Georgia Tech - Michigan State 1990 Basketball

[MrHankbaby]

Classic! Detroit vs. New York! Kenny vs. Smitty! It was an equal match. Both doing their thing. Honestly, it was a bad call. If Steve had hit the 1 and 1, then game over. He left it in the refs hand and they blew it. But give props to Kenny for scoring the last six points in regulation. He was tremendous! State still had OT to prove they were the better team. Guess they weren't!

[occlude32]

one of the worst no-calls ever - GT was pretty lucky there, clearly the shot was late

[DNSKansas]

Jud Heathcote had it right. The buzzer was not loud enough. The Superdome is one of the worst basketball arenas on the planet. It is too cavernous and the buzzer never goes off loud enough. Had this game been played in a traditional basketball arena, the officials probably hear the buzzer and wave off the shot. Then again, the red light around the backboard and replay has removed any chances for fucking up.

[GBev2K]

I love how the announcers keep calling it the "correct call" on the two-pointer, but never even think to see if he even got the shot off in time.

[80sGiraffe]

One of the worst calls in tournament history. Steve Smith and these Spartans deserved to go to the Final Four and got screwed. Oh well, Michigan State has been to six final fours since this time and won a National Championship. The Spartans have two national championships, and georgia tech, a big goose egg.

[rosevea1]

Possible tranny cheerleader at 0:58 mark.

Oh, and State got screwed here.

[elemynt]

This was one of the best tourney games ever....man Scott was ruthless , then you had anderson breakin montgermery's ankle the whole game lol, then Steve Smith just being steve!!!

[HermFontenot]

No, he didn't get the last shot off in time, but still a hell of a sequence by Kenny Anderson. MSU could have made the last shot irrelevent and didn't do it.

Lethal Weapon 3. And 1990 was a GREAT tournament overall.

[bull864]

@HermFontenot 1990 was the GREATEST tourney of all-time. Still waiting for a better one.

[BCEagle73]

lol an ACC Team beating up on a Big Ten team in Basketball...what else is new?

[calvinjohnsonisGOD]

The bad call was a make up call from the Colorado "5th Down" that cost us outright National Championship, so fuck yall!!

[DNSKansas]

@calvinjohnsonisGOD How would THIS call be a make-up? This was six and a half months BEFORE the fifth down.

[calvinjohnsonisGOD]

@DNSKansas oh..Anway FUCK COLORADO AND THOSE REFS

[1therevoltz]

he didnt get that off

[elemynt]

@1therevoltz No he didnt everyone knows that, cant believe Smith missed the free throw.....but yea its still in his hand when the horn goes off!

I love how the announcer laughs when goes in!

[hcferago]

That guy at 0:15 sure had school spirit

[Tpanther775]

I agree that he hit the shot after the horn sounded but think about it. If Steve Smith hit his free throws it never would have happened and if Michigan State had won and ended up beating Minnesota they would have suffered the same fate as anyone in the Final Four. Getting beat by UNLV.

[sctvhound]

Even Greg Gumbel was surprised that it counted.

[CountryRoadTrip]

That shot was not even CLOSE to being off before the buzzer...

[idster7]

where's the rest of this game?

[selfexplanitory]

K.A. - Great PG, Great Game.....

[Tigerpawz83]

He didn't get that shot off bad call by the refs!

[DNSKansas]

Guess who one of the refs was? JOHN CLOUGHERTY, who was a notrious ACC cheat. He lives in Charlotte and is now the ACC supervisor of officials. He was constantly giving gifts to ACC teams.

[PDeCaporale1987]

yea its crazy, a shot like this these days would not have even come CLOSE to counting...and the commentators don't even mention it back then...i wonder how many game's outcomes and much history would be altered if the clock was taken into account back then...

[willlibuster]

When they played it over and over on TV that year, looked as though the horn blew _before_ the shot.

[JohnAJay]

I've been watching this replay for 20 years on my VCR, and Anderson still has not beat the buzzer with his shot!

[SFFOOL76]

At 1:40 , it is funny seeing a younger Tom Izzo.

[DNSKansas]

Georgia Tech got a GIFT from the incompetent referees. What a fucking joke.

[DaCaptain924]

Freeze it @ 4:39.  MSU should've won.

[calvinjohnsonisGOD]

hey dummy, they called it a two. They went on to OT to win the game.

[CountryRoadTrip]

@calvinjohnsonisGOD MSU *LOST* in OT...

