Kentucky vs. Duke: 1998 Elite Eight | FULL GAME 

Kentucky in the 8 seasons from 92-99..7 elite 8s, 4 final 4s, 3 finals and 2 titles..what a run.

Kentucky = Greatest Men’s CBB program of all time.

This game was one of the best memories of my childhood.

The sound of all those UK fans after Mills and then Padgett hit those 3’s. It doesn’t get any better than that.

46:10 Wojo and Magloire going for the ball. Magloire let’s loose right as Wojo flops. Billy Packer: OH NO WHAT IS HE DOING TO MY WOJO

I’ll go to my grave saying the ‘96 cats was the best college team of all time. But the ‘98 team will ALWAYS be my favorite team. I smashed my tv remote during this game..... I literally cried after this game I was so happy

22 years later and I still get nervous!

Think about Big Z. Came to UK as a 300-pound freshman. Shed almost another human being. Played JV-ball for a year. By the end of his junior, he embarks on a 17-year career in the NBA. Not bad for a high school player not ranked in the Top 100.

You gotta love the '98 team. Beating UCLA by 30, making the comeback and getting the revenge on dUKe, beating the best team in Stanford history, and then taking down the hot Utah team for the title. But we paid for it...we had to endure 3 more years of Saul Smith playing 30-35 minutes per game. I'd love to know UK's +/- while Saul was on the floor in '98? In my opinion every minute he played as a freshman was mins we didn't have Mills on the floor draining 3's. But somehow they played great and won the title. And beating dUKe in a Regional Final made it that much sweeter. This team bought Tubby over a decade being the head man at UK. Tubby was a pretty good coach, but he just couldn't recruit. Which is the most important thing in college basketball. His best class was the Randolph Morris, Joe Crawford, Ramel Bradley, & Rondo class. But that class was a bust other than Rondo. Tubby came close to another Final Four a couple times with Patrick Sparks hitting the 3 vs Michigan St, ran into Dwayne Wade in '03, etc. But we never tasted that glory again with Tubby.

wHaT iS hE dOiNg?!? Give Wojo the award for best flopjob.

Coach K got outcoached so badly here... Tubby really really really underrated on the sideline... If he could recruit like Cal, they would have won like 4 or 5 when he was there.

The 90s! What a decade to have experienced!

This great game is highly underrated

I loved this Wildcats team growing up. The 96 team was ridiculously stacked but they didn't have the heart this 98 team did. Shepard, Turner, Padgett, and my fave all time Wildcat Cameron Mills, he was always there to score a 3 when we needed it. Also loved Evans.

Man I was in tears after this. My wife looks at me and says you don’t shed one tear when your kids were born but you’ll cry over this lol.

Billy Packer sounds like a Duke fan this entire game.

The Comeback Cats in my favorite college basketball game of all time.

Crazy I grew up a Duke fan and I’m now going to be a Kentucky student

Lolol I asked for this yesterday and this channel answered the call. This was a great game and Kentucky's payback for the laettner shot game.

55:42 - The comeback begins

As a Duke fan, this one hurt but it was a brilliant basketball game.

The announcers were overreacting when those players got tangled up

I just want our proud program to get back to this point so bad. Wish I never took all those tourney wins last decade for granted

What people don't remember is that Kentucky overcame two 14 point deficits to beat Duke this game served them well in beating Stanford and Utah to win their 7th National Championship.

Great sequel to the 1992 game. Duke was cursed in St. Petersburgh.

50:29 looks like this play was edited out as Mcleod was called for a charge on a jump shot, which is borderline hilarious. If I sound salty, its because I am; but I am more salty at Scotty Thurman for that rainbow 3 in the 94 title game with like a minute to go. Duke really mismanaged this game the later part of the 2nd half when they were up over 10. I guess this is our payback for the Laettner shot.

Mills would dominate today's game. Shot was pure. Thanks for staying at UK buddy!

How come this channel hasn't uploaded the 1996 UK vs Syracuse game?? That was probably the best college basketball team of all time, but you uploaded the 97 championship loss to Arizona and the 98 championship victory over Utah. All 3 of those should be on this channel together considering they were 3 years in a row

Even as great as the Blue Devils have been in the last 35 years, Duke for a long time was the missed opportunity leader of college basketball. In 1886 Louisville came from behind to win the title in the final minute; from 88 through 90 three flops at the Final 4; in '94 they lost to Arkansas in the final minute; in '98 they let Kentucky back from 17 down in then 2nd half, then in 1999, they lost to Connecticut on a stumble; and in 2002, they missed an easy inside shot to let Indiana eliminate them. Still, they have won 5 NCAA titles in a vastly more competitive era than John Wooden ever saw.

What a comeback man. The 90’s dominated from the unforgettables

Man Kentucky has had a few stretches in history where they were just the best of the best. Most of the 90s, The Rupp years, and when Cal came in 09-present. That stretch Kentucky went on from 2009-2017 they were clearly the best men's basketball program in the country. We are over due for another Chip, and I think Kentucky gets another one here soon. 💯

Utterly glorious. Then, now, forever

1:10:56, there goes the roof! Can only imagine how loud that place was during the "Comeback Cats" 2nd half surge AND after that shot.

59:12 That's me! 🙂

#BBN As a Kentucky fan, this was one of my favorite Kentucky games, SWEET REVENGE!

