Biggest made or missed shots in UK history

[JonathanW]

Also, in UK vs UL history.

Can be by UK player or the opponent.


Off top of my head, I’m thinking in UK-UL game Aaron’s game winning 3.

And in any game there are several, led by Laettner shot. Padgett 3 vs Duke, could make case for Woods bank in vs Duke, obviously any of Aaron’s back-to-back-to-back 3pt game winning 3’s. Nazr missed FT. What others you got?

 

[fisherscatfan]

Brassow’s tip in in Maui. I remember watching that while visiting my parents for the holidays.

 

[cathouse]

Historically speaking, Dirk Minniefield's missed layup in the Mid East Regional final.

Easy dunk for him and game over.

 

[TeoJ]

Jenkins tip in against UL

 

[UKSanders]

UK/UL…

Patrick Sparks 3 free throws with 0.6 seconds left and being down by 1 point were pretty huge

 

[Runnin'Ramel]

Also, in UK vs UL history.

Can be by UK player or the opponent.


Off top of my head, I’m thinking in UK-UL game Aaron’s game winning 3.

And in any game there are several, led by Laettner shot. Padgett 3 vs Duke, could make case for Woods bank in vs Duke, obviously any of Aaron’s back-to-back-to-back 3pt game winning 3’s. Nazr missed FT. What others you got?

Well, Laettner's make is at the top of the list. Not sure there can be any debate about that, since we see it every year, several times, for decades.

One miss that I really wish UK could have reversed, was Fitch's corner 3 that seemed to hang on the rim and fall, knocking that team out of the tourney in round 2. The infamous UAB game. Loved that team w/ Erik Daniels, Azuibuke, Fitch, Hayes, Barbour, et al. So many bad calls against UK that really just felt like a good ole fashioned screwjob.

Erik Daniels is the dream big guy for Pope.

 

[CastleRubric]

Missed?

The entire second half in the 1984 final four against Georgetown - if youre my age you know you're squirming right now

PS - that Seattle court we beat Gonzaga on ...LOOKED like the green/brown nightmare court we lost to '84 Georgetown on

Was it the same?
No way right?

 

[AshWilliams]

Anthony Epps' made 3 at the end of regulation to tie Arizona in 1997.

Meeks' desperation game winning 3 against Florida.

 

[UK67KU59]

Well, Laettner's make is at the top of the list. Not sure there can be any debate about that, since we see it every year, several times, for decades.

One miss that I really wish UK could have reversed, was Fitch's corner 3 that seemed to hang on the rim and fall, knocking that team out of the tourney in round 2. The infamous UAB game. Loved that team w/ Erik Daniels, Azuibuke, Fitch, Hayes, Barbour, et al. So many bad calls against UK that really just felt like a good ole fashioned screwjob.

Erik Daniels is the dream big guy for Pope.

Daniels under pope would be something to see.

 

[jedcat]

I'll go with the sum of Mohammed's free throws in the 1997 championship game. He was 0-6. That may have made the difference in winning three straight national championships.

 

[CondorCat]

Patrick Sparks Elite Eight 2005 vs Michigan State to send it to overtime.

 

[CUJO_1970]

As far as misses are concerned, that little brick from about 8’ by our Australian center in 2017 against UNC. Late in the 2nd half, would probably have sealed that game and sent us to the FF.

Funny thing is, I knew he would brick it. Kid just didn’t have it in him.

 

[blue cincy]

Made baskets you have to put Aaron Harrison and Vern Hatton on any list.

http://www.bigbluehistory.net/bb/statistics/playsgreat.html

 

[CondorCat]

Made baskets you have to put Aaron Harrison and Vern Hatton on any list.

http://www.bigbluehistory.net/bb/statistics/playsgreat.html

Aaron Harrison buzzer beaters!

 

[Ripcord65]

As Blue Cincy said ... mention must be made in this thread of Vernon Hatton, leading scorer on U.K.'s 1958 National Championship team. Most folks remember Hatton for the half-court shot against Temple that is linked in Blue Cincy's post above. That shot was in a regular season 3-OT game at Memorial Coliseum in Lexington.

But as I was walking down memory lane lookin' up the details of Hatton's half-court shot that Blue Cincy mentioned, I found this write-up in Jon Scott's wonderful U.K. Basketball website about Hatton's game-winner against Temple in the first game of the 1958 Final Four at Freedom Hall in Louisville.

Louisville, March 21, 1958 -- Vernon Hatton did it to Temple again last night -- this time from right under the basket with 16 seconds left.
The imperturbable, dead-pan guy who sank an incredible 47-footer with a second left in overtime in December to help beat Temple, did it again last night on a huddle-planned, driving layup that game Kentucky at 61-60 triumph over the Owls.

Hatton beat Temple twice on last-second game winners in the National Championship season !

Hatton's game winner in the 1958 Final Four wasn't as dramatic as Aaron Harrison's back-to-back-to-back game-winning 3's in 2014 . . . but the Fiddlin' Five won it all in 1958. That counts for a lot in my book !

 

[NociHTTP]

What about the two we took and hit, when we NEEDED a three?

 

[Wildcat Sheli]

During the Final Four in 2015 vs Wisconsin, with 2:35 remaining—though the shot clock had expired—Nigel Hayes’ layup counts for 2 points to tie the game. Our young team expected the refs to make the right call and got rattled when they didn’t.

How differently would UK Basketball history have been if those three officials had done the right thing?

 

[the nail at the foul line]

Missed

Against UCONN 2011, DeAndre Liggins.

1980 Macy against Duke.

1976 season Larry Johnson against IU.

Makes

Padgett, Mills, Shepard, Turner were always making shots that mattered.

Aaron Harrison