20th anniversary of 1996 team

[elimunelson]

I always consider that run to be the start of the third act of Boeheim's coaching career. He seemed to enjoy it for once. I was at the Elite 8, the rallies, etc and Boeheim finally seemed happy. May have been meeting Julie but before then he was soo cantankerous and seemed like a fatalist. Not to mention, as someone stated, that Arkansas game was such a ball buster. Still the worst game for me (i became a fan in 92).

 

[OttoMets]

Incredible. And Lazarus Sims'(a non-shooter to say the least) back to back 3's to help get us back in the game was one of my favorite things that ever happened. .

Same deal near the end of the Drexel game, too, as I recall.

 

[JOC44]

What I remember about that run was playing a stacked Kansas team that had Raef LaFrentz, Paul Pierce, Scot Pollard, and Jacque Vaughn, and somehow coaching "super genius" Roy Williams allowed Jerod Haase to sink their ship by going 0-9 from the field. He just kept shooting, and shooting, and shooting.

"The Cuse is in the House, Oh My God Oh My God"

 

[PeteCalvin]

What I remember about that run was playing a stacked Kansas team that had Raef LaFrentz, Paul Pierce, Scot Pollard, and Jacque Vaughn, and somehow coaching "super genius" Roy Williams allowed Jerod Haase to sink their ship by going 0-9 from the field. He just kept shooting, and shooting, and shooting.

"The Cuse is in the House, Oh My God Oh My God"

Otis Hill single handedly made Pollard and LaFrentz look silly that game. I remember that turnaround pump fake on Pollard, the step-around and dunk for an And-1. KU could not handle JDub and Otis in that game. Wallace, Hill and Reafsnyder embarrassed what was considered the second best front court next to Kentucky. We exposed a KU team that couldn't shoot. They ran us off the court a few years later (the Damone Brown/Allen Griffin team).

 

[kirbivore]

What I remember about that run was playing a stacked Kansas team that had Raef LaFrentz, Paul Pierce, Scot Pollard, and Jacque Vaughn, and somehow coaching "super genius" Roy Williams allowed Jerod Haase to sink their ship by going 0-9 from the field. He just kept shooting, and shooting, and shooting.

"The Cuse is in the House, Oh My God Oh My God"

that was the middle of a glorious run of Roy failure. 1995-1998 Kansas had 3 #1 seed and a #2 and the farthest they got was that elite 8 loss to Syracuse.

 

[MSOrange]

Otis Hill single handedly made Pollard and LaFrentz look silly that game. I remember that turnaround pump fake on Pollard, the step-around and dunk for an And-1. KU could not handle JDub and Otis in that game. Wallace, Hill and Reafsnyder embarrassed what was considered the second best front court next to Kentucky. We exposed a KU team that couldn't shoot. They ran us off the court a few years later (the Damone Brown/Allen Griffin team).

Otis was always one of my favorites. I just liked a guy who was strong enough to battle inside