03/17/1991 NCAA West Regional 2nd Round: #8 Georgetown Hoyas vs. #1 UNLV Runnin' Rebels
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- The eighth-seeded Georgetown Hoyas featuring their twin towers - Alonzo Mourning and Dikembe Mutombo face off against Larry Johnson, Anderson hunt and the defending National Champion - the top-seeded UNLV Runnin' Rebels in the second round of the NCAA West Regional.
Game played on Sunday, March 17, 1991 at the McKale Center in Tucson, Arizona.
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Greg Anthony, Plastic Man, Grand MaMa, Zo and Mount Mutumbo. This game would put together the best defensive starting five in World History.
Don't forget John Thompson and Tark on the sidelines.....
LJ and Zo should've built something great in Charlotte. Loved that squad
it's nice to meet you and please tell me do you all feel like the eliteness was highest in the 1993 or 1995 playoffs for alonzo mourning
@@youtuber3328 93 easily. Charlotte beat Boston in the first round and Zo averaged 24/10 and 4 blocks a game. Second round he faced a prime Patrick Ewing and still averaged 24/10/ and 3 blocks. He was a beast in his prime and when healthy
@@Boss3Nate so how do you feel about the 1995 first round series between the bulls and hornets where the rebound numbers were even higher for alonzo mourning having to face the legendary michael jordan
@@youtuber3328 they weren’t really higher at all. Plus him and Jordan didn’t guard each other and they lost the series
@@Boss3Natethem not defending each other isn't a deciding factor but a deciding factor is one elite player vs another and in that 1995 series 22 ish points 13 ish rebounds and 3.3 blocks per game were the numbers for alonzo mourning
Mourning and Motumbo and they were an 8 seed. Big John needed a backcourt.
Mourning was hurt most of this year. Hurt his foot in the BE/ACC challenge beating Duke.
Yep. He really got lazy in recruiting by this time and didn't have a great backcourt for Deke and Zo after 1989. He could have had Kenny Anderson. He could have had Grant Hill. But he was either too indifferent in recruiting them or too thoughtless.
Hibbs4Prez Or Kenny Anderson and Grant Hill just decided to go somewhere else like Georgia Tech and DUKE you do know that can happen too if you never get them to sign on the dotted line
"Big John" One of the worst coaches in college basketball.
@@jonnychingas5757 how do you figure? A national championship and 3 final fours?
I’m still amazed that Anderson Hunt didn’t make it in the nba . I’m not saying making it as a star I’m saying I’m shocked he didn’t just sustain a career on 12 man rosters. He could shoot the ball and play defense and was an awesome leaper. You look at someone like a BJ Armstrong who played like 10 years in the nba and wasn’t as skilled as Hunt. I just don’t understand that kind of thing.
He needed to play PG. Tark told him to stay and play PG next to Rider. Hunt was an undersized SG.
@@therealdarrell282 He definitely should have stayed another year no doubt. Btw the year AFTER Stacey Augman , Larry Johnson, Anderson Hunt, Greg Anthony & Greg Ackles left UNLV was one of the greatest one season college coaching in the history of college basketball. I was no fan of Tarkanian but that season made me realize he was one helluva coach and teacher of how to play the game.
Back to Hunt, they likely would’ve gone undefeated had he stayed that year because they almost went undefeated without him, though still banned from postseason. As for accepting the role as PG at the next level I’ll take your word for it because I didn’t know that part of his story.
I still find it surprising he didn’t make rosters. Another observation about him is he played well in the big games while in college, often he played better than anyone on the team. But yes he would be way too small to play shooting guard in the nba.
Great shooting guard but too small for NBA. He didnt have ball handling skills to run point and that really wasnt his game anyway. Im from Vegas nd 89-92 i went to almost all home games while i was student. Shame this team didnt win chip. They dominated all season.
@@averydaymond1560 Don't forget that the Obannon brothers were already signed with Vegas until the NCAA hit them. Ed obannon, Isaiah Ryder, and Elmore. They would have been right there again if Hunt stayed. The NCAA knew they were headed for a decade of Vegas and Tark. Couldn't have that so Vegas got sanctions and Duke got the green light.
Wow, the BJ Armstrong comparison is interesting. He definitely had more athleticism but with BJ's shooting so he would've been better. He would've had to of been in a BJ situation where his job was really to spot up and shoot not be a traditional ball handling point guard. At the time most teams were still drafting traditional for position, especially small guards. I think he would fit perfect in today's NBA.
Sorry Quinn but that 6 man huddle with the ref. That's just Rebel's cool factor. He spoke to Anthony earlier.
I'm from Dallas so it was good to see Skyline's finest go to work. + Arizona St. and Stevin Smith. "Headache"
This was the game that started the Mourning and Johnson feud.