[Wayneman117]

Ok,I am a Clemson fan first. But even to this day,Aug 2009.Anderson is still my favorite college PG...ever.Just based on his NCAA career.

[SFFOOL76]

He was absolutely a thrill to watch at Georgia Tech. I feel lucky that I got to see him play on t.v.

[Wayneman117]

Yea,him and Mark Price were 2 veryyy good ones.

[ahidle]

Two things to note in the debate of Kenny's last second heroics...

1- GT never would have been in that position if Steve Smith hits a free throw, and

2- check the 2:40 mark in this video. MSU player steps on the inbound line before throwing the ball in. Clearly missed by the ref.

I was there as well and lost my voice (and possibly other items) on the missed inbound violation.

[GTD1222]

Since I WAS AT the game and sitting in the lower level near the 3-point line, I can fill y'all in on what happened. The question at the time was whether it was a 3-pointer or a 2 at the buzzer--NOT if the clock ran out. It was ONLY those WATCHING on TV who questioned the time--that wasn't done at the Superdome when the shot went in. Also, I question the clock on the screen being synched with the clocks at the dome. The scoreboards there had fat yellow numbers, not thin numbers like TV showed.

[cherokeejoshua]

This is advertised as a Kenny Anderson shot at the buzzer. In reality, it was a Kenny Anderson shot after the buzzer. This is easily the all-time NCAA Tournament screwing. I am a Kansas fan who had no rooting interest in the game, but this was a bad joke.

[SFFOOL76]

I think the all time ncaa tournament screwing was when there was a clock malfunction in 1986 in a sweet 16 matchup between michigan state/kansas.

touche'

[cherokeejoshua]

You cannot use touche'. Touche' is a term from fencing in which a person acknowledges they have been hit. It is akin to calling your own foul in pickup basketball. So only I could use touche', which I certainly don't because the clock stoppage indirectly led to a technical foul on Larry Brown that gave M-State two more points, thus sending the game into OT in the first place. The irony here is that now you CAN say touche'. :-)

[SFFOOL76]

I know you are but what am I. Touche' relax buddy boy. I know it was used in a improper manner.

[knjohnsonel]

@cherokeejoshua Kenny Killed Steve Smith. WHat!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[wizeman5974]

@cherokeejoshua Yes. Not only is this shot after "00", which GTME83 says was not official until the red lights were used on the backboard, but this shot is after the buzzer as well. I agree, the Spartans got screwed. But karma reconciled that at least Georgia Tech did not go on and win the title that season. No one was going to stop UNLV that year. They were the beasts of college basketball in 1990.

[tchiasson10]

Kenny Anderson didn't beat the clock.... He clearly stil had the ball when the clock was 00.

[GTME83]

Before the red lights were in use around the backboards, the rules stated that periods ended at the sounding of the horn, not "00" displayed on the scoreboard.

[blakes314]

Sore loser.. desperate.

[knjohnsonel]

@tchiasson10 Kenny Anderson Killed Msu . Accepted it

[chrisuncleahmad]

The Spartans were up by four and could not seal the deal.

All they had to do was make one free throw and it would have been enough.

[keithfabbri]

Everyone was so concerned with where his foot was on the shot that they forgot to check if old Kenny actually shot the ball during the game. Terrible officiating that still sucks today. Too bad they couldn't look at the monitor like they can today. MSU would have been in the Final Four.

[raycent]

right call my left foot  there was no time left on clock

[roncarl9]

13 sec to 6 secs.. damn kenny went coast to coast

[jamare456]

Aww i didnt kno kenny anderson played against my spartans in 1990 wen i see him on espn i kno to hate on him now lol

[BHoz77]

This game made me sick to my stomach as a Spartan fan. Still does, even though our success the last 10 years or so has lessened the pain somewhat, it would have been nice to have seen MSU make it to the Final Four that year... although there's no way we would have beaten that year's UNLV squad.

[jayfey77]

well perhaps it will make you feel better if michigan state wins the ncaa this year cause i think they will.

[brooklyndeza]

what a joke. anderson's shot was late. MSU got screwed big time.

[Chrisrokk239]

The clock hit 0:00 before Anderson got the shot off. MSU got screwed.

[ihorizon1]

What was funny how asst coaches Kevin Cantwell and Sherman Dilliard both ran the 100 yards or so the the locker room in celebration, only to be told by a security guard to get back out there...OT.

[Aldon3]

i remember watching this

[jeffnfoxylady1]

i got this game on dvd

[clatchmsu]

he didn't even get it off in time!? lol.