best individual player performance in ncaa tourny game

[CorduroyG]

mcw's game against indiana has gotta be top 5 right? melo against texas #1? monster performance in a final 4 game


obviously talking about syracuse only

 

[armory]

GMAC.

BYU 2004.

Nuff said.

 

[Capt. Tuttle]

mcw's game against indiana has gotta be top 5 right? melo against texas #1? monster performance in a final 4 game


obviously talking about syracuse only

DC vs IU in FF. 19 rebounds Nuff said.

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[jncuse]

John Wallace - 1996 Regional Semi-Final against Georgia.

30 pts, 15 rebounds, multiple clutch plays
Great pass to send game into overtime.
Game winning shot in overtime.

 

[Orangezoo]

GMAC's first half alone vs KU makes that performance worthy of at least top 10 if not top 5 as well. Also not that you pointed to it - MCW had two big performances this year that could go as two of the better individual efforts in this tourney as well.

 

[dollarbill44]

mcw's game against indiana has gotta be top 5 right? melo against texas #1? monster performance in a final 4 game


obviously talking about syracuse only

Not taking anything away from MCW, I would think it may not even be top 10 all-time for SU.

 

[CorduroyG]

Not taking anything away from MCW, I would think it may not even be top 10 all-time for SU.

career high 24 pts, 5 rebounds 4 steals in sweet 16 game against heavily favored #1 seed. gotta be top 10.

 

[dollarbill44]

career high 24 pts, 5 rebounds 4 steals in sweet 16 game against heavily favored #1 seed. gotta be top 10.

It might be top 10. I'm just suggesting that it isn't a given. Keep in mind, there have been a lot of very big individual performances in the NCAAT at SU over the years: Rudy Hackett, Jimmy Lee, Rony Seikaly, DC, Melo, GMac, Addison, JW, etc. Some others here with better memories can fill in some more blanks here.

 

[Orangezoo]

put it this way.. MCW's was one of the best sweet 16 performances ever that I recall.

 

[nnyorange]

mcw's game against indiana has gotta be top 5 right? melo against texas #1? monster performance in a final 4 game


obviously talking about syracuse only

What about Adrian Autry in the sweet 16 versus Missouri in 1994? 31 points all in the second half and the infamous shot from his knees that should have counted and would have given SU the win in regulation potentially.

 

[Henny & Coke]

I'm not sure that we spent enough time praising the true dominance of SU's performance in that game vs Indiana, considering we were then looking forward to playing Marquette two days later. But going back to look at the numbers again, this was a special performance by the entire team.

On defense especially, here are some notes to detail just how historic our defensive effort vs Indiana was:

- Indiana averaged 78.1 points per 100 possessions in its loss to Syracuse Thursday, its worst offensive efficiency in the last two seasons. Entering the Round of 16, the Hoosiers had averaged 117.4 points per 100 possessions, the second-most efficient offense in the nation. Indiana's effective field goal percentage and turnover percentage Thursday were also season worsts.

- Indiana scored 50 points vs Syracuse, tied for the 4th-fewest points by a 1 seed in the shot clock era.

- Indiana shot 28.6 percent and had 16 turnovers against Syracuse's zone. The Hoosiers had nine of their 42 field goal attempts against the zone blocked. They entered the game shooting 52.8 percent against zone defenses this season, fourth best in the nation.

- Didn't matter that Indiana ranked third in the country this season in scoring, putting up 79.5 points per game -- and never fewer than 56 -- while making 48.6 percent of its shots. This game they were limited to 50 points on 33.3% shooting.

- Indiana's largest lead was 1 point, while Syracuse's largest lead was 18!

- Jordan Hulls & Yogi Farrell, Indiana's 2 main guards (if not counting G/ Victor Oladipo) did not score a point between them! Not a single point in the 49 combined mins they were on the floor, as they shot 0-8. (On the season, Hulls averaged 9.7 ppg, while Ferrell averaged 7.6 ppg, good for 17.3 ppg combined.)

