How about how loaded this UCONN team was, my word. Okafor, Gordon, Villanueva, Boone, Rashad Anderson. Then you look at how loaded the Duke team was! Deng, Reddick, Duhon. Lot of pros in this one. Biggest bucket of the game was Anderson’s 3 that started the run. He misses that, they don’t win.
Uconn had 7 players drafted into the nba on this team including the 2,3 and 7th overall.. I dunno how someone can comment earlier saying duke had a better 1-9
One of the best college games ever. What an incredible comeback by UConn. This was the National Championship for that year. Duke was by far the best team UConn beat in the tournament.
20 years and 3 more chips later, this is still the best Husky team of all time. If 06 hadn’t tripped on GM, they would have been. Love this 04 team though
The meccas of college basketball, the University of Connecticut and Duke University going at it, for the 3rd time in NCAA Tournament, 1990, 1999 and 2004.... All 3 memorable games, with UConn winning 2 of those 3 games
After this comment was written, UNC defeated Duke in Coach K’s last home game, then retired him for good in the Final 4. A couple years after that, NC State beat them in the Elite 8.
An absolute classic. This one was really emotional for me as a fan. My grandmother passed away just a couple days earlier. She watched every UConn game religiously. When Emeka came back in the game from foul trouble and completely took over, it was like a sign from the heavens.
I remember living in New London, CT in 2004. I was 4 months away from 21. On several occasions, I drove about an hour up to Storrs and partied with some students that lived in Carriage House Townhomes on campus. On this particular night, I figured they'd be doing the same thing since it was a Saturday night, but they weren't there (come to find out they went to San Antonio lol). Still unaware of what exactly I was getting myself into, I found a viewing party in a nearby apartment. That party was intense and the hosts were very welcoming. I couldn't sit down for 5 minutes without being offered a beer or some drunk and hot girl wanting to sit on my lap. After the win, the entire street became a bonfire party. It looked like a barely legal Mardi Gras without the beads. Epic night that ended with me DJ'ing at another nearby party and crashing on the couch.
this was the second best final four game ever...the first: the 1999 national championship game between you guesed it...Duke vs. UCONN and UCONN won 77-74 so ha...we own Duke in final fours although they have broken our hearts too in the tourny
LMAO @ the Duke fans whining about the refs. The refs spotted you a whole half without Okafor (thanks to his bogus 2nd foul) and you couldn't close the deal.
@jayfey77 Yet he can't beat Calhoun when it matters, lol. 0-2 against UConn in the FF. And Coach K gets his pick of McD's AA's every year. Calhouns had something like 8 total, and gotten 3 titles. Replace K with Calhoun at Duke and he wins even more than 3 titles, can't say the same if you put K at UConn.
Like all the usual final 4 teams. They weren’t all freshmen thought like Kentucky the one and dones. That was the actual championship that year Uconn breezed through the finals I remember exactly where I was when it was the final 5 min. At bar and they wanted to turn the game off to do karaoke and I freaked out. Basically the game stayed on
They took UCONN out of the Big Eat because we was dominating it now villanova is dominating it what a surprise big bynum was going to UCONN but the NBA came calling he went to the Lakers 10 years later 2 championships that would've been with UCONN son instead of 4 titles UCONN would've had 6 titles leading program of this era.
@ByronS360 UCONN in 1999 isn't just a Top 5 National Championship upset, it's the #1 National Championship upset. Still, it doesn't take anything away from Texas Western, Villanova, or N.C. St., who provided memorable moments of their own.
Honestly I don't think EITHER team should complain bout refs. Starting at 2:33 is the best example. The refs blow calls for BOTH teams. And besides, UCONN would have destroyed Duke if they had Okafore the whole game, Williams was no where near as good...
"even coach k was making comments about the officials, something that he never does." dude, nobody bitches about calls more than coach k. which is ironic because nobody gets more calls than duke. if you noticed uconn started with a 15-4 run. then okafor got 2 bullshit touch fouls the first 5 minutes of the game. if okafor was actually allowed to play in the first half duke won't not have been leading down the stretch of that game.
@jcaudill6921 Actually Connecticut beating Duke in '99 was the biggest upset in the Final. Connecticut was a 9.5-point underdog in that game. N.C. St. was a 7.5-point underdog; Villanova was a 9-point underdog and Texas Western was a 6-point underdog. Duke was an 8-point underdog vs. UNLV. All of them were great upsets though.
