Where were you three years ago...
...when Jordan Poole sent us through to the Sweet 16?
thank you for posting that. that shot was well-defended and would've drawn an 'and one' if time wasn't expired, or three free throws if it hadn't gone in.
This is why you don’t hold for the last shot when you are down. Hopefully Juwan learned from his mistake against OSU.
I still think holding for the last shot was the right call. But Mike should've gone to the rim with 10-12 seconds left. That gives you time for a rebound if you miss. What they ended up with would've been bad even if they shot it with 10 seconds left.
Huh? Houston wasn't holding for the last shot while down. So what did Poole's shot have to do with "This is why you don’t hold for the last shot when you are down?"
Houston never had the ball in that situation.
I think he's talking about Michigan having the ball with 24 seconds left, down one. MAAR shot with enough time to have a chance at the rebound.
Did you even watch the video I quoted?
March 17th, 2021 at 11:27 PM ^
The video in this thread didn't say what you said. WTH are you talking about?
March 17th, 2021 at 12:57 PM ^
In front of a television somewhere. That's as good as my memory gets and even then I'm only 50% certain.
March 17th, 2021 at 12:59 PM ^
There's a certain clarity about the mind not under the influence of numbing substances.
That, or maybe the statute of limitations hasn't run yet in just 3 years
March 17th, 2021 at 12:59 PM ^
Sweet Jesus was that beautiful!!!!
In Las Vegas ??? not this year though ?
In my living room, jumping around like a mad man and thrusting at the TV saying, "you like that Manbun?" Wasn't everybody else doing that same thing?
Fantastic. Thank you!
"He has an overdose of swag!".......
"He has an overdose of swag!"@umichbball head coach John Beilein on Jordan Poole hitting the game-winner to send the Wolverines to the #Sweet16!#MarchMadness pic.twitter.com/uYU1qTagu1
— NCAA March Madness (@marchmadness) March 18, 2018
I just now saw that and NEVER want to un-see it!
Watching the game in the Man Cave. The whole family was asleep, so I couldn't scream. I just pumped my fists wildly in the air silently. For about five minutes.
Ha, I did the exact same thing! I have a bum neck and messed it up because I was fist-waiving in such an uncontrolled manner.
Of all my self-inflicted injuries, that one was easily the best.
I yelled and my wife came running out of the bedroom wondering what was wrong. Woke up the whole house.
In my Man Cave in the basement. Yelling and screaming and running around the room fist pumping. Making so much noise that I woke my wife up from the 2nd floor.
Couldn't care less, was just so so happy....
At home, getting ready for church the next day, waking up my kids.
And then, here. The postgame threads that evening were joyous. One of my favorite memories of this site. Whatever snarks some of us had/have for each other, we were all delighted and sharing it. It was a great night to be a Michigan fan.
You mean, it's great...
to be...
...a Michigan Wolverine!
Watching on the big screen in my basement. I think I woke up the rest of the house.
I think man bun guy for Houston talked trash to JP before the shot. Something like - asking him where he's from, and when JP told him, he said looks like you'll be headed there soon. LOL
From Rivals:
Just before Devin Davis stepped to the line for two free throws that would have clinched a Houston win over Michigan in the round of 32, Cougars guard Rob Gray approached U-M freshman shooting guard Jordan Poole.
Poole engaged him in conversation for a few seconds before he realized what was going on.
“With 3.6 seconds left you’re kind of thinking the game’s over, anyway,” Poole said. “I really wasn’t trying to talk to him … I was like, ‘whatever.’
“He kept talking to me, but I was like, I’ve got way too much pride to just let him bark in my ear right now. I said, ‘yeah,’ told him where I’m from [Milwaukee] and everything [and that he wouldn't be punked], and he kind of felt like I was being a little sassy, so he decided to bark back.”
Gray told him, ‘Well, you’re about to go back to Milwaukee.”
Poole didn’t respond, thinking like many that the Wolverines had lost.
“I was like, ‘oh, he’s bold,’ but what am I going to say in a situation like that? There are three seconds left,” Poole recalled. “I’d be crazy if I said something back.”
