This team exhibits everything about what we should aspire to be. They are resilient, they trust each other, they are focused, and they are TRIUMPHANT! Wahoowa!
@@kevinsanders3630 And then the same core group of players won the national championship the following year. They took a humbling loss that might've been absolutely crippling for any other team and turned it into the ultimate achievement. I would say that is the true definition of resilience.
9:55 the pivotal moment in this whole series of events, when Tony Bennett yells to the ref that the ball handler cannot move. Who knows if he would have been watching for it otherwise.
I do see him pointing that out but I think the ref knew exactly what the rule was without the help from Bennett. That rule is very common, easy to remember and it called all the time during basketball games Maybe the Louisville coach should have reminded his player about what he could/could not do while inbounding the ball?
The dumbest part of this whole series of events was the announcer saying the Louisville player had to be instructed to foul. Never heard anything more ridiculous. Up 4 and even if Jerome makes the 3 still up 1 and the clock would’ve expired on the shot.
@@lurker_to_poster257 Diakite didn't commit the violation. Don't listen to the announcer; he doesn't know what he's talking about (He's wrong at least three other times in this video, too: When he says that Padgett likely told Perry to intentionally foul Ty Jerome, when he said that the game was over after the lane violation, and when he said Virginia would likely run something going to the basket on their final inbounds play. God bless Mike Gminski's patient responses while having to endure that.). Watch Mike Eades, the referee at the bottom of the screen. He tags Kyle Guy with the violation; Guy crossed the foul line and entered the lane before the ball hit the rim. Players on the blocks are allowed to enter the lane as soon as the ball leaves the shooter's hand to jockey for rebounding position, but the shooter and the other players beyond the free throw line and free throw line extended must wait until the ball hits the rim and becomes "live." If any of these players, including the shooter, crosses the free throw line or free throw line extended before the ball becomes live it is a violation.
I don't know which part was the funniest (yeah, UK fan here), but I think that the funniest irony of the final seconds was the fact that, when Va missed the third of three free throws, Louisville got the rebound, and time would have expired and they would have won, BUT because Va had a lane violation, the clock was stopped, setting up the final situation. So Va's "mistake" of committing a lane violation won the game for them 8-)
At the time UK had only 2 or 3 championships, folks were still riding steam trains. Nonetheless, I don't like Calipari, and wish he would go and take his "one and done"/ "players first" philosophy with him.
As a Louisville fan, I think this loss was actually a good thing now. Think about it. If they win, they definitely make the tournament then instead of the NIT. Virginia was #1 and Louisville was right on the bubble. Then Padgett likely gets a contract to remain the head coach. He took over only like a week before the season started. But, they lost this and then they moved on from Padgett and hired Mack. Now Mack already has them ranked #5 just TWO years later. Padgett wouldn't have had the program looking like this so fast, if at all. Thank you Deng Adel!
@@jasonmilly3320 If Virginia LOST this game, they probably wouldn't have played UMBC. So was this win a *bad* thing of Virginia? Perhaps, but perhaps not (2019)!
The video's year, or the year you wrote the comment? The video we're watching took place in 2018 where Virginia went on to lose to a 16 seed in round 1. 2019 was when they had the legendary run for the championship
@@Monkey832 Fair, but the reason I think it was serious, is their words were "NCAA tournament" run. They didn't say "NCAA tournament appearance" (which would've a joke on how short their tournament was) or "season run" (which would've been a serious comment on the regular season, aka this video). As for why I think they meant 2019: I do agree with them that Virginia had one of the most entertaining tournament runs of all-time. First round, they overcame a first-half 14-pt deficit vs ANOTHER 16 seed, Gardner-Webb, to redeem from previous year's upset. Then in Elite 8, they made a buzzer beater to send it to OT. Final Four, they were down 2 with 0.6 seconds left, drew a 3-pt foul to win it. Then title game, an OT victory.
How to suck the life out of a home teams arena 101. As a UVA fan i was happy we won this game but I felt terrible for the Louisville fans at the same time.
Still the worst meltdown in the history of sports..how does Louisville lose up 2 and less than a second left with the ball? And that was after they had a few chances to put it away, it's like they were trying very hard to figure out how they could lose the game. Well, a bank in 25 ft three is how they finally lost
Wow how horribly mis-managed by Louisville. Several chances to wrap that 1 up and instead of pulling the plug on uva they was giving them cpr. And Deng asked twice "coach just throw it to the other end?" Then shook his head as to say ok I will toss it to the other end and then did what he did, wtf??? Lol. Unreal ending to that one, lmao. Go Duke!!!
The more I watched this the more ridiculous it gets. David Padgett should never get a coaching gig ever again. All he had to do was call timeout and say to the inbounder , “throw the fucker past half court and our big guy is just gonna jumó up and touch it”. Game over
Actually, what he should've said was "remember, you can't run the baseline". If he says what you suggest, then the guy's still gonna forget the rule, and run the baseline before throwing it past half court, and by running the baseline he still screws up anyway.
"Last 30 seconds of UVA game" Video is 17 minutes long. NCAA needs to award less timeouts (they get 4 tv timeouts already) and the reviews should be way quicker. This is outrageous.
How stupid is that? Unless you live in a fairytale magical kingdom and don't count their success from 2011-2015, then they're statistically the #1 program outside the six bluebloods of UCLA, UNC, UK, Duke, Indiana and Kansas. Also, for Virginia's sake, I would hope they would've won a lot vs Louisville lately. Virginia has been arguably the top program the last several years (obviously excluding the lack of March success...until 2019) whereas Louisville had been rebuilding before this season.
I've watched the replay over and over and I can't see that Perry touched Jerome at all on that 3 point shot, if anything it looks like Jerome pushes off Perry to try to create space just before setting up to take the 3. Don't get me wrong Louisville still should have locked this game up and blew it, I'm just saying I don't see a foul on Perry. Go Duke Blue Devils
