Toughest losses in recent memory

[Sbee]

where does this one rank? I wouldn't be satisfied with this team unless we won a national title, this combination of talent and experience doesn't come around very often. we had injuries and that hurt us but we still had a great chance at the title even with Appling as a shell of himself. Uconn played well, took away our strengths but we killed ourselves with turnovers too.


the toughest losses for me are the 2010 final four to butler, there was very weak ff crop that year and we were very capable of winning it all. we were without our best player and still only lost by 2 with Butler fouling Green on a potential game winner late but no call.

this game is on par with the butler game

as for football, no loss was harder than the kirk cousins class losing to Wisconsin in the title game. the difference in that is that we would have simply gotten to the rose bowl, which is great but a national title trumps that every time.

 

[MSUMatt28]

This one is right up there. Somehow I had a bad feeling going into this game even after beating Virginia. You combine the UConn home crowd advantage, the nagging feeling that we were due to get upset by a lower seed at some point in a tournament game as Izzo's has masterfully been able to navigate that over the years, and the just overall way this season just seemed destined to fall short one way or another of the expectation we had going in, and well, unfortunately my gut was correct.

Strangely the Butler game didn't bother me that much. Yes it was an opportunity lost, but I was fairly happy that that team was able to make the Final Four. That team wasn't as talented as this team and so my expectations going in were a bit lower. Plus the idea of seeing a mid major playing for it all didn't leave me quite as down after that one.

 

[Sbee]

This one is right up there. Somehow I had bad feeling going into this game even after beating Virginia. You combine the UConn home crowd advantage, the nagging feeling that we were due to get upset by a lower seed at some point in a tournament game as Izzo's has masterfully been able to navigate that over the years, and the just overall way this season just seemed destined to fall short one way or another of the expectation we had going in, and well, unfortunately my gut was correct.

I felt the exact opposite, maybe because I didn't know enough about Uconn but I thought they would have no answer for AP and Dawson. I thought Napier would get his points but have to work for them, I thought we'd win unless someone else got really hot and had a career game or if we came out and just played terribly (we did to an extent).

I thought we'd race out to a decent lead and keep them between 7-12 points the rest of the way.

 

[MSUMatt28]

I felt the exact opposite, maybe because I didn't know enough about Uconn but I thought they would have no answer for AP and Dawson. I thought Napier would get his points but have to work for them, I thought we'd win unless someone else got really hot and had a career game or if we came out and just played terribly (we did to an extent).

I thought we'd race out to a decent lead and keep them between 7-12 points the rest of the way.

Yeah I liked our matchup advantages going in as well. I just had a bad feeling that somehow UConn was going to play out of their minds or that we were going to stink up the joint.

 

[Sbee]

Yeah I liked our matchup advantages going in as well. I just had a bad feeling that somehow UConn was going to play out of their minds or that we were going to stink up the joint.

to a point that's what happened, Uconn played well defensively but not on offense. I don't think shooting 22% from 3 is playing out of your mind, they did get a little lucky by making a much higher ft % than usual, 96% vs 77%.

we were bad, credit uconn defensively but so many unforced turnovers, very uncharacteristic. this years team actually took care of the ball very well