Johnson was chipping at Mourning all day, and Mourning gave it right back. This game is what created the bad blood.
Nahhh they was good on tha Hornets into tha $$$ got invloved😎✌
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But old animosity’s came right back. It’s all of it started here.
Special thx to Cozzman. I have been wanting to watch this game again, for over 20 yrs, I was in HS when I taped this game. I had it recorded on a VHA tape back in 1991, but I either recorded over it, or lost the VHS tape. I don't remember, it was too long ago. Anyways thank you sir for uploading it. There were a lot of future NBA players in this game. And this is the game that started the bad blood between ZO & LJ. Do you remember the NBA fight yrs later between them in NYC?
If UNLV was an undefeated blue blood and defending National Champion, they don't play a 8 seed like this in the 2nd round. A blue blood gets a tomato can instead.
Love Tark.
@charlesmurphy3222 Like Duke, who got put in the easiest regional every season back then.
I remember this game vividly it was one of the few times G'twn as an underdog being a sentimental favorite and people were actually pulling for them to knock off UNLV. If this hoya team had any kind of decent backcourt they could have pulled this game off. Morning outside of his frosh. year didn't have strong backcourt play
How about a decent coach?
How about morning, the duke game, the Xavier game, the UNLV game, the Florida state game all tourney games in which he played badly. The backcourt played better Then him in all those games. If you look at those tournament losses the front court was always outplayed and played badly
@@jonnychingas5757 you don't think John Thompson was a good coach?
I remember thinking the exact same thing. It’s very ironic that while at the very same exact time Georgetown had Mourning and Mutumbo in their prime college years they also at that exact time had their worst guard play that I can recall. If they’d had average guard play they would’ve won this game.
Anderson Hunt was cold Detroit representer
Look at that ancient civilization with people actually in the stands! Those people didn’t know how good they had it!
UNLV got fucked with Georgetown being given a #8 seed out west. Even though the Hoyas lacked guards, UNLV didn't deserve a team in the 2nd round with two NBA players in the starting lineup in the 2nd round. They deserved the easiest path to the final four as the overall #1 seed and an unbeaten team. As Jerry Tark said in his autobiography, this was all about the NCAA trying to screw over UNLV for violations they never committed. At the end of the day, the NCAA could never bust Tark, so they had to pay him millions to prevent him from taking them to court and exposing their selective enforcement procedures.
I don’t get what you guys watched, if you looked at gtown in the tourney during morning time. He always played bad in the games they got eliminated in. The front court never played well in the games in the tourney never. The backcourt always kept them in the games. And in this game morning was abysmal.
All defense even though it was great to have the big men Joey browner just wasn't cutting it. He didn't make many mistakes but wasn't very explosive either. John Thompson when I look back now he was like buddy Ryan in the NFL all defense. Play hard and knock guys on there ass.
Georgetown with them city college ass guards!
RIP to my dude Charlie Harrison of Georgetown #12.
Damm I'm sorry I didn't know about this
@@davidlopez-rl4sh yeah died of a heart attack at 47.
@@pukysand this is surprising all these deaths maybe I am blowing it out of proportion but even the other Hoya who transferred to Arkansas passed in 2020 he was a point guard for 1 year for Georgetown.
@@davidlopez-rl4sh wow which Hoyas transfer died in 2020?
@@davidlopez-rl4sh #3 that played beside MacClung?
great game - wish G'town won, but frankly, this unlv team has to be the strongest of all time.. duke got lucky they won
laettner kept tapping the ball away after a made basket to slow down unlv amazing fast break. he got a warning for delay of game ONE time then never the rest of the game.....
Buck Futtler And he Laettner just kepted making baskets i don't think he missed more than 3 Field Goals and no more than 1 free throw in that 1991 DUKE vs. UNLV Final Four game
UNLV was too cocky by then. They went too long without losing and they were overconfident. Hard to take a team seriously when you beat them by 30 last year. Just like the second super bowl between Dallas and Buffalo was a lot closer. Buffalo led at halftime in the 2nd one.
Ed Madrid And the fact that DUKE wasn't any of those cupcake teams UNLV was beating in the BIG West conference 19 of UNLV wins that season was from wins in that cupcake conference, While DUKE was playing and winning in a much more competive league in the ACC which DUKE were the regular season champions that season, a way better DUKE team from the 1989-90 DUKE team
@@elhombrenegro4999 well, the Rebels despite being undefeated were not as deep in 91. Duke added Grant Hill and they were motivated and nobody will ever argue the merits of the ACC vs the whatever PCAA conference the Rebels played in. To be fair, Tark did set up a strong non conference schedule. The fun and gun Loyala Marymount. Shaq and LSU. The really good Arkansas team. But yeah, the 91 Final 4 game was a perfect storm and my team got swept out because of it.
