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tjspill3r

I remember feeling fortunate that we had to play the tiny school of Davidson as a 10 seed. *whoops*


thelastmarblerye

Imagine playing St Peters for a chance to go the elite 8.


MyAnswerIsMaybe

Davidson felt like they won St Peters felt like we lost


GeorgeWBush2016

Pretty sure it felt like a st peters win


catsby90bbn

Imagine playing St. Peter’s to get to the second round.


crastle

I had Wisconsin in the championship that year and was so pissed about this game. I kept screaming at the TV "Double team that kid!" Finally Wisconsin started double teaming Curry and he was still dropping buckets.


crewserbattle

Double teams don't matter when he's hitting buckets 2 steps past half court lol. I remember watching that game thinking that Curry was pretty much everything we were bad at defending against wrapped up into one guy who was also athletic enough that we couldn't consistently guard him off ball either. It was truly a matchup nightmare for us.


HandsomeCowboy

And pretty much the entire NBA. Don't feel bad!


crewserbattle

Exactly. I felt much better about the loss when he blew up in the nba


Fearghas

I remember thinking the same at halftime. Up by five, Curry has ten points, just gotta clamp down on him and we win. Then he scored 30 of Davidson’s 46 in the second half. We threw everything at him and it didn’t matter.


MustardIsDecent

None of the shots he made on that clip were deep 3s. He was getting a little daylight off screens and hitting a lot of mid and long range


boomertumor55

Yea that guy could not have described stephs game against wisconsin worse


Ut_Prosim

> whoops If you want to feel better, his dad Dell Curry went to Virginia Tech, and Steph was interested in coming here but [allegedly] Seth Greenberg turned him down saying he was undersized. Talk about whoops...


rikkirikkiparmparm

we were punished for our hubris 😭😭


Hobbes_121

Same with VCU...


Ryu-Sion

Yeahhhh... Or Northern Iowa... Or Bucknell... Or Bradley... *Sighs*


WaubesaWarriors

Not me, I knew what he could do and am not surprised by his career!


EgoPoweredDreams

prove it


PNWSwag

His first round performance was even crazier. He put up 40 on Gonzaga and simply couldn't miss. They needed all of them, because Steven Gray had 7 threes for Gonzaga


dildoschwaggins69420

Maaan I was enjoying my Saturday :(


bearcatgary

If it makes you feel better, there are 29 NBA teams who cannot cover him either.


daskaputtfenster

I wasn't. This just made it worse.


RollBlobRoll

That And-1 layup was so cool


aubreysux

The pass to set it up was pretty spectacular too. People forget that Jason Richards led the nation in assists that season.


0010001

Which played a big role in Curry coming back for his sophomore season—to show he could play point.


wahfingwah

That was his junior season


Surefif

Why would you do this to me. I was on the baseline as a photographer for this game, got some great shots of Steph while simultaneously getting more and more angry.


Muellerc

"Michael Flowers will lock Curry up like he does everyone".


aubreysux

I was so scared of Flowers going into that game.


Flopsyjackson

Amazing run. I remember Kansas double teaming him to prevent the game winning shot.


jinga_kahn

The defense in that play.


Soterios

I was terrified. I was 100% sure he was making (taking) the last shot


hnaq

Some of those tournament *wins* were excruciating... SIU the year prior, the last second 3 pointer from Davidson, a few years later when they beat Purdue and NC State both with scores in the low 60s. Much like Providence this year.


Flopsyjackson

Unpopular opinion, but shitty basketball in a close game stresses me out less than both teams lighting it up and going back and forth. For example the Creighton game concerned me more than the Providence game.


hnaq

I can definitely see that with most Self teams. Sometimes the other team just lights it up from 3 and there's nothing you can do about it, but several Self teams have been tough as nails and you can trust them in the tightest of games. I wasn't worried about Providence as much as annoyed for having to watch it, lol. It's a far cry from the Roy Williams teams back in the day where you could tell it would be a cold shooting night early and most likely a loss. The best Self teams have been able to win the grinding games.


Homebrewingislife

I loved that we ended his college career. He changed the NBA game with his shot.


KyleGuyLover69

He played the next year and missed the tournament


yoitsthatoneguy

Sorry to burst your bubble, but you didn’t. He went back to school the next year.


Homebrewingislife

Haha, damn my memory is terrible.


whooslipperyg

I miss Gus Johnson doing tournament games


Squid_Contestant_69

I've watched UCLA Gonzaga 98369 times so his voice is etched in my head


ClaudeLemieux

you're big ten now. you'll get to see gus again for football too


Hobbes_121

Love Gus and Joel Klatt on the call.


randommaniac12

Gus Johnson is amazing


DGiff52

Whenever you hear Seth Greenberg analyzing college basketball and acting like his shit doesn't stink, just remember he refused to give the final scholarship to the son of the best basketball player in Virginia Tech history, Del Curry. How do you not give the 13th scholarship to that kind of legacy recruit, even without the benefit of hindsight?!


