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  • STILL the best shot in Basketball

  • LAETTNER IS AN ASS BUT PROBABLY THE MOST EMOTIONAL PLAY I'VE SEEN SINCE NC STATE 83

  • I don't even like basketball but goddam the emotion from the whole stadium made me tear up a bit.

  • Watched this live as a kid. Best college basketball game I've ever seen...

  • by far the best game ever and i am a kentucky fan..only game i ever cried over..what a pus i am..whoever had the ball last was going to win..sweet revenge against duke in 98..never give coach k a timeout to set up a play..and pitino..guard the inbounds dammit..great post even though it brought back wretched memories

  • Joy!

  • THE SINGLE BEST PLAY IN THE HISTORY OF BASKETBALL......PERIOD.

  • Ky got owned 

  • Fucking gay as

  • I love how every one is trashing Kentucky because we have more titles than them and a better fan base.

  • @MrUndizputeD

    Yesterday pal...

  • ITS NO FAULT OF KENTUCKY'S, DUKE HAD A BETTER TEAM....

  • Kentucky: Always losing at memorable moments. Always the bad guys. Exactly how I like it. Go Hoosiers.

  • Duke signs the ugliest white guys on the planet.

    

  • @TheGamblerATX The ugliest white guys that end up schooling everyone else in the game of basketball.

  • This is the #2 moment in the history of the Spectrum

    If anyone say anything else is #1 besides the Soviet team getting chased off the ice is a communist.

  • @TheReelLifeProduct No UK fans hate every team that is good. UK should be the only basketball team in the NCAA, lets just remove all the teams and give KY the title every year.

  • what Year was this? Does anyone remember?

  • @JamaMorrison '92

  • @madercic3aolcom Thankss!

    

  • @JamaMorrison -March of 1992

  • HAHAHA, Reminds me of the Indiana UK game tonight!!!!! Hey man, nice shot.

  • 210 people are just haters

    

  • dont like duke but respect them still hate laettner.................UK FANATICCCCC!!!!

  • @tdrury69 Yeah typical UK fan. Hates team that win games

  • #34 why don't you try contesting the shot rather than looking like a bitch and just standing there.

  • Christian Laettner is a bad player. Stomping on Uk players, pushing them with no fouls. He will always be hated in Kentucky.

  • nope. still cant stand duke.

  • Rick Pitino took the blame for his player's defense, saying that he told his guys not to defend Laettner too aggressively for fear of putting him on the foul line.

    Christian Laettner was perfect from the floor that night, so Coach Pitino had to make the tough decision to play him loose, as opposed to accidentally fouling him and giving him what were essentially a couple of automatic free throws to win the game.

  • 34 just stood there

  • I hate duke for this

  • lol 0:37

  • Ownedddddd. Cry little blue nation cry lol

  • Worst 2.1 seconds of my life....

  • Feldhaus' brother was my science teacher.

  • @12889414 you're retarded, you dont foul.... you play good defense and not give them a easy shot. Laettner had a nice contested shot and there wasn't anything kentucky did wrong.

  • Yeah 34 blew it big time, it's one thing not to foul but he should have held a vertical position with his hands straight up, they can't call a foul in that situation.

  • one of the greatest moments in my life,I remember jumping off the couch screaming at Laettner to shoot the goddamn thing I could'nt believe he took time to dribble.

  • why are people so jealous about Duke??? when you win as much as the Blue Devils do, and have such a respected coach like Coach K... you can hate us as much as you want, but you still have to beat us!!!

  • @nightcat3500 Fuck off. What do we UK fans have to be jealous of Dook about? We have more national championships and the most all-time wins. That's why Dook fans are hated too. They think so highly of themselves for no reason. This shot should never have happened because Laettner, being the little bitch that he is, intentionally stomped on Timberlake. His faggot ass should have been ejected at that point but the refs always kiss Dook's ass so they looked the other way.

