... I am still waiting for Jarvis to call a F*%@ING TIMEOUT!

Memories of that game still give me facial ticks.

Nah.  Thanks to Mike Hall, Big Shot Carl, and Co., the UNC-Wilmington game excorcised those demons.  You can say Iowa again without something bad happening.    

Now I imagine in Wilmington they are still cursing GW and memories of our game still give them facial ticks....

You guys have to have media timeouts coming up!

You guys have to have media timeouts coming up!

 Methinks FQ is still in the "denial" stage. 

Expectations of beating that Midwestern School That Cannot be Named were so high. Meanwhile, we all thought the team that got past UNCW was so underseeded that there should have been no way they (with just two losses all season) would lose to a CAA squad, which almost happened. So the comeback to beat UNCW staved off humiliation and exorcised nothing. 

Also, after all these years, Rollerson is still a fat tub of goo, Goukas is still a thug and Esherick's shot was taken after-the-buzzer.

It's funny, but I read an IOWA site a couple of years ago, and they considered the GW game an all-time high. I'd have thought they had more memories...

I was sitting with a GU prof at the Esherick game. Even he said we was jobbed. Good for Esherick, though. He's made his living all these years off that one glitch,

GWAA, you are overthinking it.  We had one of the biggest comebacks in NCAA history, bigger even than Iowa's. That's enough to get past it.

Don't forget that UNCW shot approximately 85% (give or take a few percentage points) from the field and still lost.  The guys withstood a pretty good team's absolutely perfect game in a fairly hostile environment.  I'll take it.

 Free...there are certain games that set the standards of negativity that they will never be exorcised...until a more embarassing loss comes along, as it inevitably will.   For blown leads with 8 minutes to go in an important game, it is I*wa.  For blown leads with 30 seconds to go, it is F**rfield.   For blown halftime leads, it is USC.   For the "no team is so bad that we can't lose to them", it is Longwood.  And, in a category for which I have not yet come up with a label, it was the loss to Temple in the A-10 tournament at the Spectrum in Philadelphia, when Ngongba smartly fouled the 3 point shooter at the buzzer.  (I know it was a disputed call, but what was he doing out there anyway?).   As for the UNC Wilmington game, yes, I know it was an amazing comeback and that Wilmington played great, and it wa in there home state, but for me, i still see the game as a highly overrated (then) 27-2 team having to struggle against a CAA team before winning in OT.  That GW team was probably a text book example of why you should play a competitive schedule and not just look to pad your record.  If we indeed had played a tougher schedule, our record may not have been that gaudy, but on the other hand we would have been better prepared to play when the games counted.  

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LSF, I'll substitute Coppin State for Longwood and I'm right there with you.

However, what should be understood about this sport is that sometimes, a team just goes out and plays with amazing confidence which is what UNCW did that night.  Nobody was thinking about their conference affiliation that night.  I grant you that maybe the confidence stemmed from the fact that GW's record was far better than their abilities on a national stage.  The fact that we overcame a 19 point lead against that particular team that night has to mean much more than "oh well, we beat a CAA team."

Or put another way, down 19 in that situation, GW teams over the years would lose that game around 98% of the time.  It was an extraordinary comeback in an NCAA tournament game and should not be undervalued because of the team's easy OOC schedule or because it was a win over a CAA team.

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LSF, I'm surprised you are dismissing them as just "a CAA team."  They were good, and as MV said, they played amazingly well for most of the game.  I believe they would have beaten 40-50 of the teams in the first round that day, probably more, but we turned on the jets to a remarkable level the last 17 minutes to beat a good team. 

Don't rip them for thier conference (besides, they were the CAA champs in a rare 3 bid league for them and they beat a Final 4 GMU team twice that season so this was not your normal CAA team). 

LSF, I'm surprised you are dismissing them as just "a CAA team."  They were good, and as MV said, they played amazingly well for most of the game.  I believe they would have beaten 40-50 of the teams in the first round that day, probably more, but we turned on the jets to a remarkable level the last 17 minutes to beat a good team. 

Don't rip them for thier conference (besides, they were the CAA champs in a rare 3 bid league for them and they beat a Final 4 GMU team twice that season so this was not your normal CAA team). 

If you don't know what the heck we're talking about.

If this was about, say, debating, instead of, say, D-I college basketball, I'd say that FQ and MV win the argument.  Since it's about wanting to brag about your team and not get a condescending pat on the head, no, coming from behind to beat UNCW doesn't erase blowing a big lead to a Big Ten team.  The arguments about what an achievement it was to beat UNCW remind me of the Saturday Night Live superheroes party skit, where Garrett Morris is Antman.  When the Hulk or other brutes ask him who he is, he says "when I'm the size of an ant, I have the strength of a man."  Which gets the obvious pat on the head responses from the Hulk et al.  But, argue on.  Somebody not a decades-long GW fan might buy into it.