1989 Syracuse-Illinois
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cuseinseattle
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I was 10. It's a tie between this and Butler.
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I was six. I don't remember the details of the game - I just remember crying afterwards that I would never get to see my favorite player (Sherman) play again. Back then, even great players played all four years, kids!
That season was my first as a Syracuse fan - passed along to me from my parents and older brothers. We never watched a game without playing Nerf at the same time. I was Sherman since I was the smallest.
That season was my first as a Syracuse fan - passed along to me from my parents and older brothers. We never watched a game without playing Nerf at the same time. I was Sherman since I was the smallest.
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It's funny watching these old teams/games/seasons online. What's weird is we had a lot of the same issues we have today. I still can't believe D.C. Teams didn't win at least 1 title. Those teams were LOADED. Yet we'd lose 9 games. Lol
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Real tough loss. Great level of play on both sides though. DC was playing with a hurt back, and wasn't 100%. Owens stepped up big the whole tourney. I think JB, either in his book or in some interview, thought a lot of getting beat in the 2nd half was in part due to the tough game with Missouri the round before, which went late until the night with this being an afternoon game, combined with DC.
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Just a reminder that we'd play Iowa State, a Wisconsin team we easily beat, and five seed Florida had we held on vs Michigan State.
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Agree 100%. Which is what makes an elite 8 / nine-loss season so frustrating.
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That was the year Glen Rice carried Michigan to the title. I think if we had won a title before Duke we would have turned into a selector school.
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SU played Missouri the Friday night before and that game went well after midnight. We were down in the second half and Sherman and Billy refused to lose. As someone pointed out DC was playing with a sore back and wasn't as effective in the final against Illinois as he could have been. Here's another reason to hate Hoyas (if you needed one). He got hurt in the BE final against the Hoya's when he was undercut by a G'Town player under the basket and came down on his back.
Up 4 at the half and thought we really were going to do it.
Illinois was the 1 seed, we were the 2 in the midwest. DC hurt his back in last home game vs. Hoyas. Did not play vs PC or the hall in big east tourney. Played a little vs. the Hoyas in BET final with Mike Tyson in attendance along with Spike Lee. Did not play vs. Bucknell. Played a little vs. Colorado State, than gave all he had vs. Missouri and Illinois.
IF DC was not hurt we win.
Game was Easter.
IF DC was not hurt we win.
Game was Easter.
This is why I said in another post earlier today, before the stupid one and done rule, this was college basketball and how much better it was then compared to now.
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LOL that was me almost word for word, except for the older brother part. Late season, the nerf hoop was moved outside to the driveway. I recall after the huge Cuse comeback during the GTown game, I was so fired up that during timeouts I was sprinting out of the house and throwing down double pump dunks(in my mind, I was being Stevie Thompson) and then running back in.
Those are my prime memories of that era...Cuse runs, the Dome going nuts, fast break Stevie Thompson dunks, Sherm, and my inability to say Owens correctly. I called him Billy Owns, except the O was always really drawn out when I said it. "Billy Oooooooowns!" It always cracked my dad up and he still says "Billy Ooooooowns!" to me on the occasions that Billy is brought up.
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The problem was a lot of other teams were loaded in those days too.
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Watched the game at the brae loch on Easter. Cried like a stuck pig. The end.
Is this the game where Coleman got T'd up late for throwing the ball at a player???
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