  • @GreenDay1981 Almost 20 years later and you are still mad lmfao.  WOWWWWWWWWWWWWW.

  • @GreenDay1981 Ever thought about putting a man on the inbounds man..GRANT HILL!!!! lol.....That simple move would have beat duke.....blame Pitino!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • 2, 135 days passed between adRIAN Dantley and his NBA Detroit Pistons losing a Memorial Day 1988 playoff game at the Pontiac Silverdome, 79-78, to the Boston Celtics on the day CLINTON Calvin Dean YEAGER(515-96-3721) was born and 42nd prez Bill Clinton watching the Arkansas beat Duke for 1994 NCAA men’s title in Charlotte, NC on 4/4/94. Future Detroit Piston Grant Hill added 12 for Duke, while coach Mike KRZYzewSKI was born on the 24th b’day of test pilot Charles ELwood “Chuck” Yeager: 2/13/47

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  • 10 for 10 from the field and 10 for 10 from the FT line. Laettner was the man that night.

  • duke are pro's p=pre r=retarded o=oddball

  • FUCK DUKE

    

  • I posted this on my friend's facebook on his birthday and disguised it as a 70s era birthday jam.

    He wasn't too happy about it.

  • Fuck u #34... u sat there and let him shoot it soo saddd...

  • @nkmiken01 John Pelphrey

  • I really like how the referee starts running to join in the celebration. 0:07

  • what the FUCK was number 34 doing

  • @TheShnag 34 was standing there like o hay u gonna shoot....o let me get out of the way darn he made it ......o well.lol

  • @TheShnag Pelphrey was in foul trouble, so couldn't afford to foul Laettner, therefore only thing he could do was protect the passing lane.

  • @nightcat3500 there was only 2.1 seconds to go and it was there whole season on the line you got to foul,but Laettner would have made the free throws so it really doesn't matter.

  • @12889414 foul?? are you serious? that would be a HORRIBLE idea to foul at that point in the game

  • @taylordize it would be if it were anybody but laettner you know he is going to make the shot so tackle him.

  • @TheShnag

    Yea right, he just stood there and watched the show! lol

  • @TheShnag hahha watched the game in first row

  • @TheShnag With that little time on the clock...making damn sure he didn't get a foul called and give away two free shots.

  • @TheShnag #34 is John Pelphrey, who was our bball coach at arkansas for the last 3 seasons until he was fired. yes, he sucked.

  • @TheShnag Not sure what he was doing before the shot, but pretty sure that after the shot he soiled his underwear.

  • everyone in my family is a kentucky fan but I LOVE DUKE BASKETBALL GO DUKE !!!

  • Greatest college game of all time.

  • 7...

  • What made this one of the greatest games ever is that Duke was virtually unbeatable that year and Kentucky was just off probation with a bunch of guys (besides freshman Jamal Mashburn) that nobody else wanted. Duke had like 4 first round draft picks on that team and Kentucky had 4 guys that went on to sell life insurance.

  • @nbluth08 duke has only had two first round draft picks, elgin baylor and kyrie irving

  • @MrJarbuckle Elgin Baylor played for Seattle, not Duke...

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  • @MrJarbuckle elton brand was a number one draft pick......theres been multiple first rounders only a handful of overall number ones from Duke

  • @thaghost84 i meant to say overall number one, and i meant to say elton brand, but him and kyrie are the only over all number one picks from duke

  • @nbluth08 my bad i was thinking of overall number one pick

  • @BronchoKyle Thomas Hill, not Tyrone Hill. Tyrone Hill was the really ugly dude who had a long-ass career in the NBA

  • 194 ppl are north carolina fans

  • @MultiSuperstar20 199 ppl are KENTUCKY fans

  • @dsporter10 of course we are. because who would ever want to be a duke fan?

  • @jukebox042 winners with class.

  • Not the greatest shot ever... see Blake Hoffharber's in the Minnesota State BB tourney in 2006!

