MSU played in 2 of the top ten tournament games
[Bumped. -KJ]
At least they were exciting. According to a (debatable) metric in the Wall Street Journal MSU-Maryland and MSU-Tennessee were two of the ten most exciting games in the tournament, with the Maryland game getting the nod for best finish.
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MSU-Maryland doesn't get hyped enough
Any one of the last four shots taken in that game could have been a game winner. Many last second games end when a shot is finally missed, that game ended after a team struck and was struck back on TWICE. We’ve all broken down the craziness of the last shot (The Go Day-Day Green Offense, The Delvon Duck, The Shot, 3 sophs), but the entirety of the last minute of that game is insane. We should all be extactic about this, MSU came out on top in a classic, rewind yourself back 3 weeks and remember how you thought everything after that shot was gravy. And MSU has a clip to go along with the Bryce Drew clip on every tourney-hype montage.
Forgot to add...
… The Tommy No-Time-Out to the sequence. Really, that last sequence could be given number of names, that many things happened at the same time. I’m going with The Delvon Duck since this particular action won’t get played up enough outside MSU circles. And also to honor the kid who played on no knees.
No kidding
Most close games end either with one team making a shot and the other unable to answer, followed by a bunch of FTs to end it, or with one team making a furious comeback that either falls just short or ends with an answered prayer. That one had teams trading “game-winners” for the last 30 seconds – and the fact that there were no timeouts called during that sequence is a bonus.
I can’t think of any other regulation games in the tournament that have been anywhere near that exciting in the past ten years. A couple of OT games are at least in consideration – three of the ’05 regional finals (the only year in the tournament that even comes close to this one in recent memory), KSt-Xavier this year (K-St scored on every possession in the first OT, Xavier missed once but made up for it with a pair of 3s), maybe West Virginia-Wake Forest ’05. If we had somehow pulled off another two miracles and won the championship, The Duck would reach Hill-to-Laettner status.
Sorry, but weight has to be given
to the situation of the Championship Game. Higher stakes, storylines, hype and then living up to the hype has to put it at the top. It’s the same reason last season’s Bulls/Celtics series won’t go down as an all-time great; the games at face value were epic, but at the end of the day it was a first-round series.
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
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