DanielSong39 true. But the duke-UConn was bogus. Ppl love duke so that’s where the money goes. That UConn was a great team. Slight upset at most. Whereas nova and nc st were borderline tournament teams the whole season that got hot in March. Those two were much bigger upsets.
@@marticehasty2837 Yeah the 1999 UConn team was the second best team in the nation The 1999 Duke team was the best team I've ever seen though. The only team that is close is 1996 Kentucky. Can't win them all
I don’t know why I felt UConn dominated this game. They pulled it off at the end, probably because they had one of the best rosters in college basketball, but they snuck that out at the end.
One other thing, i haven't seen it mentioned, but i think Josh boone won this game for uconn. When okafor was out, boone stepped up and got williams that 3rd foul. One last thing to mention is that had Duke BEAT Maryland in the ACC title game, this would have been the National Championship. Once again Shelden fouled out at the end of regulation, and maryland won. Duke would have gotten the number 1 overall seed, with Uconn the number 2 in the regional on the other side of the bracket.
From 1999-2005 the ACC and The Big East were dominating the NCAA as 6 of the those 7 years, the National Champion came from either the Big East or the ACC: 1999- UCONN 2001 - Duke 2002 - Maryland 2003 - Syracuse 2004- UCONN 2005 - North Carolina The only time was 2000 were the champion was Michigan State from the Big 10. I am counting Maryland as ACC as their National Title from 02 came as a member of the ACC, well before they moved to the Big 10.
A graduate student of mine somehow got onto the floor as the game ended. Coach K did the mandatory line congratulations, then ran over to a ref, literally screaming, “You fucked us! You fucked is! You fucked us!” My grad student heard this from 15 feet away. At issue was the no-call with 11.6 seconds left. The replay shows a clean strip by the UConn guy, and that K had no view of what happened because he was seated behind the play. Hilarious!
This was the only game where Shalik Randolph lived up to his lofty status out of high school. Loul Deng did a lot of good that year but that contested 3 he took @ 6:20 was a killer. As Packer noted, not the shot you take there.
I remember this game, we dominated while Okafor was out.......bricked several 3's in transition and should have been up 20. That's why we lost. We had the better team 1-9 but no one to handle Okafor or Gordon. This UConn team was, imo, one of the decade's better teams
@@judd0112 yep, but that was before UConn’s 4 titles, I was in high school for that game, sellers beat laettner up and then he beat us at the buzzer..last time Duke had our number
@@lethrneck4 gotta see the espn 30 for 30 special on laetner. It’s called why we hate Christian laettner. And they show the buzzer beater show and they show him and rod sellers goin at it. I think he stomped on him under the hoop when he was down. And no one was ejected. Gotta love those days when not everyone was suck a pussy. If my grandfather was still alive. He was a WW2 marine was on peleliu island. And he/ his generation would seriously lose their minds at what all these people are getting offended about these days. They are prob all rolling over in the grave
@@judd0112 i do miss the old big east and its tough style of play..really as much as i love UCONN once they left for the AAC and left those rivalries behind being a fan lost a lot of its fun..glad they are back in the big east..seeing them playing the likes of providence, seton hall, st johns, Gtown etc again is awesome! saw the lattner 30 for 30...that was my favorite era of NCAA hoops
@@lethrneck4 yeah glad they r back in the big East. But it’s not the same without the Pittsburgh V’s Uconn finals & Syracuse overtime game at msg for the big East tournament. Was the best conference. But the acc used to get all the media. Hopefully it will get back to normal after this strange year of COVID.
your right it was bad reffing. But not just 4 Duke. Okafore was in more trouble than Williams was, and he was the best player in that game. But when UCONN had him bac his presence down low was too much 4 Duke and it ended up making the difference. The ref's did have a loose whistle, but not just against Duke...
@jcaudill6921 Here is the objective evidence: Biggest upsets in NCAA Championship Game (From Gold Sheet archives) 1999 Connecticut +9.5 over Duke 1985 Villanova +9 over Georgetown 1988 Kansas +8 over Oklahoma 1983 North Carolina St. +7.5 over Houston 1966 Texas Western +6.5 over Kentucky No bias or delusion involved. Just the cold hard facts.
at least you can admit it. but, i do think unc will win it all especially after watching how they shut down a one man team like Oklahoma. Nova is good, but not quite there, and UConn simply doesn't have enough depth to hang as much as it pains me to say that, being a UConn fan.
