Went to all the games and then had a great time in NYC with the family and former poster steveg202!

What a run!

GW0509 wrote:

And to think it all would've been for naught had we not held on against Hofstra.  We only scored 5 points in the final 6:08 of the game capped off by the Mitola game winner.  

Lol how does one take a post about winning and make it negative. Who gives a crap a w is a w and we took home all the Ws in that run

The only thing comparable to this is the Sweet 16 run.
It turned what was indeed big disappointment into a huge triumph.
To see your team on the scoreboard marquee at Madison Square Garden as the winner is an incomparable
feeling.
And to end the season without a loss, without "a what might have been" was truly a special feeling for fans, players and coaches.
   Since we couldn't even cut down the nets against MEAC teams this year, the NIT achievement shouldn't be taken lightly and should be celebrated.
    It wasn't the NCAA, but winning a national tournament championship against the likes of Florida is a 
big deal at our level.
    And at The Garden, a temple of basketball!
    Did the university do anything on the anniversary? Hope if it was allowed, we didn't erase history by cutting out the former coach who deserves credit, as well.
   That was pretty much the last full season hurrah for us. We have been a laughingstock of the A-10 for years now.
Let's take some pleasure of seeing our team in lights and hope as soon as next season that it can happen again

Skittles wrote:

jf wrote:

The only thing comparable to this is the Sweet 16 run.
It turned what was indeed big disappointment into a huge triumph.
To see your team on the scoreboard marquee at Madison Square Garden as the winner is an incomparable
feeling.
And to end the season without a loss, without "a what might have been" was truly a special feeling for fans, players and coaches.
   Since we couldn't even cut down the nets against MEAC teams this year, the NIT achievement shouldn't be taken lightly and should be celebrated.
    It wasn't the NCAA, but winning a national tournament championship against the likes of Florida is a 
big deal at our level.
    And at The Garden, a temple of basketball!
    Did the university do anything on the anniversary? Hope if it was allowed, we didn't erase history by cutting out the former coach who deserves credit, as well.
   That was pretty much the last full season hurrah for us. We have been a laughingstock of the A-10 for years now.
Let's take some pleasure of seeing our team in lights and hope as soon as next season that it can happen again

Nope not even a tweet out of them!

Athletic Dept definitely trawling these waters 
https://twitter.com/GW_MBB/status/1377355572442447878

 

Steve Urkel wrote:

Skittles wrote:

jf wrote:

The only thing comparable to this is the Sweet 16 run.
It turned what was indeed big disappointment into a huge triumph.
To see your team on the scoreboard marquee at Madison Square Garden as the winner is an incomparable
feeling.
And to end the season without a loss, without "a what might have been" was truly a special feeling for fans, players and coaches.
   Since we couldn't even cut down the nets against MEAC teams this year, the NIT achievement shouldn't be taken lightly and should be celebrated.
    It wasn't the NCAA, but winning a national tournament championship against the likes of Florida is a 
big deal at our level.
    And at The Garden, a temple of basketball!
    Did the university do anything on the anniversary? Hope if it was allowed, we didn't erase history by cutting out the former coach who deserves credit, as well.
   That was pretty much the last full season hurrah for us. We have been a laughingstock of the A-10 for years now.
Let's take some pleasure of seeing our team in lights and hope as soon as next season that it can happen again

Nope not even a tweet out of them!

Athletic Dept definitely trawling these waters 
https://twitter.com/GW_MBB/status/1377355572442447878

 

Seems like the censors missed several ML sightings in the background lol. What they should do is stop with the nonsense ... history is history!  Show it as it happened and include everyone coaches and players. Enough!
 

Have we won a game in the road uniforms ever since?

Seriously, could I count those number of wins on two hands?

Hurts my heart to see the clips from the NIT championship - what a good team that was.

Jf I agree, their continued censorship is just sad at this point. It's their fault we long to even see the CBI in the next decade let alone WIN A TOURNAMENT

GW0509 wrote:

Skittles wrote:

GW0509 wrote:

And to think it all would've been for naught had we not held on against Hofstra.  We only scored 5 points in the final 6:08 of the game capped off by the Mitola game winner.  

Lol how does one take a post about winning and make it negative. Who gives a crap a w is a w and we took home all the Ws in that run

Well I would argue it's a pretty integral part of the story in that the team that ended up winning the NIT was not the team that showed up to the first game.  

On March 11, 2016 GW took a 14 pt lead into halftime against St Joe's in the quarterfinals of the A-10 Tournament.  The Hawks ended up outscoring us by 20 in the second half en route to winning the whole thing.  The loss almost assuredly cost us a chance at a First Four game in the NCAA tournament, although even with a win we were probably on the bubble looking in.  

We then had to wait after Selection Sunday to see if we would even be selected to the NIT because of so many auto-bids. We barely made the tournament as a 4 seed.  I don't think that's where anyone saw us being after we beat UVA.

The Hofstra game started just like the St Joe's game with a comfortable 11 pt halftime lead with us scoring almost 50 points and then we started to get lazy.  Our FG% went down 9 percentage points in the second half with Hofstra's going up 8.  As I said earlier, we went stone cold the last 6 minutes of the game.

The Mitola shot 100% propelled the team into giving a crap about the NITs and each subsequent win saw the team gain confidence.  Whether we would've won against FL if we had to travel to Gainesville is a great what if but luckily they decided to start renovating their home court early. 

I would argue the win against SDSU was the most impressive in the whole run.   That was just utter domination from start to finish.

Ah that St Joe's game. Stuff of nightmares! Got to see that gem live too unfortunately. I agree. The shot definitely motivated the team but I think it was more nerves against Hofstra (considering what JUST happened the game before) than not caring. The team had a core playing their last stretch I'm sure they were motivated. But after hofstra we took it hard to every team (even a hard fighting Florida team). We were a sure thing for the NIT even with auto bids I'd argue cause we had some impressive wins including UVA!