That SUCKS, you come back by outscoring UConn 30-10 in the last 12:30, just to lose like that. Awful. For Clemson, that is. Classic buzzer beater for anyone else.
Ball was still in his hands. But UConn got their comeuppance the very next game. Laettner beat them at the buzzer. What a crazy couple of games to sit through, my gosh.
@IKolodiychik i agree, this wouldn't have counted if they had instant replay - or the refs could review plays back then. The ball was still touching his hands at 00:0 - no good. Clemson wins
Cliff Ellis will go into the books as one of the most underrated coaches, largely because of late, big-game heroics against his squads, playing it safe in the waning moments.
wizeman5974 believes he can see what is on the back side of the ball--amazing ability, that. BTW, the 'bright spot' I speak of cannot be seen at the regular speed of the video, and not very well or at all on the low-definition copy. I examined the HD version (when it was up), and examined the slow-motion excerpt they showed on tv several minutes after the actual event took place. Will someone please locate a higher def copy of this and check it out??
wizeman5974 notwithstanding, it's *IMPOSSIBLE* to conclude his hands were touching the ball at 0.0 from this film by looking at the hands from this angle: they are *CONCEALED* behind the ball! Thus there are only two things to do: (1) find a different film from a different angle (2) look at the sudden emergence of the bright spot at 0.1, as I suggest.
@smitcha2 Maybe for you it's impossible to conclude that, but it is not for me. You have a right to your view, as do I. And I choose to leave it at that. I don't wish to go back and forth on a debate here as I've seen too many of them on YouTube get nasty. Thank you and take care.
Hey--(somebody) find a copy of the high resolution tape, and check out the slow-mo replay several minutes after the actual shot. I was not the only one to see this; I showed it to a couple of colleagues and they agreed. He *did* get the shot off, and merely saying otherwise doesn't make it so.
2 years ago a higher resolution version of this video was put on YouTube, and I spent a couple of hours examining George's release. You could not see from that tape, or any other, whether his hand was on the ball at 00:0. However, I finally noticed that at 00:1 a spot of light appears on the ball that was not there a fraction of a second before. This could only be the ball *starting to spin*, and reflecting arena light because of this. This couldn't be if the ball were still touching his hand.
@smitcha2 Freeze it at 2:08, it will clearly show the ball in George's hand at 00:0, though it may take awhile to freeze at just the right moment. At the time, however, the clock was not the official ender of a game, it was the horn and the horn sounded after the clock went to zeros. Ball was still in his hands at 00:1 and that freeze frame is not as hard to find. Unbelievable shot though and the Huskie running around like a madman is too funny!
How did the clock start late.It is suppose to statrt when the ball is first touched and that is what it did.And if you listen the shot went off before the buzzer.And how could the coach cheat?
I "freeze-framed" it and if you freeze it at just the right point at 2:08, when the clock first hits "00:0" the ball is still in Tate George's hand. Good thing there was not instant replay back then because there is a very fair chance this shot would not have counted. Nonetheless, it still is probably the best "buzzer-beater" shot ever.
@wizeman5974 Good eye! Also of note is the fact that on the replay (pause it @ 3:50), the *red light wasn't on yet*, because the "tenth second" rule had been introduced the season before, and the clock wasn't calibrated correctly (as evidenced by the horn sounding .2-.3 seconds after the clock hit "00.0").
@Tyrone181 It's funny you mention the horn because you're right, the horn definitely sounds after the clock hit 00:0, instead of simultaneously to it. Kudos to Scott Burrell, the guy who passed the ball in from out-of-bounds. Without such an amazing pass down-court, this play never happens.
Before this shot, I remember retreating to my room in defeat. I was sobbing about the game and couldn't bear to watch the end of it. My lil' sis marched into my room to try to cheer me up. She said, "It's not over." I screamed "YES IT IS". And she said, "They can still win. They can do it." I countered "IT'S IMPOSSIBLE. THERE IS ONE SECOND LEFT". She pleaded, "Just come watch the end. Please come watch it." I left my room thinking I would watch just to prove her wrong. Then he hit it
Any UConn fan alive in 1990 will remember this shot! Hard for me to believe it was 20 years ago yesterday (3/22/90) - wow, time flies! I was in high school, I remember jumping up and down throughout my house! My parents must have thought I was mad!!