@jcaudill6921 Perception is often at odds with reality. UConn beating Duke in '99 WAS a bigger upset than Villanova over Georgetown. The point spread archives by the Gold Sheet prove this point.
Lol? They also have a ton of excellent players in the NBA. In fact other than UNC, I can't think of a school with as many good players in the league right now.
ben gordon isnt 3rd overall pick material, maybe he was in chicago when he won 6th man but charlie v is a top 10 pick and role player, so a bust. Okafor was a 2nd overall pick, rookie of the year, but hasnt done much else, definetley not top 2 material. The rest i can see but I just forgot about some like ray ray rip and rudy gay. my original point was that there were a lot of busts out of UConn, not that there were no good players.
jcaudill, I given up on you. Thats your opinion and there are many that will disagree with you including the announcer Jim Nantz 'just when they believe you can't..you can..and UCONN has won the national championship'..hat was one of the most memorable quotes in college basketball history.... If you just want to deny the obvious then thats who you are and its okay.... Nonetheless, UCONN over Duke in two of the biggest games in both schools history and 1999 (one of biggest upsets)
OKay you are just looking at simply by the seeding, which is a limited point of view.... Most basketball analysts would look back at the 1999 Uconn championship as a major upset. Uconn never won a championship prior to that game and Duke already proven to be a basketball powerhouse. Duke was supposed to win easily. Just reviewing El Amin reaction immediately following the game shows you how much of an upset it was due to all the pre game coverage already annointing Duke as the champion.
jcaudill you sure sound like Duke fan... Anyway, I can understand your grief. As for the upset, I like how you manipulated my words from 'one of the biggest' to 'the biggest upset'. Anyway, If you were young enough to follow basketball those days, you would know that Duke was supposed to be unbeatable and were favored by everyone in the media to win th cahmpionship....hence, Khalid El-Amin going to the camera 'WE SHOCKED THE WORLD'..... So there. one of the biggest upsets.
how is cuse garbage? they beat Memphis and Kansas. Gerorgetown is garbage when they beat UConn in Conn and Louisville is over rated they beat a #1 team this year to so yeah they blow. ACC is a fight every night think before u talk. Duke wins by 40+ against Maryland and then loses by 27 to Clemson. But yeah those are close games...Look at the polls tell me how many big east teams do u see and then how many acc teams do u see? Let me tell you 6 big east (3 teams in the top 6) and only 5 acc teams
what the fuck? lucky? if okafor hadn't picked up two early fouls the huskies would have won by 10. they were the bigger, stronger, more talented team. uconn has a great coach and brings in good players and makes them great. they also don't play that sissy white boy basketball of the acc. big east is THE conference in college basketball these days. deal with it.
Man i think its Dead even on that one cus i dnt kno that many UConn Players in the NBA well i do but still they about Dead even with Duke cus they hav alot of players in the NBA as well. and what you mean they cant shoot a basketball. All Duke does is Shoot 3s. thats they speciality
Seems like UCONN owns Duke in the big games. Uconn beat Duke in one of the biggest upsets in College Basketball history back in 1999 then of course this....in the Final Four in 2004... broke Coach K's heart twice......close games.
ACC is junk compared to the big east this year. ACC got a couple good teams but so does the big east and your only as good as your weakest team and the weak teams in the big east are better then the ones in the ACC so stop talking.
i'm not sure why duke fans have to bring up academics which have nothing to do with the game on the court also duke has traditionally out recruited UConn with far greater talent historically speaking and has a much more storied tradition not by much the fact that the fans can not give credit where it is due is ridiculous and ironically the sign of a small mind UConn was just better that was a freakishly ridiculous nba UConn team duke should be proud for competing so well besides its payback lol
@jayfey77 Elite 8 = Not a Final Four. And Duke has had issues too, see: Corey Maggette getting paid while he was playing at Duke. 0-2 in the FF vs UConn. Ratface sees Calhoun in his nightmares.
