HoyaSAXA
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Post by HoyaSAXA on Jan 6, 2005 22:03:54 GMT -5
Well right now i only got one that i remember forever, the mcnamara shot, syracuse vs. Gtown, gtown at home, looks like were goin to OT, and GERRY HITS A HALF COURT THREE! NO, no, no that game versus UVA (NIT GAME) where it was like 4 OTS and suggs (i think thats his name) had to get an IV cuz it was so hot in the UVA arena (it is, because its soo flippin small, and that backup player hit the game winner, and evrybody jumped on him, oh that was good stuff. msotof the players were almost dead on the bench, IVs evrywhere, interesting. Braswell stayed in the whole time though...
EDIT- L.SCRUGGS that was his namee, forgot his first name somthin with an L or T, what a cool skinny player...
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lichoya68
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Post by lichoya68 on Jan 6, 2005 23:25:51 GMT -5
IT WAS LEE SCRUGGS BUTYOU FORGOT SOME GAMES LIKE THE 82 national championship game patrick blocked or goaltended a million shots in the beginning.. and those teams had how many nba guys and the rookie guard a jordan somebody hit the shot that beat us and freddie threw the pass to james we coulda won but it was one of the best basketbell game ever anywhere of all time and then ther was the kentucky game in the ncaas w\here we destroyed them in the second half one of the best halfs played byy any college team in history go hoyas then there was villanova we killed them two or three times during the season and they shoot the lights out and take away patricks title nine outa ten times we beat them but not that nite some really great games not just for gu but for all of college bball go hoyas we are georgetwon and we are back
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lichoya68
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Post by lichoya68 on Jan 6, 2005 23:28:03 GMT -5
ps dont forget the hoyas winning the first big east championship in providence we beat louie and bowie remember a great win and game go hoyas we are back
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JimmyHoya
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Post by JimmyHoya on Jan 7, 2005 0:20:48 GMT -5
Personal favorites... GU/ND in 4OT is still the greatest game I've ever attended live, no matter how terribley it was played. GU/UConn '96 Big East tourney championship game was awesome, despite that loss as well. Damn that Ray Allen and I STILL can't believe Iverson didn't get fouled on the last play. GU/Hall in 2001 when we slapped highly (over) rated Seton Hall around at home the first time (and the second time in NJ for that matter) was an awesome game as well. Man was I pumped after those. Like this past week Pitt upset pumped. G'town "closing" the old Syracuse fieldhouse was pure greatness as well.
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Post by inigo on Jan 7, 2005 2:50:57 GMT -5
Yes to UVA in the NIT, and UNC in '82, and Kentucky in '84, and a personal favorite, the West Regional in '82 when we played Oregon State, already declared national champion by the NY Times computer. On their first possession they threw a simple pass to the top of the key and Patrick stole it, passed it to Sleepy, who waited for Patrick, lobbed it to him for a slam backward over his head. Things got worse. An assistant coach for Oregon State asked the head coach what they were going to do. He replied, "We're not ready to play these guys. They're in a different defense every time we get the ball."
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HoyaFanNY
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Post by HoyaFanNY on Jan 7, 2005 7:22:36 GMT -5
sorry, no losses listed here. not in any particular order.
- beating duke in december 1990 (big east/acc challange). mourning had a monster game. he and deek dominated and the freshman (brown, harrison, churchwell, morgan, and even juco brian kelly) played with the pukies. unfortunately, zo got hurt and the season went in the crapper. if churchwell made that layup late against unlv, i think we had them beat. - a 65-52 win over pitt in 1987. we played like crap the first half and trailed at half. going into halftime, that fat pig rod brookin told reggie 'nice game'. reggie told the boys and we blitzed them the 2nd half. - smitty going coast to coast in the dome in '88 over seikaly for the upset win. i was at the top of the dome celebrating. - the championship win against houston (obvious) - beating su in the big east final in 84. the infamous hawkins/graham brawl. i still laugh thinking of jimmy b crying and throwing a chair after the game. frigging baby! - a total beatdown we gave pitt in the 89 BET. we scored something like 20 straight points in the first half and Edited pounded the punks. shorter, martin, porter, mathews, and miller could never beat us. - any win over su and uconn
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Post by sweetney50 on Jan 7, 2005 8:28:03 GMT -5
Good job fellas. This thread brings back a lot of memories. I just add the regular season game at the Dome when Charles Smith drove the length of the court with about 6 seconds left and we were down by 1. He hit that floating layup right at the buzzer and shut up the Dome real quick. Also, a little more recent - Nat Burton a few years ago in the NCAA'S beating Arkansas at the buzzer.
