So it was just a regular weekend for you?
Not sure what is worse...
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So it was just a regular weekend for you?
I think it was the very first game to tip off if my memory serves me correctly. What pissed me off the most about that one was that UAB didn't even play all that great. Like a fluky shooting night is forgivable - **** happens. They just sleepwalked through the whole damn game and UAB obliterated them on the glass, and that was that. I was more pissed off than I was sad. After the OSU game, I just felt bad for Georges and the rest of the team.
Happier tournament memory because screw this bad memory stuff - Beating Ol' Roy and UNC to advance in 2014. That one was sweet. I remember being sure that the refs were going to put time back on the clock and give UNC one last chance to win or send it into OT.
Honestly, the UAB loss may be more fresh, but I think that Hampton loss destroyed whatever portion of my soul that felt pain from losses like that. There's really no comparison, and perhaps the multiplier was that we went from there off the cliff, including the Eustachy debacle, never to return to glory until the Hoiberg years.
I take each difficult loss as hard as the previous one. Partly because I'm still relatively young and partly because I refuse to accept that this fanbase will always have a need for a nut cup.
It was more unbelievable in an era where that kind of seeded upset was very rare, and stung more how a routine layup that we as fans had seen, what, a hundred times in two seasons (?) simply didn't go in.
Th UAB loss was following years where two #2 seeds had lost on the same day, and several 3 seeds had been ousted in previous seasons too, so at least it was somewhat easier to find some silver liningish.
Always good to rehash some terrible moments though, amirite?
They were killing us on the glass. All Hoiberg had to do was bring Edozie in and the problem would have been solved. Sure he wasn't skilled offensively, but he sure could defend and was super strong. He would have prevented some of those offensive rebound put backs that UAB killed us with. Hoiberg was just to stubborn to put him in, he was going to stay with the same 7 guys in that rotation that just were not getting it done.
Other than the Northwestern State game, it seems all the Hok heartbreak happened decades ago...guess not getting in the tourney has its upside :-o
I've been watching March Madness with the same group of guys for numerous years. Being in Nebraska, most of them are NU Football and some other basketball fans (Duke, Kentucky, NC, Maryland, you know how they are). I know I won't be able to get through Thursday evening without someone mentioning Hampton.
This list is missing the most painful heartbreak of all: Losing Niang to his foot injury. That team was absolutely winning it all. You will never convince me otherwise as long as I live. Honestly, the second I found out his foot was broken I almost threw up I was so distraught. It was a harder pill to swallow than the Michigan State Elite 8 game. That team was loaded, and it was rolling when that happened.
Agree, we were ahead most of the game, 5 min into the 2nd half I convinced myself we were going to win and then win a national championship. Which if we had won we probably would have won it all.
Agree 100%.
Although it certainly would not be considered a “bad” loss, the most devastating loss to me was to Michigsn State in the elite 8 in 2000. We were playing the best bb of any team in America at the end of that season. We got screwed in seeding, had to practically play a home game for MSU and then were vicitimized by the famous blarge. If we ever had a team that could win it all, it was that team. Never watched the rerun of the game, not tough enough to take it.
Watching the Iowa - Northwestern St and UNI - TAMU meltdowns live:
I don't remember how bad the Iowa vs Northwestern state meltdown was but the UNI one was just pitiful and painful to watch. I remember thinking, oh they got this, they just have to get the ball in and make the FTs, and then they just kept screwing up. Seemed like that last couple minutes lasted for an hour, like a super slow motion train wreck from 5 angles. It was epicly bad.
That's still close to the way I remember it. ISU looked the part of a 3 seed for maybe the first 8 or 10 minutes. UAB couldn't hit the broad side of a barn for large stretches, but at least was motivated enough to scramble for loose balls and rebound clanked shots.
I wasn't angry or sad after the loss, mostly just numb. I stared at the TV for about 45 minutes while another game was on-screen, don't even remember who was playing.
Not a huge UNI fan, but that game was like seeing the sorta mean dog down the street beaten to death. Now if it had been Iowa or KU, then it would have been worth recording.
