Ten Years Ago Tonight: Trey Burke's Shot
March 29, 2013. Enjoy it all over again.
March 29th, 2023 at 10:59 PM ^
"The Trey."
We rode that baby all the way to the National Championship game.
March 29th, 2023 at 11:22 PM ^
and won that [expletive] championship game.
the block was clean
the dump was clean, too
The body went straight up, the arm went straight up, and it was all ball.
But just because the expleting expletive ref was whistle happy ...
That ref decided that it was going to be a foul before Trey's feet even left the ground. You could see it.
March 29th, 2023 at 10:59 PM ^
Ten years? How is that possible?
Kansas ahead by 14 points and loses? How that possible? It could never happen to us!
March 29th, 2023 at 11:02 PM ^
That made me cry tears of joy.
March 29th, 2023 at 11:07 PM ^
I'm not sure there's been a better single moment in the last 10 years for Michigan fans.
Jordan Poole's shot vs. Houston is right there. Mikey Sainristil's pass break-up or Donovan Edwards' first TD run in last year's OSU game. Any of the plays in the 2021 OSU game. All magnificent, but I'd still put Trey's shot at the top.
March 29th, 2023 at 11:24 PM ^
It was so . . . unexpected. We were down in that game. It was hopeless.
Poole's shot was as big of a miracle comeback from defeat, but we had seen it before by then in Burke's shot.
With all due respect ... no way. Haskins' game clinching TD against OSU in 2021 set off a celebration Michigan fans had waited 10 long, horrible years to have. Everything after was pure euphoria.
That whole game in '21 was euphoria. The entire friggen game... For a one play surprise, Trey's shot can't be beat.
We led that game 14-13 at halftime. I was not euphoric at that point, I was on pins and needles. The final Haskins TD was when I was able to exhale.
People were just walking around campus randomly screaming for joy after that shot. It was hilarious, nothing else like it
March 30th, 2023 at 10:54 AM ^
If we're just talking about basketball, then yes. But for Michigan sports as a whole, I don't think anything can top the moment the clock hit 00:00 in The Game 2021 (with the same moment in The Game 2022 in Columbus coming in a close second).
The Don with the long run in 2022 was the moment you knew they were beat.
"Which one?"
The OSU games were filled with joyous excitement, even if the lacked the last second excitement of Trey’s or Jordan’s shots. The football game that had it all was UTL I. Along with AC vs. Indiana in 1979, Denard/Gallon/Roundtree heroics in the last 25 seconds of that game was a lifetime experience.
March 30th, 2023 at 11:05 PM ^
I'll take a dominant win in The Game over a last-second win in The Game any day of the week.
UTL I was a great game, but I feel like there's a difference between a great game and a great moment. A great moment endures and becomes timeless. For me, the fool's gold that the 2011 season turned out to be in light of how the rest of the Hoke era unfolded puts a damper on that game as a great moment. Also, because we had been beating Notre Dame even under Rich Rod, UTL I lacked the cathartic effect that our recent wins in The Game had.
March 29th, 2023 at 11:09 PM ^
The Kansas PG Johnson who was a shithead (grabbed McGary's crotch, missed the game-sealing freethrow) could have driven all the way to the basket for the win, but he took too many steps and had to get rid of the ball.
He's as big a hero to Michigan as Trey Burke was.
This was a pretty clairvoyant prediction made about the Kansas - Michigan game before the game was played:
Bill Self will become so enraged with Elijah Johnson that his toupee will fall off.
Self and Johnson have an interesting relationship, and by “interesting,” I mean that before every game, I’m pretty sure Self pulls Johnson aside and gives him the following speech:
“I’ve worked my ass off to get to where I am today. I spent seven years coaching at small schools in Tulsa just to get the chance to coach at a big-time program. Now I’m here. I have multiple luxury automobiles, I own real estate all over the greater Lawrence area, and women throughout the Midwest want to lay with me. Look me in the eye, Elijah. I have it all, I tell you. IT. ALL. And I’m not about to let some shithead like you ruin it for me. God as my witness, if the other team’s point guard outplays you tonight, I will end you. Your corpse will spend eternity in the crawl space of my summer home, and when guests ask, ‘What’s that smell?” I’ll tell them it’s the scent of mediocrity. It’s the smell of a guy who wasn’t half the man that Tyshawn, Sherron, or Mario were. Look at me, Elijah. I’ll tell them it’s the smell of a man who fell short of success one too many times.
“Alright, good talk. Remember: Just go out there and play your hardest, and everything will take care of itself. Go get ’em, buckaroo.”
Pretty good prediction.
March 30th, 2023 at 12:23 AM ^
That's some good writing --- without looking it up, I'd bet $100 it's Mark Titus.
Which, speaking of --- what does Titus do these days? Seems like he just disappeared.
Maybe HE is the "smell in the crawl space of Bill Self's summer house" for making that toupee crack.
Looks like he has a show/podcast on Barstool.
It was from Grantland in 2013. Not sure who the writer was but I could probably find it.
March 29th, 2023 at 11:13 PM ^
I was at a friend's penthouse that night watching the game.
Said friend is now dead.
Life moves pretty fast.
March 29th, 2023 at 11:17 PM ^
And then one day you find ten years have got behind you....