This is one of the Duke teams that should never ever ever have lost but they didn't, maybe to much youth ,in my opinion, this kentucky team hats to them ,but I think in best of 7 series, duke wins 4-1, I wish the final four is a series of best of 5 or even 7 ,but thats me I love college basketball alittle more than nba

I think a reason why folks are unlikely to see a Coach K. vs. John Calipari matchup in the tournament (despite the yearly drool by sports pundits over freshmen talent), is because the matchup was unique in the times it happened back in Philadelphia (1992) and this game in St. Petersburg (1998). Obviously, both coaches will meet in November at MSG.

The version you took down from the old channel was better quality. I don't understand it.

Tubby Smith always looked angry, I never seen him smile 😂😂😂

I'm not sure if any team, in any sport has as many memorable playoff failures as Duke did from 98-02. Many would include 04 as well. Those teams were STACKED.

i never thought coach k was a great bench coach tbh. the dude had the mental lytough on players thing he got from bobby knight. he prepared well.

They didn't call em the Cardiac Cats for nothing.

25 years to the day. Such fun.

Duke kentucky is like saying Ali Frazier two big blue bloods power house teams that kind of hate each other but also have big respect for one another as top elight programs through out history of college basketball

Jeff and Reed are so similar looking it's unreal. Here's to hoping Reed helps us get #9

Yeah he's such a choke artist K in the big games that's the usual Duke narrative they had the deepest bench that year and the best mixture of upperclassmen and underclassmen just like Rodgers

As a Kentucky fan … I must admit WoJo is a pretty cool nick name haha

"Magliore" : "If you can't beat them, break them"

This team epitomized why people hated Duke. Those players were all annoying.

It's a early nba Allstars rookie sophomore game

Billy Packer… take a breather, sometimes, man.

Magical memories!

2014 final four kentucky vs wisconsin?

We beat a team that has always played dirty and always get the foul calls WTG Cats!

58:07 - Evans dives over the press row

And this is what I call, good ole revenge

Good old days. Brand bummed it up

Worst announcing in sports history at 46:00.

GO BIG BLUE, the COMEBACK CATS....

Kentucky basketball greatest comeback. Coach k, never lost a regional, Duke up 17 with 9 minutes left. Mills shot to me was the one. But every one overlooked how bad tubby outcoached K. His subs, his constant changing on D, He was coaching as good as a coach can coach. 14, put my on his back. 5, heart of a lion, tremendous floor leadership. Padgett playing Like above 10 iq. No center on court for last 10 minutes. Tells you tubby could figure out a game, during the game. Not afterwards. Thanks tubby! You earned your championship. Like most, we all loved tubby. And if Keith bogans didn't tweak his ankle, tubby was bringing another title.. its 2020, Calipari don't even care to win for fans, it's all about NBA, he will never win another one. Anthony Davis is only reason hes still employed at UK. If hes such a great recruiter, why only one championship? Recruiting championship teams is why were ky. Not because of john wall, big cousins, Championships. Fire Calipari, we won more without him. That's games that mean something. He gets outcoached every year. Are next coaches. Rick Pitino!!!!!! And his assistant. Tubby Smith...could you imagine..........

I wonder how much of Rick Pitino's Boston Celtics salary was paid by Dewk and UNC?

Chappel looked a little like Chris rock lol

Best actor award goes to mojo

Did they forget to take the under-4 timeout in the second half?

03/22/1998 - 26 years ago

Phenomenal game we all win when Puke looses

This was an epic choke job by duke. They completely gave this game away

Wo Jo looks like he was having a seizure . Good ACTING . Weak ballgame

And not nary a checkerboard to be seen...

sweet revenge for 92!.. where was christian laettner then?... ha ha!!

If pitino would never have left.. can you only imagine? But Big Blue Nation still the best

The intentional foul on Shephard was on purpose. . That Duke player should have been ejected. . . If I had been the ref in that game, he would have been GONE.

Jamal was are enforcer!!!! Lol

All the duke fans were but hurt over this Game they all were saying kentucky couldn't beat northcarolina that year the year they were real good too.But trust me kentucky could beat northcarolina too that year 1998

Hope 24-25 mark pope team can win it 🏆#9🙏🏻😁👍 Go cats 💪😺🤍💙🏀🔥🔥

REVENGE for the stomper play

Theres really only record in my opinion that Kentucky needs to take before we are called the greatest program of all is ,surpass l or tie uclas 11 Nattys

gbb

These good times are over. Calipari has destroyed the Kentucky tradition year by year. Just think, Kentucky won with less talent and with Kentucky kids.

Packer all in for dukes

Think about all the great Kentucky teams that didn't go all the way and somehow THIS team did. Jeff Sheppard? Scott Padgett? Give me a break.

Yet another game that the refs tried to help Duke win!

Family

2022!!! And I still hate Christian lattner!

I guess the 8 thumbs down were duke fans.

Chris Burgess, one of numerous big, white who flopped at Duke.

we had to put duke in their place ;) best cbb program won this game

Payback Mr Latner

What is the middle of DUKE? UK . . . . . .dUKe

Just in case you missed it the previous 1,458,024 times it was aired on tv in the past few weeks. It's ok though. Nobody in other major college basketball markets, even the #1 market, would like to see a couple of their teams games get shown again that you refuse to do.

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Gotta hand it to the officials...they almost won duke the game.

Flop.

Absolutely sickening listening to such a blatantly biased commentator.