  • @onlykathynelson yeah that shot was amazing then a few years latert he hits an incredible shot once again he won an espy for that shot in the Minn H.S state championship

  • The greatest game and catch in ncaa history!!!!!!!! Duke is #1 and will always be #1

  • go duke!!!!

  • If you watch closely, you will see that punk Lebron traveled.

  • The impressive part isn't the jumper, it's that he boxed out two men and caught a 75-foot pass and got off a good shot in 2.1 seconds. Only 1 in 100 times does a full-court pass get caught clean at the opposing foul line.

  • What you didnt see is LeBron traveling

  • Pass > Shot

  • You know it's an old video when Grant Hill is in college.

  • Kentucky just gave this game away. Terrible defense. It was a good play by Duke, but it wasn't too hard to execute.

  • @packers256 nobody gave the game away that was the reason it is still considered the greatest college basketball game ever. I am Duke fan and mad props to UK in that game it had everthing basketball could even pack into one package from both teams, drama, execution, high scoring, great players(& yes the UK boys besides mashburn solitfide their careers in coll. bball history). It really was a masterfull game & to this day I still get goosebumps from seeing the game. shout out ot UK & DUKE.

  • @diviasee1 UK gave it away on the last play of the game. Plain and simple.

  • @packers256 I guess you could say that. Duke could say the same thing if they never hit that shot b/c sean woods pissed in a bank shot over Laettner, but Duke doesn't have to say that now do they.

  • if u look very closely u can see that lebron traveled

  • if someone had guarded the in bounds pass this video doesn't exist. When ever you see a buzzer beater where a team has to take the ball in from out of bounds 9 times out of 10 a buzzer beater occurs when nobody is guarding the in bounds passer. One of the biggest coaching mistakes that can be made.

  • i live in ky and i freaking hate duke and so does everyone else

  • that's right

  • @dukebballrules <-----it doesnt

  • one of the greatest college games I have ever seen.

  • He had a stellar NBA career.... 

  • @ImHansHi A quality NBA career...not stellar. Very few college kids have had stellar careers. Laettner's was quality.

  • Only reason this shot gets talked about is because it was for a trip to the final four, in overtime of an incredible back-and-forth game between two of the most storied programs in NCAA basketball history and it was made by one of the most polarizing stars in the history of college basketball at the end of one of the greatest games he ever played and the winning team went on to win the title. But other than that it's pretty lame.

  • ok they only show the last second shot of this game does anybody remember wen lattneer stepped on that KY player wen he fell????

  • this shot was amazing goin to the final four or not

  • One of those moments for which you'll always remember where you were when it happened....I was in third grade, at my grandmother's house in Michigan watching. As a rabid Duke fan, I was literally crying during that final timeout, because I thought there was no way Duke could win. I didn't understand at the time that if you get the shot off before the buzzer sounds, it still counts! I was like, "Huh!? They won!?!?" Just amazing.

  • I hate basketball. I don't like either college. I have never heard of Christian Laettner before.

    This video still gives me chills.

  • Duke licks my bhole

  • Duke sucks.

  • Mario Chalmers shot was WAY better!

  • Was Laettner ten for ten  from the field, and ten for ten from the free throw line?

  • Duke is shit

  • DUCK FUKE!

  • Kentucky lost then and they will lose today. Lets Go Huskies!

  • That was then, This is now, UK Will show the world today, That Kentucky Has, Been, And will forever be the greatest basketball program Ever.

  • @RuneNetwork Oops...

  • damn grant hill got that peyton manning arm.

  • I still think the shot by Blake Hoffarber in the Minnesota-Indiana game during the Big Ten Tournament in 2008 was better than this shot. Also, Hoffarber isn't an asshole that should have been ejected earlier in the game. Laettner is.

  • great game. everybody kept their heads about them, and they won the game at the last moment. 

  • I hate Duke but that's a very clutch pass.