The most ironic part of this shot for UConn was that they played Duke the very next game, and they became buzzer-beater victims themselves by you know who....Mr. Christian Laettner!!!
@vanni9283 I remember that game well too... what a disappointment after the Clemson game but Laettner was pretty lethal. I believe this was also the game where UConn's Toraino Walker stepped on Laettner's head in a memorable but somewhat dirty move... it cost him a one game suspension I believe.
I can only imagine how history would have been different if not for Laettner's magic. UConn in the Final Four, possibly to meet UNLV in the final, and Laettner's career with one minor black eye...
yea Duke has 3 national championships...when was there last one and they cant beat Uconn...ha ha......see you at the Garden in November...you guys have really fallen and no one feels sorry
@nycuconn - Answer: April 5, 2010. Yeah, and how'd that date at the Garden go for ya last November? Where were you in the NCAA's? You guys have really fallen and no one feels sorry.
I remember listening to this game on the Armed Forces Radio when I used to live in Tokyo . I yelled so loud when Tate made that shot the people on the street below my apartment were all looking up wondering what happened !
Elden Campbell's facial expression is utterly classic...just shocked like it couldn't have happened...and yes that shot was in time and good! it's out of his hands before all zeros hit the clock.
I was in a poll for the ncaa tournament in wich my girlfriends dad and I had the only sheets with clemson winning it all. I was with another girl that night in a park trying to listen to the game on the radio and thought we were on our way to winning a poll worth in excess of $18,000 since we had clemson on all our pools.God punished me I guess for cheating that evening.
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Given UConn's repeated basketball scandals, I wouldn't be surprised if they paid off the refs. This video proves he didn't get the shot off in time. Clemson was cheated out of this win.
From what I recall, as this was before the light-up backboards, the key is that you get the shot off before the buzzer/horn sounds. Even now, it doesn't matter if the clock says 0.0 unless the lights around the backboard have gone on. I believe there are still hundreths of seconds remaining until the buzzer/lights go on.
You're right because in the same tournament of the Elite 8, Kenny Anderson of Georgia Tech made a last second shot against Michigan St. (I think) and the clock was 0.0 but the debate at the time was whether or not the buzzer/horn went off. It did but because there was no replay Georgia Tech still won.
You are incorrect. That shot by Anderson to beat Michigan St. was in the sweet sixteen in 1990. Georgia Tech tied the game on that shot and went on to win in Overtime. I KNOW CAUSE I WAS THERE! Tech went on to beat Minnesota and advance to the Final Four. You are welcome for the history lesson of facts.
How can you see whether his hand is touching the ball?--it's in back of the ball. Again, I looked at the same basic video you see. Well, I guess you can believe what you want to, it's a free world. OVer and out.
We see the ball overlapping his hand at 0.0. You tell me what is the reasonable conclusion as to what that means, assuming that this guy doesn't shoot with a horizontal trajectory.
Actually, as anyone can see, his hands are under, and in back of, the ball. Let's see--the ball is spinning at 0.1 (on the basis of the 'bright spot' observation), the horn doesn't go off until after the shot, and George has ceased to go any higher before 0.0 hits. Plus the refs called it, and Clemson did not question the call. Gee, what's a rational person to think....
Wow, you really topped yourself. It was definitely good because the refs called it? Please, PLEASE, search Youtube's vault of sports highlights and tell me that the refs have never gotten it wrong before. Clemson didn't question it because it would have done no good--they didn't do replay then.
I've already addressed the three-step logic of concluding that glare (your "bright spot") means "absolutely conclusively" that the ball was released. That's just stupid to say.
You're wrong. Last year I looked *very carefully" at the high-d version of the video, stopping it time and again before the clock hit zero. Just *before* 0.0, a small bright spot appears on the ball as it is going up--this is the ball starting to *spin*, and reflecting more light. Thus it was released before time ran out. This is absolutely conclusive. You can't possibly tell *directly* from any angle given here whether he was still touching the ball or not!
