Cincinnati Bearcats vs Depaul Blue Demons 3-2-2000

[@15daysinmay]

I was at this game. That was one of the most incredible individual performances down the stretch that I've ever seen. Martin was an absolute beast that night.

[@SabiosNelligan]

Came here from Knuckleheads, Kenyon Martin is my all time favourite power forward. I never knew about this game until the interview. What a performance!

[@513official4]

All-time favorite power forward in NBA? Because anyone who watched him in college I thought knew about this game.

[@SabiosNelligan]

@@513official4 I'm Australian and a Jason Kidd fan, only college news I heard about Kenyon was from commentators in game.

[@MrPocketfullOfSteel]

@@SabiosNelligan Makes sense. :o)

[@MrPocketfullOfSteel]

Not only was this ~`THE GAME`~ that cemented Kenyon as the "Player Of The Year"......but it also was/is Dickie V's best UC game announced. I could go as far as to say that it was the best I ever heard him "bring it" in that last 9 minutes. Dickie V : "He's Super - Scintillating - and Sensational. He is Marvelous - Magnificent and Magical." I mean....you write freeking scripts that say stuff like that. Ha! 😆 All said in reference to what he was beholding that night. Like he said himself "it's the greatest fifteen minutes I have seen from a player when his teams back is against the wall." I love Dickie V and I really enjoyed seeing him at The Shoemaker Center all those years. Great Memories! Thanks to 513 for the upload. That rocked.👏👏👏👏👏👏👍

[@heychiyu1]

If you have ever been to a coaching clinic where Bob Huggins speaks, this is the game he always talks about.

[@colerainfan1143]

I remember watching this game, by myself, on the couch. Kenton Martin refused to lose. It was so exciting.

[@ARB826]

Have been thinking about this game ever since my dad and I were at it. Man, I loved that DePaul team. Hunter a project at 7ft, Simmons able to pivot and bump like Barkley, McPherson being the athletic freak of nature with the biggest calves on Earth, and Q Rich as a pure city baller. Kenyon Martin was a beast to behold. Knew there was something special id forgotten about this game and I think it was that half court heave that didn’t count. Cause man the whole thing left an impression. Thanks for posting

[@ArtyIsaac]

I would love to see him in the league in his prime today

[@joshuaguillory1315]

I remember this. I watched it live as it was happening. Perfect! One of the best games ever :)

[@joshuaguillory1315]

and or comebacks

[@MrPocketfullOfSteel]

@@joshuaguillory1315 *BOOM*

[@erictichelbaut3559]

Simply a dominant performance by Martin. 19 years later and I still get upset about his season ending injury. They were a lock to win a national title.

[@bradlewis6514]

There has never or will probably ever be as significant an injury in the history of March Madness! Altering of a tournament field doesn't even begin to describe what Martin going down did to Cincinnati's team chemistry! The Bearcats were the only team, when on and completely healthy, capable of beating Michigan St! I'm a die-hard Duke fan and even I was pissed when Kenyon got hurt! Our youth wasn't gonna advance us very far and it eventually didn't, but I've always been a Bob Huggins fan and I wanted them to win it! Best team in America by far and bad luck screwed them

[@bradlewis6514]

The rest of the bracket should have exhaled the biggest sigh of relief there is! Because it would have been Beware of the Bearcats otherwise!

[@MrPocketfullOfSteel]

@@bradlewis6514 Indeed dude. Like you said "above" And Eric above you. That was "one of those seasons" wherein (honestly) there was the University of Cincinnati Bearcats and *THEN* everyone else. They played at such an elite level that season......that March Madness was basically a tournament amongst all the other teams to see "who got *FED* to Cincinnati" in the National Championship Game. I'm 57 years old now and even then, I had never witnessed a season wherein, barring a Plane Crash carrying the UC team.....or unbeknownst to us all.....Kenyon going down. That was the *only* thing stopping that team from bringing the trophy back to Clifton. It sucked. It still sucks. Until this day and the rest of my life, I can say without a doubt, that *NO SPORTING INJURY TO A PLAYER* EVER affected me *OR* an *entire* city like it did that afternoon Kenyon went down. I've often wondered, here and there over the years, if Kenyon ever realized how much he actually meant to us Bearcat fans? Who knows.

[@moretwocome21]

One of the best individual performances in college basketball history!! Kmart was a BEAST!!

[@ukrbs06]

Basketball history?? Think before you type next time.

