Georgetown - 25 years ago tonight

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Re: Georgetown - 25 years ago tonight

Post by 69MG » Wed Mar 24, 2021 9:32 pm

The game Berky is referring to is correct. It was an NIT game in Albany in March of 2001. We won 82-80 in overtime. Here's the brief description from Mike's opponent page:
NIT Quarter-Final, at Knickerbocker Arena, Albany NY. Barbee 3-pointer forces overtime after Siena PA announcer states team's plans for advancing to Semi-Final.

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Post by capezona » Wed Mar 24, 2021 10:12 pm

^ Yes, yes, now I remember it. Thanks.

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Post by InnervisionsUMASS » Thu Mar 25, 2021 7:28 am

69MG wrote: Wed Mar 24, 2021 9:32 pm The game Berky is referring to is correct. It was an NIT game in Albany in March of 2001. We won 82-80 in overtime. Here's the brief description from Mike's opponent page:
NIT Quarter-Final, at Knickerbocker Arena, Albany NY. Barbee 3-pointer forces overtime after Siena PA announcer states team's plans for advancing to Semi-Final.

Tony Barbee played in 2001? :shock: :shock: :lol: :lol:
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Re: Georgetown - 25 years ago tonight

Post by tdmass » Thu Mar 25, 2021 9:10 am

You're 10 years off . . ironically UMass played Siena in both the '91 & '2001 NIT! The Barbee shot was in '91.

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Post by MikeUMA » Thu Mar 25, 2021 10:15 am

Y'all getting your facts mixed up :D

2001 - We didn't play in the post-season beyond the A-10 Tournament. You're thinking of 2000, but yes, that was at Siena.
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Re: Georgetown - 25 years ago tonight

Post by InnervisionsUMASS » Thu Mar 25, 2021 10:18 am

For the record, I knew Tony Barbee wasn't on the 2000-2001 team :wink:
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Post by 69MG » Thu Mar 25, 2021 10:26 am

* OOPS. Make that 1991, not 2001. Everything else is correct. We could have used Tony on that 2001 team.

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Post by LS71 » Thu Mar 25, 2021 11:39 am

Speaking of Tony....

With the experience he's gained working for Cal at Kentucky after the debacle at Auburn...wonder if he's interested in becoming a HC again?
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Post by jj » Thu Mar 25, 2021 11:55 am

Got pulled over by a South Carolina State Trooper heading north the next morning at about 3AM with "Go UMASS" painted on the car windows and Mass plates. Was in the middle of a group of southern cars traveling the speed limit and he came up the back like a shark through a chum slick. Cars behind me pulled to the side, I did too, and he wasn't interested in any of the cars ahead of me- instant blue lights disco show. Asked him why we were being pulled over and got:

"Don't sass me, boy."

Ate a $300 ticket. The South still remembers. That was also the game that I realized that Allen Iverson is really about 5'8". He still yolked one on Camby that night. Unreal.

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Re: Georgetown - 25 years ago tonight

Post by jj » Thu Mar 25, 2021 12:12 pm

Old Cage wrote: Tue Mar 23, 2021 6:25 pm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o12V46y ... UMassGames

Mike has done an excellent long review of the game on twitter, but the events needs to be remembered here. The game is in my top five UMass games attended all-time, and I could easily be convinced that it is #1.
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Re: Georgetown - 25 years ago tonight

Post by jj » Thu Mar 25, 2021 12:23 pm

Uminuteman wrote: Tue Mar 23, 2021 8:31 pm It's funny how Donta was a Top 5 HS player in the country but was still underappreciated
I actually think it was because he came here. The other guys in his East McDonalds AA class ended up at marquee schools: Kentucky X2, Maryland, Arkansas, Georgia, Georgia Tech, Miami, Syracuse, and North Carolina. Although UMASS was surging at that point, it still didn't get the coverage that those schools had come to enjoy in that era. And then he dropped off the map for a year because he had to sit out.

Donta almost ended up at Ohio State. St Johns was in the running, too, but how UMASS did in the tourney that year swayed his decision.

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Re: Georgetown - 25 years ago tonight

Post by Merlin Samuels » Thu Apr 01, 2021 11:53 pm

I watched an old game vs Western Kentucky on YouTube the other day (while on my old man treadmill). It must have been December 1994. Mike Williams was so tenacious and unlike any player I've ever seen wear a UMass uniform. He was borderline out of control...at all times! Just when you'd get frustrated with him, he'd hit a monster three.

I have to wonder how far that 94-95 team would have gone with him.

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Re: Georgetown - 25 years ago tonight

Post by UMass'96 » Fri Apr 02, 2021 9:07 am

Can anyone share the story as to why he got tossed from the team?
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Re: Georgetown - 25 years ago tonight

Post by jj » Fri Apr 02, 2021 9:42 am

UMass'96 wrote: Fri Apr 02, 2021 9:07 am Can anyone share the story as to why he got tossed from the team?
Not any one thing. Multi-factorial. Uzi paid the price for general immaturity that a lot of us featured at that age.

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Re: Georgetown - 25 years ago tonight

Post by InnervisionsUMASS » Fri Apr 02, 2021 10:26 am

Anytime someone tells you Cal is dirty and only cares about winning, make sure you remind them about how he kicked Mike Williams off a team that might have won it all with him on the roster.
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