The rest, of course, is history. Davis missed both free throws and Poole nailed the game winner from 29 feet with a hand in his face to give the Wolverines a 64-63 win.
I was in bed trying to fall asleep, fighting off my frustration that we had lost. And my wife got in bed looking at her phone and said "wow what a cool finish huh?" Because someone had posted it on Facebook and I had already turned the TV off.
THIS WAS ME vs OSU last week. I went to take a nap when Franz fouled out down 11 cause I wasn't sleeping well woke up 2 hours later figured I'd see "how bad" we lost. then saw we lost on a missed buzzer-beater and was like Oh my........
if we had won IDK what i would have done lol. guess we learn to never walk away till its over.
Yep... I stopped watching at the same point, only I went outside to do some pond work. Learned about the finish a few hours later when my brother texted me about it.
Watching the game at my buddy's house with him and his wife. All three of us were jumping around his living room in a huge celebratory group hug. It was an awesome memory.
I was recovering from an overdose of swag.
Actually met my now fiancé for the first time that day for dinner at Fraser’s. Her first UM game experience was me and my best friend drunkenly screaming and running around his living room. She’s endured a lot of UM highs and lows since. Here’s hoping for another deep March run.
Watching on TV
Here's a great trivia question: Can you name the two players who were on the court for Michigan when Poole hit that shot who were still playing college basketball this season?
Time's up.
Isaiah Livers is one. The other is ... Ibi Watson, who played for Dayton this year.
The other players on the floor were Poole, MAAR and Moe Wagner. Duncan Robinson and Charles Matthews had both fouled out. Eli Brooks and Austin Davis were on the team but did not play in that game. You'll find the glorious box score HERE.
Wow, Ibi! Forgot all about that guy.
Reviewing threads about that game, I actually posted that years later I would find the information that Duncan Robinson fouled out of the game one of those bizarre facts that we would forget and think odd years later. And apparently I was right. Because it's pretty crazy that Duncan fouled out of that game, and tells you something about how it went.
My wife was smart enough to go out for the evening while this game was on. It ended a few minutes before she was coming home, so I rewound and set it up for her. I acted all sad and got her to come watch the last seconds of the season. It drew her in and we spent the next weekend at the Staples Center.
In a hotel room in St Pete Beach! My wife and some friends that are not huge sports fans were on the balcony and no doubt thought I was a lunatic running around screaming and giving errr, aggressive fist bumps and high fives. Will never forget it!
Watching the sequence of events again that led up to this...I still can't believe Michigan won.
Watching from the Statler Hotel bar on Cornell's campus with my son... an evening I am not soon to forget. WHAT A SHOT!
"Go Blue"
~Dwight Shrute
I was at a 90s/00s cover band (My So Called Band) concert at Cannery Ballroom huddled with a couple friends on the back wall watching the end of this game. I was about to cancel my flights/hotel... but decided to wait for the zeroes. Super hype after -- to some boy band song. It was St. Patty's Day, though, so by then I wasn't the only one.
Here is a list of things that happened where I remember where I was:
9-11: I was driving to a class.
Challenger Exploded: In middle school class watching live.
Reagan Shot: In my living room, pissed off they cut away from cartoons to say Reagan was shot.
The end.
I was able to watch it live. I live just over 2 hours away from Wichita and checked into a hotel in time to snag a ticket from StubHub just before the Kansas game started. It was a bit tricky because the pickup location for the ticket was in a bar near the stadium, and it was St. Patrick's day. So between traffic for the game and streets shut down for the bar crowd, it took me awhile to navigate and find a place to park. My only regret is that I was alone. There were no Michigan fans near by, so it wasn't until I was leaving the arena that I was close enough to other fans to celebrate with. I was sitting on the Michigan side (but not with the Michigan contingent), so it at least seemed like there were more and louder Houston than Michigan fans.
I was on tour with the New York City Gilbert and Sullivan Players, playing trombone in the pit orchestra for the midwest leg of their touring production of Pirates of Penzance. I was watching the game in the hotel bar in Madison WI, with my wife and a few of the other Michigan people in the orchestra. We went nuts, it was one of the best things I've seen on TV.
In Boston racking up a massive tab with my buddies. Definitely in my top 25 for best days.