Dang was the reason duke lost this game. 2 stupid three point shots, and having the ball in his arms and getting stripped by okafur and lgiving him that easy layup for the lead
One last thing...if you watch this game you realize Duke defintely was the more talented team. My coach, Coach K, was just out coached, period. Unfortunately, Calhoun has Coach K's number
and this separates you from us how? You're not even arguing about sports, you are just caliing us names. That is by far more childish than anything posted here yet.
It's not so much my view of UCONN 1999 team but just the standard that everyone placed on Duke. They were supposed to be unbeatable and leading up to that game, practically everyone had Duke as the favorite. It was Uconn's first Final 4 appearnace. We can disagree because you simply look at the fact that its two #1 seeds. Thats true and may take away from it a little but I still say its a Top 5 National Championship upset. If you disagree, name me 5 bigger upsets for the National Championship.
One of the only times I can remember a Duke team choking and succumbing to the pressure. Most Duke teams would win a big game in which they had a 73-64 lead inside of five minutes, but this Blue Devil squad just wilted as Okafor and Company willed the Huskies to victory.
I'm a Duke fan, but I give Uconn props. They played a really good game. We just came up one point short. It would have been nice though to go up against GT. We would have won the championship.
This was the "real" National Championship Game in 2004. No disrespect to Georgia Tech, but once they pulled the upset over a better Oklahoma State team in the first semifinal this became the de facto title game. No way were either of these teams going to lose to GT in the final.
How about how loaded this UCONN team was, my word. Okafor, Gordon, Villanueva, Boone, Rashad Anderson. Then you look at how loaded the Duke team was! Deng, Reddick, Duhon. Lot of pros in this one. Biggest bucket of the game was Anderson’s 3 that started the run. He misses that, they don’t win.
Uconn had 7 players drafted into the nba on this team including the 2,3 and 7th overall.. I dunno how someone can comment earlier saying duke had a better 1-9
Uconns run of NBA players from 95-15 was pretty impressive most of thier drafted players had legit NBA careers
The 7th overall pick was Luol Deng, a Duke player, just to set the record straight.
One of the best college games ever. What an incredible comeback by UConn. This was the National Championship for that year. Duke was by far the best team UConn beat in the tournament.
I just said that!
@@judd0112 Duke was probably the best team in the tournament (aside from Connecticut)
For sure
These two teams have a great history of great games.
20 years and 3 more chips later, this is still the best Husky team of all time. If 06 hadn’t tripped on GM, they would have been. Love this 04 team though
The meccas of college basketball, the University of Connecticut and Duke University going at it, for the 3rd time in NCAA Tournament, 1990, 1999 and 2004.... All 3 memorable games, with UConn winning 2 of those 3 games
This game will forever be remembered as one of the greatest final four games in the history of mens college bball
14 years later Emeka still playing in the NBA what more can I say besides way to go Emekai
UCONN was favored in this game... hence, Duhon's 3 at the end caused millions of dollars to change hands.
One of the saddest Duke games to see over and over as a Duke.
My happiest game as a Husky
After this comment was written, UNC defeated Duke in Coach K’s last home game, then retired him for good in the Final 4. A couple years after that, NC State beat them in the Elite 8.
An absolute classic. This one was really emotional for me as a fan. My grandmother passed away just a couple days earlier. She watched every UConn game religiously. When Emeka came back in the game from foul trouble and completely took over, it was like a sign from the heavens.
I remember living in New London, CT in 2004. I was 4 months away from 21. On several occasions, I drove about an hour up to Storrs and partied with some students that lived in Carriage House Townhomes on campus. On this particular night, I figured they'd be doing the same thing since it was a Saturday night, but they weren't there (come to find out they went to San Antonio lol). Still unaware of what exactly I was getting myself into, I found a viewing party in a nearby apartment. That party was intense and the hosts were very welcoming. I couldn't sit down for 5 minutes without being offered a beer or some drunk and hot girl wanting to sit on my lap. After the win, the entire street became a bonfire party. It looked like a barely legal Mardi Gras without the beads. Epic night that ended with me DJ'ing at another nearby party and crashing on the couch.