This was supposed to be a bloodbath yet the hoyas hung tough. This game should have been a warning sign for UNLV that they were not invincible. 3 games later it would be proven.
UNLV is still one of the best of all-time. Of all teams...they certainly seemed invincible...
@@jacobadams5924 Yes they did, and even though 2021 gonzaga made it one round further than 91 unlv did, the rebs would have massacred the zags. I dont know if we will ever see a team as good as 91 unlv not win the title. Still cant understand the duke loss in the FF to this day.
@@rawn4203 Grant Hill was freshman of the year. Hurley was a year older. Laettner had revenge on his mind. Coach K is one of the greatest coaches in history and he had a strong gameplan against UNLV. Somehow managed to make Augmon a total nonfactor and turned LJ into a mere mortal. I think if we had David Butler instead of George Ackles we could've pulled it off. Butler was an underrated defender who could switch and guard ANYONE.
@@jtno2 "somehow managed to make Augmon a non factor"..... ??? Say wha? U mean, "The Fixer" in the lower deck that game, & Augmon blaming his performance on a late night before had nothing to do with it? Watch again closely, far too many dead giveaways on "lack of defensive initiative"
I don't see how any team with Mumtombo AND Mourning on it can be on the wrong end of a bloodbath. UNLV was favored of course but no way was this game was going to be a walk in the park.
This was the first time that entire season that someone had made UNLV play an actual competitive basketball game. People realized that if Georgetown, which was a mediocre team at best, could force them into a 40-minute slugfest, a more talented team could do the same if they played their cards right. Which of course, Duke did in the Final Four.
You can't be an NCAA tourney team with two future Hall of Famers and be "mediocre". Instead this Hoyas' team was too young and not terribly talented on the perimeter, was lacking in shooters and had a Mourning who was still recovering from an injury that had kept him out most of the season. They were still a tough team though.
This game made teams less fearful of UNLV. Gtown was a bit above average and hung tough. Didn't have the best backcourt play which was the difference
I was in 6th grade I watched this whole game. Georgetown was my squad but the this Rebel team was amazing
Agreed I was a fan of the twin towers Zo and Mt Mutombo but this Unlv team could not be stopped!
Clearly the best team to never win a championship.
How funny that Johnson and Mourning battled here and LJ got T'd up for taunting, then they would later team up to lift the expansion Hornets to the playoffs.
And then they would later fight in a playoff game with Jeff Van Gundy hanging from Mourning's leg
Yeah, like a year or two later lmao.
They never got along.
@@therainmakerinsider I’ve heard the same! If both players could’ve put the team first with those 2, muggsy, and d.curry would’ve been a great team for years to come
The NCAA absolutely stacked the deck by making GT an 8 seed
Their season wasn’t that great, 8 seed was perfectly spotted by the committee. If you think they should’ve been seeded higher look at the footage and watch their guards shooting 🧱 again 😳.
Everyone one of us has a few bad years. The lady working the Burger King drive thru has a few off years. I think John Thompson had a few bad years as a coach when he had Mourning and Mutombo. That is no disrespect to Thompson as a coach, he was a amazing coach at Georgetown and icon of college basketball. That said I recall him being under alot of scrutiny at this time as a coach, like I said, we all have a few off years in our lives.
@@5IvanDrago5The scrutiny was actually well deserved. The lack of talent Thompson surrounded both Mourning and Mutombo was almost criminal negligence. Those players were not good enough to make division ll rosters. People like Brown and Churchwell Morgan etc my god they were awful to the point that it staggers the imagination.
Unfortunately some urban programs like DePaul Georgetown StJohns didnt remain dominant going into the 1990s
Temple as well.
@@jamesbowman8138 Temple made the Final 8 in 1993 & 1999. They also made the tournament every year in the 1990s and had two decent years in 2000 & 2001. St Johns was good in 1999 and Georgetown was pretty good with Iverson. Depaul however they haven't done jack in years.
They were still competitive but just not dominant. RIP John Thompson
@@BAYAREA-kd1ig Those are achievements that a good program will be expected to fullfill but the ability to dominate is far different.
@@jamesbowman8138 It's hard the Blue Blood Programs (The Dukes, Kansas, UNC's, Kentuckys of the world) have a strangle hold on the AAU connections.
Got to love the old commercials
I had forgotten Hulk Hogan's Right Guard commercial. Advertisements were so much better back in the day.
