2004 UConn-Duke semi-final (last

[@chrisroberts3029]

I will never forget watching this game live. Duke was strangling the life out of UConn until Okafor said, it seemed, "I am the best player on this floor and nobody is stopping me henceforth," essentially putting the team on his back very late in the game. Duke too ratcheted up their intensity but could not quote stop UConn becoming inspired by Emeka's flexing his alpha-ness.

[@RMSx3-hx3po]

And the refs alphaness too

[@kessel12]

One of the greatest backdoor covers in sports gambling history.

[@fishbone3333]

Wasn't Duke favored in this game?

[@danielgoss6367]

UCONN will always have a special place in my heart for this game and for 1999 as well as 2014 taking down two evil empires long live the Husky

[@cguerrini112]

2011 we beat KY in the Final Four, and KY would have gone on to beat Butler. So we stopped 2 more Duke and 2 more KY championships.

[@qazw9569]

It’s the same way Duke fans feel about Villanova. Lol

[@danielgoss6367]

@@qazw9569 duke fans don't care about anyone not named duke

[@qazw9569]

Partially correct... We care about whoever is playing your rams also.

[@TheWakeup011]

@@danielgoss6367 that's right. #neverforget

[@icarus8471]

Such a sweet result. The officiating in this game was horrendous. The officials took Uconn's best player out of the game on some very questionable calls in the first five minutes and over-officiated the whole game. And Duke still lost.

[@NightHawk12to81]

The officiating was horrendous for both teams. Even Calhoun said that it would have been nice to see what would have happened if they had been allowed to play.

[@cjbaldwin5118]

The thing I never forgot was how quiet this crowd was. Very subdued sound to what was a pretty remarkable comeback.

[@SFFOOL76]

The two best semifinal games on the same day was 2004. First the OK ST/ GTU game and then UCONN/DUKE. Both close games with epic finishes.

[@canceradvocate2256]

Absolutely. I was at both games in San Antonio. Nothing like dook fans bragging on the way to the game then crying on the Riverwalk afterwards. When they were talking trash to me because I rocked my Heels gear I said, “when your squad loses don’t start throwing your dook gear in the Riverwalk”.

[@ericandude]

That shot that was made at the end was meant to cover spread bets on duke. It made Duke fans approximately 100 million.

[@SFFOOL76]

Duke fans complaining about bad officiating in this game. Have they ever watched highlights on this website of how many clips they have of Duke non-calls. Its like Burt Reynolds saying mustaches are stupid. Not a UConn fan but this comeback was sweet!

[@edger428]

Duke's nightmare - UCONN UCONN UCONN

[@justinnardine8564]

Yes!

[@mikhilp85]

It has been argued that the 1999 and 2004 Duke Blue Devils were the two best talented teams that they ever had... And you can blame the UConn Huskies for preventing both of those teams from winning it all... lol.

[@RMSx3-hx3po]

Can blame the refs too in 2004 lol

[@yugimotocy]

interesting connections if this game... *Deng (Duke) and Gordon (UConn) were drafted by the same team in the NBA, the Bulls. *Charlie Villenueva was teammates with Deng in High School.

[@ejflor1313]

Luol Deng’s brother played for UConn. He was on the cover of Sports Illustrated over a year before joining the team and is one of the most over-hyped prospects in basketball history.

[@cschnei08]

Gotta say, that no call on the Redick play was the right one. They stripped him clean and he then went flying into Okafor's arms. Not a foul. I'm sure it looked like that from the Duke bench, but not a foul.

[@SFFOOL76]

Im not a UCONN fan however I was so glad that they beat the Dukies. Plus any Duke fan/player/ Coach K complaining about calls better seriously check themselves, they get enough calls than the average team.

[@maestro06786]

Coach K spends more time coaching the refs than he does his team. His team was dazed and confused the last 3 mins and he blames the refs. Uconn was the better team by a long shot.

[@NightHawk12to81]

Both coaches blamed the refs.