Typical night at storrs. I failed out in late 80s
this was the second best final four game ever...the first: the 1999 national championship game between you guesed it...Duke vs. UCONN and UCONN won 77-74 so ha...we own Duke in final fours although they have broken our hearts too in the tourny
LMAO @ the Duke fans whining about the refs. The refs spotted you a whole half without Okafor (thanks to his bogus 2nd foul) and you couldn't close the deal.
Exactly....Duke has been the beneficiary of favorable treatment by the refs forever....
Calhoun’s second half adjustments! He out coached K every time
@jayfey77 Yet he can't beat Calhoun when it matters, lol. 0-2 against UConn in the FF. And Coach K gets his pick of McD's AA's every year. Calhouns had something like 8 total, and gotten 3 titles. Replace K with Calhoun at Duke and he wins even more than 3 titles, can't say the same if you put K at UConn.
This UConn team was practically a NBA team.
Like all the usual final 4 teams. They weren’t all freshmen thought like Kentucky the one and dones. That was the actual championship that year Uconn breezed through the finals I remember exactly where I was when it was the final 5 min. At bar and they wanted to turn the game off to do karaoke and I freaked out. Basically the game stayed on
They took UCONN out of the Big Eat because we was dominating it now villanova is dominating it what a surprise big bynum was going to UCONN but the NBA came calling he went to the Lakers 10 years later 2 championships that would've been with UCONN son instead of 4 titles UCONN would've had 6 titles leading program of this era.
@ByronS360 UCONN in 1999 isn't just a Top 5 National Championship upset, it's the #1 National Championship upset.
Still, it doesn't take anything away from Texas Western, Villanova, or N.C. St., who provided memorable moments of their own.
Go Uconn
Honestly I don't think EITHER team should complain bout refs. Starting at 2:33 is the best example. The refs blow calls for BOTH teams. And besides, UCONN would have destroyed Duke if they had Okafore the whole game, Williams was no where near as good...
Years later and I’m still tryna figure out what da hell was Loul Deng thinking smh!! We could’ve won that fuckin game
Unless he was thinking he wanted to put the dagger both those shots were terrible
"even coach k was making comments about the officials, something that he never does."
dude, nobody bitches about calls more than coach k. which is ironic because nobody gets more calls than duke. if you noticed uconn started with a 15-4 run. then okafor got 2 bullshit touch fouls the first 5 minutes of the game. if okafor was actually allowed to play in the first half duke won't not have been leading down the stretch of that game.
Ben Gordon was just lights out that season
The best college basketball program ever.Go UCONN
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 UConn is nowhere near the best college basketball program at all.
@@austinmiller4832yes they are
No they're not
Uconn had so much talent back then
what happened ?
CheezyDoDo973 They won 2 titles after you made this comment
Comment didn’t age well
This was the last real exciting semifinal game in the Final Four until the Butler-Michigan State game last year.
@jcaudill6921 Actually Connecticut beating Duke in '99 was the biggest upset in the Final. Connecticut was a 9.5-point underdog in that game.
N.C. St. was a 7.5-point underdog; Villanova was a 9-point underdog and Texas Western was a 6-point underdog.
Duke was an 8-point underdog vs. UNLV.
All of them were great upsets though.
DanielSong39 true. But the duke-UConn was bogus. Ppl love duke so that’s where the money goes. That UConn was a great team. Slight upset at most. Whereas nova and nc st were borderline tournament teams the whole season that got hot in March. Those two were much bigger upsets.
@@marticehasty2837 Yeah the 1999 UConn team was the second best team in the nation
The 1999 Duke team was the best team I've ever seen though. The only team that is close is 1996 Kentucky. Can't win them all
I lost my house because of that stupid meaningless shot at the end of the game by Duhon. Thanks Chris...
Heath Ziglar I was yelling for okafor to miss that FT to avoid an uncontested 3
I don’t know why I felt UConn dominated this game. They pulled it off at the end, probably because they had one of the best rosters in college basketball, but they snuck that out at the end.
dang! 04 was a thrilling final 4!
@larma7 It really basically was. Gordon, Okafor, Boone, Villanueva, Armstrong, D. Brown, M. Williams all played in the NBA
One other thing, i haven't seen it mentioned, but i think Josh boone won this game for uconn. When okafor was out, boone stepped up and got williams that 3rd foul. One last thing to mention is that had Duke BEAT Maryland in the ACC title game, this would have been the National Championship. Once again Shelden fouled out at the end of regulation, and maryland won. Duke would have gotten the number 1 overall seed, with Uconn the number 2 in the regional on the other side of the bracket.
