Although I am not a fan of Connecticut, I am happy they won on a last second shot. When I hear announcers say “Unbelievable finish!” and “How did Duke lose that game?”, it takes me back to North Carolina St. vs. UH in 1983. If UConn’s win and Duke’s choke job makes people refer less to North Carolina St. vs UH, then all is calm in my world.
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It takes me back to UH vs. Duke in 2025.
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Yea, I’d rather it take me back to 2025.
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Gonna be a looooong offseason for Scheyer. Again.
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Anyone going to ask him if he’s going to retire?
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Duke fans are on the cliff man….
It couldn’t happen to a “nicer” group of fans.
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I thought Purdue fans were bad, and they are, but Duke Walmart fans might be able to compete with TU and Agi hi with TeeTee next in line
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It’s amazing to me that a program as talented as Duke would lose in the last seconds in two consecutive years.
Snakebitten or poetic justice, take your pick.
I’m not a Dan Hurley fan, but I’m glad we were one of the two teams that thwarted Duke’s path to the finals.
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Duke has an impressive history.
March Madness appearances in droves.
But like almost every other School they had an era of winning Natties under one Coach, only one, Coach K,
He is retired and they win no more. Final Fours,yes. But no Nattie.
UCLA won 10 Titles in 12 years. Coach Wooden retired. They have 1 Nattie in 51 seasons since, and none in over 30 years.
Indiana, Kentucky, etc. Programs decline after certain Coaches retire, and the schools never find another Coach that can win a National Title.
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Maybe they will start showing that shot instead of the one where we get beat by N.C. State. That would be nice.
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All Boozer had to do was hold the ball.
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The basketball gods giveth & taketh away…
Nothing will replace UH/NC State in 1983. The vaunted Phi Slamma Jamma defeated. The pain lingers. The Houston Post headline the following day read “It’s my Party and I’ll cry if I want to!”
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I haven’t heard anyone refer to that game in 20 years. I’d bet 70% of this board was born after that game. The game yesterday in no way was reflective of the mismatch between UH and NCst.
Now if Santa Clara or Sienna knocked off Duke then maybe. Also my recollection is we were consensus favorites to win it all. Duke is not the consensus favorite this year.
That NC State team had 4 NBA players on their roster, they aren’t in the same universe as Sienna, come on.
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They certainly had higher recruiting classes than UH and if you look at the way they made it to the final game and the teams they beat you will be impressed. We lost on a fluke play. Guy once said that Hakeem Olajuwon was probably the only center in America who would have run away from the basket in that sequence. Dream actually thought Bennie Anders had stolen the ball so he started running down court leaving Charles with a huge opening at the bucket.
NCS was real, but they were also very lucky…
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I’m talking about the projected outcome. I’m not comparing the two teams with one another. You would have been hard pressed to find anyone on the eve of that game that thought NCst would win.
At the beginning of the tourney UH was at 3.5 to win it all. NCst was 25-1. The difference between Duke and Uconn this year was 10-1 vs 14-1. That’s just another day at the office in the tourney. Sienna’s average was about 42-1 vs Duke’s 10-1.
1983:
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Duke was a 5.5 favorite over UConn. UH was a 7.5 favorite over NC State.
I didn’t think Duke fans were that bad, I had a good time with the ones around me at the FF. Now Florida fans…