So, speaking of the team's defensive effort in general, it was pretty historic. And MCW was a big part of that.

And then on offense/individual note, MCW:

- scored a game high 24 points (almost half of what the entire Indiana roster scored total!) on 9-19 FG, 3-6 3pts, 3-6 FTs,
- 5 rebounds,
- game high 4 steals,
- 1 assist (shocking so low),
- 1 block and
- only 1 turnover!

This last point (only 1 turnover) is huge, considering the amount of turnovers committed by every other guard playing in the game was as follows:

Yogi Farrell - 4 turnovers
Victor Oladipo - 3 turnovers
Jordan Hulls - 2 turnovers
Brandon Triche - 6 turnovers
Trevor Cooney - 1 turnover
MCW - 1 turnover

For MCW to have made as many plays as he did & only have 1 turnover, shows how in the zone he was on this night. Just a classic performance against a top notch opponent - one I will never forget.

 

[CorduroyG]

I'm not sure that we spent enough time praising the true dominance of SU's performance in that game vs Indiana, considering we were then looking forward to playing Marquette two days later. But going back to look at the numbers again, this was a special performance by the entire team.

On defense especially, here are some notes to detail just how historic our defensive effort vs Indiana was:

- Indiana averaged 78.1 points per 100 possessions in its loss to Syracuse Thursday, its worst offensive efficiency in the last two seasons. Entering the Round of 16, the Hoosiers had averaged 117.4 points per 100 possessions, the second-most efficient offense in the nation. Indiana's effective field goal percentage and turnover percentage Thursday were also season worsts.

- Indiana scored 50 points vs Syracuse, tied for the 4th-fewest points by a 1 seed in the shot clock era.

- Indiana shot 28.6 percent and had 16 turnovers against Syracuse's zone. The Hoosiers had nine of their 42 field goal attempts against the zone blocked. They entered the game shooting 52.8 percent against zone defenses this season, fourth best in the nation.

- Didn't matter that Indiana ranked third in the country this season in scoring, putting up 79.5 points per game -- and never fewer than 56 -- while making 48.6 percent of its shots. This game they were limited to 50 points on 33.3% shooting.

- Indiana's largest lead was 1 point, while Syracuse's largest lead was 18!

- Jordan Hulls & Yogi Farrell, Indiana's 2 main guards (if not counting G/ Victor Oladipo) did not score a point between them! Not a single point in the 49 combined mins they were on the floor, as they shot 0-8. (On the season, Hulls averaged 9.7 ppg, while Ferrell averaged 7.6 ppg, good for 17.3 ppg combined.)

So, speaking of the team's defensive effort in general, it was pretty historic. And MCW was a big part of that.

And then on offense/individual note, MCW:

- scored a game high 24 points (almost half of what the entire Indiana roster scored total!) on 9-19 FG, 3-6 3pts, 3-6 FTs,
- 5 rebounds,
- game high 4 steals,
- 1 assist (shocking so low),
- 1 block and
- only 1 turnover!

This last point (only 1 turnover) is huge, considering the amount of turnovers committed by every other guard playing in the game was as follows:

Yogi Farrell - 4 turnovers
Victor Oladipo - 3 turnovers
Jordan Hulls - 2 turnovers
Brandon Triche - 6 turnovers
Trevor Cooney - 1 turnover
MCW - 1 turnover

For MCW to have made as many plays as he did & only have 1 turnover, shows how in the zone he was on this night. Just a classic performance against a top notch opponent - one I will never forget.

same here. i was so hyped for that game. sweet 16 game, the '87 revenge factor, them being a 1 seed, everyone picking against us. mcw dominated that game on both sides of the ball. ill always remember mcw for that game.

 

[Ghost]

I was going to write, no way, but I'm starting to thing it might. Have to think about it a bit more though and run through some old brackets first though

 

[CusefanATL]

put it this way.. MCW's was one of the best sweet 16 performances ever that I recall.

john wallace smokes it.