[@WHALEDOGS9111]

The line on this game was 2 and duke hit a 3 at the buzzer to cover lol. The bookies always win. I remember i had the over, the over was 145 in this game

[@raiderdanCA]

A really tough loss for DUKE -- but they "earned" it. Their play in the final 2:00 was INEXCUSABLE. UCONN deserved to win ...

[@tbone072892]

this is the game that made me a uconn fan

[@alanparks3402]

isn't that the truth Thomas, loved this UCONN team and this game

[@icarus8471]

My god this was 13 years ago. Time.

[@patrickclapp4082]

20

[@dukeheat]

I can't beleive we gave up that 8 point lead. That pissed me off. We would have beaten Georgia Tech if we had made it to the final game.

[@UncoolNegated]

1:42 big props for Gordon: 1 vs 3 = "numbers for Connecticut"

[@brianbuck13]

waaaahhhh! but they did lose the lead. deal with it. Remember trajan langdon falling flat on his face? that was good too

[@ajax203showme]

I found out around the 6 min mark that Josh Boone had a doppelganger named Josh Brown;)

[@pissedoffgamer]

@cschnei08 agreed man. i don't know what coach k was complaining about he barely even tapped him. clean call from what i saw

[@NightHawk12to81]

Krzyzewski was complaining because he knew the officials could be worked and it might have worked out for him. Both coaches knew the officials were letting the coaches control them and whoever was loudest would get the calls.

[@Nyfancam01]

HAHAHAHA Thanks Uconn! GO HEELS!!!!

[@Beamin-vt7jm]

This was the championship game in 04. Not when UConn beat GT in the Championship game. I find it funny how Coach K barely said congratulations to Calhoun. You can tell he is just sore loser after that game and hates Calhoun bc he always beats him.

[@ejflor1313]

Duke players were really scared to shoot down the stretch.

[@postindierock5063]

I love when you make a comment against duke and the fans come back saying "hater" and you just need 8 numbers, 1999 and 2004....No, I do not hate duke...from a Uconn fan.

[@dm1ze]

What a reach. Duke didn't win shit in '90, and in '91 UConn an 11 seed, wasn't expected to win it all. They weren't even expected to get out of the 1st round. Not only that, those were s16 and e8 games that you're trying to compare to a Final and Semi-Final. Whatever makes ya feel better though...

[@WuTangFan1000]

duke fans crying - refs, refs, refs.. it aint the refs fault you guys just CHOKED here

[@NightHawk12to81]

Both teams have a right to be upset. The refs ruined the game for both teams.

[@RIPMMD]

i think you mean almost cost UConn the game given that they were behind most of the game thanx to Okafor being forced to the bench as a result of all the ticky-tack fouls called on him in the first half. Duke took some bad shots in that last 3 minutes while at the same time UConn made almost every basket and most of their free-throws.

[@bigdog1002]

+busdriver4687 Wow.. Dook fans crying about officiating.... now I've heard it all.. you must've not seen the 1st half when the refs basically took Okafor out of the game completely.

[@NightHawk12to81]

The officials took both teams out of the game in the first half. The officials were so bad for both teams that the officiating supervisor went into the locker room to chew them out. Both Calhoun and Krzyzewski blamed the refs after this, and they were both right.

[@DanielSong39]

Well, at least the Duke fans doubled their money when Duhon made the three at the buzzer...

[@sciontcdude]

@OuterLimitsSledding i wish uconn faced duke this year (2011 ) but they choked ..we would of beat duke for 3 stra8 times in the tourny

[@BlitzinLB27]

BIG EAST rules

[@YoungLiam74]

Such a great game... U C O N N UCONN UCONN UCONN

[@dlyons99x]

I love UCONN

[@gloriaflowers4673]

D aas 2

[@bubbanater07]

@mikhilp85 I would agree and I am a tar heel fan lol.

[@tranceofdances]

I love how Duke fans are always crying about the way games are called....claiming that so many foul calls are missed or called wrong. HEY! Guess what? It's like that for EVERY team in college B-Ball!! EVERY team gets some their way, and some not!!!!

