What is your favorite Gopher NCAA Tournament memory?

What is your favorite Gopher NCAA Tournament memory?

  • 1989: Sweet 16 run

    Votes: 1 1.6%

  • 1990: Elite 8 run, a shot away from Final Four

    Votes: 8 12.9%

  • 1997: Clemson game - one of the most exciting Gopher games ever

    Votes: 11 17.7%

  • 1997: Win over UCLA, team dancing with Al McGuire

    Votes: 23 37.1%

  • 1997: Welcome home celebration at The Barn after UCLA win

    Votes: 9 14.5%

  • 1997: Attending the Final Four

    Votes: 4 6.5%

  • 2004: Gopher women's run to the Final Four, Whalen's legendar leadership

    Votes: 6 9.7%
  • Total voters
    62
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What is your favorite Gopher NCAA Tournament memory?
 

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What is your favorite Gopher NCAA Tournament memory?
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Watching Bryce Drew hitting the buzzer beater vs. Ole Miss in 1998. A close second was watching Tate George hit a jumper against Clemson with 1 second left back in 1990.
 

Andre from 40 at the buzzer on Sunday.

Crazier things have happened.
 

I like your choice From the Barn guy.
I had low expectations and great feeling I had after the Gophers beat Syracuse in 1990. This was followed by a heart breaking loss to Syracuse, but that was a great basketball team. Lots of talent and heart.
 

Hands down best Gopher game I ever saw was vs. Clemson in the 1997 region semis. 2 OTs. Bobby Jackson playing with 4 fouls for about 20 minutes. Scored 36 points. Sitting with all the other Gopher rubes in the "good seats" Creative Charter section. What an incredible game!

Vividly remember a moment where there was a timeout and Bobby shooting free throws late in regulation or maybe even the first OT. Clem was talking to Bobby, arms over his shoulders facing him, head-to-head. Told my wife he was saying "Bobby, you HAVE TO make these free throws and you CANNOT foul out." He made them both and did not foul out.
 


I'd share, but the memory has been vacated by order of the NCAA!
 


Also was fortunate enough to be in San Antonio. I'd go with the Clemson game, too. Drama at every turn. ... it was everything you'd want in a NCAA Tournament game.

The downside of being in San Antonio was missing the Welcome Home. Finally was able to watch it on DVD a few years ago, and all those years later it gave me chills.

Would like to experience both of the above at least one more time before I go! Beating the #1 team in the land is great, but it's nowhere near the same as a NCAA tourney run (run = at minimum a trip to Sweet 16).
 

Watching the games was a blast, but going to the welcome home celebration at the barn with my Dad was easily tops on the list for me. One of the top Father/Son sports memories for me!
 



I was at the first and second round games in Kansas City as well as the Final Four in Indy and far and away the best moment was the Welcome Home Celebration. It was like an out of body experience at how loud and rocking it was for such a sustained period of time with the team not even in the building. There were helicopters following the team bus from the airport to The Barn and as the team got closer and closer it got louder and louder. The "BEAT KENTUCKY" chant was crazy loud. There were 3,000-4,000 fans outside The Barn who couldn't get in as it was full and they greeted the bus first. The team that that the overflow crowd was the welcome home celebration itself, then they went to the locker room and heard the madness above and when they hit the floor it was on! John Thomas had the best line of the night: "I can't stop smiling."

Go Gophers!!
 

We were able to make it to the second round game in KC in 1997, and that's a special memory for my wife and I and our friends. Gopher fans had taken over the city; maroon and gold were everywhere! There was a caravan of Minnesota license plates all along I-35 in the overnight darkness, finally arriving back in the Twin Cities around dawn. Good times.
 

I said the welcome home at Williams after the UCLA game. Mostly, because I happened to be in the building that night.

Watching the lady Gophers make the Final Four was pretty sweet too though!
 

I was 8 years old (but already a huge Gopher fan) when the team made the run in 1997. I was watching the Clemson game in my basement with my dad. He was irate when the Gophers blew the lead in regulation, then when we got down by 6 in OT he made me go to bed.

I remember going up to my room and crying on my bed because I was so sad that the season was over, then my dad comes running in my room just yelling BOBBY JACKSON!!! BOBBY JACKSON!!!! I sprint downstairs to see the game tied and heading to a second OT, where we of course won to advance to the Elite 8

By far my favorite Gopher NCAA Tournament moment, and one of my earliest clear memories of the Gophers overall
 



fryguy22 said:
I was 8 years old (but already a huge Gopher fan) when the team made the run in 1997. I was watching the Clemson game in my basement with my dad. He was irate when the Gophers blew the lead in regulation, then when we got down by 6 in OT he made me go to bed.