  • Blah, Blah, Blah, how can a person be so defined good or bad for one meaningless shot in another meaningless game. If they were so good then why was it so close, it could have happened either way or not happened at all, big f-ing deal. Why is this celebrated as some great contest. It was a mediocre game with a close end punctuated by a mundane shot that happened to go in at the last moment. There was no drama, desperate pass to obvious turn and shoot attempt happens to go in and win game. Blah.

  • You know what? That was one of the most stupid comments I have ever read. It was not a "desperate pass" and it was not just another "meaningless game." A huge trip to the final four was on the line for either team. And if one team manages to be able to get the ball perfectly down the court with no clock running down and the player who catches the ball has enough time to spare that they can dribble. Its called "perfectly done!" It will always go down in College Basketball history! You got PWNED!

  • @LegoLee329 I got PWNED? really? World of Warcraft slang? Ok, it was the greatest basketball pass and shot ever, in the greatest college basketball game ever , it was the most amazing thing to ever happen in the world of athletic sports, it was the most incredible bit of skill ever shown in any human endeavor yet attempted. That was sarcasm, it means nothing get over it. He lucked into being a hero, but just as easily could have been a goat, that is not what makes great history. PWNED? really?

  • 100% shooting in this game for Laettner

  • I've seen better.

  • At least a half of 1049 people are Duke bandwagoners.

  • Only reason this shot gets talked about is because it was for a trip to the final four, in overtime of an incredible back-and-forth game between two of the most storied programs in NCAA basketball history and it was made by one of the most polarizing stars in the history of college basketball at the end of one of the greatest games he ever played and the winning team went on to win the title. But other than that it's no more compelling than any other turn-around jumper I've ever seen.

  • @Pain5155 True... Except for the great pain that is still in the Ky fans that witnessed it. It's like when the space shuttle exploded. I still know how I felt because I still feel it today.

  • look no further than chris webber to show how differently some players react under pressure

  • "YESSSSSSSSSSS"

    ....

    ....

    *silence*

  • this is for kentucky in the ncaa tournament this year ohio states red kentucky is blue duke went home and so did osu .

  • this is for kentucky in the ncaa tournament this year ohio states red kentucky is blue duke went home and so did osu

  • LOL The look on Hill's face...Priceless 0:12

  • @lilze96 yeah... he was at a lost for words!!!

  • I know you guys wont beleive me, but I went to a clinic today in my city and I got the opportunity to get tips from Christain Laettner himself. It was an amazing expeirience. =]

  • thumbs up if you think Laettner should have given his Dream Team gold to Grant Hill since this play got him on Olympic Team.....easily could have been Shaq.

  • laettner sucked in the nba so it's all good

  • nolan smith is black i hate duke to

  • poor kentucky fans!! lol

  • Duke SUCKS!!!!!! i think every other team hates them. Kentucky all the way.

  • fuck duke kentucky all the way bunch of fuckin white boys

  • @Armyrangers1911 grant hill,tommy amaker,carlos boozer,luol deng,jason williams,chris duhon,kyrie irving,nolan smith,thomas hill,elton brand,corey maggette,william avery,trajon langdon,chris carrawell.........youre right, bunch of white boys.

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  • Greatest college basketball game I've ever seen. And I can't recall anything even close.

  • That game had it all: skill, determination, preserverance, and even the dark side of human nature. People forget that Laettner could have been ejected earlier for stomping on that dude.

  • @zcatera074 Which is exactly why this game was tainted. Laettner should have had his classless ass ejected. He had no business even being on the floor for this play. Without him, Kentucky wins. Dook fans should thank their lucky stars the refs weren't doing their jobs in this game.

  • @GreenDay1981 true, very true...easy to second guess Kentucky for not guarding the inbound, but it was right call....just a one in a million pass by Hill, and Pelphrey was petrified, I believe of fouling Laettner, for which it's hard to blame him.

