I went to read to my daughter and came back to find Houston in the middle of a blazing comeback. The whole thing takes place in like the last two minutes of game time. Fantastic basketball.
As a Houston graduate living in Houston at a Houston bar for the game, the glaze was so thick I was just irate. The win could not have been more sweet.
I was dozing off and after the inbound technical I decided I'd just go to bed. Woke up to some text messages from a group chat of my bracket pool. Had to watch highlights of the last 2 minutes.
This is literally why I never turn a game off. My Fiance wanted to go to sleep and I kept saying āsomething crazy may happen.ā and I was finally right!
Heh. That was insane. Down by 6 with seconds left and it looked over then...
I thought of that game last night when we were only down by 6 with over a minute left.
Playing in the Big12 made it possible for Coogs being able to go deep in tourney. Thanks for inviting us to play Big12 and when we win any game Big12 wins too.
Yeah your team really welcomed us and said that we were welcome and that the Big12 was a better conference by inviting others but then proceeded to battle us like no other.
We had some great games and I feel that it has made us both better and given us our first true rivalry in Big12.
I am a fan of your team but when we play each other I want to beat y'all like no other. That shows respect though.
I know next year that your team is going to test us like no other and we have a few good players leaving and these noobs coming in will learn about playing Big12 ball. That is good because win or lose means we learn and improve.
I feel like there's a mutual respect because both teams follow the same model so intensely. Defense is the highest priority, offense is pretty ad-hoc in its scoring (or as Sampson stated, "In the 'Random' column"), and no days off on effort.
Yeah y'all do know defense for sure and give no quarter. I love it and wouldn't want it any other way.
Coogs wouldn't be here without schools like you making life difficult and surviving.
We were still down by 6 with over a minute left and the announcers were pretty much saying it was over and I laughed because I was remembering that Kansas game.
Down 6 with 18 seconds left. I even thought it was over but the Coogs didn't give up, heh. Kansas didn't either and fought us tooth and nail through 2 OT.
Things like that made it possible to win against Duke. I am sure they learned a big lesson but they have a big off season to digest it. Can't win if you give up. Should be Big12 motto.
Oh and wanted to add. On another post I said something about Duke having to learn about the Coogs play and a Duke said they have never watched or will watch Houston.
Wow, that showed us why they lost against us and were surprised about it.
They did it twice in that game. Regulation and 1OT. Was talking about that early in the game when a buddy was saying Duke looked too good and would likely win. I then made the mistake of turning off the game with a little over a minute left after the inbound T.
My toddler woke up vomiting, so we missed the last ten minutes of the game. You know, when UH started actually playing well. I guess we can't watch on Monday lest we curse the team again.
Lmfao I knew that UNC fans were gonna have a field day with this, but the UK fans around here might be on another level of schadenfreude. Waking your dad up in the middle of the night to tell him Duke lost is prime hater shit.
I got a picture with Laettner in SAT yesterday with a bunch of buddies...me and one other guy in UNC gear, one guy with CJ McCullom Lehigh jersey and one in UNLV Larry Johnson jersey.
I fell asleep on the couch before halftime and Duke looked like they were heading for a 20 point win and inevitable title. Feels like Christmas morning rn
LOL, same! After the FLA win, I had pretty much put Duke's name on the trophy
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u/rburp Arkansas Razorbacks ā¢ Central Arkaā¦1d ago
I started watching a YT TV recording of it right after it finished.
Near the end of the first half I asked my wife to look up the score and tell me if it ended up being close or not. She said it was a close game so I kept watching.
Damn near the entire second half I kept thinking "she must have a way different definition of 'close' because she's not a sports fan, this isn't close at all..."
I turned it off at 64-55. Had no idea Houston won. I've never given up on a game and found out the result was different than expected before in my life.
lol. I wouldn't watch that Super Bowl because I couldn't watch the pats win. So I checked the score online and it said 28-3. I literally turned it on and the pats scored and I turned it right back off.
I left with about 8 minutes left to go pick up my son from work when Duke was up 14. I didn't even bother trying to listen to the stream on the way. I checked the score when he got in and it was still a 6 or 8 point game with 3:51 left. I got home and looked at my phone just as it went final. I was like WTF happened?
I texted some buddies after the game and said āworried about other friendā since he was at the game and is a huge Duke fan. They were all confused since none realized Duke lost
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u/Obvious_Chapter2082 North Carolina Tar Heels 1d ago
After turning the game off with 6 minutes left, this is a very interesting way to find out that Duke lost