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Post by JohnJacquesLayup on Jan 7, 2005 9:02:42 GMT -5
"Also, a little more recent - Nat Burton a few years ago in the NCAA'S beating Arkansas at the buzzer."
I was wondering when this game would be mentioned. And let's not forget that we beat the obvious Cinderella (Hampton?) team in our second game of that tourney.
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Post by ColumbiaHeightsHoya on Jan 7, 2005 9:09:26 GMT -5
In Indy in the NCAA's versus Xavier with Mutombo & Mourning and we got smacked. At the time, I was not looking at colleges and for some reason hated G'town (I never like the favorites). To see Xavier pull that off was a lot of fun.
Once I became a G'town fan & went to the hilltop, G'town/Nova at the Cap Center (both teams in the top ten) with Iverson flushing one in the paint. G'town W! That game was great.
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Post by Hilltopper on Jan 7, 2005 9:29:29 GMT -5
Lots of good ones mentioned already...I think the Syracuse game / Charles Smith shot might be my favorite.
That GU win over Duke capped a great night of basketball, as we also saw Kenny Anderson beat St.John's at the buzzer in a Cap Centre doubleheader.
How about the Weber State tourney game- I saw the ball leave AI's hands and my heart sank, as I knew we had lost, and then out of nowhere comes Don Reid. I spent a few minutes jumping around the room screaming things that cna't be repeated here.
The most fun I ever had at a game was the '96? UConn game- packed house, ESPN, both teams ranked high, and we took it to them. Iverson's dunk and three point play over Rudy Johnson still amazes me.
I think this thread shows what brings us all to this board...the joy that the Hoyas have brought all of us through the years.
HOYA SAXA!
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gopaland
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Post by gopaland on Jan 7, 2005 10:09:30 GMT -5
How about our win over Cuse on the inauguration day of "Jim Boheim Court"
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Post by Boz on Jan 7, 2005 10:14:22 GMT -5
Lots of good ones mentioned already...I think the Syracuse game / Charles Smith shot might be my favorite. The most fun I ever had at a game was the '96? UConn game- packed house, ESPN, both teams ranked high, and we took it to them. Iverson's dunk and three point play over Rudy Johnson still amazes me. Those were two great games, definitely. A couple more that just randomly popped into my head were the two games with Memphis during the Iverson years. Not very historically important, but two amazingly entertaining games. The overtime game in Canada in Iverson's freshman year (when George Butler was still with the team), and then the dunk-fest the following year that the Hoyas ended up winning handily (even though I think Lorenzen Wright & the Tigers definitely won the slam-dunk contest during that game). Another game I will never forget is the Texas Tech game in the NCAA tourney. The reason I remember it is not so much the Darvin Ham dunk (good lord, though!), but that I was on the way to a friend's for that game when a car slammed into me, totalling my own vehicle. And all I could think of during the whole accident scene was, "Can we get through this please? I've got a basketball game to watch here! It starts in AN HOUR!" I managed to catch the whole game while on the phone with the insurance company. My personal favorite, though (not one game, but one weekend) was the tour de force Smitty, Zo and the rest put on in MSG for our last Big East tournament title.
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Post by tgo on Jan 7, 2005 11:02:20 GMT -5
the win over Cuse at the Crap Centre in 1994 deserves mention. Cuse led late and we fouled Moten several times and he choked at the line repeatedly giving us a chance that we capitalized on. The only time in my 4 years that we rushed the court.
