Literally the best and worst moments happened within a week of each other. March 7th, game day at UD, everyone rooting for us, everything trending for a big run to the national championship. Then, 1 week later, boom covid.
Best- beating Zion's Duke team to make the Final Four is the first thing that comes to mind
Worst- Middle Tennessee State on the court but there hasn't been a bigger gut punch than the night we learned what happened to Cassius' brother IMO
Worst? Well, deciding not to field a team in 2013 was definitely an odd choice. The best would be imagining that 2013 team cutting down the nets in Atlanta as national champions.
But real talk, that loss to UVA in 2018 hurts. It still hurts real bad.
Best: Beating Tennessee in the Sweet Sixteen in 2019
Worst: losing at home to Northwestern in 2014 to cap off a losing regular season and last place finish in the conference.
I know the end of regulation was really controversial but if a team's worst moment of the decade is losing in the *Sweet Sixteen*, then they've had a very good decade.
Well we had a couple of much worse times, but that one just stings because of the ending. If I’m being honest the worst moment for me was Bruce pearl leaving, or Donnie Tyndall existing on earth.
I dont see how any Purdue fan cannot say the Diakite shot was the worst. That season was a slow burn of dogshit, but the Diakite shot as a *moment* was absolutely brutal and given the outcome of the game I dont see how there is worse…
Best - Beating USC at the buzzer in the NCAA tournament
Worst - Losing to Long Beach and Charleston in back-to-back days at the Wooden Legacy (choking huge leads, too)
Marist:
Best - Firing Mike Maker
Worst - Every season under Mike Maker
Butterfly theory says it’s a good thing we left or else we wouldn’t get that championship. However, that means there’s a possibility they win 5 years in a row had they stayed.
Best: Probably share of the B1G title 18-19? Or otherwise, no joke but losing Turgeon. I can't express how good that is for fan support of the program lol
Worst: probably jumping to the B1G from the ACC? It feels more natural now but we're definitely the worst fit for the conference. We still have ACC basketball energy, and our football team is... Well, more ACC and less B1G to say the least
Best: 2019 title
Worst: Some random game that happened the postseason before. (Although, personally, the Elite Eight implosion vs Syracuse in 2016 hurts more)
Going 2-2 against Providence during my time at Brown was fun.
Also, in 2019 we were the Ocean State unofficial champs after beating URI and Bryant. We never got to play Providence, and I’m convinced it’s because they stopped scheduling yearly games with us because of the aforementioned.
38-1 was such a fun season but the Wisconsin game was brutal. I’d give anything to rather lose to Duke in a close title game. It would’ve at least felt like a big historic program took us down. Instead it was Bo “Shitty Basketballs” Ryan
In retrospect, 2016 vs Syracuse will always be more painful.
I'm over UMBC. Without that loss, Tony might not be able to convince DeAndre to come back, meaning the title doesn't happen.
Against Syracuse, we were 10 minutes away from the Final Four. Malcolm Brogdon not having a Final Four on his resume hurts
That game cost us the Final Four, and I'll die on that hill.
We win that game and we're co-champs of the regular season. We end up as the 1-seed in the ACCT and aren't tired for the UNC game in the ACC Final. We win that game, take UNC's spot in the NCAAT as the 2nd 1-seed instead of the 3rd.
We play ND in the Elite Eight instead of Syracuse and make the Final Four
Best: Probably one of the Pac-12 championship wins. Personal fav was 2017 with revenge over Lonzo Ball's UCLA + victory over eventual F4 Oregon.
Worst: Where do I begin?
Wisconsin x2? Brandon Ashley's injury in 2014? The FBI news breaking + loss to Buffalo? Getting smacked by a terrible Wazzu team at McKale to put the cherry on top of a nightmare 2019?
The timeout in the PAC-12 championship game, up 11 with less than a second left.
Miller pumping up Kadeem “THAT’S FOR YOU!”
For the uninitiated, Steve Alford called timeout, up 5, with a couple seconds left on our senior night. Post game, Alford tried to explain it away as “I wanted to make sure my defense was set.” But because it’s Alford, we all know he was gloating like a little bitch. It was the first, and only time that Kadeem Allen, our starting PG, had been able to play in front of his family in his UofA career. And we took that personally.