I remember going up to my room and crying on my bed because I was so sad that the season was over, then my dad comes running in my room just yelling BOBBY JACKSON!!! BOBBY JACKSON!!!! I sprint downstairs to see the game tied and heading to a second OT, where we of course won to advance to the Elite 8

By far my favorite Gopher NCAA Tournament moment, and one of my earliest clear memories of the Gophers overall
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Great story fryguy22!! My earliest Gopher memory isn't too different - it was with my Dad in 1982 when Darryl Mitchell hit two clutch FTs against Iowa which put us in great position to win the Big Ten and my Dad and I were running around my basement and he was yelling DARRYL MITCHELL!!! DARRYL MITCHELL!!!

Hopefully we can create some new memories this Tournament and I can run around carrying my 5 year old son yelling ANDRE HOLLINS!!! ANDRE HOLLINS!!!

Those memories are what it's all about!

Go Gophers!!
 

GopherJake said:
Hands down best Gopher game I ever saw was vs. Clemson in the 1997 region semis. 2 OTs. Bobby Jackson playing with 4 fouls for about 20 minutes. Scored 36 points. Sitting with all the other Gopher rubes in the "good seats" Creative Charter section. What an incredible game!

Vividly remember a moment where there was a timeout and Bobby shooting free throws late in regulation or maybe even the first OT. Clem was talking to Bobby, arms over his shoulders facing him, head-to-head. Told my wife he was saying "Bobby, you HAVE TO make these free throws and you CANNOT foul out." He made them both and did not foul out.
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Clem should have benched Bobby for picking up fouls.
 

Long timers here know that my honey and I fell in love the winter of 1997, and the thrill of watching the gopher's run together was part of it - so I can hardly pick any one event as it was all so much fun. We watched some of the games with my sons who were 9 & 6. One memory I have is how delighted the boys were with the newspaper headline the morning after the Clemson game - a picture of Bobby at the free throw line and simply the word, "WHEW!"

So we never forget what year we met, and after the year was vacated, we decided "our song" should be, "Can't Take That Away From Me."
 

The Barn after the UCLA victory. Sooo glad we made the drive to Williams and experienced that thrill.
 


I was at the welcome home celebration and it was awesome. I loved the Clemson game (after it was all over). But I had to vote for making Steve Lavin cry. Beating legendary UCLA to get to the final four was the best.
 

goldenboy said:
I was at the welcome home celebration and it was awesome. I loved the Clemson game (after it was all over). But I had to vote for making Steve Lavin cry. Beating legendary UCLA to get to the final four was the best.
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The point late in the game, when Sam grabbed the loose ball and coasted in for the jam, sealing the victory. That's the peak moment. They're going to the Final Four!
 

Bad Gopher said:
The point late in the game, when Sam grabbed the loose ball and coasted in for the jam, sealing the victory. That's the peak moment. They're going to the Final Four!
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The radio call by Gopher legend Ray Christensen after Sam slammed that one home was classic: "The road to Indianapolis is now paved with GOLD!"

Go Gophers!!
 

1) the entire 1997 run

2) 1989 versus Kansas State in a tight game when Melvin Newbern cooly dribbles down, stops, and launches a 3 pointer from well behind the line, nothing but net! Gophers coasted to victory from that point on

3) Derrick Coleman throwing the ball at Bob Martin in 1989, drawing a T.

4) Willie Burton with the mask during the 1989 Elite 8 run
 

jamalo said:
1) the entire 1997 run

2) 1989 versus Kansas State in a tight game when Melvin Newbern cooly dribbles down, stops, and launches a 3 pointer from well behind the line, nothing but net! Gophers coasted to victory from that point on

3) Derrick Coleman throwing the ball at Bob Martin in 1989, drawing a T.

4) Willie Burton with the mask during the 1989 Elite 8 run
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Bobby Jackson at the end of every game fighting to receive the in bound pass, getting fouled, and calmly making both ends of a one and one. What did he go like 20 for 20 that tourney run? Seemed like that.
 



The welcome home celebration was incredible. My buddy and I got outside Williams hours early and made a sprint when the gates opened to score first row seats on the sideline. We saw ourselves on the recording many times.

However; I love that run to the Elite 8 in 1990 as well. Beating the heavily favored Syracuse in the Sweet 16 was a thing of beauty.
 

The welcome home celebration was the highlight of the 97 tournament run. I was working at Williams arena during the 97 season, about an hour before the team arrived at the Barn, we literally had to pull the doors shut and lock them. The number of people at Williams was unbelievable!!
 

Everything and anything Bobby Jackson. A completed stud in the Elite 8 run.
 

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