Former Buckeye players on 2011 team still regret loss to Kentucky
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That was a big loss for OSU. Matta's run was clearly coming to and end and they were picked to go far. My second favorite win of the Cal era behind the '12 title game and just ahead of the next game vs. Unc
Sounds like a reoccurring Knightmare for them..
One of my favorite wins of the Cal Era.
Probably the same things our guys would be saying about 2010 West Virginia, 2011 and 2014 UConn, and...gulp...2015 Wisconsin.
That was an incredible win over a very, very good OSU team. Got to give Knight credit; he shot poorly the entire game, but with the game on the line he was clutch.
Oh Iive in the scum state of Ohio and I ran that Win down alot of suckeyes throats!! I was a correction officer at the time working third shift!! It was 11pm count time I was working a dorm that night and I wore my Cousins jersey under my uniform shirt. When I did my count I took my uniform shirt of and did it in Kentucky jersey lol It was great!!
It must be difficult for Sullinger to be reminded of that game every time he sees the basketball imprint on his chest.
They should regret it. Going into the tourney the talking heads were saying they were the most dominant team since 90 UNLV...acting like they were just gonna steam roll their way to the National Championship!. Before the game Jay bilas said : "If Ohio State is even operating at 70% efficiency, they win this game in a walk" I'll never forget him saying that before the game. Thad mattas post game presser was the best though. Its probably my favorite win overall in the Calipari era
Their tears are sweet.
Plus those guys act like shooting 32% had nothing to do with U.K.'s defense. That team locked people down like most of Cal's teams.
Plus those guys act like shooting 32% had nothing to do with U.K.'s defense. That team locked people down like most of Cal's teams.
It was one of those games that I watched with an impending sense of doom because I knew they were so good. Like the Laettner game only this time the last shot missed. When we got up three near end I was like "holy crap we might pull this off". If it wasn't UNC I would have felt like we were playing with the house's money the next game.
Cals best coaching year, that team by the end of the year was a joy to watch - probably my favorite win of the Cal era.
When Ohio State put up their final shot, I was convinced it was going in. I got the same feeling with Luke Maye's shot last year. Wish I was wrong on both accounts.
But the Ohio State game was something to behold. Just a great performance by a team that had figured it out. If UK could have thrown it in the ocean in the final four, we cut down the nets that year too.
First thing I noticed was the caption. Says Lighty is guarding Liggins. Looks like Jones to me. Must've @ least forgotten the people they played lol. But was a glorious victory. Especially since I took so much ish that week leading up to the game. People telling me how UK was gonna lose and how the Buckeyes were a better bball program at the time.
There's no way we should have been their four seed.
Yep. Should have flipped us and UF at the very least after the SEC championship. In reality we were both probably 2-3 seeds
I remember hugging a complete stranger at BW3 when their last shot missed. I didn't feel good about our chances at all.
Insane to think that was a sweet 16 match. JORTS was nothing short of amazing and I can picture the Knight game-winner like it happened right now.
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Yep. Fresh off the SEC Tournament championship where we had just dismantled Florida, were playing as well as anyone in the country, and the selection committee gives us a 4 seed and rewards Florida with a 2. I always wondered how in the hell they justified that.
Great win. I absolutely despise Ohio State, especially their football team.
I don't think they really anticipated Liggins and Jorts playing at a different level in the tournament. That two game stretch was the "Kentucky is back" moment under Cal for me and I would assume for many across the nation. It seemed like it was forever since we'd really had a dominant win like that. Under Tubby we had many wins we were supposed to win, but few and far between of games where we pulled the upset, and with Gillispie we were just circling around the drain.
Some people forget that we were the absolute worst match up for OSU.
We had 11 blocks that game (big reason for poor shooting). OSU's strategy all year was force teams to help on Sullinger and then bomb them from outside when that created space.
Fortunately for us, Harrelson had the size and skill to play Sullinger to a draw without needing our guards to help down much. That allowed us to play the three a bit tighter. We also had better height on the perimeter than most of the teams OSU had played previously. Basically allowed us to neutralize their most effective way of playing teams.
I'm in Columbus and attended both UK and OSU. This is a classy group of players. I do not like OSU and was ecstatic after this win, but there's no reason to hate. They were the best team in the country that season and it just shows what the NCAA Tournament can do to even the best teams.
UK fans should know this quite well after 2009-10, 2014-15 and 2016-17. All three of those teams had the talent to win it all and got knocked off before even making the National Title Game.
UK fans should know this quite well after 2009-10, 2014-15 and 2016-17. All three of those teams had the talent to win it all and got knocked off before even making the National Title Game.
