toughest tourny loss from 2000 on

[CorduroyG]

heres your nominees!

2000 michigan st sweet 16
2001 kansas 1st round
2004 alabama sweet 16
2005 vermont 1st round
2006 texas a&m 1st round
2009 oklahoma sweet 16
2010 butler sweet 16
2011 marquette 2nd round
2012 ohio st elite 8
2013 michigan final 4
2014 dayton 2nd round
2016 north carolina final 4
2018 duke sweet 16
2019 baylor 1st round

you can only pick 1. the loss you personally took the hardest and was the hardest for you to get over. mine is butler. i freaking loved that 2010 team, and even without ao i still thought we were going to final 4.

 

[dasher]

heres your nominees!

2000 michigan st sweet 16
2001 kansas 1st round
2004 alabama sweet 16
2005 vermont 1st round
2006 texas a&m 1st round
2009 oklahoma sweet 16
2010 butler sweet 16
2011 marquette 2nd round
2012 ohio st elite 8
2013 michigan final 4
2014 dayton 2nd round
2016 north carolina final 4
2018 duke sweet 16
2019 baylor 1st round

you can only pick 1. the loss you personally took the hardest and was the hardest for you to get over. mine is butler. i freaking loved that 2010 team, and even without ao i still thought we were going to final 4.

Easy, Michigan in the final four. We win and we play the Ville who would be playing without the kid that killed us in the Big East tournament.

 

[OrangeXtreme]

2010 Butler.

F*** Georgetown.

 

[PauliePeppas]

Butler and not even close for me

 

[Orangezoo]

It was Butler until it was Michigan. If we had Onuaku and still lost to Butler then it would still be Butler.

 

[rrlbees]

I want to say Michigan simply for the fact it was the f4. But I’m going with Vermont. First NCAA game I took my kid too. He was 8 at the time and was so excited. Standing on his seat most of the time to be able to see with one hand on my shoulder and his other hand on the shoulder of a lady he didn’t know. When the game was over, he was devastated. Cried and cried. That hurt.

 

[OrangeAl]

The Vermont loss was atrocious, but the Butler game was by far more heartbreaking. We had high hopes at that point.

 

[Orangezoo]

I want to say Michigan simply for the fact it was the f4. But I’m going with Vermont. First NCAA game I took my kid too. He was 8 at the time and was so excited. Standing on his seat most of the time to be able to see with one hand on my shoulder and his other hand on the shoulder of a lady he didn’t know. When the game was over, he was devastated. Cried and cried. That hurt.

Vermont was brutal. Not to mention we should have been a 3 seed not a 4 as well.

 

[Briancuse]

Vermont by a mile.

 

[cuseinseattle]

Butler and it's not close for me.

 

[cuseattle]

Vermont for me. Was on such a high from the BET.

 

[TinyManInside]

For me Michigan State. We were crushing them and then the wheels fell off. Izzo ran the same play like 10 times in a row and we made *ZERO* adjustments, high screen after high screen and AJ Granger and Mo Pete with wide open three after wide open three. IMO it was the game in this list that we had the highest probability of winning at any point in the game and still lost.

 

[BomberOrange]

Michigan. We were the only team that could beat Lville...And would have beat them.
And that charge on Triche. So hard to take a bad call in the final four.

 

[djorange1989]

I know we can only pick one but I have a tie: 2010 and 2012. Two of our best teams and even without AO/Fab respectively they were so painful. I had bad vibes about Vermont before the game, too much complaining beforehand about the rickety court in Springfield, they didn’t seem focused that week. Still sucked and Tom Brennan has been unleashed on society ever since, but still not as bad as ‘10 and ‘12 to me

 

[BomberOrange]

That Ohio St game was also very tough. Number one, if we have Fab, Sullinger does not go off. Second, we still were right there but Craft was allowed to assault us but we couldn’t touch him. Refs were brutal that game.

 

[blizz]

Vermont for me. Arrived in Jamaica that day to get married. We sat at the bar and watched the game and it was like watching a member of our crew die.

 

[two3zone]

Butler, Marquette, Ohio state, and Michigan all right in a row, all great teams we had, just wore me out.

 

[Cuse1055]

heres your nominees!

