Paul Pierce / Mike Bibby / Kansas vs Arizona 1997

Arizona eliminated Kansas from the tournament in the Sweet Sixteen, handing the Jayhawks only their second loss on the year. The Jayhawks finished 34-2, but the Arizona Wildcats went on to win the National Championship. Kansas defeated Arizona the previous year in the 1996 NCAA tournament.

The Jayhawk squad featured Paul Pierce, Jacque Vaughn, Raef Lafrentz, Scot Pollard, Billy Thomas, Ryan Robertson, Jerod Haase, TJ Pugh, & BJ Williams.

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Sports

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• Kansas
• KU
• basketball
• Paul
• Pierce
• Jacque
• Vaughn
• Billy
• Thomas
• Raef
• Lafrentz
• Scot
• Pollard
• Jerod
• Haase
• Ryan
• Robertson

[faglenin]

What's the name of the song starting at 2.25? The first one is MF Doom, "sarsaparilla", but what's the name of the second one??

Thanks everybody!

[judah618]

i forget, but they all come from that MF doom special herbs vol.1 through whatever

[HolleyWood11]

Wow,..Real college basketball. Remember when their where actually great teams? Not players? Guys that actually stayed around, to win Nat'l championships? I dont blame them for leaving early, well, at least some of them, but man I miss that...

[nuttyhawk3]

almost 13 years later and this is my most painful sports memory ever.

[tlight26berry]

Also, ZONA is back in case anyone is blind to what is going on over there with recruiting. I hope KU/Zona together can once again be the powers outside the east coast. Imagine these two teams THIS YEAR. Wow. I would hope this would be the National Title game as it should have been that year. What a game.

Arizona will be better than KU this year and I hope they knock out UK/UNC or someone of the like...like Duke last year. I have always had respect for Zona as a KU diehard.

[tlight26berry]

What a great game. You run into this unless you are UNC in 2009. No matter how good you are, you WILL have to squeak out a victory. Had KU won this...nobody would have stopped them. That was probably the best team KU has ever fielded. Vaughn/Pierce/Williams/Hasse/R­obertson guard combination, and LaFrentz and Pollard down low. Pretty hard to beat. But Arizona had Olsen and were loaded as well and they were FEARLESS and played REMARKABLE. I'm still hurt! AZ earned this banner. --KU fan.

[mostsincere]

@tomymtnman

That Rhode Island team was good. Didn't they have Lamar Odom, Cuttino Mobley, and Tyson Wheeler?

[schwalbstar]

i still dont like M. Bibby sry... 

[andriolo]

foamposites!

[KingMinosxxvi]

are there 7 nba players in this game that is insane.

[therockbanddude]

and Scot Pollard!

[tomymtnman]

Actually, the KU loss the next year was in some ways even worse. LaFrentz and Pierce both came back, they win over 30 games again and lose to Rhode Island in OK City. And to a Jim Harrick coached team to boot. At least the AZ loss was to the eventual National Champions.

[tomymtnman]

@HolleyWood11 Well a couple of the stars of that game left college early. Mike Bibby after his soph. year and Paul Pierce after his jr. year.