From 1999-2005 the ACC and The Big East were dominating the NCAA as 6 of the those 7 years, the National Champion came from either the Big East or the ACC:
1999- UCONN
2001 - Duke
2002 - Maryland
2003 - Syracuse
2004- UCONN
2005 - North Carolina
The only time was 2000 were the champion was Michigan State from the Big 10. I am counting Maryland as ACC as their National Title from 02 came as a member of the ACC, well before they moved to the Big 10.
Calhoun has Coach K's number
A graduate student of mine somehow got onto the floor as the game ended. Coach K did the mandatory line congratulations, then ran over to a ref, literally screaming, “You fucked us! You fucked is! You fucked us!” My grad student heard this from 15 feet away. At issue was the no-call with 11.6 seconds left. The replay shows a clean strip by the UConn guy, and that K had no view of what happened because he was seated behind the play. Hilarious!
duke was a 2 point dog with that 3 at the buzzer they cover man the wiseguys r really good with the lines
WHALEDOGS9111 precisely why I’m more than willing to lay a little extra taking the moneyline. They’re just too dam good
Calhoun does not 'own' Coach K, as much as I wish he did. You're forgetting 1990 and 1991.
Dear Jim Nantz.........Chris Duhon's shot MATTERED! It might be the single most money changing shot in NCAA History. IT MATTERED!
Joe Blow man oh man what a fuck in the ass
It didnt change result at all. UConn still won
@@noahparker3951I’ve never been a gambler, but people betting on the game don’t care who wins. They care if they’re team beats the point spread.
Where is Sami Ameziane
Maybe the worst bad beat of all time on that Duhon buzzer beater. UConn was -1.5 and were up 4 until Duhon’s otherwise meaningless three went down.
This was the only game where Shalik Randolph lived up to his lofty status out of high school. Loul Deng did a lot of good that year but that contested 3 he took @ 6:20 was a killer. As Packer noted, not the shot you take there.
What is going on with this?
Ripped cords and rattled runs before the shot is taken?
A clip from several minutes before?
How many times have Duke and Connecticut been to the final 4? Together it must be more than the rest of the NCCA combined.
lol how many people committed suicide when Chris Duhon hit the 3? damn that was funny
Greg Pigott nah cmon man, you gotta feel for the ones on the end of some of these bad beats
It was meaningless
@@noahparker3951 it changed several million dollars in bets. UCONN was +3.
2004 was the most exciting final four ever!
No it wasn't
I remember this game, we dominated while Okafor was out.......bricked several 3's in transition and should have been up 20. That's why we lost. We had the better team 1-9 but no one to handle Okafor or Gordon. This UConn team was, imo, one of the decade's better teams
And also the Big East is the Greatest conference ever.
You couldn’t be more incorrect. historically, it goes ACC, Big Ten, SEC, Big East, Pac 12, Big 12.
@@austinmiller4832 What are you talking about???
UCONN is just THAT team that always has dukes number in the tourney when they have met
Not every time. Don’t forget the lattiner shot that ended Uconn run. Watch the espn movie why we hate Christian laettnier however u spell it
@@judd0112 yep, but that was before UConn’s 4 titles, I was in high school for that game, sellers beat laettner up and then he beat us at the buzzer..last time Duke had our number
@@lethrneck4 gotta see the espn 30 for 30 special on laetner. It’s called why we hate Christian laettner. And they show the buzzer beater show and they show him and rod sellers goin at it. I think he stomped on him under the hoop when he was down. And no one was ejected. Gotta love those days when not everyone was suck a pussy. If my grandfather was still alive. He was a WW2 marine was on peleliu island. And he/ his generation would seriously lose their minds at what all these people are getting offended about these days. They are prob all rolling over in the grave
@@judd0112 i do miss the old big east and its tough style of play..really as much as i love UCONN once they left for the AAC and left those rivalries behind being a fan lost a lot of its fun..glad they are back in the big east..seeing them playing the likes of providence, seton hall, st johns, Gtown etc again is awesome! saw the lattner 30 for 30...that was my favorite era of NCAA hoops
@@lethrneck4 yeah glad they r back in the big East. But it’s not the same without the Pittsburgh V’s Uconn finals & Syracuse overtime game at msg for the big East tournament. Was the best conference. But the acc used to get all the media. Hopefully it will get back to normal after this strange year of COVID.
