Games of the Decade Nomination Thread

[Panthers to the Bone]

Please post your nominations for what you think were some of the games of the decade for men's basketball. Please also state why you think it deserves to be on the list for the first vote. The polls only allow 10 options, so we are going to have to be fairly selective, so the more you can tell about the game, the better it should be to come to a consensus.

[JCPanthers]

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Well the obvious one is the Benny J. game winner at Wichita....the two MVC championship games between MSU (2 OT's) and Illinois State (1 OT) would be included as well. I guess those would be my top 3.

[PantherHawk]

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I would have to throw in the upset win over Iowa in either 04 or 05 in the DOME. I thought that was a great game, we beat the #12 rated hawkeyes in OT. That game was a very even match, with panthers pulling it out in the end. Something like 12,000 people were there to witness it.

[4N6]

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Well the obvious one is the Benny J. game winner at Wichita....

I'm with JC on this one.

Another buzzer-beater game would be last year's game AT Bradley. (Moran's shot.) There was a lot at stake in the game.

Back in CF in time for the Wichita State game. See ya soon.

[CincyPanther88]

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What was that one game where we were behind by several points and stole the ball a couple of times and ended up winning? I think that was when Mac was still here and I can't remember if it was a conference game or a bracket buster. I know it was on TV, though.

[run&blade]

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What was that one game where we were behind by several points and stole the ball a couple of times and ended up winning? I think that was when Mac was still here and I can't remember if it was a conference game or a bracket buster. I know it was on TV, though.

I think the game you are talking about is the Bucknell bracket buster game in the dome, might have been Mac's last year.

That game was nuts, UNI was behind the entire time. The people in front of us left 3 times, roflamo, no way UNI should have won that game. It went into OT when Bucknell was inbounding the ball with about 2 seconds left under their own basket. Bucknell threw the ball to hard and it went all they way down the court out of bounds with nobody touching it. UNI got to inbound the ball on the Bucknell side and I think Coleman made a bucket at the buzzer.

Coleman carried them in OT if I remember correctly and won by 4 to 6 points.

The Bucknell band was at the game to thank UNI for the UNI band playing for Bucknell at the NCAA tournament the previous year. The Bucknell band was unable to make the trip. The Bucknell band all wore UNI hats, after the game a couple of the band members gave their UNI hats to my brother and myself. I still wear the hat today.

Bucknell was ranked at the time.

[CincyPanther88]

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I think the game you are talking about is the Bucknell bracket buster game in the dome, might have been Mac's last year.

That game was nuts, UNI was behind the entire time. The people in front of us left 3 times, roflamo, no way UNI should have won that game. It went into OT when Bucknell was inbounding the ball with about 2 seconds left under their own basket. Bucknell threw the ball to hard and it went all they way down the court out of bounds with nobody touching it. UNI got to inbound the ball on the Bucknell side and I think Coleman made a bucket at the buzzer.

Coleman carried them in OT if I remember correctly and won by 4 to 6 points.

The Bucknell band was at the game to thank UNI for the UNI band playing for Bucknell at the NCAA tournament the previous year. The Bucknell band was unable to make the trip. The Bucknell band all wore UNI hats, after the game a couple of the band members gave their UNI hats to my brother and myself. I still wear the hat today.

Bucknell was ranked at the time.

I think you're right. That was a pretty awesome game.

[Khan4Cats]

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I think the game you are talking about is the Bucknell bracket buster game in the dome, might have been Mac's last year.

That game was nuts, UNI was behind the entire time. The people in front of us left 3 times, roflamo, no way UNI should have won that game. It went into OT when Bucknell was inbounding the ball with about 2 seconds left under their own basket. Bucknell threw the ball to hard and it went all they way down the court out of bounds with nobody touching it. UNI got to inbound the ball on the Bucknell side and I think Coleman made a bucket at the buzzer.

Coleman carried them in OT if I remember correctly and won by 4 to 6 points.

The Bucknell band was at the game to thank UNI for the UNI band playing for Bucknell at the NCAA tournament the previous year. The Bucknell band was unable to make the trip. The Bucknell band all wore UNI hats, after the game a couple of the band members gave their UNI hats to my brother and myself. I still wear the hat today.

Bucknell was ranked at the time.

You are correct, it was the Bucknell game. They came in with the ranking that we had just dropped from the week before.

It was Erik Crawford who made the shot at the buzzer (falling down) to tie it after Brooks McKowen made one of the smartest, basketball-savvy/awareness plays you could make in a tight situation by not trying to grab the long in-bounds pass that no Bucknell player went for. That was the game that true freshman Travis Brown drilled two or three 3 pointers in the second half to spark the comeback.

I would agree with all of the previously mentioned games and add a couple.

Last years' game at Illinois State where Travis Brown made shots at the end of regulation and the first overtime to tie it and Adam Koch had the put back in double OT to win it. Turned the season back in the right direction after we had been flailing down the stretch.

The game in 2006? against Iowa State where we lit them up for 99 points. Absolutely decimating the Cyclones from the opening tip.

Winning in Carbondale last year after the conference-opening loss to Indiana State that launched the winning streak.

Stopping Southern Illinois' perfect MVC season in 2004, which gave us the momentum heading into St. Louis for our first tourney championship.

Winning at LSU in the 05-06 season. Didn't know it at the time, but LSU wound up a Final Four team that season.

I'll stop there and let others toss out a few.

[JayJay]

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06-07 Season - UNI Defeats #16 Wichita State @ Wichita

12-30-06 Wichita, Kan. (Charles Koch Arena) Northern Iowa 63, #16 Wichita State 59

[UNIpanther99]

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The two overtime MVC Tournament championship games need to be in the discussion. The 2004 one put our team back on the map, and the 2009 one was just an outstanding basketball game.

[JayJay]

Re: Games of the Decade Nomination Thread

Please post your nominations for what you think were some of the games of the decade for men's basketball. Please also state why you think it deserves to be on the list for the first vote. The polls only allow 10 options, so we are going to have to be fairly selective, so the more you can tell about the game, the better it should be to come to a consensus.

PTB - Can we do another thread and poll for football?

[Marc Wigim]

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1) 2004 MVC Championship v. Missouri State
2) 2009 MVC Championship v. Illinois State
3) 2006 v. Bucknell
4) 2004 v. Southern Illinois (SIU was 17-0 at the time, we shocked them 68-52)

[UNI MadCat]

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Agree with all games mentioned here... not quite sure how last year's regular season finale v Evansville hasn't been mentioned yet. Sure, the game itself was never in doubt the significance puts it without question in the top 10 (especially if the win over SIU makes it -- which I believe it should).

One HUGE game only for a far different historical significance could be the UW-M game to open the Mcleod... that game was a long time comin'!!

[Panthers to the Bone]

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I think one of the more pivotal games of the decade that some seem to forget (or don't remember) occurred in 2001 when UNI knocked off Iowa in the Dome. It was Mac's first year and Eric Smith got HOT from three and Big O came in and did a great job at times on Reggie Evans. UNI didn't double team all game until the final 20 seconds when Robbie Sieverding and Andy Woodley double teamed Luke Recker unexpectedly to force a key late game turnover. David Gruber was solid, and it was this game that really got people believing that Mac could turn the UNI program around. If UNI doesn't win this game, I'm not sure that the winning returns as quickly as it did for UNI in the early half of the decade.

[Panthers to the Bone]

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PTB - Can we do another thread and poll for football?

I don't own PN or run it! You can do what you wish in the football forum.