Okay, I guess we should all just take your word for what none of us are looking at, and the inferences you made based on a "bright spot," which obviously means "the ball starting to spin," which obviously means that he had released it. Yep... that 3-step inference based on a video in your living room instead of the one we're looking at right now on this page where the ball is clearly still connected to his hand when the clock hits 0.0.
You're so right... talk about "absolutely conclusive!"
I regret that you were not looking over my shoulder when I found this, and showed it to several of my colleagues (none of whom are UCONN fans). Also, the video I looked at *was* on YouTube, though it unfortunately was not the same issue as is presently there (it went to about 8 minutes, as I recall). Note also that by the time the clock runs out George is no longer going any higher, and that the horn blows *after* the shot. And still, you can't possibly say you can see where his hand is.
Give me a break. Yes, I'm sure you called all your friends to gather around your computer and watch just so you could prove 1 year ago that the shot taken 20 years ago was good.
Pause this video at 0.0. The ball is still touching his hand. Maybe you have the secret camera angle with the highest definition camera on your secret YouTube video, but based on THIS video it's pretty obvious that the ball was in his hand at 0.0. Your arguments are multi-step inferences; I'm just watching the video.
As a Clemson fan I hate this play. It's clear he didn't get it off in time, and today they would have reviewed the play. I wish we could retroactively go back and say Clemson should have had the victory, but I will just have to live with it. ;)
Glad it's on Youtube though, now everyone can see that Clemson got robbed.
I also find it interesting the announcers didn't say anything about him not getting it off in time even on the replay, which clearly showed he didn't. Oh well.
How about the fact that the very next game Christian Laettner beat UCONN at the buzzer! Two of the most famous buzzer beaters in NCAA history in back to back games!
there's motion of the ball out of his hand, if they called it good on the floor, which they did, then they wouldnt have found convincing evidence to overrule
as a connecticut native and a born and bred huskies fan, but a clemson graduate and tiger (bleed orange)- i never know how to react to this. i love it nonetheless.
This never gets old. I remember watching that game while in high school. Strange story -- I shared an Algebra class with Scott Burrell when he was a senior in high school, and a few years ago I connected with Tate George and designed his website.
I was there, the kid (tyson I think) from clemson was lights out in the comeback. I still have the hat, powder blue sweet 16 ! what a great game. Tate shot towards my section directly in the meadowlands (aka brendan byrne), he hit it and the place rose up. No one cared about the Duke game after ! awesome game ! The start of UCON greatness.
that shot was all net!
BlastFromYesterday 3 weeks ago
That SUCKS, you come back by outscoring UConn 30-10 in the last 12:30, just to lose like that. Awful. For Clemson, that is. Classic buzzer beater for anyone else.
jmcieslak0 4 weeks ago
Tate released the ball before
the buzzer sounded. The shot was
definately good!!
maddadram1 1 month ago
fuck everybody he hit the shot and you can't count the clock on the screen it is not always right
iStephenReviews 5 months ago
Ball was still in his hands. But UConn got their comeuppance the very next game. Laettner beat them at the buzzer. What a crazy couple of games to sit through, my gosh.
cschnei08 5 months ago
Ball was definitely in his hands.
Hit play/pause as fast as you can to see a frame by frame capture of it.
IKolodiychik 5 months ago
@IKolodiychik i agree, this wouldn't have counted if they had instant replay - or the refs could review plays back then. The ball was still touching his hands at 00:0 - no good. Clemson wins
ebstxr 5 months ago
He was still touching the ball when the time ran out, most likely would of been replayed and taken away!
mvpleet 5 months ago
similar to devendorf's 3. i agree the ball was still in his hands.
shooshooree 5 months ago
@mvpleet imagine that ..if it was taken away..then this wouldnt be "the shot" instead noone would remember it
sciontcdude 5 months ago
@mvpleet nope
astrollenium 1 month ago
If you look at the replay it's so close, I would bet that it would be no good if there were replay back then.