[@MrPocketfullOfSteel]

Name another. Same script and everything etc. X10 - "Ya' Can't Do It" - What Dickie V said during those timeouts will go down to the "Hoops Lore." ~` There's Trouble In Chi- Town.`~ BayyyyBeeee! Indeed there was and his name is `~Kenyon Martin`~🤣😅😂

[@mattstrathearn9159]

I remember watching this game on TV. I kind of forgot how amazing this was because of UCs early tournament exits back then. The injury to Kenyon during the first conference tournament game may have cost the NC. Check out some of Martins highlights in the NBA, when he had Jason Kidd throwing him alley oops all day. He was a really good pro player also.

[@slimmcutty]

Ill never forget this game.....this cincy team might b the best there never was since kenyon martin broke his leg in the c-usa championship game but he was no doubt the best player in the nation this yr.....

[@AfG_313]

I was like 11 years old watching this I remember he scored 10 points in a row he was a dawgg

[@bradleygalli7745]

Kenyon Martin was the last great college senior.

[@patrickgray5633]

Yeah & what was so sad was him sitting on the floor with a broken leg. A perfect example of a team in Cincinnati that lost everything in a meaningless conference tournament. When your a top team as they were to me I wouldn’t mind losing early in the conference tournament cause your in if your on the bubble to making the big dance it changes your entire approach.

[@kevinomreb]

I watched this game live and Kenyon was an absolute beast.

[@Dmaccabees]

💥CLASSIC💥

[@mbo68]

Knuckleheads Podcast brought me here

[@Blackhawk89]

Tough loss, but that truly is awesome to see the crowd going crazy in Rosemont. I wish Allstate arena would get packed every night again

[@MrPocketfullOfSteel]

Yeah. I remember reading some fantastic article about this game.....there were quite more than a typical game. But the writer said something like "the perfect trap was laid. We had them at the tiny Rosemont." I remember yearssss after this game, hearing Bob on the radio show explaining how tough it was to beat DePaul in that specific gym. I don't know UC's w/l record there, but as a UC fan (back then) I knew it was going to be a dogfight against them and I knew they were tougher in the Rosemont....or seemingly they were.

[@rondog187]

still have this game on vhs tape

[@513official4]

It took time, but i agree, Mick has done a very good job considering we don't have a team full of 4 and 5 star recruits.I recall Whaley also in the NBA for a short time.Thanx for the sub, my previous accounts got removed for copyright violations, yet others can post the same stuff without being banned.(shrugs)

[@DIXIECONFEDERATEDAWG]

THANK GOD SOMEONE UPLOADED THIS GAME.... BEARCATS!

[@MrPocketfullOfSteel]

*Word.* lol

[@ESchneider513]

This was unbelievable K-Mart was scoring at will. It's been a long time since I've seen a player just do what ever he wants when the whole team was trying to stop him.

[@MrPocketfullOfSteel]

I *still* haven't seen it, dude!!! Why I (and others) haven't, is because it *has NEVER happened!!!* Not like *that.* Not on *BOTH* sides of the ball. hahaa! That is why Dickie V won some kind of award because of this game. Dickie V (as everyone knows) would "bring it"......especially a nationally televised game (like that was.) But even Dickie V took it to a different level as Kenyon took over. Because *he had NEVER WITNESSED it before!* *lol* He even said that himself in this PERFECT CLIP of something most will never ever see again. I know *I had never seen anything like that.* My Dad said he had never witnessed anything like it, that's saying something. In *any* sport. When your team is getting clobbered, it's back is against THE WALL. In an opposing gym. Nationally Televised. #1 team in the country. It literally took Huggs to call a timeout and threaten *any player* (on the offensive side of the ball) - - that if they shot the ball *before* Kenyon could touch it......he was going to bench them and they weren't playing again! hahaa! It was an incredible enough display to watch it from the offensive end, everything the fella did. But DePaul was so far ahead and UC was *also* playing against the clock and DePaul was taking the air out of the ball, that was a HUGE MISTAKE, they got tentative and as Cincinnati chipped away at the lead - - - *lolol*- - - you could see it in the PLAYER'S FACES of DePaul......you could see it on their entire coaching staff hahaa! - - - and lastly and what was cracking me and my boys up......was that you could see it on the faces of their fans!!!! Look at them during timeouts. hahaa! It just happened to be "one of those nights," wherein as a Bearcats fan (I'm just speaking for myself here) *I JUST KNEW!!!!!* I KNEW UC was going to win, I knew that team.....it took *everything* to go absolutely PERFECT for DePaul and *EVERYTHING* to go "not normal" for Cincinnati, for DePaul to have built the lead that they had. That game was like a Hollywood Movie Script, UC's entire season was. THAT year it was. You just *KNEW* if you were a Bearcats fan or just an educated hoops fan (even though you may have HATED Cincinnati) - - that team was going to say "ENOUGH." They were going to lockdown DePaul on the defensive end and they were going to score the ball on the offensive end. ha! What I didn't see coming and WHO COULD HAVE? It had NEVER HAPPENED BEFORE.....not like *that* - - not like *this* game! Where Kenyon would score and then he'd either #1 - steal the ball #2- Block the shot or pass or#3 Change the entire trajectory of the shot, and lastly what made it even funnier was that DePaul *KNEW* it was happening on both ends.....and they simply could not stop him. Gee wiz, I didn't realize I typed a short novel. ha!