 

[HoustonCuse]

Unfortunately, he may have had one of the 10 worst performances ever by a Syracuse player in the tourney 2 games later. Don't care though. He got us to the final four, he should be remembered as such.

 

[CusefanATL]

Unfortunately, he may have had one of the 10 worst performances ever by a Syracuse player in the tourney 2 games later. Don't care though. He got us to the final four, he should be remembered as such.

only to be rivaled by the Dirty

 

[Jasoncuse]

Melo Texas, Gerry against Kansas, Gerry against BYU, DC in the title game, John Wallace vs Georgia, Autry against Mizzou, Wes 31/14 against Gonzaga, Seikaly with 33 and then 26 in back to back games against Florida/UNC to lead SU into the Final Four, and MCW are definitely in the top 10 performances in SU Tourney history for me. Maybe even Michael Lloyd's 14 assist game?

 

[CusefanATL]

wallace had a big champ game too

 

[gilardino]

some that come to mind: 87: seikaly vs florida in sweet 16 and unc in elite 8,
89, sherman vs missouri in sweet 16,
94: autry vs missouri in sweet 16,
96: wallace vs georgia in sweet 16,
03, melo vs texas in final 4
13: mcw vs indiana in sweet 16

 

[JoeyZ]

MCW played well, but I'm not sure you can put it as a top 5 game. I think G-Mac vs. BYU is easily the best game I've seen. After that, the Melo, Wallace, and Autry games are easy. I like MCW, but that wasn't an epic game. It was a very good game, but not one for the ages. Go back to Amazon and buy the BYU game and tell me thats not amazing.

 

[OttoMets]

MCW played well, but I'm not sure you can put it as a top 5 game. I think G-Mac vs. BYU is easily the best game I've seen. After that, the Melo, Wallace, and Autry games are easy. I like MCW, but that wasn't an epic game. It was a very good game, but not one for the ages. Go back to Amazon and buy the BYU game and tell me thats not amazing.

Yeah, this is a good point.

I'm one of like four people on this forum who don't gush about McNamara and talk about jerseys hanging from ceilings and "best shooter in school history" and all that, but he won a game in a single-elimination tournament. Not "won" in the trite, overstated ESPN way. Won as in, but for Gerry McNamara's absurd, 43-point, matched-every-big-BYU-bucket performance, we'd have lost to a crap team. What else tops that?

Seikaly's two regional games in 1987 should be next; we were playing two very good teams with great bigs and he had two of the best games of his career (to that point). Wallace in the Denver semifinal after that.

Anthony had a great game in the semifinal, but it's a notch below those others. Who you're playing against matters. Schooling J.R. Reid and Schintzius is memorable. Scoring 33 on Brandon Mouton in an up-and-down game is fun, but less of an achievement. Ditto for working a couple of 5'11" Indiana guards -- fun for us and integral to our victory. Legendary? Remarkable? No.

The Autry game was exciting at the time; moreso in hindsight. Of course he didn't score a point in the first half. That counts for something. Wallace was great in the championship game, but we lost. That probably counts for something, too.

 

[CaptainJ]

I'm not sure that we spent enough time praising the true dominance of SU's performance in that game vs Indiana, considering we were then looking forward to playing Marquette two days later. But going back to look at the numbers again, this was a special performance by the entire team.

On defense especially, here are some notes to detail just how historic our defensive effort vs Indiana was:

- Indiana averaged 78.1 points per 100 possessions in its loss to Syracuse Thursday, its worst offensive efficiency in the last two seasons. Entering the Round of 16, the Hoosiers had averaged 117.4 points per 100 possessions, the second-most efficient offense in the nation. Indiana's effective field goal percentage and turnover percentage Thursday were also season worsts.

- Indiana scored 50 points vs Syracuse, tied for the 4th-fewest points by a 1 seed in the shot clock era.