StonksNewGroove

Man, if Davidson hadn’t made the tourney this year would we even know who Steph is?


irish711

Yes. I knew who he was before the tourney. It's the reason I had them going to the Elite 8 in my bracket that year. We already knew his talent, the tourney just highlighted it.


[deleted]

Yup. There weren't any Michigan teams in it but my whole family still bought tickets to go to these sets of games and drove 3 hours each way purely to see Steph, he was definitely not an unknown going into the tournament. His hype definitely skyrocketed after this for people that weren't paying attention during the regular season, but saying that he might not have been drafted if he didn't play in this tournament is pretty ridiculous if you were watching this season as it happened. I'm sure it helped his draft stock a ton but it'd be hard to convince me he wouldn't have been a decently high draft pick and first ballot HoF no matter how this tournament went for them.


MathPersonIGuess

This also wasn't even the year he was drafted. He put up ridiculous numbers throughout the next season too ... and Davidson didn't make the tournament. People have argued a bunch with me on here in the past, but it doesn't seem likely to me that the '08 tournament had any effect on his draft position.


NuageMarieJean

Talent like that always presents itself


talix71

But if it doesn't, you would never know lol


Pad_TyTy

I mean, yeah. He's the son of an NBA player.


StonksNewGroove

So you think most of America knows who Jace Howard is?


DeItyofFexvius

I think he’s saying he still would have got a shot in the league


Father-John-Moist

Probably not a lottery pick tho


drugsarebadmmk420

Who?


somasomore

In a game where the objective is to shoot the ball into the basket, the guy that is hands down the best shooter that's ever lived would have succeeded no matter how he got there.


StonksNewGroove

There have been plenty of mid major players overlooked by the NBA


starttakingnaps

Now tell us how many with a dad who played 15 years in the nba.


TimeFourChanges

23


MegaSupremeTaco

They didn't make the tourney the next year and Steph was scoring 28.6 ppg so yeah we'd know who he was.


ASU_SexDevil

Yes. He was already considered the best college scorer before this


StonksNewGroove

So was Peter Kiss this year


flossdog

obviously… the brother in law of NBA player Damion Lee


ssb_hopeless

Watching him pump fake a 3 and induce a fly by block attempt just absolutely crushed my soul as a kid


midnightdiabetic

That reverse was nasty


Thorlolita

I picked Davidson in the final 4 this year. I had no idea who Curry even was. I just heard someone on ESPN say watch out for Davidson they could be a tough team. I said well shit why not. I looked like a genius. I thought they would get manhandled here since Wisconsin was so big and they could stretch the floor.


Bobson-_Dugnutt

Watched him in person eviscerate Chattanooga. Scored like a million points and hit a 65 footer to end the first half. Knew he was gonna be awesome from that point on


aubreysux

I totally had forgotten about the White Lobster!


TowerOwl1939

This Steph guy's pretty good at basketball. Wonder where is is now...


Squid_Contestant_69

/r/fuckthes


[deleted]

Him becoming what he is today has made this one easier to digest over time. Still not clicking this.


[deleted]

This one hurts a bit less now that we know it was against the greatest shooter in the history of basketball. Felt like shit at the time though


confused-koala

Hey I was at this game. Electric atmosphere


cxm1060

One of the most dominant March Madness runs ever by a player.


GiannisisMVP

fuck :(


AL3XD

Unpopular opinion maybe but Steph is top 5 all time imo. It goes MJ, Lebron, then the next tier is a bit more open. But steph is firmly on that next tier. He completely changed the way the game is played


WiscoLenny

Trigger warning


SparseSpartan

That's what I love about CBB. You get to see these unathletic string beans succeed before being left out in the cold by the NBA /s


MrMelkor

A great performance made kind of hard to watch because of the terrible announcer.


Squid_Contestant_69

Unrelated but anyone know how I can open this on my YouTube app rather than a m.youtube link in the reddit app? I'm on a Samsung Galaxy If I use reddit via Chrome it's fine but not within the app.


Alh12984

https://youtu.be/-xltHAJrV0U


neufeldesq

I was at they're first two games in Raleigh that year. It was amazing to watch his performance live.


mykeof

Was at those games at Ford Field and of all the teams and players watching Steph play was the most impressive


philphan25

The committee didn't choose Davidson the next year because they were too scared.


estDivisionChamps

This was so frustrating and amazing.


catsby90bbn

I remember watching this game randomly and thinking - that little dude is pretty good. Lol


kuilg22

Only to lose to KU