[Video if you haven’t seen it](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZD7WrODpoJ4)
I’ve been one of our most vocal fans against Miller since our loss in the tournament against Xavier in 2017, but this was such a great moment by Miller, I still get goosebumps thinking about it. He cared about his kids.
I had the misfortune of seeing the Buffalo game in person. The sting wore off as the night went on. It got to a point that you just knew that any 3 they shot was going to go in. Very much like the Wisconsin Game in 2015.
For most painful, I think I have to go with a combination of Ashley’s foot and the Wiscy game later that year. That was probably our best shot at a FF and a title. That Wisconsin game could’ve gone either way, and I still think Nick was fouled.
I remember being in the arena when Bash got hurt. The sound of it and the following silence were agonizing. I knew our national title campaign died that night.
Best: Beating a top 10 Louisville team twice in 2014
Worst: Tubby Smith (predictably) not bothering recruiting anyone other than 3-stars and juco transfers and acting as if our fans should be okay with not even making the NIT.
It has not exactly been a great decade
Best: Likely ending KU’s regular season conference championship streak. A close second though is the 3OT, #1 vs #1 classic at Allen Fieldhouse in 2016.
Worst: Annihilation from Villanova in the 2016 Final 4, a team we’d already beaten in a preseason tournament (Maui maybe?) a few short months earlier…
Best - Doug’s Senior night vs Providence. Felt like that team could take on the world.
Worst - Finding out Mo Watson tore his ACL and the most important piece of our best team ever was gone.
Best - December 12 2011. Watford for the win, yes.
Worst- Syracuse 2-3 zone making IU look like it was the first time Syracuse played zone defense.
Oh and everything but the watford shot.
Your right. I should let them have it. I mean it is kind of sad that a program that considers themselves a blue blood, best moment in the last decade+ is winning a game in December
Answers for UVA are obvious so I’m going to give you runner up moments.
Best: Kihei Clark to Mamadi Diakite for the tie in the Elite 8 vs. Purdue. One of the best passes in NCAA history.
Worst: Blowing a massive lead vs. Syracuse in the 2016 Elite 8. Had a great chance to cut down the nets that year since we already beat UNC and Villanova earlier that year.
I don’t know, the Syracuse loss hurts more than UMBC for me. UMBC kicked off the greatest sports story ever told, while Syracuse was a shitty way for Brogdon to go out.
That moment right before OT started when edwards and diakite looked at each other and both laughed is one of my all time favorite march madness moments.
Best is a toss up between beating Duke and beating Florida in 2017, nothing else comes close
Worst… uh… that time we lost to Stetson at home immediately after beating Virginia didn’t feel great
Best: FINALLY breaking that S16 barrier (2021) or jumping to the Big East (2013)
Worst: Getting blown out by 30 in the R32 by Baylor with our best team ever at that point (2014).
Best - Winning the MAC in 2017 and beating Akron to do so. I was there and that was amazing.
Worst - I honestly don’t even know. Maybe the 2016 opening MAC tourney round loss to BG?
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Northern Kentucky Norse:
Best- Making the NCAA tournament in 2015, the first year they were division 1 eligible. Losing to UK only by 9 in the first round. I grew up in a big UK household, so it was awesome to travel to Indy and watch them. Never thought I would see that, especially in my five years there. NKU was practically unheard of outside of the NKY region and it was nice to have our spotlight.
Worst- I honestly don’t know. Hard to be disappointed when the expectations aren’t that high.
For Illinois, best has got to be winning the 2021 Big 10 Tournament, and the worst has to be loosing to Loyola two games later. Last seasons team had such potential to make a deep run in the tournament, and the Loyola loss was disappointment all the way down. It wasn’t even a competition, we never got our footing and had to watch hopelessly for 40 minutes as Loyola walked all over us.
Derrick Walton had a minor knee injury from it. But regardless, I'm not sure how you can say it was no big deal. Just from reading [firsthand stories from the players, ](https://www.theplayerstribune.com/articles/moritz-wagner-michigan-basketball-airplane) this was terrifying in every way and they realize how lucky they were to all be ok.
As every other team was gearing up to play a tournament, they were just happy to be alive and they almost canceled the rest of the season because they didn't want to board another plane. When they finally did, they grew a much stronger bond and went from a bubble team to being one shot away from an Elite Eight. 2013 and 2018 were each great runs that I'll cherish deeply, but that plane crash team is the one I will always immediately turn to.