2000 michigan st sweet 16
2001 kansas 1st round
2004 alabama sweet 16
2005 vermont 1st round
2006 texas a&m 1st round
2009 oklahoma sweet 16
2010 butler sweet 16
2011 marquette 2nd round
2012 ohio st elite 8
2013 michigan final 4
2014 dayton 2nd round
2016 north carolina final 4
2018 duke sweet 16
2019 baylor 1st round

you can only pick 1. the loss you personally took the hardest and was the hardest for you to get over. mine is butler. i freaking loved that 2010 team, and even without ao i still thought we were going to final 4.

2010 without a doubt or any hesitation. I never wanted that season to end. Loved that team and will always believe we were the best team in the country and would have won it all with AO. We still could’ve won it all even without AO. I was at the Ohio St. game in Boston and that was crushing too, but that 2010 team and season will always be one of the biggest what ifs with Syracuse basketball.

 

[Brian Orange]

Butler and Michigan State.

 

[A Clockwork Orange]

heres your nominees!

2000 michigan st sweet 16
2001 kansas 1st round
2004 alabama sweet 16
2005 vermont 1st round
2006 texas a&m 1st round
2009 oklahoma sweet 16
2010 butler sweet 16
2011 marquette 2nd round
2012 ohio st elite 8
2013 michigan final 4
2014 dayton 2nd round
2016 north carolina final 4
2018 duke sweet 16
2019 baylor 1st round

you can only pick 1. the loss you personally took the hardest and was the hardest for you to get over. mine is butler. i freaking loved that 2010 team, and even without ao i still thought we were going to final 4.

The 2010 team was poetry in motion. It was the type of team that needed every part to function perfectly. Without Arinze, it wasn't quite right. I know that sounds trite but it's true. That team was like a Lamborghini. So perfectly tuned that if you lost just one little thing to it, it wouldn't function.

Maybe it's not the loss, but Arinze going out against G'Town that was the biggest hurt. That team was just so balanced.

2nd place is Ohio State in 2012. The refs STOLE that game from us. Go back and watch it. I will go to my grave believing that the NCAA had the hit in on SU that year. With Fab, that team wins it all or at least gives UK all they could handle. Such an amazing defensive juggernaut and it bothers me that we never had the chance to see SU and UK at full strength playing one another.

 

[tbouks02]

Butler and Ohio State are the losses that hurt the most. Ohio State might just edge it for me. It was the end of maybe the most emotional season we've ever had.

*Announce we are leaving the Big East
*Bernie Fine scandal
*Rise to Number 1
*Fab Melo gets suspended for NCAAs
*Struggle to beat 16 seed, almost become first 1 & 2 seeds to lose in 1st round
*Ohio State shoots 42 free throws!

I was emotionally drained after that game. Didn't watch another college basketball game until the beginning of the 2013 season.

 

[ROCuse]

Seeing them all at once in a list is torture lol.

 

[djorange1989]

The 2010 team was poetry in motion. It was the type of team that needed every part to function perfectly. Without Arinze, it wasn't quite right. I know that sounds trite but it's true. That team was like a Lamborghini. So perfectly tuned that if you lost just one little thing to it, it wouldn't function.

Maybe it's not the loss, but Arinze going out against G'Town that was the biggest hurt. That team was just so balanced.

2nd place is Ohio State in 2012. The refs STOLE that game from us. Go back and watch it. I will go to my grave believing that the NCAA had the hit in on SU that year. With Fab, that team wins it all or at least gives UK all they could handle. Such an amazing defensive juggernaut and it bothers me that we never had the chance to see SU and UK at full strength playing one another.

The Big East Tourney may have cost us titles in 2010 and 1989. Coleman hurt his back pretty badly in the BE Tourney in ‘89, not a big stretch to think we could have won it with him healthy with that team. 2010 we would have won it without a doubt. Sighhh

 

[Charbroil]

Obviously the answer is Butler 2010, but Alabama 2004 is definitely an honorable mention. I thought for sure Cuse was on a crash course to play UConn in the Regional Final for a chance to go to back-to-back final fours.

But they were beaten soundly by a uninspiring Alabama team. And it was never really in doubt, just a poor all-around performance.

 

[NateW]

Me after ‘00 ‘10 ‘12 & ‘13 losses.