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Topic: One Shining Moment

Topic: One Shining Moment

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FearLeon
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One Shining Moment

Posted: 3/16/2023 9:24:07 AM

Eleven years later, this still gives me chills. I’ve never attended a game where your emotions went so many different directions. From early in the game thinking we were going to get killed to the amazing comeback and watching Roy Williams dumbfounded on the bench was incredible.

One free throw.

One made free throw from the Elite 8 and a date with Kansas.

One DJ Cooper half-court shot off the rim away from the Elite 8.

It still hurts.

But damn it was fun. A memory for a lifetime.

When people say Ohio CAN'T, I say we CAN. And if you need proof that it's possible, direct them to this video. And if if the DJ-Walt chest bump at the 2:13 mark doesn't give you chills, you need to turn in your Bobcat basketball fan card.

Enjoy the tournament.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TMs_9PECRvs&pp=ygUXT25lIHNo...

Last Edited: 3/16/2023 9:30:24 AM by FearLeon

#BleedGreen #TrentIsGOAT

shabamon
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RE: One Shining Moment

Posted: 3/16/2023 9:33:11 AM

The year Butler lost to Duke in the national championship, Butler's men's basketball budget was nearly identical to Ohio's. It can be done.

Deciduous Forest Cat
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RE: One Shining Moment

Posted: 3/16/2023 10:21:57 AM

At the same time, that goddamn song should be banned from ncaa telecasts forever.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlUnvWOjsIM

Last Edited: 3/16/2023 10:26:39 AM by Deciduous Forest Cat

GoCats105
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RE: One Shining Moment

Posted: 3/16/2023 10:37:41 AM

Deciduous Forest Cat wrote:

At the same time, that goddamn song should be banned from ncaa telecasts forever.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlUnvWOjsIM

GoCats105
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RE: One Shining Moment

Posted: 3/16/2023 10:40:58 AM

Had this thought in the shower this morning, but I was wish the marketing team at the AD could/would incorporate past NCAA Tournament highlights into the intro hype video at the Convo. I remember Xavier doing this years ago. Put DJ's alley-oop to DeVaughn against G-Town on blast. I bet most of the kids on campus have never seen that play and that's a shame.

shabamon
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RE: One Shining Moment

Posted: 3/16/2023 10:55:27 AM

Excuse me? Are we slandering One Shining Moment? A song so good they released a 2020 version when there wasn't even a 2020 tournament?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiImkaOSoxo

(okay, it's a guy in his apartment)

Eff it. Bring back the version with Golden Street Prelude and cutting down the nets while the production crew gets closing credits.

https://youtu.be/sGQMIXGDyx4?t=112

OhioCatFan
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RE: One Shining Moment

Posted: 3/16/2023 11:14:17 AM

GoCats105 wrote:

Deciduous Forest Cat wrote:

At the same time, that goddamn song should be banned from ncaa telecasts forever.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlUnvWOjsIM

-1000! I like it!

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bobcat 2000
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RE: One Shining Moment

Posted: 3/16/2023 5:02:17 PM

if they had won that game and played kansas it wouldve been a bloodbath for us

Deciduous Forest Cat
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RE: One Shining Moment

Posted: 3/16/2023 5:09:24 PM

bobcat 2000 wrote:

if they had won that game and played kansas it wouldve been a bloodbath for us

possibly.

But also possibly not.

OhioCatFan
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RE: One Shining Moment

Posted: 3/16/2023 6:56:19 PM

Deciduous Forest Cat wrote:

bobcat 2000 wrote:

if they had won that game and played kansas it wouldve been a bloodbath for us

possibly.

But also possibly not.

Correct, we would have been on a roll . . . upset can and do happen, all the time. Just ask UVA.

randy
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RE: One Shining Moment

Posted: 3/16/2023 7:03:28 PM

Thanks for sharing FearLeon.. Those were great moments.. Winning against Roy Williams there must have been amazing. I will never forget the Fears missed lay up put in to beat Buffalo to make it to the Tourney!

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RE: One Shining Moment

Posted: 3/16/2023 7:05:29 PM

..oops you were talking about the tourney closeness.. That was an amazing year. OT I believe

OhioCatFan
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RE: One Shining Moment

Posted: 3/16/2023 7:07:35 PM

For some reason this is still my favorite shining moment . . . though 2012 comes close . . .

http://www.bigbluehistory.net/bb/Statistics/Games/1964031...

bobcatsquared
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RE: One Shining Moment

Posted: 3/16/2023 9:17:02 PM

bobcat 2000 wrote:

if they had won that game and played kansas it wouldve been a bloodbath for us

Maybe. . . but what if Ohio had won the MAC tourney this year and had a rematch with Florida and Alex Fudge?