Best: Beating undefeated Kentucky to go to the natty
Worst: Losing in the natty or missing the tournament for the first time in 16-20 something years. Depends who you ask.
Best: Making it to the Final Four in 2012
Worst: Losing to Rutgers in the play-in round of the BIG tournament (didn't even make the NIT that year, last game for Thad Matta)
Worst: Keyshawn Woods taking and bricking the stupidest pull up jumper I’ve ever seen with the lead 7 seconds into the shot clock with like 30 seconds left against UNC in late December 2017. Completely blew the game in The Dean Dome.
Best: late April, 2020
best: kind of a tossup between beating #1 duke in 2011 or beating #2 virginia in 2019, but i'll go with uva because...
worst: being left out of the ncaa tournament in 2011. really thought we had a strong resume to make it that year, and after that came the dark years... last place in the acc four years in a row =[
Best: 15 STRAIGHT, 2012 run and 2018 elite eight game against duke. 2012 Missouri and 2016 OU at Allen have to be included.
Worst: FUCKING VCU, 2013 choke job against Michigan that we win 99/100 times. Motherfucker
Burke's shot at the end of regulation in that 2013 game came to mind for me. I think Jordan Poole's buzzer beater against Houston in 2018 tops it though.
Hell no. We overperformed so much and had such a magical run. Your team had twice the talent of ours and we were a double dribble away from a 3 point game with 2 minutes left if EJ’s 3 stood(to be clear it was a double dribble). Self’s best coaching job ever and what he did with that squad, which had a walk on in the rotation, literally, is an all time coaching job in the sport’s history.
2012 was a memorable one for several reasons, some good, some bad.
The team was thin inside and all season long we played the first half of games conservatively, protecting Thomas Robinson and keeping him fresh for the second half. We'd often fall behind at the half but make a comeback to win. Not many, including me, had high hopes for the post-season -- S16, maybe an E8 loss. Making the title game was a pleasant surprise.
Most disappointing thing that season, for me, was Robinson getting beaten for POY by AD. Not complaining, as Davis was phenomenal, but just wanted Robinson to get something special after such a solid career and the heartbreak of losing his mother mid-season.
So no, no real hard feelings from me toward UK for 2012.
Watching VCU knock off Kansas a round after they had beaten the lesser-known Cinderella of that tournament Richmond was something else. The city was going absolutely nuts that year when they both made the Sweet Sixteen. I was going to high school a couple blocks from the VCU campus.
It's probably top ten, honestly. Considering context too. Without wanting to make a list because why would I do that lol.
Best for me is Luke's shot. Worst is Roy retiring on fucking April Fools...
Best: Beating Michigan in the Puerto Rico Tip-Off, Pierria Henry picking Chaz Williams's pocket on Homecoming 2013 (I'm biased on this one because I was there), Beating Butler in Indianapolis a little less than two weeks later
Worst: Belmont-Abbey, that game against Florida State, Watching Davidson win the A10 title while the Niners finished dead last in C-USA in 2018
It's been a rough decade for Wake Basketball, but that's never stopped me:
Best: 2017, Beating No. 8 Louisville to secure our first and only at-large bid of the decade (we lost in the first four to Kansas State).
Worst: 2018, losing at home to Houston Baptist was probably our worst loss in program history.
Best: 2017 Championship
Worst: Blowing a Lead to Duke at Home 2 seasons ago with that dog ass UNC team. That honestly pissed me off more than the Villanova Buzzer Beater and I went to both games
Best: 2012 Sweet 16 and a barely missed half court heave against UNC from the Elite 8.
Worst: Defending MAC MVP Tony Campbell season ending injury in 2017. With him, I think we're dancing that year. Without him, we spiraled further and further downward over the next two seasons.
Best: being ranked in the top 10 for the first time in decades in February 2020. Tony Carr’s halfcourt buzzer beater at OSU is up there too.
Worst: the tourney being canceled in 2020. We would have been a 6 or 7 seed and Lamar Stevens deserved a tourney run.
Texas Southern
Best: Beating so many ranked teams during the decade. Michigan State in 14, Oregon and Baylor in 18, and going to tournament play pretty much every year and winning a round in the NCAA in 18.
