Iowa to Elite 8
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JonDMiller
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I was 16. I remember coming home from my grandparent's house that weekend, listening to the radio on the way back..I watched this game at their house in rural NW Missouri..so rural we barely got the TV reception some times. On the radio, Al McGuire was picking Iowa to win the National Title...everyone was talking how they felt Iowa might be the best team left in the tournament...I remember where our car was at on interstate 80 when I heard this, just as I remember where our car was at on the road on the way to grandma's a few years earlier when Lute retired.
And I remembered how crushed I was when Iowa lost to UNLV. Crushed. Easily the biggest disappointment of my life to that point, which means I have had a blessed life.
And I remembered how crushed I was when Iowa lost to UNLV. Crushed. Easily the biggest disappointment of my life to that point, which means I have had a blessed life.
Oh yeah, I can remember watching that game in college....I can still see the chair I was sitting in, who was in the room....it's just one of those moments that I think will always be very vivid in my memory.
I hear ya on the UNLV loss....that was the only year I didn't watch the Final 4...I just couldn't. I'll go to my grave thinking Iowa had the best team in the country that year.
I hear ya on the UNLV loss....that was the only year I didn't watch the Final 4...I just couldn't. I'll go to my grave thinking Iowa had the best team in the country that year.
Remember that game. I was in high school and we had just completed the last performance of our musical. We were huddled in a room and asked the janitor to bring us a tv. He rolled it in and we watched the last portion of the game. We went crazy when Gamble hit that shot!
nationalchamps
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To this day, I have never seen the UNLV game - and not sure if I ever want to. Iowa was the best team in the country that year no doubt about it.