TheRagurock 5 months ago
Cliff Ellis will go into the books as one of the most underrated coaches, largely because of late, big-game heroics against his squads, playing it safe in the waning moments.
jarisafia 5 months ago
If he did in fact get the shot off, it's pretty darn close.I'm not so sure that he did.
From a lifetime UConn fan.
noclouds111 6 months ago
wizeman5974 believes he can see what is on the back side of the ball--amazing ability, that. BTW, the 'bright spot' I speak of cannot be seen at the regular speed of the video, and not very well or at all on the low-definition copy. I examined the HD version (when it was up), and examined the slow-motion excerpt they showed on tv several minutes after the actual event took place. Will someone please locate a higher def copy of this and check it out??
smitcha2 7 months ago
wizeman5974 notwithstanding, it's *IMPOSSIBLE* to conclude his hands were touching the ball at 0.0 from this film by looking at the hands from this angle: they are *CONCEALED* behind the ball! Thus there are only two things to do: (1) find a different film from a different angle (2) look at the sudden emergence of the bright spot at 0.1, as I suggest.
smitcha2 7 months ago
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wizeman5974 7 months ago
@smitcha2 Maybe for you it's impossible to conclude that, but it is not for me. You have a right to your view, as do I. And I choose to leave it at that. I don't wish to go back and forth on a debate here as I've seen too many of them on YouTube get nasty. Thank you and take care.
wizeman5974 7 months ago
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wizeman5974 7 months ago
i know scott burrell and he's a BEAST like the throw and shot
hoopsmasher101 8 months ago
Awesome, 20 years later and people still talking, awesome.......!
sfcsinc 9 months ago
i love watching coach jump up and down then reach for the hand shake
usedconn41 10 months ago
dick stockton! my favorite!
DaveMeggett 10 months ago
Who won the championship this year
Jmarsfan28 11 months ago
@Jmarsfan28 UNLV won this year.
alexrgs2 11 months ago
@alexrgs2
o yeah thanks
Jmarsfan28 11 months ago
Nice to see a little Lyman Depriest in there at the end..
ZinkDude 11 months ago
Hey--(somebody) find a copy of the high resolution tape, and check out the slow-mo replay several minutes after the actual shot. I was not the only one to see this; I showed it to a couple of colleagues and they agreed. He *did* get the shot off, and merely saying otherwise doesn't make it so.
smitcha2 11 months ago
he didnt get the shot off
phillyphan221 11 months ago
2 years ago a higher resolution version of this video was put on YouTube, and I spent a couple of hours examining George's release. You could not see from that tape, or any other, whether his hand was on the ball at 00:0. However, I finally noticed that at 00:1 a spot of light appears on the ball that was not there a fraction of a second before. This could only be the ball *starting to spin*, and reflecting arena light because of this. This couldn't be if the ball were still touching his hand.
smitcha2 1 year ago
@smitcha2 Freeze it at 2:08, it will clearly show the ball in George's hand at 00:0, though it may take awhile to freeze at just the right moment. At the time, however, the clock was not the official ender of a game, it was the horn and the horn sounded after the clock went to zeros. Ball was still in his hands at 00:1 and that freeze frame is not as hard to find. Unbelievable shot though and the Huskie running around like a madman is too funny!
wizeman5974 7 months ago
That 1.0 seconds took a really long time! Clock starts late, and even with that it's not clear he gets it off in time. Start of Calhoun's cheating?
fredact 1 year ago
@fredact
How did the clock start late.It is suppose to statrt when the ball is first touched and that is what it did.And if you listen the shot went off before the buzzer.And how could the coach cheat?
Jmarsfan28 11 months ago
I "freeze-framed" it and if you freeze it at just the right point at 2:08, when the clock first hits "00:0" the ball is still in Tate George's hand. Good thing there was not instant replay back then because there is a very fair chance this shot would not have counted. Nonetheless, it still is probably the best "buzzer-beater" shot ever.
wizeman5974 1 year ago
@wizeman5974 Good eye! Also of note is the fact that on the replay (pause it @ 3:50), the *red light wasn't on yet*, because the "tenth second" rule had been introduced the season before, and the clock wasn't calibrated correctly (as evidenced by the horn sounding .2-.3 seconds after the clock hit "00.0").
