Let the countdown begin.
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Lane gets 21 points in the upset of 13-1 Wake Forest
Can never resist the opportunity to get a Halston Lane or Shaun Fein mention. Hewitts first year.
And ill include Calvin because he is freakin awesome.
Can never resist the opportunity to get a Halston Lane or Shaun Fein mention. Hewitts first year.
And ill include Calvin because he is freakin awesome.
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Amazing. I'm forgeting if it was L'Ville or Kentucky, but I remember Fein dropping an amazing gamewinning shot against one of them.Lane gets 21 points in the upset of 13-1 Wake Forest
Can never resist the opportunity to get a Halston Lane or Shaun Fein mention. Hewitts first year.
And ill include Calvin because he is freakin awesome.
Also, TJ Vines was a personal favorite.
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What's crazy is that I somehow was watching that game on TV instead of being there. I must have been too broke after buying season tickets, because that was my 2nd year of buying them.
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Heart warming thread and wonderful memories. +30
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The one vs. Manhattan? I was front row behind the basket it happened on for that game? We already had a small group that were willing to spend extra time to wait in line longer for student ticket distribution and because we were playing so well that year, we started camping out overnight. Consistently had front row seats.
I'm walking across campus on a Tuesday and I notice this one dude standing in the archway of the Ferst Theater, which makes me curious. I go ask him what he was doing there and he's like REALLY not interested in talking to me. Finally admits to me they knew who my friends & I were and he was starting the line for Wake Forest tickets that year. I bug out & ring the alarm among my friends that we needed to get everyone out there tonight, which we did. After camping out for 2.5 days, one dude ballooned to about the whole first row and I end up in Seat 1, Row 2. Only game I'm not front row that year and it's for Tim Duncan & Randolph Childress and their only time they'd play against Steph. Ended up befriending those dudes. We camped out for tickets together the rest of that year and the following year, more out of tradition than us having such a great team.
Now, as is often the case, I've gotta be DTM Downer and mention this isn't the 20th anniversary of Steph on the Flats. It's next year. He played '95-'96, before the olympics.
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Got it. I thought you meant 20th anniversary.
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So I watched a bit of the game. Had to be one of the weaker early 2000s Kentucky teams and they still had 2 long-term NBA players in Bogans & Prince and plenty of high level recruits (I think Jason Parker, Marvin Stone, & Marquis Estill).
Our starters were Akins, Jones, Babul, Lewis, & Fein. Hotel Hewitt hadn't been built yet, but bench was Brooksy, Lane, Clarence, & TJ Vines.
A lot of those players acquitted themselves very well, while at GT, but ironically, I feel like we've got more pure talent on this team today and let's be honest, definitely better coaching. You could see brief glimpses in to the future of the CTO in that game. I LOL'd when we called for 5 seconds.