This. I don't mind OSU in basketball, but their football fans can EAD, GGP, and DIAMFF.
My favorite win of the Cal era. That Knight jumper was one of the most blissful moments of my life. His struggles in the Princeton game really made me doubt that the team was gonna make a deep run despite the fact that they had really gelled as a team towards the end of the year. I knew they were tough and played great fundamental BB but it just didn't feel like it was gonna happen. I looked at each game afterwards as an uphill battle and just tried to enjoy what was left of UK BB. To my delight they gutted it out and made a hell of a run.
Probably Cals best coaching job to date. The team was just the right mixture of grizzled veterans and young stars and Cal was able to get the absolute most out of them.
It was so great seeing Liggins and Harrelson grow over the course of that season and find success both individually and as a team. Those guys played with such tenacity and became the heart of the squad. Harrelson playing Sullinger to a stalemate was a beautiful thing to watch. Seeing the clock hit .00 at the end was kind of an unreal moment.
What made that run even more special for me was that I watched the S16 and E8 games at a very good friends apartment who unexpectedly died the day after the UNC game. Getting to watch those games with him and experiencing the complete joy that both of us felt after those wins is something that will remain with me always. He was a huge Wildcat fan and a great guy. The Cats were on top of the world for the last games he would ever watch and so were we.
I love any posts related to that tourney run. Always brings back so many great memories.
Probably Cals best coaching job to date. The team was just the right mixture of grizzled veterans and young stars and Cal was able to get the absolute most out of them.
It was so great seeing Liggins and Harrelson grow over the course of that season and find success both individually and as a team. Those guys played with such tenacity and became the heart of the squad. Harrelson playing Sullinger to a stalemate was a beautiful thing to watch. Seeing the clock hit .00 at the end was kind of an unreal moment.
What made that run even more special for me was that I watched the S16 and E8 games at a very good friends apartment who unexpectedly died the day after the UNC game. Getting to watch those games with him and experiencing the complete joy that both of us felt after those wins is something that will remain with me always. He was a huge Wildcat fan and a great guy. The Cats were on top of the world for the last games he would ever watch and so were we.
I love any posts related to that tourney run. Always brings back so many great memories.
Yeah, this is exactly why I don't feel sorry for a single one of them. Add the Laettner shot game to your list and their one "shoulda, woulda coulda" game is small potatoes.
This.
Our team were one of the few teams in the country that year that had the size to match up against Sullinger. Still one of my favorite games I've ever watched.
Every program good enough to get in the mix after the Sweet 16 consistently has losses like that one. It is the nature of the NCAA tournament.
That's why I never take seriously the UK fans who want to rag on Cal for 2010 and 2015. What coach good enough to get close doesn't have such losses? K blowing a 17-point lead to UK as a 1-seed in 1998, and losing to UConn in the finals in 2000, and to Indiana (LOL) as a 1-seed after being up 18 in 2002 (off the top of my head.) Roy as a huge favorite to win it all in 1997 and as a co-favorite in 1998, and as favorites in 2011 and 2012, among other times. Self more often than can be counted. And so on.
That's why I never take seriously the UK fans who want to rag on Cal for 2010 and 2015. What coach good enough to get close doesn't have such losses? K blowing a 17-point lead to UK as a 1-seed in 1998, and losing to UConn in the finals in 2000, and to Indiana (LOL) as a 1-seed after being up 18 in 2002 (off the top of my head.) Roy as a huge favorite to win it all in 1997 and as a co-favorite in 1998, and as favorites in 2011 and 2012, among other times. Self more often than can be counted. And so on.
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Self usually doesn't bother to even get past the sweet 16.
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We always talk about Aaron's threes in 2014 and rightfully so, but that pull up by Knight was as cold blooded as I've as ever seen. That was just "Clear the floor and let me work."
I had tickets to that regional (I live 75 minutes from Newark) but had to give the OSU tickets up to @JasonS. when the date was announced - it was the night of my son's high school musical. Raced home and it was halftime, and the score was tied. I couldn't believe it. Thought the Bucks would get tight if it was close and they did.
Thank God the Cats won because I got to go to the final and see UK beat UNC for a trip to a Final Four. And JasonS. went with me! The Tarhole fans thought UK had handed them another Final Four...but DeAndre Liggins had other ideas.
(Jason you still owe me some Derby tickets for that!!)
Thank God the Cats won because I got to go to the final and see UK beat UNC for a trip to a Final Four. And JasonS. went with me! The Tarhole fans thought UK had handed them another Final Four...but DeAndre Liggins had other ideas.
(Jason you still owe me some Derby tickets for that!!)