[@mattstrathis4328]

This is gold!

[@ericMsmith1000]

Absolute classic,,,

[@jdog34505]

Bearcats were "Da Bomb" back then in basketball!

[@MrPocketfullOfSteel]

Indeed they were. *The BADDEST and Bombest* Front Cover *ever* in Sports Illustrated History was the December 2nd, 1996 College Basketball Preview edition! *lolol* It shows a shirtless Danny Fortson and a MAP of Indiana and Cincinnati *superimposed* across Fortson's torso and in his left hand he's holding a Basketball and that map is superimposed *ONTO* the ball too *hahaa!* it's *Da BOMB.* !!! :o) On his upper chest what sticks out in *BOLD* black is the city of Indianapolis (where the Final Four was) and on the ball in *BOLD* black is the word "CINCINNATI." From Cincinnati upwards to Indy is I74 on the map and above the ball in Danny's hand it boldly states "You Can't Get To The Final Four In Indianapolis *WITHOUT GOING THROUGH CINCINNATI.* " I remember when I walked by the checkout and saw that, I was like "Daggggggone!!!!" I remembered in my mind what that looked like because (of course) I bought it, but I just typed it in to take a look at it again. That image of Danny was cemented in my mind, that's it! Da Bomb! *BOOM*

[@Tommiedotjpg]

Knuckleheads brought me here.

[@HousesByVic]

Best player maybe in UC History. If Kenyon did not break his knee in the tournament that year, I really think they would have went deep into the tournament

[@513official4]

Oscar Robertson is the best player in UC history.

[@MrPocketfullOfSteel]

FWIW - it was his *leg.* His lower leg. UC would have went *MORE THAN DEEP.* That was one of those few seasons, where it was simply *CINCINNATI* .......and then everyone else. That tournament was going to be a tournament to see who would get *pummeled* in the National Championship game by the University of Cincinnati Bearcats. There was a *HUGE* disparity in talent that season. That is just HOW GOOD UC was that season. They would have *PASTED* Michigan State by 17+.......and I actually believe it'd have been by 22 or more. The last 5 minutes would have been a *coronation* on the court. The title would have been coming home to Clifton.

[@MrPocketfullOfSteel]

@@513official4 *lolol* OK. I get it. My Dad followed UC all his 78 years. I know ALL THE STORIES of Oscar. My Dad and I (before a UC game) would be *literally* standing in the Armory Fieldhouse......I *LOVE THE GYM*....badass. He'd stand (where in his mind) where Oscar would stand and he'd point and tell me stories and all, so I get it....I'm not stupid when it comes to Robertson. But I remember during Kenyon's senior season, when it was soooo apparent to *anyone* that he grew leaps and bounds in his game during the off season. I asked my Dad who he thought was better. *Fun Fact* : I was a donor to the program and a UCAT member for seven seasons. My parking pass (for 3 years, I believe) was *literally* maybe 30 feet (if that) from the Shoemaker Center's front door where we entered, Oscar's parking spot was TWO SPOTS farther away from the entrance than ours. hahaa! I always got a kick out of that. But I asked my Dad and he loved "The Big O." But he told "Gregg, it's not even really that close." He meant Kenyon was better, btw. I'm just saying. Like he said ( and I knew what he meant)......"Gregg, the game was so different back then." It was. But he told me something like "it was fun to debate and talk about etc." - but he made a point to say something like "If Kenyon would have been on *any* of Oscar's teams at UC, they'd have won a National Championship every year." FWIW - UC NEVER won the title while Oscar was there, but as soon as he left of course.....they won their back to back championships......and it *SHOULD HAVE* been "back to back to back." But I digress. haaha! BTW - THANKS for putting up the perfect amount of clip of the PERFECT Kenyon game that cemented him as the #1 Player in College Hoops!

[@Milhouse12]

As a Xavier fan I have to say this is amazing

[@MrPocketfullOfSteel]

*Word.*

[@joshuaguillory1315]

Kenyon Martin the greatest college basketball player ever and the Cincinnati Bearcats team as a whole the greatest team ever :) and or one of

[@JITeamWorthless]

Drove up from cincy with my two sons to see our only road game ever. I still grin every time I look at the little towel they handed out to us at thus game. It says "Destroy Da cats!