March 30th, 2023 at 12:08 AM ^
I was a student then and lived five or six blocks from campus. We were watching on the living room TV and went ballistic for that shot and all of overtime. When we won, we rushed to the diag not even considering that other people might not be there. Of course, it was a huge party.
March 30th, 2023 at 12:25 AM ^
That team was so stacked. Also miss JB
When M basketball was clutch at the end of games…
When we had a leader who wanted the ball at the end.
What was amazing too is what Michigan did to Florida the game after this Kansas game. Absolutely dominated them from start to finish.
What a moment. Trey Burke was a miracle from start to finish at Michigan. This moment and the Woodson punt return are the only two events I can think of that rise to this level. Since this one definitively snatched victory from the jaws of defeat, it has to be the single greatest moment in Michigan sports history in my fandom going back to the 80's.
Poole's shot too.
Despair to rapturous joy in an instant, both.
Denard's pass to Gallon in UTL 1, too.
Trey had the nice steal Vs MSU iirc. A different type of clutch play.
Ill always be here to remind everyone Glen Rice averaged Trey Burke's career high for 6 games while leading Michigan to its only National Championship.
Now that being said I love me some Trey Burke!
Woodson and Rice Champions and the best!
I missed it and had to watch the replay in the morning. My daughter was 4 and we were on a mini Spring break trip to Great Wolf Lodge. We were all in one room and the wife and kid complained they couldn't sleep with the TV on. I just made her watch the shot again today. It is sort of a fun story now but not really. I still can't believe he hit that.
I never returned to Great Wolf Lodge after that.
March 30th, 2023 at 10:52 AM ^
I got enfantigo (sp?) at Great Wolf Lodge - that is where COVID probably started...it is kinda a wet market
Wow, that does not seem like a decade ago. That worries me, since I was 49 then and now I'm 59. I'll really be old in 10 more years, shorter of breath and one day closer to death.
A decade ago now??? I'm so old.
Best moment in my Michigan basketball fandom bar none.
Thanks for the reminder.
I had woken up at 3 AM to watch that game live and when they were 14 down....I debated getting more sleep before work, I almost turned it off.
Unbelievable game and after Trey hit the shot I was shouting so loud that I woke up my two kids who came down to watch the end of the game with me.
As for greatest shots though......I think too many young responders. I was a senior when Rumeal Robinson went to the line down 1 to Seton Hall in the Championship game and unlike Trey, who had been dong the spectacular and won player of the year, Robinson had actually cost a game earlier in the year in the exact same situation, was not a good free throw shooter, and nobody expected good things to happen. His sinking the two shots to win it all....is still the greatest in b-ball history. And if you don't believe me, read the police reports on the post-victory damage to South University traffic signals and businesses after the win.
March 30th, 2023 at 10:50 AM ^
i was in the kingdome and watched us beat illinois in a thriller, and two days later watched rumeal hit the two most clutch FT's of all time. oh, what a game, what a night in seattle.
March 30th, 2023 at 11:00 AM ^
I do agree that the Rumeal FTs are the most impactful and memorable in Michigan basketball history.
I was in that melee on South University, both after the Final Four win and the Championship. We students were partying, drinking and making out like we were in Times Square and peace was just announced. For the most part, the post-victory damage was not from the students (I did have one drunk friend standing on an awning of a storefront, fall off, land in a small tree and tear off a number of young branches.)
It seems like yesterday. My wife and I watched the game with some friends and our children. We were out in the city - and we cheered “quite loudly” when he hit the shot.
The kids are sophomores at Michigan today… time does fly.
It was extremely memorable - as were the UTL games - or the ND at Michigan "in the rain".
Go Blue!
March 30th, 2023 at 10:11 AM ^
Don't forget he was the national player of the year, dude was representin'...
March 30th, 2023 at 12:54 PM ^
My favorite Michigan basketball moment in my (short) lifetime.
Greatest three point shot ever.
But for greatest Michigan basketball moment…personally, the year was 2017
The Big Ten tournament was in DC for the first time, just a few miles from my office at the time. I got a ticket for the Thursday game. Not much was expected from the team but they’d been fun to watch and I could t pass up the chance to see them in person.
And then, their plane crashed They were in a freaking plane crash! It was a miracle no one died or even got hurt. Those pilots were heroes that day.
The team had a vote whether they were even going to play. The next day they all got on a plane after surviving a crash the day before. They showed up in the stadium and I didn’t know why they didn’t have real jerseys until later that day. They wore their practice jerseys and played their asses off and won
Three days later I got to go to the finals with my 5 year old daughter. No one gave them a chance against Wisconsin, but they went out and absolutely destroyed them
Afterward, we stayed for the trophy ceremony and for a long time after. Usually keeping my daughter engaged that long would have been impossible, but she sensed the gravity of the situation and was entranced I remember turning to her and telling her this was as good as sports moments get and let’s just soak it all in .
I was at that game. I took this picture:
Glorious.
Screw Bill Self
I almost almost fainted again after re-watching this.
March 30th, 2023 at 10:00 PM ^
Amazing that was already 10 years ago. When I think back on it, feels just like yesterday. Unquestionably one of my 3 top athletics moments as a UM fan/alum. That team was so much fun!