Another personal favorite was the Preseason NIT in 95 when we beat down Adonal Foyle (what happened to him btw) and Colgate at the Crap Centre and i was able to hit him in the head with a beer can at half time and not get tossed by security since the entire student section went dumb when they came to ask who threw the can. At least that is what i am told happened, dont "remember" much of it.
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Post by DanMcQ on Jan 7, 2005 11:10:51 GMT -5
...going strictly on games personally attended...
Not many games beat the 1980 "Manley Field House is officially CLOSED" game, where 10 of us drove all night through a snowstorm to be part of about 20 Hoya fans present when Sleepy Floyd sunk points 51 and 52 from the line to beat then #2 Syracuse (lucky for us one of them was Greg Spriggs or we never would have come back alive).
Later dumping the Louie and Bouie show 66-58 at Cole in 1979 in the ECAC playoff final was a nice one too.
The 70-68 OT victory over UVa in Alumni Hall in the NIT in 1978 with Mike Riley drawing the charge and sinking free throws to win, culminating in my roommate screaming WA-HOOOOOOO! at the top of his lungs over and over was another highlight.
The entire 1982 BET in Hartford.
The tough 50-49 win over Princeton in the 1989 NCAA first round in Providence with Mourning blocking the last shot on the perimeter.
The final one is the 2OT loss at BC in February 1992 when Mourning had about a million points and basically carried the team on his back the whole game.
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Bahstin
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Post by Bahstin on Jan 7, 2005 11:22:42 GMT -5
i haven't been a fan as long as others. I have to go with Louisville in 2000, the 3OT NIT game vs. UVA, the huge upset of Cuse in the BE tourney in '01, and the home game against Cuse in '01. When RBB blocked back to back shots, it was the loudest I had ever heard MCI, and, of course, the Nat Burton layup.
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Post by Hilltopper on Jan 7, 2005 11:31:50 GMT -5
Proud to be a Hoya, proud to stand among other Hoya fans, but I was not proud when the crowd chanted SAT at Michael Smith, taunted Danny Hurley about his problems, and I would not be proud of hitting a player with a beer can.
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Cambridge
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Post by Cambridge on Jan 7, 2005 11:38:10 GMT -5
Bahstin, that Louisville game was amazing!!! Perry's jumper off the screen to take the lead after coming back from 10 with 1:30 to go!!!
And I can't say enough about the UVA triple OT...transendent victory.
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Post by FrostbackHoya on Jan 7, 2005 11:56:31 GMT -5
Only time I ever got to see the Hoyas in the home country. Maple Leaf Gardens was totally mellow, but the game was fabulous -- George Butler hit a HUGE rainbow at the buzzer and we go on to win... and lose Butler a few days later, but that's another story.
Agree about the Duke BE/ACC Challenge game. Great game, great atmosphere, buggered up the entire season when 'Zo hurt his foot.
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Post by HoyaNCCT on Jan 7, 2005 11:58:41 GMT -5
I don't know my favorite game but the greatest sign I have ever seen at a game is the one vs Syracuse 2 or 3 years ago "Hey Syracuse, I wiped my @$$ with your acceptance letter." A fight insured between some 40 year old Syracuse fans who and some students after the class orangemen were hitting on some freshman girls... always a good time.
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Post by azhoya on Jan 7, 2005 12:25:48 GMT -5
Hey Fellas
Long time reader, first contribution. Best game in Hoya history, a little fuzzy on the details but Ewings freshman year we played I think Missouri in McDonough, the game got moved from the Cap Centre due to a snow storm. Missouri was ranked number 4 at the time and they didn't know what hit them.
I agree with the Kentucky 1984 semifinal game as one of the greats.
Best game I saw in person was the one at the Carrier Dome in 1988 when Smitty hit the finger roll at the buzzer. Great road trip, what a blast
One game I remember being alot of fun, but not as significant as the above was 1987, the same day as the Superbowl (Giants beat the Broncos) Big snow storm but the game was played anyway at the Cap centre, small but very noisy crowd, Perry McDonald (our 6-4 center) hit a put back amongst the trees at the buzzer to beat DePaul who at the time was pretty good
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