1 of 1- Joel Joseph
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Where were you 5 years ago today?
I was at the Smitty witnessing the Colonials take down #6 Virginia.
Best basketball game I ever witnessed at the Smith Center. The atmosphere was unbelievable.
It's hard to believe where we are now, 5 years later. I hope and pray we get back to this level sometime in the future.
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Re: Where were you 5 years ago today?
I was in my season ticket seats. What an atmosphere! I had sweet sixteen dreams after that win for sure.
- Gwmayhem
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Re: Where were you 5 years ago today?
Three or four Smith Center games come to mind as being better games (two wins over Xavier to win the A10 West on Shawnta's buzzer beater and the Mike King free throws to force overtime, the Charlotte win to cap 26-1/16-0, and possibly the win over #1 UMASS with President Clinton and Chelsea in attendance) but it was certainly an incredible atmosphere and an enormous upset.
- PKGW
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The best game I have ever attended at GW. In 2nd place is the1 win against UMass in the 1-27 year.
- Free Quebec
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I’m with GWMayhem:
1) Win over #1 Umass with Bill Clinton there. For those who loved that UVA win, imagine it being over the number one team in the country.
2) The Mike King game against X. I think it’s the most exciting back and forth game I’ve ever seen at the smith center (roughly 30 years). The James Posey dunk is still the best dunk ever by an opponent, the stakes were high, it had the 2FT with no time on the clock by a freshman, and mike king had some hype but had barely played before sparking the comeback with like 12 points in the last 10 minutes or so.
3) Shawnta’s A10 winning buzzer three. Guy had the flu and could barely move and then hit 5 threes in the second half including the true buzzer beater.
4) The 16-0 clincher over Charlotte. Best celebrating in GW history by far. Mike, Pops, and Co dancing on the scorers tables will never be matched. Plus it was overtime and a miracle finish, and the accomplshment of going 16-0 in conference is arguably the best in school history. Only thing that holds this one down is that we played kind of crappy for almost the whole game nLeemire Goldwire’s elbow should be inducted into the GW athletics hall of fame.
5) could probably put the uva win 5th. Played so well wire to wire.
Honorable mentions:
- The 1-27 win over Umass.
- The Ncaa record best defensive game when we held SLU to 20 points. Game was ugly but when we blocked 3 shots in the first two possessions of the second half to take the life out of them when they tried to rally at the half, it was sick.
- the other win over Umass with Marcus Camby
- best losing game ever: the loss to Siena when Val Brown had 44 points, Penders got ejected and gave the ref the fat belly gesture in his way out, and Siena had a 10 point play and a 7 point play in the same game.
- Gwmayhem
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Re: Where were you 5 years ago today?
Best losing games at the Smitty:
Siena sounded great but I actually missed that game for some reason.
The 1980 double overtime loss to Georgetown. This was a season before Mike Brown and Pat Ewing arrived, but Gtown was an NCAA tournament team (led by Eric "Sleepy" Floyd) and GW was just terrible in Bob Tallent's final season as head coach (may have won 8 or 9 games that season). Wilbert Skipper practically single-handedly kept GW in that game with an amazing performance. The teams played the next year at Capital Centre to honor an existing contract and have not played one another ever since.
The .4 second loss to VCU. GW has lost so much to VCU that when the Fab 4 knocked them off in early 2014,during their sophomore seasons, it felt like this huge cloud had been lifted. Unfortunately, the rivalry has remained one-sided with the Rams winning 14 of 17 contests. No loss was more agonizing than in February, 2017 when Yuta hit just an incredible off balance three point shot to give GW a presumed victory. The refs put .4 back on the clock and then JeQuan Lewis drew a controversial foul before the inbounds pass was made. Lewis hit both free throws and GW had remarkably lost to a point. This was a good VCU team, 19-5 with this win. It is very rare to both celebrate an apparent upset victory and have your heart torn out within a span of minutes. That was the case this night.
- russianthistle
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Re: Where were you 5 years ago today?
I was selling tons of Ice Melt to schools, churches and apartment building in the DC area for Ace Hardware in DC and Baltimore. Oh, you are talking GWU sports.