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[QUOTE="Forza Azzurri, post: 2870579, member: 1452"]
I think there are four types of wins in this category:

Program changing wins
Season changing or season defining wins
Wins against best teams
Most memorable wins

To me, the Purdue win was a program-changing win.  It helped to change the perception of SU from a regional school to a national school and was key in cementing that #1 seed going into that year's NCAA tournament.

Beating Pitt and MSU in 03 were, IMHO, season-defining wins.  They helped propel the team to a different level of play.

Although you could base this purely on ranking, I would argue that our two best wins ever were Georgetown in 1985 and Houston in 1982.  Both teams were among the most dominant college  hoops teams ever (at least until the NCAA final).  The irony of the Houston game is that nobody knew, at the time, how dominant that Houston team would become.  Phi Slamma Jamma would not be born for another month.  They were ranked in the top ten but there were fewer than 20K in the stands for that game.

Most memorable, to me, is purely personal and those would be the Purdue game, the Georgetown game in 1985, and the Wes Johnson coming out party against North Carolina at MSG.
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