What is your best moment as college basketball fan?

As a Syracuse fan, I have two. The first one is Hakim Warrick's block in the 2003 NCAA Title Game that ended up winning us the game and gave us our first championship. Other than that particular play, I don't have any vivid memories of the game. Yes, I don't remember the moment where we actually finally won it. Sad, I know. I was 11. Cut me some slack.

But my other best moment was when Syracuse won the 6OT game against UCONN in the 2009 Big East Tournament. I've never felt more tense, antsy, and riled up throughout the course of a game. Jonny Flynn's performance was also one of the best single game performances that I've ever seen. He played 67 out of 70 moments and never seemed to slow down until we knew we were going to win. There were so many times where we thought we were going to lose (and win Eric Devendorf at 1:41 mark) but this team just kept on fighting and won what has to be considered one of the college basketball games ever played. One last thing about this game that I remember so well is that that game was the talk of Syracuse for days. Literally everyone in Syracuse was talking about. Hell, even Stephen Colbert acknowledged it. In the words of Jim Boeheim, I was more proud this team than any other one I'd ever seen.

Posted Dec 2, 2012, 4:16 PM UTC

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