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.
Only pick one? You’re not the boss of me!
Ok - here’s the ones that hurt least:
UNC FF - we were “happy to be there”, and that was a bad matchup for us.
aTm - GMac was a gimp, we were over seeded due to his miraculous BET run.
Kansas - I don’t even really remember this game.
Alabama - kinda ditto.
Oklahoma - Blake Griffin was a force of nature. No shame taking this L.
Duke - not a heartbreaking L.
Baylor - ditto. Didn’t expect much, wasn’t disappointed
The WORST LOSSES:
Butler - this is the one.
LOVED that Shut It Down team, and even with losing AO we’d played really well in the prior games.
When Butler hit that 3 that bounced like 5x before going in, I knew it wasn’t gonna be our day.
This L will never not hurt.
OSU - Aaron Craft just hand-checked somebody again with impunity.
WITH Fab, we likely crush them.
But even without, we shoulda won that game, but it’s hard playing 5-on-8.
Refs were SOOOO BAD that both teams thought they got jobbed.
And they were right
Sparty - until Butler, THIS was the L that stuck in my craw.
Had that game under control, and then the wheels fell off.
De facto home game for Sparty too. BS.
Michigan FF - even though the “over and back” call on Scoop was more egregiously wrong than the “charge” on Triche, this was the much more impactful awful call.
We win that game (which the correct block call would have likely allowed), and we face a Llvll team we can definitely take down.
Which would have somewhat made up for the disappointing endings of ‘10 & ‘12.
Just imagine the alternate universe where AO doesn’t get hurt, we say F it and play Fab anyway, and RoboTriche gets the block called on him? Sigh.
Marquette - BS squared.
We NEVER shoulda been playing them that early, and then the atrocious call against Scoop. GRRRRR.
Dayton & Vermont - just sucked to exit early to teams we’d likely beat 9 out of 10 times.