Tyrone181 1 year ago
@Tyrone181 It's funny you mention the horn because you're right, the horn definitely sounds after the clock hit 00:0, instead of simultaneously to it. Kudos to Scott Burrell, the guy who passed the ball in from out-of-bounds. Without such an amazing pass down-court, this play never happens.
wizeman5974 1 year ago
@wizeman5974 It seems like it beat the buzzer but not the clock if that makes sense...
awalkb 1 year ago
@awalkb A very astute observation because you are right, there was a lapse between the clock going 00.0 and the horn sounding.
wizeman5974 1 year ago
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wizeman5974 1 year ago
2:04 if you want to see the shot.
radioplug14 1 year ago
The most amazing finish to a game in the history of college sports!
DietrichBonhoeffer 1 year ago
how do you let them catch it that deep down the court
jeepinsane87and89 1 year ago
Before this shot, I remember retreating to my room in defeat. I was sobbing about the game and couldn't bear to watch the end of it. My lil' sis marched into my room to try to cheer me up. She said, "It's not over." I screamed "YES IT IS". And she said, "They can still win. They can do it." I countered "IT'S IMPOSSIBLE. THERE IS ONE SECOND LEFT". She pleaded, "Just come watch the end. Please come watch it." I left my room thinking I would watch just to prove her wrong. Then he hit it
DietrichBonhoeffer 1 year ago 3
disagree
burtontyler23 1 year ago
Any UConn fan alive in 1990 will remember this shot! Hard for me to believe it was 20 years ago yesterday (3/22/90) - wow, time flies! I was in high school, I remember jumping up and down throughout my house! My parents must have thought I was mad!!
RoadCone411 1 year ago
@RoadCone411 I enjoyed reading your memory.
woodsy0003 1 year ago
The most ironic part of this shot for UConn was that they played Duke the very next game, and they became buzzer-beater victims themselves by you know who....Mr. Christian Laettner!!!
vanni9283 1 year ago
@vanni9283 I remember that game well too... what a disappointment after the Clemson game but Laettner was pretty lethal. I believe this was also the game where UConn's Toraino Walker stepped on Laettner's head in a memorable but somewhat dirty move... it cost him a one game suspension I believe.
I can only imagine how history would have been different if not for Laettner's magic. UConn in the Final Four, possibly to meet UNLV in the final, and Laettner's career with one minor black eye...
RoadCone411 1 year ago
I hear Hubie Brown.
john697200 2 years ago
Love Dick and Hubie on the PBP
sarnow76 1 year ago
yea Duke has 3 national championships...when was there last one and they cant beat Uconn...ha ha......see you at the Garden in November...you guys have really fallen and no one feels sorry
nycuconn 2 years ago
@nycuconn i feel sorry.
OuterLimitsSledding 2 years ago
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@nycuconn - Answer: April 5, 2010. Yeah, and how'd that date at the Garden go for ya last November? Where were you in the NCAA's? You guys have really fallen and no one feels sorry.
jbtate3 1 year ago
I remember listening to this game on the Armed Forces Radio when I used to live in Tokyo . I yelled so loud when Tate made that shot the people on the street below my apartment were all looking up wondering what happened !
sonor23 2 years ago
laetners shot against kentucky got nothing on this one
uconnfan89771 2 years ago 14
Elden Campbell's facial expression is utterly classic...just shocked like it couldn't have happened...and yes that shot was in time and good! it's out of his hands before all zeros hit the clock.
jelani96 2 years ago
wheres gus johnson when you need him
skadura1 2 years ago 2
It's Late, It's Great , It's Tate!!
hey12358y 2 years ago 2
I was in a poll for the ncaa tournament in wich my girlfriends dad and I had the only sheets with clemson winning it all. I was with another girl that night in a park trying to listen to the game on the radio and thought we were on our way to winning a poll worth in excess of $18,000 since we had clemson on all our pools.God punished me I guess for cheating that evening.
ssgirl7855 2 years ago 3
haha you gotta love calhouns reaction, he jumps all the way down the court, sees the clemson coach, stops, shrugs, shakes his hand....fuckin classic
ptrack62 2 years ago 5
wow tron81 obviously doesnt no anything, uconn won this game fair and square and the obviously didnt pay the refs u fag!! go uconn!!!
johnisintense 2 years ago
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Given UConn's repeated basketball scandals, I wouldn't be surprised if they paid off the refs. This video proves he didn't get the shot off in time. Clemson was cheated out of this win.
tron81 2 years ago
it was good.
joe05061993 2 years ago
Calhoun has since said he was glad there was no replay rule back then. Pretty amazing play even though he did not get the shot off.