[@MrPocketfullOfSteel]

*hahaa!* Good stuff.

[@kevingreen2400]

Kenyon was the ABSOLUTE TRUTH in this game, 31 points 9 boards 7 blocks, but most forget it was DerMarr Johnson's silky jumper that won it...I will go to my great rewards believing that had Kenyon not gotten hurt this team would have romped and stomped to the 2000 title.

[@MrPocketfullOfSteel]

You would be *correct,* Kevin *AND* it wouldn't have even been close. They'd have rolled Mich. State by 17+ IMO.

[@ChrisJames-cy3gc]

LMAO Dicky V's just nuts OOOOOO OOOOO OOOOO AHHHH OOOOO OOOOO AAAAAAA what an unbelievable comback OOOOOOO AAAA 3 pointer hit after the buzzer OOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OOOOOO

[@mattstrathis4328]

A lot of people don't like him but I think he makes watching games more enjoyable. Especially in these type of situations. Now Jay Bilas on the other hand, I'm not a fan.

[@MrPocketfullOfSteel]

I agree, Chris!!! hahaa! He said soooo many things in this *ONE GAME.* "It's a *MAALOX MATCHUP.* " lolol "I'm a Hoopaholic. You can call me a Hoopaholic." haha! "There's Problems In Chi-Town!!!" "It's an M&M. It's a total *MISMATCH.* " In that final timeout as they're showing the Back 2 Back 2 Back 2 Back hoops from the Grand Kenyon, Dickie V saying "He's MARVELOUS - MAGNIFICENT and MAGICAL. He's *SUPER - SCINTILLATING and SENSATIONAL!!!* ahaaa Only Dickie V, the fella *really BROUGHT IT* that night in Chi-Town! And like you said, right there at the very end, you cracked me up....reading that because that is *EXACTLY* what my boy was saying and imitating that night was Dickie going *OFF THE RAILS!!!!* *OOOOOOOO ooooooo OOOOOOOo AAhhhhOOOO!!!!!* That was good Chris, thanks for making me smile. Great memories!

[@MrSmoothjazz21]

Back when K-Mart was kicking ass and taking names!!!!!

[@MrPocketfullOfSteel]

*Yep.* hahaa!

[@jdrewyard]

First college bball game I remember attending. Probably the craziest one too. Quentin made DePaul legit, hoping they can land Jabari and Allstate (and perhaps an on-campus venue in the future) will be rocking once again.

[@ultimatederon]

Wow what a finish!

[@joshuaguillory1315]

Kenyon Martin is the greatest college basketball player ever :)

[@bradlewis6514]

Maybe best of his particular era, but all-time is laying it on pretty thick man

[@JSqAuD14]

K-Mart still looks the same. He was definitely a man among boys in his college days.

[@DW-rw4yc]

Joe Budden out here killing

[@mister_bailey]

Haha. True. True

[@madd1911]

Quentin Richardson said a center banked three pointer. Not true LOL. Great game.

[@thestraighteight9974]

this was pay back from the year before when they upset them.

[@joshuaguillory1315]

look at DerMarr Johnson and Steve Logan :)

[@MrPocketfullOfSteel]

Indeed. Logan's senior season.......mannnnnn - it was *THE MOST ENJOYABLE* UC season me and my Dad ever attended and we was at *EVERY GAME* at The Shoemaker / One game at Freedom Hall and the tournament games at Riverfront Coliseum. *Incredible* season that should have *never* ended the way it did. I'm so glad I don't follow them anymore. lol It seems like a lifetime ago, because it was......to some folks it *was* their lifetime.

[@thedivinekingllc.7327]

Knuckle Heads brought me here.

[@bradleygalli7745]

Glory days of the C-USA.

[@MrPocketfullOfSteel]

*BOOM*

[@BearcatPalinfan]

Hey Xavier Fan, this is how a real program handles their business

[@MrJerryscool]

513official4- I think I sub'd to a channel you had a while back i think it was banned. I sub'd this one, At the end It shows BJ Grove I remember that kid had all the talent in the world but couldn;t keep in shape just like Robert Whaley you remember him? crazy. Lookin at todays team I;d say Mick has done a good job. 10 Deep with a gritty D Mbdoj Kilpat Cash Parker JJ thats who i'd start 2nd team Guin Rubles Nyrsik Sanders Shaq Thomas.

[@joshnyamburi]

This Depaul team should’ve been way better

[@snoopwilliams6123]

Martin don’t go down with the leg injury Cincinnati win the national easy

[@BOOSILINI1]

hahaaaaa KENYON

[@adeedc]

omg wtf

[@BearcatPalinfan]

Depaul is worthless too. Almost as much as Xavier