Uconn going to repeat this year 2012!!! let's go Huskies!
your right it was bad reffing. But not just 4 Duke. Okafore was in more trouble than Williams was, and he was the best player in that game. But when UCONN had him bac his presence down low was too much 4 Duke and it ended up making the difference. The ref's did have a loose whistle, but not just against Duke...
My favorite UConn team of all time. EMEKA OKAFOR!!!
@jcaudill6921 Here is the objective evidence:
Biggest upsets in NCAA Championship Game (From Gold Sheet archives)
1999 Connecticut +9.5 over Duke
1985 Villanova +9 over Georgetown
1988 Kansas +8 over Oklahoma
1983 North Carolina St. +7.5 over Houston
1966 Texas Western +6.5 over Kentucky
No bias or delusion involved. Just the cold hard facts.
at least you can admit it. but, i do think unc will win it all especially after watching how they shut down a one man team like Oklahoma. Nova is good, but not quite there, and UConn simply doesn't have enough depth to hang as much as it pains me to say that, being a UConn fan.
Duke will forever make me puke. U-C-O-N-N HUSKIES!!!!!
@jcaudill6921 Perception is often at odds with reality. UConn beating Duke in '99 WAS a bigger upset than Villanova over Georgetown. The point spread archives by the Gold Sheet prove this point.
I will forever love Emeka for taking over and winning that game for us.
Taliek
Lol? They also have a ton of excellent players in the NBA. In fact other than UNC, I can't think of a school with as many good players in the league right now.
ben gordon isnt 3rd overall pick material, maybe he was in chicago when he won 6th man but charlie v is a top 10 pick and role player, so a bust. Okafor was a 2nd overall pick, rookie of the year, but hasnt done much else, definetley not top 2 material. The rest i can see but I just forgot about some like ray ray rip and rudy gay. my original point was that there were a lot of busts out of UConn, not that there were no good players.
jcaudill, I given up on you. Thats your opinion and there are many that will disagree with you including the announcer Jim Nantz 'just when they believe you can't..you can..and UCONN has won the national championship'..hat was one of the most memorable quotes in college basketball history....
If you just want to deny the obvious then thats who you are and its okay....
Nonetheless, UCONN over Duke in two of the biggest games in both schools history and 1999 (one of biggest upsets)
OKay you are just looking at simply by the seeding, which is a limited point of view....
Most basketball analysts would look back at the 1999 Uconn championship as a major upset.
Uconn never won a championship prior to that game and Duke already proven to be a basketball powerhouse. Duke was supposed to win easily. Just reviewing El Amin reaction immediately following the game shows you how much of an upset it was due to all the pre game coverage already annointing Duke as the champion.
jcaudill you sure sound like Duke fan...
Anyway, I can understand your grief. As for the upset, I like how you manipulated my words from 'one of the biggest' to 'the biggest upset'. Anyway, If you were young enough to follow basketball those days, you would know that Duke was supposed to be unbeatable and were favored by everyone in the media to win th cahmpionship....hence, Khalid El-Amin going to the camera 'WE SHOCKED THE WORLD'.....
So there. one of the biggest upsets.
how is cuse garbage? they beat Memphis and Kansas. Gerorgetown is garbage when they beat UConn in Conn and Louisville is over rated they beat a #1 team this year to so yeah they blow. ACC is a fight every night think before u talk. Duke wins by 40+ against Maryland and then loses by 27 to Clemson. But yeah those are close games...Look at the polls tell me how many big east teams do u see and then how many acc teams do u see? Let me tell you 6 big east (3 teams in the top 6) and only 5 acc teams
what the fuck? lucky? if okafor hadn't picked up two early fouls the huskies would have won by 10. they were the bigger, stronger, more talented team.
uconn has a great coach and brings in good players and makes them great. they also don't play that sissy white boy basketball of the acc. big east is THE conference in college basketball these days. deal with it.
one of the all time great national semis. both games were epic
Man i think its Dead even on that one cus i dnt kno that many UConn Players in the NBA well i do but still they about Dead even with Duke cus they hav alot of players in the NBA as well. and what you mean they cant shoot a basketball. All Duke does is Shoot 3s. thats they speciality
8:38 It absolutely mattered to everyone who bet on that game. Worst bad beat in history.