PluffMudVideo 2 years ago
That is so Close, I never questioned it until now when I slowed it down, I cant really tell but I can see how people are on both sides of the fence
JohnFree33 2 years ago
'Sez you. But then again, your side lost, right?
smitcha2 2 years ago
This shot counted, and indeed should have.
From what I recall, as this was before the light-up backboards, the key is that you get the shot off before the buzzer/horn sounds. Even now, it doesn't matter if the clock says 0.0 unless the lights around the backboard have gone on. I believe there are still hundreths of seconds remaining until the buzzer/lights go on.
stubby019 2 years ago
You're right because in the same tournament of the Elite 8, Kenny Anderson of Georgia Tech made a last second shot against Michigan St. (I think) and the clock was 0.0 but the debate at the time was whether or not the buzzer/horn went off. It did but because there was no replay Georgia Tech still won.
donjabroni 2 years ago
You are incorrect. That shot by Anderson to beat Michigan St. was in the sweet sixteen in 1990. Georgia Tech tied the game on that shot and went on to win in Overtime. I KNOW CAUSE I WAS THERE! Tech went on to beat Minnesota and advance to the Final Four. You are welcome for the history lesson of facts.
bnegs521 2 years ago 2
Thank you for your arrogance.
donjabroni 2 years ago
How can you see whether his hand is touching the ball?--it's in back of the ball. Again, I looked at the same basic video you see. Well, I guess you can believe what you want to, it's a free world. OVer and out.
smitcha2 2 years ago
We see the ball overlapping his hand at 0.0. You tell me what is the reasonable conclusion as to what that means, assuming that this guy doesn't shoot with a horizontal trajectory.
Oh, I forgot--it's "absolutely conclusive."
pizzabuffet1 2 years ago
Actually, as anyone can see, his hands are under, and in back of, the ball. Let's see--the ball is spinning at 0.1 (on the basis of the 'bright spot' observation), the horn doesn't go off until after the shot, and George has ceased to go any higher before 0.0 hits. Plus the refs called it, and Clemson did not question the call. Gee, what's a rational person to think....
smitcha2 2 years ago
Wow, you really topped yourself. It was definitely good because the refs called it? Please, PLEASE, search Youtube's vault of sports highlights and tell me that the refs have never gotten it wrong before. Clemson didn't question it because it would have done no good--they didn't do replay then.
I've already addressed the three-step logic of concluding that glare (your "bright spot") means "absolutely conclusively" that the ball was released. That's just stupid to say.
pizzabuffet1 2 years ago
that shot was no good. clemson was screwed
pizzabuffet1 3 years ago
You're wrong. Last year I looked *very carefully" at the high-d version of the video, stopping it time and again before the clock hit zero. Just *before* 0.0, a small bright spot appears on the ball as it is going up--this is the ball starting to *spin*, and reflecting more light. Thus it was released before time ran out. This is absolutely conclusive. You can't possibly tell *directly* from any angle given here whether he was still touching the ball or not!
smitcha2 3 years ago
Okay, I guess we should all just take your word for what none of us are looking at, and the inferences you made based on a "bright spot," which obviously means "the ball starting to spin," which obviously means that he had released it. Yep... that 3-step inference based on a video in your living room instead of the one we're looking at right now on this page where the ball is clearly still connected to his hand when the clock hits 0.0.