[@TheWakeup011]

No team in sports is accused of benefitting more from impartial officiating than Duke. It's damn near a consensus.

[@busdriver4687]

This is the game they show when they are training new college basketball referees to show them how not to officiate a game. Seriously, this is a fact. The refs were that bad, and Duke got absolutely hosed.

[@patrickclapp4082]

hahahahahahahahahahahahhahahah you have no idea what you are talking about

[@ACP12345]

Duke took some horrible shots down the stretch, but if that isn't a foul on Redick at the end, then I don't know what is.

[@ACP12345]

It clearly is a foul. It doesn't matter that it is stripped before JJ is hacked. He's attacking the basket, and you can't slap across someone's body even if the ball was stripped a a millisecond or two before. It's kind of like when a shooter goes up to shoot. Even if you hit him after the shot is away, it is still a foul.

[@willjets18]

Anthony Johnston you are wrong

[@ACP12345]

William Slade Prove that I am wrong. I backed up my point...

[@darshloaf]

Anthony Johnston I don't see a foul there. Generally when officials see the ball go straight down & hit the floor, it's a sign of a clean strip. If the ball goes up in the air or sideways, refs almost always call a foul. In this case it was slapped down. Maybe Anderson touched his arm but late in a game like that it would've been a weak.

[@mr22ron]

Dickie V cried for days. Boo Hoo.

[@TheWakeup011]

Dickie V actually predicted UCONN's upset in 1999. He may have been the only one.

[@thomas1630]

Nobody benifited more from the recuiting process than coach K and here he is trying to recruit the refs, when he is crying fowl i can only think of what a bird he is.

[@PattyMac811]

Rashad Anderson is a better shooter than Stephen Curry I said it

[@scopapa33]

you cant say anything because the video is the proof. duke missed STUPID shot selection on wide open looks at the end when the refs finally swallowed the whistles (after all 3 duke bigs fouled out.) owned.

[@ThaShark28]

I'm sorry but people who complain about calls...Duke took 4 really AWFUL shots on 4 straight possessions. Maybe Redick was fouled. Who knows? But those shots killed duke that day.

[@thomasesileo]

The two sides of Coach K. The basketball grand master who calmly weaves together the massive egos of the NBA to bring home the gold, and the whiny, entitled Ratface who blames the refs for losing when in fact they took his opposition's star center (Okafor) out of the game for most of the first half with garbage fouls.

[@NightHawk12to81]

Calhoun blamed the refs too. Both coaches said the refs were awful.

[@dukestirr34]

Laettner hit a shot to beat #1 seeded UConn at the buzzer in the 1990 Regional Final... And Duke subsequently knocked out UConn in the 1991 Sweet 16. But, you probably don't remember those games.

[@Valid925]

@busdriver4687 Hahahaha. Gotta love it when Duke fans of ALL PEOPLE complain about officiating. I hate to break this news to you, pal, but this game wouldn't have even been CLOSE if the refs didn't make all those phantom foul calls on Okafor in the first half.

[@scopapa33]

so did ewing and redick......uconn didnt shut anyone down. duke shot themselves after the refs handed it to uconn on a platter.

[@swishtrack]

@RYMAC21STRIP wrong. uconn won. game over. period. duke lost. fair and square. end of discussion. aaaaaaaaaaaaand uconn will win it again in 2011 this monday night.

[@NightHawk12to81]

Neither coach would agree with that statement.

[@hotttarheeldude]

hahah hell yeah

[@scopapa33]

duke was the better team. between the refs and duke taking early shots when running clock, the game went to uconn.

[@alexmackinson]

scopapa33 well they clearly weren’t the better team because they lost sooooo

[@brianbuck13]

your making excuses for fouls that werent called. Whos sounding stupid?

[@dukeheat]

No he was tripped which should have been a foul. Quit with the smack talk. Your making yourself sound stupid.