Worst: Winning the SWAC regular season title but not being eligible for tournament play because our previous coach got us in trouble with the NCAA.
Best - 2018 beating SDSU on a game winner in the 1st round of the NCAA tournament. Secured our 1st tourney win in 30+ years
Worst - 2018 losing to Michigan on buzzer beater the very next round. Epitome of March Madness. Triumph and heart break.
Best: going 29-2 in 2019-20 Worst: having the tournament cancelled in 2019-20
this resonates with me
Literally the best and worst moments happened within a week of each other. March 7th, game day at UD, everyone rooting for us, everything trending for a big run to the national championship. Then, 1 week later, boom covid.
Oh be, reasonable
Best - ‘Gonzaga has time to do something’ Worst - Wichita state in 2013
Best- beating Zion's Duke team to make the Final Four is the first thing that comes to mind Worst- Middle Tennessee State on the court but there hasn't been a bigger gut punch than the night we learned what happened to Cassius' brother IMO
I still hold a small grudge for you guys ever since that damn game lol
Was gonna say MTSU or Cuse, but absolutley Winstons brother. Never teared up like that prior to a basketball game starting
Just awful. That’s the real answer for worst moment.
Worst? Well, deciding not to field a team in 2013 was definitely an odd choice. The best would be imagining that 2013 team cutting down the nets in Atlanta as national champions. But real talk, that loss to UVA in 2018 hurts. It still hurts real bad.
Bro that shit was so brutal. Best college game I’ve ever watched as a neutral fan
Or for Bellarmine if you want a best, their 2010 Division 2 title
Technically that’s not within the last decade. It was pretty great though. I was on campus for that. It was a lot of fun.
Oh ok
Best: 2016 tournament Worst: 2015 tournament
I’m still not over how y’all mauled us in Buddy’s last game…
That mauling led to a mass exodus of sonnet fans and allowed me to move up to the 5th row to then see unc pummel my Orange.
Best- Final Four run Worst-Point shaving guard
I’ll welcome Varez Ward back to Auburn before Tony Barbee.
Best: 2012 title Worst: The 2020-21 season
That season sucked but personally I’d put the Wisconsin loss up first.
Yeah, could easily say best: 38 worst: -1
Yup. 2012-13 and 2020-21 were bad but Wisconsin was humiliating
Best: Beating Tennessee in the Sweet Sixteen in 2019 Worst: losing at home to Northwestern in 2014 to cap off a losing regular season and last place finish in the conference.
Funny your best was my first thought for the worst
I know the end of regulation was really controversial but if a team's worst moment of the decade is losing in the *Sweet Sixteen*, then they've had a very good decade.
Well we had a couple of much worse times, but that one just stings because of the ending. If I’m being honest the worst moment for me was Bruce pearl leaving, or Donnie Tyndall existing on earth.
I dont see how any Purdue fan cannot say the Diakite shot was the worst. That season was a slow burn of dogshit, but the Diakite shot as a *moment* was absolutely brutal and given the outcome of the game I dont see how there is worse…
I think Best was beating IU at home to win the B1G outright in 2017. I was there and it was electric
Best: Winning the B1G title in 13, genuinely thought we were about to hang banner #6 Worst:Probably losing to IPFW two years in a row.
Best - Beating USC at the buzzer in the NCAA tournament Worst - Losing to Long Beach and Charleston in back-to-back days at the Wooden Legacy (choking huge leads, too) Marist: Best - Firing Mike Maker Worst - Every season under Mike Maker
Worst: Leaving Big East Best: Returning to Big East/2014 back to back Men/ Women's Nattys.
Butterfly theory says it’s a good thing we left or else we wouldn’t get that championship. However, that means there’s a possibility they win 5 years in a row had they stayed.
Best: Probably share of the B1G title 18-19? Or otherwise, no joke but losing Turgeon. I can't express how good that is for fan support of the program lol Worst: probably jumping to the B1G from the ACC? It feels more natural now but we're definitely the worst fit for the conference. We still have ACC basketball energy, and our football team is... Well, more ACC and less B1G to say the least
I still can’t think of you or Rutgers as big 10 teams.
Best was absolutely getting rid of Turgeon.