Seems like UCONN owns Duke in the big games.
Uconn beat Duke in one of the biggest upsets in College Basketball history back in 1999
then of course this....in the Final Four in 2004...
broke Coach K's heart twice......close games.
ACC is junk compared to the big east this year. ACC got a couple good teams but so does the big east and your only as good as your weakest team and the weak teams in the big east are better then the ones in the ACC so stop talking.
i'm not sure why duke fans have to bring up academics which have nothing to do with the game on the court also duke has traditionally out recruited UConn with far greater talent historically speaking and has a much more storied tradition not by much the fact that the fans can not give credit where it is due is ridiculous and ironically the sign of a small mind UConn was just better that was a freakishly ridiculous nba UConn team duke should be proud for competing so well besides its payback lol
@jayfey77 Elite 8 = Not a Final Four. And Duke has had issues too, see: Corey Maggette getting paid while he was playing at Duke. 0-2 in the FF vs UConn. Ratface sees Calhoun in his nightmares.
Best team won. Duke chocked up 9 with 4 minutes plus to go.
Dang was the reason duke lost this game. 2 stupid three point shots, and having the ball in his arms and getting stripped by okafur and lgiving him that easy layup for the lead
One last thing...if you watch this game you realize Duke defintely was the more talented team. My coach, Coach K, was just out coached, period. Unfortunately, Calhoun has Coach K's number
I can relate, however. That is how I felt about Dean Smith when I became a Duke fan. Always though K got more done with less.
and this separates you from us how? You're not even arguing about sports, you are just caliing us names. That is by far more childish than anything posted here yet.
great win by uconn
This shit still hurts. When I started hated uconn. Go Duke
well charlie v and ben gordon arent exactly good players given how high they were drafted... ill give you kemba but who else
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dude are u blind, the ball gets punched out and he goes flying through the air without the ball into the ground
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it mattered nantz!!
sooo many nba players in thi game. redick,deng,villunueava, okafor,gordon,armstrong
@CheezyDoDo973-What u mean? UCONN just made the Final Four last year........
@jcaudill6921 me to i went to the camp i like it. but i hate the mascot
Where's UCONN'S program now? Still glad they won this game.
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It's not so much my view of UCONN 1999 team but just the standard that everyone placed on Duke. They were supposed to be unbeatable and leading up to that game, practically everyone had Duke as the favorite. It was Uconn's first Final 4 appearnace.
We can disagree because you simply look at the fact that its two #1 seeds. Thats true and may take away from it a little but I still say its a Top 5 National Championship upset. If you disagree, name me 5 bigger upsets for the National Championship.
There are none. The 1999 upset is the biggest in the Final in NCAA Tournament history
One of the only times I can remember a Duke team choking and succumbing to the pressure. Most Duke teams would win a big game in which they had a 73-64 lead inside of five minutes, but this Blue Devil squad just wilted as Okafor and Company willed the Huskies to victory.
I'm a Duke fan, but I give Uconn props. They played a really good game. We just came up one point short. It would have been nice though to go up against GT. We would have won the championship.
Yea it's not luck man
idk duke's pretty good. talk to me when you make the tournament
Thanks for posting it
Omg Duhon bent me over so far it came outta my mouth with that backdoor cover. I will gladly take the moneyline on small spreads til the day I croak
What are you even talking about. UConn won
@@noahparker3951 UConn was -2, if you aren’t aware of betting spreads by now you are absolutely LOST
This was the "real" National Championship Game in 2004. No disrespect to Georgia Tech, but once they pulled the upset over a better Oklahoma State team in the first semifinal this became the de facto title game. No way were either of these teams going to lose to GT in the final.
UConn left no doubt!
Best game EVER!!! Too bad Uconn was trash this past season.
who won it all in 2004? UConn. Thank you.
Duke choke last minute
They should rename the sport to 3pointerball
haha....ya, let me know when Duke makes it to another Final Four.
Let's just say this....If Jon Scheyer is running your point, ummm you guys are done!
This didn’t age well #2010
Two great teams. Loved Emeka.