- Indiana shot 28.6 percent and had 16 turnovers against Syracuse's zone. The Hoosiers had nine of their 42 field goal attempts against the zone blocked. They entered the game shooting 52.8 percent against zone defenses this season, fourth best in the nation.

- Didn't matter that Indiana ranked third in the country this season in scoring, putting up 79.5 points per game -- and never fewer than 56 -- while making 48.6 percent of its shots. This game they were limited to 50 points on 33.3% shooting.

- Indiana's largest lead was 1 point, while Syracuse's largest lead was 18!

- Jordan Hulls & Yogi Farrell, Indiana's 2 main guards (if not counting G/ Victor Oladipo) did not score a point between them! Not a single point in the 49 combined mins they were on the floor, as they shot 0-8. (On the season, Hulls averaged 9.7 ppg, while Ferrell averaged 7.6 ppg, good for 17.3 ppg combined.)

So, speaking of the team's defensive effort in general, it was pretty historic. And MCW was a big part of that.

And then on offense/individual note, MCW:

- scored a game high 24 points (almost half of what the entire Indiana roster scored total!) on 9-19 FG, 3-6 3pts, 3-6 FTs,
- 5 rebounds,
- game high 4 steals,
- 1 assist (shocking so low),
- 1 block and
- only 1 turnover!

This last point (only 1 turnover) is huge, considering the amount of turnovers committed by every other guard playing in the game was as follows:

Yogi Farrell - 4 turnovers
Victor Oladipo - 3 turnovers
Jordan Hulls - 2 turnovers
Brandon Triche - 6 turnovers
Trevor Cooney - 1 turnover
MCW - 1 turnover

For MCW to have made as many plays as he did & only have 1 turnover, shows how in the zone he was on this night. Just a classic performance against a top notch opponent - one I will never forget.

I remember starting a thread and saying we had just witnessed something SPECIAL for TEAM defensive performances in a tournament game, one of the best(if not THE best) EVER... and it was not met with half the agreement I expected. I'm glad to see others are coming around to see this. I threw a link up the other night, I think these are all still available on the CBS site to watch, and I plan to do so soon. I wish I had a way to record them, as I have thrown out my tv, but I'll just have to savor them while I can. Truly a dominating team defensive performance, and what really got some people going about how good this zone was. JB said this was his best defensive unit EVER, and I think this is the game proved that earlier statement correct. I haven't watched the Oklahoma 2003 game since then, so I can't remember if it was a better defensive effort taking all things into account or not. I mean they were a 1 seed also, right? But I can't remember if they had 2 POY candidates, etc.

Watching Baye Moussa Keita stuff Zeller threw me into fits of joy, and I was completely sober. That game was just "magic" when it came to defense. MCW played a big part in it, but even more it was a great team effort... a great zone, maneuvered by a great coach. Magic.

 

[orangecuse]

Melo Texas, Gerry against Kansas, Gerry against BYU, DC in the title game, John Wallace vs Georgia, Autry against Mizzou, Wes 31/14 against Gonzaga, Seikaly with 33 and then 26 in back to back games against Florida/UNC to lead SU into the Final Four, and MCW are definitely in the top 10 performances in SU Tourney history for me. Maybe even Michael Lloyd's 14 assist game?

Those Seikaly performances were clearly epic. What made it so much more rewarding was recalling how Dicky V went on and on and on how Dwayne Schintzius and J.R. Reid, both frosh, were going to eat Seikaly for lunch...ha...

Probably not top 10 performances, but certainly top 10 tourney moments for me was Janulus' shot late to beat a stubborn Iona team, and Cippola's shot against Georgia.

 

[HoustonCuse]

I haven't watched the Oklahoma 2003 game since then, so I can't remember if it was a better defensive effort taking all things into account or not. I mean they were a 1 seed also, right? But I can't remember if they had 2 POY candidates, etc.

Yes a 1 seed. Hollis Price was a finalist for NPOY as I recall. He had led Oklahoma to the Final Four the previous season.