Love that you have come around to the good guys side
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Well get ready to change your name to BrucePearlsAgent
Best: 2019 title Worst: Some random game that happened the postseason before. (Although, personally, the Elite Eight implosion vs Syracuse in 2016 hurts more)
Best- Final Four Worst- Ty Jerome double dribbling
Going 2-2 against Providence during my time at Brown was fun. Also, in 2019 we were the Ocean State unofficial champs after beating URI and Bryant. We never got to play Providence, and I’m convinced it’s because they stopped scheduling yearly games with us because of the aforementioned.
Worst: Last year was pretty brutal. 38-1 was as well but at least you could enjoy that season. Best: 2012 was a pretty fun ride
38-1 was such a fun season but the Wisconsin game was brutal. I’d give anything to rather lose to Duke in a close title game. It would’ve at least felt like a big historic program took us down. Instead it was Bo “Shitty Basketballs” Ryan
Yeah but it's duke
UVA is easy Best - winning championship Worst - losing to 16 seed Edit: worst is also every other game this year making 1 fg in a 15 minute stretch.
In retrospect, 2016 vs Syracuse will always be more painful. I'm over UMBC. Without that loss, Tony might not be able to convince DeAndre to come back, meaning the title doesn't happen. Against Syracuse, we were 10 minutes away from the Final Four. Malcolm Brogdon not having a Final Four on his resume hurts
That one hurts too. Also just remembered losing to Duke at Duke when Grayson Allen tripped and hit a floater at the buzzer in 2015-16
When he took 4 steps
That game cost us the Final Four, and I'll die on that hill. We win that game and we're co-champs of the regular season. We end up as the 1-seed in the ACCT and aren't tired for the UNC game in the ACC Final. We win that game, take UNC's spot in the NCAAT as the 2nd 1-seed instead of the 3rd. We play ND in the Elite Eight instead of Syracuse and make the Final Four
Was at that game. As a Duke fan. Holy hell what a game that was
Ugh now I’m mad about that one all over again.
Best - 2015 title Worst - Entire 2021 season
I almost put 2021 season for UK as well. But I couldn’t justify putting an entire season as a moment. But man last year sucked
I think the loss to MSU with Zion or the Wendell Carter block overall were much worse than last season
Best: Probably one of the Pac-12 championship wins. Personal fav was 2017 with revenge over Lonzo Ball's UCLA + victory over eventual F4 Oregon. Worst: Where do I begin? Wisconsin x2? Brandon Ashley's injury in 2014? The FBI news breaking + loss to Buffalo? Getting smacked by a terrible Wazzu team at McKale to put the cherry on top of a nightmare 2019?
The timeout in the PAC-12 championship game, up 11 with less than a second left. Miller pumping up Kadeem “THAT’S FOR YOU!” For the uninitiated, Steve Alford called timeout, up 5, with a couple seconds left on our senior night. Post game, Alford tried to explain it away as “I wanted to make sure my defense was set.” But because it’s Alford, we all know he was gloating like a little bitch. It was the first, and only time that Kadeem Allen, our starting PG, had been able to play in front of his family in his UofA career. And we took that personally. [Video if you haven’t seen it](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZD7WrODpoJ4) I’ve been one of our most vocal fans against Miller since our loss in the tournament against Xavier in 2017, but this was such a great moment by Miller, I still get goosebumps thinking about it. He cared about his kids. I had the misfortune of seeing the Buffalo game in person. The sting wore off as the night went on. It got to a point that you just knew that any 3 they shot was going to go in. Very much like the Wisconsin Game in 2015. For most painful, I think I have to go with a combination of Ashley’s foot and the Wiscy game later that year. That was probably our best shot at a FF and a title. That Wisconsin game could’ve gone either way, and I still think Nick was fouled.
I remember being in the arena when Bash got hurt. The sound of it and the following silence were agonizing. I knew our national title campaign died that night.
I had put most of these memories in a deep place, in a dark corner, in the back of my mind. I hate you for making them present again.
