Forgetting can be a gift--the MU basketball moments you'd most like to forget

[drewm88]

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

[ohiomarqfan]

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.

[groove]

The Lopez Twins

Their mom

[PuertoRicanNightmare]

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.

[PE8983]

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.

[mu-rara]

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.

[Lennys Tap]

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.

[dgies9156]

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.

[MUBurrow]

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/

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.

[g0lden3agle]

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

Clicking on that link is like taking a time warp to what the internet was 8 years ago.

[MUfan12]

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.

[reinko]

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

[shiloh26]

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/

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. 

[MUBurrow]

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?



Second thought, why are clams so big on steroids?