Favorite Random Moment From Kansas Game

[Panther789]

Post your favorite random moments here. Preferably something not from the last 30 seconds. I have a couple.


1. O'Rear airballs the free throw. Jake gives him a look like "What the F was that?" and the players on the bench are all grinning.

I was 50 times more nervous than the guys on the court.

2. Early in the game, Jordan catches the ball and he is way too far under the bucket. Looks like he has nowhere to go at all. Somehow he gets by Aldrich and makes a very difficult shot on the other side of the bucket.

[GoAliGo]

Re: Favorite Random Moment From Kansas Game

Jake's smirk after the O'Rear airball is probably the best "random moment" of the entire year. How many coaches would have just had a scowl on their face, preparing to scream at O'Rear? Not Jake though...

[Jonsoup]

Re: Favorite Random Moment From Kansas Game

I love the three point shots by jordan
Slam dunk by koch.
O'Rear getting tangle up and throwing the Ku player to the floor
Jacobson's look as mention above.

[UNI MadCat]

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I think my 'moment' is in the amount of fans you could visibly see we 'gained' both at the stadium and likely any watering hole you went to to watch this game. For me, I'll never forget being at a bar in St Paul, Minnesota prior to a college hockey tournament and having literally hundreds of fans from St Cloud, North Dakota, Denver, etc come up to me and give high fives and ask about UNI. "Where's Northern Iowa?" "How big is the school?" etc... this all started around halftime and obviously grew as the game went on and went final.

Six of us were at the bar cheering our lungs out for UNI... but by the end of the game I bought 16 victory shots for my group and a bunch of new 'friends'. Unreal! Still getting goosebumps!

[Trapped in California]

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Jake's complete non-verbal with Luke after the whiff. Almost as good as Ali's shot.


BTW - I went to a Nowruz (Persian New Year) party on Saturday hosted by a Iranian family we know. There was a chatter about Ali in the Bay Area Persian community. He's world famous.

[JayJ79]

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8:36 left in the first half.

(okay, I have no clue what happened at that point in the game. it's just a truly random moment. haha)

edit: haven't checked the tape, but from the box score PBP, I would guess that at 8:36 UNI was either passing the ball round the top of the key, or KA was sitting there dribbling it waiting to figure out an offensive play, as it is between a turnover by Morris at 8:49 and an Ali Three at 8:31. Not that anyone really cared.

[Panther Daddie]

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Ali's behind the back pass. Sa-weeeeeeet!

[trash]

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Ali's behind the back pass. Sa-weeeeeeet!

This.

But the look on the Kansas players faces when they finally got a clue that you were not about to roll over was pretty cool.

[Casey'sitsallgood]

Re: Favorite Random Moment From Kansas Game

My two favorites came from the last 10 seconds, I know, I know but it's not what you'd think.

Ali chuckling before he shot the second free throw to completely ice it. Talk about not panicking...

Johnny diving on the floor when Kansas was trying to roll the ball inbounds. Perfect example of UNI basketball!

[4N6]

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Does anyone remember Kerwin's basket and free throw - crucial time.

[CyCarp]

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Johnny diving on the floor when Kansas was trying to roll the ball inbounds. Perfect example of UNI basketball!

I forgot about that. I loved it, and thankfully he didn't clip the KU player and get hurt.

[TommyT]

Re: Favorite Random Moment From Kansas Game

My two favorites came from the last 10 seconds, I know, I know but it's not what you'd think.

Ali chuckling before he shot the second free throw to completely ice it. Talk about not panicking...

Johnny diving on the floor when Kansas was trying to roll the ball inbounds. Perfect example of UNI basketball!

Johnny's dive was great. Jake Koch taking the charge at the end of the game epitomized UNI basketball - heady, gutsy and doing the little things that make our team winners.

[UNIFanSince1983]

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My favorite moment was at one point during the second half I believe Bill Self just looked down the bench at his assistants and kind of looked to say 'What do we do?'

[ryan19]

Re: Favorite Random Moment From Kansas Game

The RS Freshman crying on the floor... and the assistant coach whispering sweet nothings into his ear.

[Casey'sitsallgood]

Re: Favorite Random Moment From Kansas Game

Johnny's dive was great. Jake Koch taking the charge at the end of the game epitomized UNI basketball - heady, gutsy and doing the little things that make our team winners.

I was going to included Jake's charges in there too! Had a notepad opened up on my computer watching the last 2 minutes or so and those were my three notes. ESP...