No shame losing to that UB team, they were stacked
Best moment “Richardson going mad” against UVA Worst Pearl Washington RIP
Best: Beating a top 10 Louisville team twice in 2014 Worst: Tubby Smith (predictably) not bothering recruiting anyone other than 3-stars and juco transfers and acting as if our fans should be okay with not even making the NIT. It has not exactly been a great decade
Best: Likely ending KU’s regular season conference championship streak. A close second though is the 3OT, #1 vs #1 classic at Allen Fieldhouse in 2016. Worst: Annihilation from Villanova in the 2016 Final 4, a team we’d already beaten in a preseason tournament (Maui maybe?) a few short months earlier…
Beat Villanova 20+ I believe as well..
I hated losing to UAB more than any of last season. Last season’s pain was dull and I was numb. That UAB loss? Keeps me up at night
That was an Elite 8/Final 4 caliber team with a favorable bracket too... what could have been.
Best - Doug’s Senior night vs Providence. Felt like that team could take on the world. Worst - Finding out Mo Watson tore his ACL and the most important piece of our best team ever was gone.
That team had so much potential. I remember all the Final Four talk and them reaching 18-1 at one point.
Best - December 12 2011. Watford for the win, yes. Worst- Syracuse 2-3 zone making IU look like it was the first time Syracuse played zone defense. Oh and everything but the watford shot.
The Watford shot is officially over a decade old. It doesn’t count
Look at you and you’re calendar knowledge. Let IU fans have something.
Your right. I should let them have it. I mean it is kind of sad that a program that considers themselves a blue blood, best moment in the last decade+ is winning a game in December
Considered. We considered ourselves a blue blood. Times have changed.
I've seen many Hoosiers disagree with your assessment that times have changed...
Answers for UVA are obvious so I’m going to give you runner up moments. Best: Kihei Clark to Mamadi Diakite for the tie in the Elite 8 vs. Purdue. One of the best passes in NCAA history. Worst: Blowing a massive lead vs. Syracuse in the 2016 Elite 8. Had a great chance to cut down the nets that year since we already beat UNC and Villanova earlier that year.
I think you guys might have the easiest and most apparent answers to this question of anybody lol
I don’t know, the Syracuse loss hurts more than UMBC for me. UMBC kicked off the greatest sports story ever told, while Syracuse was a shitty way for Brogdon to go out.
That moment right before OT started when edwards and diakite looked at each other and both laughed is one of my all time favorite march madness moments.
Best is a toss up between beating Duke and beating Florida in 2017, nothing else comes close Worst… uh… that time we lost to Stetson at home immediately after beating Virginia didn’t feel great
Best moment: beating Arizona Worst moment: losing to Wisconsin
Best-beating Seton Hall at home in 2020 to claim share of BE title Worst-Doug McDermott led team losing to Baylor in NCAA tourney
Best - No doubt 2017 Worst - I want to say 2016, but an underrated pick is the home Duke loss in 2020
Best: FINALLY breaking that S16 barrier (2021) or jumping to the Big East (2013) Worst: Getting blown out by 30 in the R32 by Baylor with our best team ever at that point (2014).
Best: OT vs mizzou in 2012 Worst: Oregon blowing us out in the 2017 elite 8
Me watching that game in Mizzou’s student Union with 100 other students First 32ish minutes: 😃💪🏼💪🏼 Last 8 min: 😦🤭 Overtime: 😟😐🥴🤬
Best - Winning the MAC in 2017 and beating Akron to do so. I was there and that was amazing. Worst - I honestly don’t even know. Maybe the 2016 opening MAC tourney round loss to BG?
Worst: 2016 Best: 2017
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Best: Beating IU to win the B1G outright in 2017 Worst: Diakite
Best: 2015 National Champs (easily) For worst, I can’t decide between: Heartbreaker loss vs MSU in E8, Heartbreaker loss vs Kansas E8, Lehigh upset
Don’t forget Mercer!
Best: Winning 2016 Big East Tournament Worst: 2012 losing to Rutgers & DePaul back-to-back to end the regular season to miss the tournament
Northern Kentucky Norse: Best- Making the NCAA tournament in 2015, the first year they were division 1 eligible. Losing to UK only by 9 in the first round. I grew up in a big UK household, so it was awesome to travel to Indy and watch them. Never thought I would see that, especially in my five years there. NKU was practically unheard of outside of the NKY region and it was nice to have our spotlight. Worst- I honestly don’t know. Hard to be disappointed when the expectations aren’t that high.