OUcat
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RE: One Shining Moment

Posted: 3/16/2023 9:23:31 PM

It was the perfect MAC Tournament run ... a Big Ten Michigan team that couldn't match Bobcats athleticism ... then a Big East South Florida team that gave up not one but two 5-point plays in a tight game trying to defend the Cats ... then Ohio taking it to Carolina which had not guards (at all really) capable of matching up with Coop and Co.

Great run and the kind all mid-majors dream of having.

GraffZ06
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RE: One Shining Moment

Posted: 3/17/2023 12:35:32 AM

bobcatsquared wrote:

bobcat 2000 wrote:

if they had won that game and played kansas it wouldve been a bloodbath for us

Maybe. . . but what if Ohio had won the MAC tourney this year and had a rematch with Florida and Alex Fudge?

Yes.

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RE: One Shining Moment

Posted: 3/17/2023 1:22:27 PM

Deciduous Forest Cat wrote:

bobcat 2000 wrote:

if they had won that game and played kansas it wouldve been a bloodbath for us

possibly.

But also possibly not.

Well definitely better to have lost in the sweet 16 to UNC, than to extend the party a couple extra days.

FearLeon
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RE: One Shining Moment

Posted: 3/17/2023 5:04:47 PM

bobcat 2000 wrote:

if they had won that game and played kansas it wouldve been a bloodbath for us

And who cares if that would have happened? For crying out loud we would have been one game away from the Final Four.

#BleedGreen #TrentIsGOAT

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RE: One Shining Moment

Posted: 3/17/2023 5:43:25 PM

At this point I'm convinced bobcat 2000 is an Andy Kaufman-esque parody account run by one of the regulars. Maybe Optimist? Pete?

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RE: One Shining Moment

Posted: 3/17/2023 7:14:28 PM

i was there for the Michi-gone game in Nashville. I honestly never thought i'd see Ohio win a march madness game. afterwards i was buying drinks at Margaritaville and marshmallow cigars at some rooftop bar a block away.

my wife is from STL so we made the trek to the dome and things didnt go well early. i kinda sorta just hoped we made it close before the end of the game. well that, and then some happened.

i really thought DJ halfcourt shot was online and looked very promising live. soooooo close.

makes a fella proud to be a Bobcat!

Andrew Ruck
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RE: One Shining Moment

Posted: 3/20/2023 10:42:36 AM

shabamon wrote:

At this point I'm convinced bobcat 2000 is an Andy Kaufman-esque parody account run by one of the regulars. Maybe Optimist? Pete?

72% of his posts reference Kansas.

Andrew Ruck
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RE: One Shining Moment

Posted: 3/20/2023 12:45:48 PM

Obc2 wrote:

i really thought DJ halfcourt shot was online and looked very promising live. soooooo close.

If that shot had gone in, I suspect it becomes one of the 3 or 4 most famous shots in NCAA basketball history. Laettner against Kentucky, NC State's definitely on purpose "alley oop" to beat Houston, Villanova's buzzer beater vs. UNC in the final.

But a half-court game winner would be pretty rare. Especially for an underdog against a blue blood.

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RE: One Shining Moment

Posted: 3/20/2023 1:24:46 PM

Bobcat Love's Sense of Shame wrote:

Obc2 wrote:

i really thought DJ halfcourt shot was online and looked very promising live. soooooo close.

Especially since by then all the Kansas and NC State fans had started rooting for us. It would have exploded.

Andrew Ruck
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RE: One Shining Moment

Posted: 3/20/2023 1:27:08 PM

Bobcat Love's Sense of Shame wrote:

Obc2 wrote:

i really thought DJ halfcourt shot was online and looked very promising live. soooooo close.

Absolutely. We would have been the lowest seed in Elite 8 history as well, I believe. Would be a truly ironic moment for decades.

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RE: One Shining Moment

Posted: 3/21/2023 12:45:33 AM

Andrew Ruck wrote:

shabamon wrote:

At this point I'm convinced bobcat 2000 is an Andy Kaufman-esque parody account run by one of the regulars. Maybe Optimist? Pete?

72% of his posts reference Kansas.

Yep. All statistics on the internet are true so I believe this entirely.

Makes me think 2000 is a parody account for none other than Bobcat Love.

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