  • @zcatera074 I don't think fouling him would have done any good cause I think he was 10 for 10 on free throws.

  • Laettner is a bitch.

  • 164 people are Kentucky fans

  • @ddb630 And non-Duke fans....which is roughly about 99% of the country. Go Heels

  • @ddb630 obviously. I dont watch sports that mutch and im still a Kentucky fan, obviously since im from Kentucky. I think i said obviously too mutch. Whatever. Kentucky got in the final four so that proves that they are good.

  • @ddb630 or Jalen Rose fans.

  • @ddb630

    Fuck yea and im proud to be

  • Fuck this shit... Now my bracket is all fucked up....

  • Man, this never gets old! 4 championships and counting baby! Let's go Duke!

  • I think the most overlooked part about all of this is that as soon as Woods made the jumper for Kentucky for the go-ahead basket with 2.1 seconds remaining, Hurley and Hill IMMEDIATELY called a timeout. Back then, the clock in NCAA Bball didn't stop in the 2nd half with under a minute left in regulation,

  • Don't forget this shot made Laettner 10 for 10 from the floor ....and he was 10 for 10 from the foul line (31 pts). All with the Final Four on the line. Easy to see why he is considered top five all-time for college players.

  • duke...bitch

  • Christian is a real nigga. he gets shit done and throws a middle finger to his haters.

  • thumbs-up if you think this is the greatest shot in basketball history

  • I still fucking hate that guy.

  • Nice defense Pelphrey. 

  • i hate duke but man this was amazing

  • I encounter a lot of knuckleheads (Duke fans) who think this shot was from half court. Every year this shot seems to migrate further from the basket. In ten years people will be adamant that Laettner shot the ball from under Kentucky's basket.

  • Laetner should have been ejected for what he did earlier in the game. He's nobody's hero

  • Don't ever say Grant Hill isn't clutch. That one pass gave him a life long pass on being labeled as a guy who doesn't come through in the end. And being an Ohio State fan, its fun reading others rip on a team other than OSU. Ya fuck Duke! Fuck KY! I agree!

  • Oh and one more thing. my father went to Duke and i have autographs of Bob Verga, Jay Buckley, Jeff Mullins and many others. I know more about Duke than you should care about....so why do you? HATERS.....we LOVE you guys!!!

  • like all u assholes out in Haterville....you love to yammer on about Coach K and do your name-calling and yearn for the good old days.Duke is the reigning National Champion and Coach K is the best coach - period. No sense in looking in your crystal ball to see how we' ll do once he retires but pretty sure he wont leave Duke to go coach at UNC (a la Pitino) ACC fans couldn't care LESS about Kentucky. Maybe u would be better off focusing on UK. High blood pressure kills...

  • @vebtube0826 When did Pitino coach at UNC? I love how you Dook shitheads think Coach Krybaby is immortal and will be their coach forever. Hate to break it to you but he won't. I know you all think he walks on water though. If you don't care about Kentucky, you wouldn't be talking them, fucknut. Come back when you pass Kentucky in wins or National Championships. Won't ever happen. Keep telling yourself we're all jealous if that helps you sleep at night, chump. We have nothing to be jealous of.

  • @GreenDay1981 sounds like somebody still hasn't gotten over it even though you claim to be

  • @GreenDay1981 Also, anyone can win a national title when it's 1902 and there's 4 teams in the tournament

  • @GreenDay1981 You're just mad because Kentucky has never had a shot this awesome.

  • @Beefforyou I'm pretty sure Kentucky and a lot of other teams have had plenty of turnaround jumpers from the free throw line. It's a pretty common shot you know.

  • @GreenDay1981 Not a 1 point down buzzer-beater...

  • @Beefforyou Oh yeah, you are so right. In their long and storied history, Kentucky has never made a basket at the buzzer to win a game. Are you really this stupid?

  • @GreenDay1981 Send me a video to prove it... And, honestly do you really have to get this worked up over sports?