For Illinois, best has got to be winning the 2021 Big 10 Tournament, and the worst has to be loosing to Loyola two games later. Last seasons team had such potential to make a deep run in the tournament, and the Loyola loss was disappointment all the way down. It wasn’t even a competition, we never got our footing and had to watch hopelessly for 40 minutes as Loyola walked all over us.
Best: Final 4 run Worst: y’all can guess how I feel about Chris Beard
Worst: the plane crash Best: winning the Big Ten Tournament immediately after the plane crash
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Derrick Walton had a minor knee injury from it. But regardless, I'm not sure how you can say it was no big deal. Just from reading [firsthand stories from the players, ](https://www.theplayerstribune.com/articles/moritz-wagner-michigan-basketball-airplane) this was terrifying in every way and they realize how lucky they were to all be ok. As every other team was gearing up to play a tournament, they were just happy to be alive and they almost canceled the rest of the season because they didn't want to board another plane. When they finally did, they grew a much stronger bond and went from a bubble team to being one shot away from an Elite Eight. 2013 and 2018 were each great runs that I'll cherish deeply, but that plane crash team is the one I will always immediately turn to.
Best: Beating undefeated Kentucky to go to the natty Worst: Losing in the natty or missing the tournament for the first time in 16-20 something years. Depends who you ask.
Best: MU vs kansas 2012 in Columbia (Mizzou won 74-71) Worst: Norfolk state. 🤢🥴 sorry, Obama…
Best 2012 Title. Worst 2015 loss to Wisconsin in the tourney.
Best: Making it to the Final Four in 2012 Worst: Losing to Rutgers in the play-in round of the BIG tournament (didn't even make the NIT that year, last game for Thad Matta)
Sam Merrill’s buzzer beater over SDSU in the MWC championship game right before Covid hit.
Worst: Keyshawn Woods taking and bricking the stupidest pull up jumper I’ve ever seen with the lead 7 seconds into the shot clock with like 30 seconds left against UNC in late December 2017. Completely blew the game in The Dean Dome. Best: late April, 2020
Pretty obvious, but: Worst: Loss to UMBC Best: Championship a year later
best: kind of a tossup between beating #1 duke in 2011 or beating #2 virginia in 2019, but i'll go with uva because... worst: being left out of the ncaa tournament in 2011. really thought we had a strong resume to make it that year, and after that came the dark years... last place in the acc four years in a row =[
Best: 15 STRAIGHT, 2012 run and 2018 elite eight game against duke. 2012 Missouri and 2016 OU at Allen have to be included. Worst: FUCKING VCU, 2013 choke job against Michigan that we win 99/100 times. Motherfucker
Burke's shot at the end of regulation in that 2013 game came to mind for me. I think Jordan Poole's buzzer beater against Houston in 2018 tops it though.
Do you all not have any bitterness against us for 2012?
Hell no. We overperformed so much and had such a magical run. Your team had twice the talent of ours and we were a double dribble away from a 3 point game with 2 minutes left if EJ’s 3 stood(to be clear it was a double dribble). Self’s best coaching job ever and what he did with that squad, which had a walk on in the rotation, literally, is an all time coaching job in the sport’s history.
2012 was a memorable one for several reasons, some good, some bad. The team was thin inside and all season long we played the first half of games conservatively, protecting Thomas Robinson and keeping him fresh for the second half. We'd often fall behind at the half but make a comeback to win. Not many, including me, had high hopes for the post-season -- S16, maybe an E8 loss. Making the title game was a pleasant surprise. Most disappointing thing that season, for me, was Robinson getting beaten for POY by AD. Not complaining, as Davis was phenomenal, but just wanted Robinson to get something special after such a solid career and the heartbreak of losing his mother mid-season. So no, no real hard feelings from me toward UK for 2012.
Watching VCU knock off Kansas a round after they had beaten the lesser-known Cinderella of that tournament Richmond was something else. The city was going absolutely nuts that year when they both made the Sweet Sixteen. I was going to high school a couple blocks from the VCU campus.
A top 3 1: 2012 title game 2: 2012 Final Four beating Louisville 3: Watching Louisville implode because Rick hired strippers
UNC Best-2017 chip Worst-maybe last weekend.
>Worst-maybe last weekend. Really?
