Top UNI Basketball Games

[Panther Daddie]

Here is my list...
1. UNI-Kansas (Obviously)
2. UNI-Missouri (Oh Newby)
3. UNI- Iowa (22,000 thousand in the dome)
4. UNI- Creighton (Game winner this year)
5. UNI- UNLV (NCAA game)
6. UNI at Wich. State (Jake nailing the bomb to win it)
7. UNI- Bucknell (Bracket Buster Game from 2006)

I'm sure I'm missing some good ones.
Your list?

[9YRPLAN]

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good list. off the top of my head i will add @bradley johnnys freshman year.

[SMK4UNI]

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[QUOTE=Panther Daddie;322745]6. UNI at Wich. State (Jake nailing the bomb to win it)
QUOTE]

Good list. Are you talking about Ben Jacobsen in #6?

I would add beating SIU in the Dome so they couldn't finish undefeated in conference play.

[Big Cats]

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UNI vs Missouri St 2004 MVC tourney championship game. 2 OT's to win it.

[Hail Our Panthers]

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That OT game in the 09 tourney championship game with Osiris hitting shots from Nigeria was pertty good too

[clenz]

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That OT game in the 09 tourney championship game with Osiris hitting shots from Nigeria was pertty good too

I'm still trying to figure out how he didn't single-handily beat us that game. I don't know if I've ever witnessed a player getting THAT hot....maybe Ali vs. ODU in 2010 in the second half...great game as well.

While this game doesn't stand out because it wasn't "Great" when UNI played Drake in the 2010 MVC tourney Drake went over an hour of "real time" without scoring a basket. They lead 24-13 with 7:09 left in the 1st half....didn't score a POINT the rest of the half, plus halftime, scored their first point in the second half on a pair of Van Deest FT with 16:57 left, then didn't score again until Craig Stanley hit a single FT wth about 8:50 left in the game, Young hit a FT with 7:39 left in the game, and the first FG since the 7:09 mark of the first half came with 7:00 left in the game when Wedel hit a 3 to get Drake up to 31 for the game (remember they had 24 points with 7:09 left in the first half.

[blien]

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great list, hard to beat that..the UNI-Georgia Tech was good too(was there!), as we tried to rally..GT goes on to play Duke in championship game

http://scores.espn.go.com/ncb/recap?gameId=244000055

[BCPanther]

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This year's Creighton game is way too high on your list.

Two more- 1990 Mid-Con Tournament against SMS and Green Bay.

[Khan4Cats]

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This year's Creighton game is way too high on your list.

two more 1990 Mid-Con Tournament against SMS and Green Bay.

Agree, plus the OT game vs UIC? in the first game of the three.

The UNI-ODU game from 2010 was good, and there was like a 3 OT game in the 80's where the final was like 130-128.

The UNI-Iowa game that Gary plays on his intro to OPR was when Iowa was ranked maybe #12?.

The Iowa State game where we nearly put a hundred on them and Morgan tried to take on Mac at the scorers table.

Mac's first game back in CF with ISU in the Dome when we stuck it to them, the Coleman breakaway dunk towards the end nearly blew the roof off.

Last years' Iowa game with Psycho getting a police escort was sweet.

The last game against Evansville in 2010 when we clinched the title and cut the nets down at home.

Taking it to Indiana and New Mexico in Vegas a couple of years ago when they didn't even include our name on the marquee for the tournament.

Some games I didn't get to "see" but heard through Gary include the 2009 breaking of losing streaks at SIU and at Creighton to start our run to the title. The win at LSU.

Ah, good times.

[Hail Our Panthers]

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I'm still trying to figure out how he didn't single-handily beat us that game.

And think about what would have happened if we didn't find a way to win that game. We don't make the tournement that year, our guys miss out on the valuable experience (the value of that experience is of course subjective). I think we would still be in for a great year in 2010, but without that tournament experience (against Purdue), are our guys poised enough to hold off UNLV and Kansas? I'm not sure. HUGE game for our program in my opinion. Our ideas of what UNI basketball is would be completely different had Osiris managed to finish what he started that day in St Louis, IMO.

[TravelingPanther]

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and there was like a 3 OT game in the 80's where the final was like 130-128.

I believe it was 4-5 OTs with Eastern Illinois in 89 or 90.

[UNIGrainer]

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Here is my list...
1. UNI-Kansas (Obviously)
2. UNI-Missouri (Oh Newby)
3. UNI- Iowa (22,000 thousand in the dome)
4. UNI- Creighton (Game winner this year)
5. UNI- UNLV (NCAA game)
6. UNI at Wich. State (Jake nailing the bomb to win it)
7. UNI- Bucknell (Bracket Buster Game from 2006)

I'm sure I'm missing some good ones.
Your list?

Pretty solid list. I do think the CU game is too high and UNLV should be ahead of both that game and the Iowa game. We've only won 3 NCAA tournament games in our history, and we did win it on a long 3 pointer on our last possession. If it weren't for the Kansas game, we would still be talking about that game as one of our best moments ever.

I think the 2004 and 2009 MVC Tournament Championship games are your two most criminal omissions. Both must wins to go to the dance, and both won in OT. My top 5 would be 1.)KU, 2.)Mizzou 3.)09 MVC Championship, 4.)04 MVC Championship and 5.) UNLV

[ilovecats]

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here we go

1.Kansas
2. Missouri
3. UNLV
4. Iowa 1990
5. 2004 MSU conference championship
6. 09 Illinois State conference championship
7. 05 WSU. game got us into the the tourney that year plus amazing benny j buzzer beater
8. 2012 Creighton. may not have had the impact that some of these did but beating the 12th ranked team on a buzzer beater who has 2 of the most disliked people around here playing and coaching on their team makes it on this list.
9. 2010 ODU/2006 Bucknell. I know its two but these games are the reason its hard for me to see the bracketbusters get so bad.
10. 2010 Evansville clinching the conference championship.

I cant really speak for much before 2000 so all i have before that are the Missouri and Iowa games.

[lakesbison]

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107-109 North Dakota State...........12-13-58

Awesome game, back and forth, fast paced, great 50's action!

[unicheer]

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107-109 North Dakota State...........12-13-58

Awesome game, back and forth, fast paced, great 50's action!

Nicely done. Who could forget that one?
A few games that I haven't seen people really talking about yet are the 2006 game against Iowa. Down by 11 with 5 minutes left; Travis Brown hits a layup to put us ahead with 30 seconds remaining, then gets in Tony Freeman's face to prevent him from making the game-winning 3. First ever win at Carver-Hawkeye in 21 tries.

Also 2005 against 12th ranked Iowa in OT at the Dome.

No one has mentioned the 2005 game against SIU, which we won in 2OT, and I don't think that '05 Bucknell game gets enough credit. Absolutely one of the most amazing games I've ever seen. Bison were a top-25 team, and gave us a finish that I hadn't seen before and haven't seen since.