" swinging elbow foul vs. Miami of Ohio in the Tourney.

and

anything Crean related from the beginning of the 2003 FF game vs. Kansas to the present and beyond.

Loss to Miami of Ohio.  We were defending champs and returned 4 of 5 starters.
Title: Re: Forgetting can be a gift--the MU basketball moments you'd most like to forge
Post by: Lennys Tap on July 26, 2010, 10:43:25 AM
Quote from: mu-rara on July 26, 2010, 10:04:35 AM
Loss to Miami of Ohio.  We were defending champs and returned 4 of 5 starters.

Game wasn't on tv in Chicago so I drove up to Beertown to watch it with my brother-in-law. Took all of the self control I could muster to not throw my Budweiser bottle through his tv set. The ref that tossed Whitehead and T'd up Hank (Peter Pavia) has been public enemy #1 on my list ever since.
Title: Re: Forgetting can be a gift--the MU basketball moments you'd most like to forget
Post by: dgies9156 on July 26, 2010, 10:55:06 AM
Lenny... I was no great fan of Peter Pavia either, but the Miami of Ohio game was a shot over the bow that something was very wrong with the team. The fact that Hank got a technical (probably the only one he ever got) and the inability to settle down the Defending National Champions did not bode well for what was to come.

Hank's a wonderful man and great assistant. But he was our Bill Guthridge (Dean Smith's Number 1 assistant for years who became head coach when Dean retired). North Carolina knew quickly Bill Guthridge wasn't gonna work and cut their losses. Wish we had been so fortunate.

That's the past and I'm glad we're where we are at now though.
Title: Re: Forgetting can be a gift--the MU basketball moments you'd most like to forget
Post by: MUBurrow on July 26, 2010, 11:09:15 AM
this certainly isnt the worst moment or one that reflects the heartbreak of some of the others mentioned, but a home game in i think 2007 is certainly one of my most forgettable.

My friends and I remember it as the zooperstar game, and I want to say it vs Pitt or Uconn.  It was a really close and hardfought game, and we had been behind all of the first half and good chunk of the second.  Then we went on a classic Big 3 type of run and took a lead with under ten to play.  With the place going wild, the BC brings out the zooperstars for the first time during the visiting team's stop-the-momentum style timeout. 

You know, the zooperstars, those monstrous inflatable animal costumes that bump around and... oh hell, here they are:
http://www.zooperstars.com/ (http://www.zooperstars.com/)

Anyway, those things start getting waaayyyyy too close to our huddle and bumping into our players and then take far too long, outlasting the TV timeout to actually delay the restart of the game.  I still remember the look on Jerel's face, like 'what the hell are these things and what are they doing?'  The whole scene was surreal, and the attention mongers were impossible to ignore.

We then come out of the timeout totally flat, give up the lead and end up anticlimactically losing the game.  The details have become a little more blurry than I'd like over the past couple years, but I remain convinced the GD zooperstars cost us that game.
Title: Re: Forgetting can be a gift--the MU basketball moments you'd most like to forget
Post by: g0lden3agle on July 26, 2010, 11:25:32 AM
Quote from: MUBurrow on July 26, 2010, 11:09:15 AM

You know, the zooperstars, those monstrous inflatable animal costumes that bump around and... oh hell, here they are:
http://www.zooperstars.com/ (http://www.zooperstars.com/)


Clicking on that link is like taking a time warp to what the internet was 8 years ago.
Title: Re: Forgetting can be a gift--the MU basketball moments you'd most like to forget
Post by: MUfan12 on July 26, 2010, 11:26:26 AM
Was that the Syracuse game? Where it was tied at the under 4, and SU went on a 15-3 run to end it?

That game was brutal.
Title: Re: Forgetting can be a gift--the MU basketball moments you'd most like to forget
Post by: reinko on July 26, 2010, 11:36:46 AM
Quote from: g0lden3agle on July 26, 2010, 11:25:32 AM
Clicking on that link is like taking a time warp to what the internet was 8 years ago.

threadjack alert:  Good time waster about early websites:  https://www.msu.edu/~karjalae/internet96.htm

Title: Re: Forgetting can be a gift--the MU basketball moments you'd most like to forget
Post by: shiloh26 on July 28, 2010, 10:22:33 AM
Quote from: MUBurrow on July 26, 2010, 11:09:15 AM
this certainly isnt the worst moment or one that reflects the heartbreak of some of the others mentioned, but a home game in i think 2007 is certainly one of my most forgettable.

My friends and I remember it as the zooperstar game, and I want to say it vs Pitt or Uconn.  It was a really close and hardfought game, and we had been behind all of the first half and good chunk of the second.  Then we went on a classic Big 3 type of run and took a lead with under ten to play.  With the place going wild, the BC brings out the zooperstars for the first time during the visiting team's stop-the-momentum style timeout. 

You know, the zooperstars, those monstrous inflatable animal costumes that bump around and... oh hell, here they are:
http://www.zooperstars.com/ (http://www.zooperstars.com/)

Anyway, those things start getting waaayyyyy too close to our huddle and bumping into our players and then take far too long, outlasting the TV timeout to actually delay the restart of the game.  I still remember the look on Jerel's face, like 'what the hell are these things and what are they doing?'  The whole scene was surreal, and the attention mongers were impossible to ignore.

We then come out of the timeout totally flat, give up the lead and end up anticlimactically losing the game.  The details have become a little more blurry than I'd like over the past couple years, but I remain convinced the GD zooperstars cost us that game.

It was against #10 Georgetown.  The game went into overtime and there was that horrible foul called on DJ when he jumped out to contest a three pointer.  I'll never forget that GD clam spitting silly string at our huddle on a timeout with, like, 3 minutes left.  We lost the lead, went into OT and lost. 
Title: Re: Forgetting can be a gift--the MU basketball moments you'd most like to forget
Post by: MUBurrow on July 28, 2010, 10:50:10 AM
Quote from: shiloh26 on July 28, 2010, 10:22:33 AM
It was against #10 Georgetown.  The game went into overtime and there was that horrible foul called on DJ when he jumped out to contest a three pointer.  I'll never forget that GD clam spitting silly string at our huddle on a timeout with, like, 3 minutes left.  We lost the lead, went into OT and lost. 

Now when you say GD clam, do mean Roger Clamens or Clammy Sosa?

(http://www.zooperstars.com/Characters/thumbnails/Roger_Clamens.jpg)(http://www.4daysrest.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Clammy_Sosa.jpg)

Second thought, why are clams so big on steroids?
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