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

[HouWarrior]

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.

[Windyplayer]

2003 MU-Louisville game: Reece F'ing Gaines draining an ill-advised three in the BC to win the game.

[Cooby Snacks]

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.

[Litehouse]

Arkansas in '96 hit me really hard.

[MUfan12]

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.

[mugrad2006]

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.

[Nukem2]

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.

[bobnoxious]

Western Michigan in the NIT and Jerry Smiths 3 at the buzzer against Louisville

[HoopsMalone]

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.

[Golden Avalanche]

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.

[willie warrior]

~~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

[ChicosBailBonds]

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

[Spaniel with a Short Tail]

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. 

[mumike22]

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.

[4everwarriors]

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.

[Lennys Tap]

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.

[4everwarriors]

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.

[NCMUFan]

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

[HoopsMalone]

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.

[Lennys Tap]

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.

[HouWarrior]

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

[77ncaachamps]

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

[TallTitan34]

The Lopez Twins

[ATWizJr]

Two Tourney losses:

Loss to Rick Mount and Purdue
Loss to Miami of Ohio

[Warrior]

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...