RIP 🙏 TARK THE SHARK 🦈/JOHN THOMPSON I LOVED THIS GAME THE BULLY'S GOT BULLIED 😛😰😓🥲😥😢😂🤣😭🤫🤷♂️ GTOWN WAS NONE FOR BEING A BULLY ALL THAT CHANGED AFTER UNLV PUNCHED 👊 THEM IN THE MOUTH AND GTOWN DIDN'T PUNCH BACK I ALSO REMEMBER LARRY JOHNSON/STACEY AUGMEN PUNKING MUTOMBO/ALONZO MORNING
This should have been a bigger wake up call for UNLV than it was, just like losing the SEC Final to Miss. St was for the 1996 UK Wildcats (they have talked about how that loss was a blessing in disguise).
UNLV showed they could be had this game. Duke with similar size and athleticism with better shooting confirmed the notion.
Hoyas no guards😎✌
Tombo and Mourning wasn't even enough
I love the UNLV band playing the Jaws theme. Those were classic times!
Officials screwed the Hoyas, John Thompson never got a tech, unbelievable
sucks that these 2 teams were in the same side of the bracket and had to play each other in the 2nd round that year instead of in the final four
this was a hard game for me, Hoya fan and a Runnin Rebel fan.
Wtf 😂
The MCKALE CENTER!
You can find any game by UNLV that season except the first round game against Montana. Is someone able to post that?
That Georgetown squad has Dave Edwards, UNLV would've been in trouble!
David edwards was a beast!
Facts!
Agreed big loss there
RIP Charles Harrison
Where did coach Thompson find these guards from?
The only guys who were probably willing to deal with Thompsons high expectations
UNLV's close one on the road to the final four
Their "ball state" of 1991
Georgetown should’ve been good, guards were miserable
So how much $ do you think the UNLV players made for throwing the final against Duke? No way in hell they lose that fine straight up.
Why would Vegas' key guys throw a game when they stood to make millions in the NBA? Why would they come back to school for another year when they were projected lottery picks?
Happened alot the in 1980s Sports Illustrated did several stories on it.
@@MattSmith-iq1ld just watch the utter lack of defense by Augmon... It doesn't always have to be about $.... could've been death threats, family members at risk, gambling debts, or maybe nothing... But u never know... "The Fixer" WAS at that game.
I agree 👍💯... I think they got paid real well!! The only difference in the game was Grant Hill and ain't no way he can make up a 30 point difference... UNLV was the best team by far vs Duke... it's funny how money 💰 changes things in life lol.
This Hoya team gave Rebels problems because of the front court. This game made other teams less fearful of Rebels. Duke was embarrassed the previous year by Rebels in the title game so Duke was on a mission. Rebels probably didn't respect Blue Devils going into the game .
Woop woop bring S Augmon back
Stacy was wack!!! NEVA was a fan of his game. All left hand and mostly scored on breakouts. Solid defender though........
Watching the ads. Gauzy. We were less rough then.
That Hoya backcourt was WACK!!! 2 HOF's with NO BACKCOURT playing keep away!!?? So much for recruiting!!!!😁
They still were not an 8 seed. That backcourt was youthful, but you do not see the frontcourt men that G'Town had as an 8 seed.
The players Coach Thompson recruited were scorers coming out of highschool. A lot AllAmericans. For some reason they could not score in college. Thats the main reason they kept getting knocked out early in tournaments. Mourning should have had deeper runs in college than he did especially with Mutumbo.
Take this fucking Michele Financial health banker commercial off, holy fuck I hear it like 20X a goddam day!! ENOUGH!!!
mourning in foul trouble also hurt georgetown. he got 4 fouls way too early with lots of time left in the game
Onth the Samuel L. Jackson Conaass
I watched about six minutes of this game and realized not only did John Thompson recruit any shooters, all black college, but he didn’t recruit one ball handler.
Growing up a hoyas fan that always frustrated me
I sported the Hoyas pullover for years brother. Zo was my favorite center ever.
All Black College? Bruh, Georgetown was not a Black college...just the Bball team was lol
to be COMPLETELY honest i did do and/or probably will SOMEWHAT like georgetown because i did do and/or probably will really LOVE alonzo mourning
Looking back UNLV really wasn’t a good shooting team. It was pts off turnovers and inside play then hope Hunt or Anthony could get on a streak from outside
60 Minutes. Weekend ender.
LETS GO RUNNIN' REBS DOWN THE COURT COAST 2 COAST
Boring snoozer of a game here. Like watching wet paint dry........🤕🤕😝😝😩😩💯
Typically what happens when two good defensive teams are going at it.
That's all of Georgetown's games.
unlv lost on purpose semi final... rigged
These are the Georgetown Hoyas Before Allen Iverson!!!!!
Imagine him and Othella Harrington on this team with Zo and Mutombo. Christ that’s scary.
Augmon has NO right hand!! Sad....
JAX Jr he acquired one in 1992.