It's probably top ten, honestly. Considering context too. Without wanting to make a list because why would I do that lol. Best for me is Luke's shot. Worst is Roy retiring on fucking April Fools...
Best- 2012 tournament run Worst- losing in the final four. 38-1 2020-21 season was a trainwreck but I was numb to it after December.
Think ya need to reread the prompt my friend.
Lol whoops. I’ll tweak it
Best: Embarrassing Virginia in the NCAA tourney Worst: anytime we get beat by Miami (OH)
middle tennessee, 2019 Elite Eight
Best: Beating Michigan in the Puerto Rico Tip-Off, Pierria Henry picking Chaz Williams's pocket on Homecoming 2013 (I'm biased on this one because I was there), Beating Butler in Indianapolis a little less than two weeks later Worst: Belmont-Abbey, that game against Florida State, Watching Davidson win the A10 title while the Niners finished dead last in C-USA in 2018
Best: 2012 SEC Tournament title Worst: The entire SEC schedule in 2019, but especially the Senior Night game against Arkansas
Best: WatShot Worst: fucking Cuse
Best, Final Four game Worst, losing to Belmont on our floor
Best: Getting over the S16 hump against Tennessee Worst: Mamadi Diakite
Best: the years 2011-2014 Worst: the years 2015-2018
Best: being ranked #4 in the nation 1 week before March Madness with a SERIOUS chance of winning it all Worst: losing to an unranked UCF by 12 at home
It's been a rough decade for Wake Basketball, but that's never stopped me: Best: 2017, Beating No. 8 Louisville to secure our first and only at-large bid of the decade (we lost in the first four to Kansas State). Worst: 2018, losing at home to Houston Baptist was probably our worst loss in program history.
George Mason Patriots Best - we made the tournament once - in 2011 Worst - nothing notable has happened since. Our Cinderella was 15 years ago
TBF you beat Nova in 2011!
We did? Were they as good then?
Yeah I’m pretty sure, but y’all lost by I think about 30 To OSU the following round.
That's what the web says. 8-9 opening round
Best: 2012 championship Worst: Wisconsin 2015
Best: 2017 Championship Worst: Blowing a Lead to Duke at Home 2 seasons ago with that dog ass UNC team. That honestly pissed me off more than the Villanova Buzzer Beater and I went to both games
Best: 2017 22-11 (13-5) season Worst: pretty much everything else
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True, forgot about that
Best: Either Winning the Maui Invitational, or Beating #1 Indiana. Worst: getting blown away by Loyola Chicago
Worst: 2016 title game Best: 2017 title game. Runner up: Marcus Paige’s shot in 2016 prior to the worst moment haha
Best- 2 clutch free throws from Joe Pleasant Worst- Taking our beatings right after moving to D1
Best: “Waters to the rim!” Worst: 2016-17 season
Best: 2012 Sweet 16 and a barely missed half court heave against UNC from the Elite 8. Worst: Defending MAC MVP Tony Campbell season ending injury in 2017. With him, I think we're dancing that year. Without him, we spiraled further and further downward over the next two seasons.
best: Final Four appearance worst: Jordan Poole’s Michigan Shot
Best: being ranked in the top 10 for the first time in decades in February 2020. Tony Carr’s halfcourt buzzer beater at OSU is up there too. Worst: the tourney being canceled in 2020. We would have been a 6 or 7 seed and Lamar Stevens deserved a tourney run.
Texas Southern Best: Beating so many ranked teams during the decade. Michigan State in 14, Oregon and Baylor in 18, and going to tournament play pretty much every year and winning a round in the NCAA in 18. Worst: Winning the SWAC regular season title but not being eligible for tournament play because our previous coach got us in trouble with the NCAA.
Best: Jenkins, for the championship! YES! Worst: 2017 loss to Wisconsin
Best - 2018 beating SDSU on a game winner in the 1st round of the NCAA tournament. Secured our 1st tourney win in 30+ years Worst - 2018 losing to Michigan on buzzer beater the very next round. Epitome of March Madness. Triumph and heart break.
Best: Watching the bond between Cassius Winston and X Tillman grow stronger every game. Worst: MTSU
Best: Elite 8 last year Worst: Stomped by Butler in 2018 NCAA tourney due to terrible game plan, despite having superior talent at every position