You're so right... talk about "absolutely conclusive!"
pizzabuffet1 2 years ago
I regret that you were not looking over my shoulder when I found this, and showed it to several of my colleagues (none of whom are UCONN fans). Also, the video I looked at *was* on YouTube, though it unfortunately was not the same issue as is presently there (it went to about 8 minutes, as I recall). Note also that by the time the clock runs out George is no longer going any higher, and that the horn blows *after* the shot. And still, you can't possibly say you can see where his hand is.
smitcha2 2 years ago
Give me a break. Yes, I'm sure you called all your friends to gather around your computer and watch just so you could prove 1 year ago that the shot taken 20 years ago was good.
Pause this video at 0.0. The ball is still touching his hand. Maybe you have the secret camera angle with the highest definition camera on your secret YouTube video, but based on THIS video it's pretty obvious that the ball was in his hand at 0.0. Your arguments are multi-step inferences; I'm just watching the video.
pizzabuffet1 2 years ago
As a Clemson fan I hate this play. It's clear he didn't get it off in time, and today they would have reviewed the play. I wish we could retroactively go back and say Clemson should have had the victory, but I will just have to live with it. ;)
Glad it's on Youtube though, now everyone can see that Clemson got robbed.
I also find it interesting the announcers didn't say anything about him not getting it off in time even on the replay, which clearly showed he didn't. Oh well.
torevolt 3 years ago
The original UCONN team
raycent 3 years ago
How about the fact that the very next game Christian Laettner beat UCONN at the buzzer! Two of the most famous buzzer beaters in NCAA history in back to back games!
bnegs521 3 years ago
Remember what happened 9 years later and then exactly 5 years later. So, UConn obviously has the advantage over Duke.
cpa54 3 years ago
I'm not a Duke fan at all. I am just stating history. By the way Duke has three national championships since 1990. UConn has two.
bnegs521 3 years ago
Favorite buzzer beater ever. It would have been waived off if it happened today. He didn't get it off in time.
jphelmet 3 years ago
You are correct. It was in his hand.
bnegs521 3 years ago
there's motion of the ball out of his hand, if they called it good on the floor, which they did, then they wouldnt have found convincing evidence to overrule
UncoolNegated 3 years ago
3:00, the michael j fox look-alike goes for a high five then opts for fist pump once he gets dissed by the players, lol
UncoolNegated 3 years ago
on the bottomline at 2:20, it says that clemson lost 88-56 to north carolina...how does that make sense?
pointblankpb10 3 years ago
because someone recorded this off of 'classics'; it was a replay
UncoolNegated 3 years ago
this shot made me a UCONN fan and I live in western canada
UncoolNegated 3 years ago
i cant believe this wasnt even on whos number 1 on espn classics
FightingIrish595 3 years ago
"he was 'defensed' well"
what a dork, and no he wasn't, he just wanted to be articulate
UncoolNegated 3 years ago
as a connecticut native and a born and bred huskies fan, but a clemson graduate and tiger (bleed orange)- i never know how to react to this. i love it nonetheless.
juliaszox 3 years ago
It was the 1990 Sweet 16
Ksnake 3 years ago
the husky mascot jumping and rushing the court always cracks me up for some reason
espnjunkie23 3 years ago 17
I was gonna write the same thing! LOL
bnegs521 3 years ago
This never gets old. I remember watching that game while in high school. Strange story -- I shared an Algebra class with Scott Burrell when he was a senior in high school, and a few years ago I connected with Tate George and designed his website.
cwg25 3 years ago
By George! UCONN wins it!
recordeditor 3 years ago
it´s not a legal absket if you see it slowly man!!
but scott burrell made a great pass, he played here in bilbao, with the best team, BILBAO BASKET!!
MrCuadrupleDouble 3 years ago
I was there, the kid (tyson I think) from clemson was lights out in the comeback. I still have the hat, powder blue sweet 16 ! what a great game. Tate shot towards my section directly in the meadowlands (aka brendan byrne), he hit it and the place rose up. No one cared about the Duke game after ! awesome game ! The start of UCON greatness.
DMKego 3 years ago 2
It's late, it's great, it's Tate!!! What a season, my favorite season of any team ever. We call it the Dream Season in CT.
mattbustin 3 years ago
Actually the shot was closer to full court legnth than 3/4's, but still None Grater Than Tater!!!
uconnyanks 3 years ago