Best Louisville game of the decade tournament update

by Mike Rutherford on Nov 18, 2009 3:00 PM EST in News Comment 5 comments

We'll hop back into the first round action tomorrow, but for now here's a quick status update on where the tournament stands.

1) 2005 West Virginia Elite Eight Game defeated 16) 2001 Liberty Bowl (94%-5%)

2) vs. 15) - TBD

3) vs. 14) - TBD

4) 2003 Conference USA Championship Game defeated 13) 2009 Big East Championship Game (67%-32%)

5) vs. 12) - TBD

11) 2006 Miami Football Game defeated 6) 2003 Reece Gaines Buzzer-Beater at Marquette (71%-28%)

7) 2001 Tennessee Basketball Comeback defeated 10) 2009 Kentucky Basketball Victory (53%-46%)

9) 2003 Kentucky Basketball Victory defeated 8) 2004 Liberty Bowl (53%-46%)

Please, no comments about the percentages not adding up to 100. I'm just going with what the numbers say in the poll boxes and numbers in poll boxes generated by computers have never been wrong.

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I'm surprised the 2009 conf. championship game lost by such a substantial margin

I thought it would be closer

by Centre24 on Nov 18, 2009 3:04 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

I'm not...

…based on the fact that Egotistical Darius Washington had karma bite him in the ass. It was even greater that it was against our rival Memphis and Coach Calipari.

by guyngreen on Nov 18, 2009 3:29 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

darn rounding

computers are always right though

by cmb on Nov 18, 2009 7:19 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

2 – WVU Football, 2006
3 – FSU Football, 2004
5 – Wake Forest, 2006 (Orange Bowl)
12 – Pitt, 2009 (ranked #1)
14 – Marquette, 2007 (Jerry heroics)
15 – Georgetown, 2008 (top 6 – first white out – Pitino in a white suit – College Gameday)

I feel pretty good about the first two, but there are a lot of good basketball games and it’s tough to differentiate them. I noted that Mike tends to be favoring last second heroics over blowouts of great teams, but I don’t think either of the other 2 Marquette games should outrank Reece’s game winner.

I am pretty confident that we’ll end up with a WVU showdown in the championship game.

Top 10 basketball left out chronologically:
1. Arizona, 2009. I love me some blow outs at tournament time.
2. at WVU, 2009. Winning the Big East on college gameday
3. Villanova, 2009 (BET). Incredible game, and we outscored a Final Four team by 19 (?) in the second half. Best half of an incredible season.
4. Tennessee, 2008. Loved hammering the SEC’s best.
5. Oklahoma, 2008. Everything went right.
6. Stanford, 2007. We seem to have
7. WVU, 2007 (BET). Sosa’s game-tying drive and OT in the Garden. Had we fared better the next game and had we not surrendered like 17 straight points, this would make my top 16 list.
8. at Pitt, 2007. Blowing out a top 5 team on the road when we needed it most.
9. 2005, Washington. First Sweet 16 win for Pitino at UofL.
10. 2005, Georgia Tech. Amazing performance.
11. 2005, Marquette. Garcia made it great, but the game sucked up until that moment.
12. 2004, UC. Top 20 ranked teams, and we blow them out.
13. 2003, Indiana. Amazing comeback.
14. 2003, Kentucky. Marvin Stone makes UK pay. Very satisfying.
15. 2002, UC. We sucked, but we beat a top 5 ranked team.
16. 2000, UNC. Terrible season, but this and Syracuse wins we were hitting on all cylinders.

I think it would be tough for any other football games to make the list with the possible exception of the USM blowout in 2001 or maybe 2004 at Memphis (for the excitement more than the execution).

by 83fan on Nov 18, 2009 10:28 PM EST reply actions 0 recs