Rick Fox
I was a self-professed North Carolina Tar Heel fan from the late 1980s until I spurned Chapel Hill for Norman in the fall of 1995. My favorite college basketball player of all time is J.R. Reid, followed closely by Donald Williams. My least favorite? Danny Ferry. Followed closely by his boyfriends Bobby Hurley and Christian Laettner.
Suffice it say, I had no problem with Rick’s heroics that afternoon against that overall No. 1 team. But in retrospect, that was our best chance to win the national championship. We would have played a decent Arkansas team that was beginning its rise to prominence. We would have played Duke to get to the Finals, which was another team teetering on the verge of greatness. And we would have played a UNLV team we handled in Norman by 8 earlier in the season.
Yet, Rick Fox effed us. The worst team UNC fielded for 30 years beat us. Seems about right.
The 2-3 Zone
The Oklahoma Sooners of 2001-2002 triggered an amazing run into the Final Four behind Hollis Price, Quannas White, Ebi Ere and Ace McGhee. Even with the “graduation” of Ace, Oklahoma brought in the highly touted Kevin Bookout and Deangelo Alexander to bolster an already strong lineup. Things were looking great when Oklahoma drew a No. 1 seed and Butler advanced to the Sweet 16.
But where they really that great? After all, this was the same team that barely squeaked by Texas Tech in the Big 12 Tournament semifinals, and then scored like 10 points in the second half against Missouri in the championship. The same team that couldn’t hit the right ass cheek of Serena Williams the last two weeks of the season.
So when you combine those struggles with the Syracuse 2-3 zone, you get a 47-point embarrassment in the Regional Final.
Kelvin’s Offense
This guy tried to ruin Oklahoma basketball. He’s a cheater and an idiot. And thank God for Jeff Capel or we’d be Texas Tech basketball.
Besides being know as a colossal lying cheat, Kelvin was also known as a great coach, assuming great coaches sport 11-11 NCAA tournament records. From 1996 to 2005, Oklahoma averaged 62 points in its losses, only twice going over 68 points, one of which was an OT loss. Their average margin of suckness in each loss was 9.5 points.
Kelvin had no ability to win in the tournament where they actually call fouls. He would employ his patented “Nolan Johnson v. OSU” offense against pretty much every team that showed up in March. And that got us some pathetic performances against Syracuse (see above) and Temple (an Illinois-like 43 points in 1996).
Danny Manning
KU 83
OU 79
Danny Manning’s numbers? 31 points, 18 rebounds, 5 steals and 2 blocked shots.
More amazing? KU, as a 6 seed, had to play an 11 seed, 14 seed, 7 seed, and 4 seed to get to the Final Four.
F*ck Danny Manning.
19 Comments Received
March 17th, 2009 @8:28 am
Of course I was only 15 at the time, but that OU/KU champ game in ‘88 marks the only time I shed tears (cried like a baby)over a sporting event. I went out in my driveway after that game hurling my rock at the backboard as hard as I could over and over again………sigh…………..I can still see/hear Mookie yelling out loud immediately after releasing the front end of a one-n-one knowing he had missed it and KU scoring at the other end to essentially put the game away. SIGH……………………….YEAH! FUCK DANNY MANNING!!!!
March 17th, 2009 @8:53 am
i attended the OSU game at Lloyd Noble at the end of this season, and saw Sampson’s son on the sideline with the team wearing a suit and handing out towels. he is not on the team’s website for assistant coach or anything, what is this shit? Unfortunetly, Capel will be gone from OU in a few years, if not this summer. i only hope that the Sooners don’t decide to hire “towel boy” Sampson in the future.
March 17th, 2009 @9:14 am
I was only 8 years old during the OU-KU championship and it turns out my older brother just so happens to have a school function on the night of the championship game (no getting out of it for me). After being clueless about the game all night (no internet cell phones back then), I get home to see us trailing by 5 with just a few minutes to go. That was just a horrible night all around.
March 17th, 2009 @10:00 am
Monster, where have you been? Kellen is a GA with team, stayed on as a player even after Kelvin left, and for the most part isn’t like his dad.
And Capel isn’t going to leave OU for just anywhere. Such the pessimist.
March 17th, 2009 @12:13 pm
Come to think of it, FUCK RICK FOX too with his last second up-and-under bullshit.
March 17th, 2009 @12:50 pm
Freakin’ Danny Manning and Vinny Testaverde ruined my childhood! Eff both of them.
March 17th, 2009 @1:40 pm
I’ve been busy drawing buildings, and just got time to read up on the RDK. The reading is far better then the slap dick Oklahoma paper. keep up the good work.
here’s a possible question for RDK
How far will the women’s basketball team make it?
A: national champions, nobody comes close
B: they lose in a land slide to Uconn
C: they get smoked in the second round
D: who cares. that one chick is a guy, somebody check her shorts.
March 17th, 2009 @1:43 pm
I think we should all thank Train for reopening all of our old wounds and making us relive our childhood nightmares. Stay Classy Train!
March 17th, 2009 @2:21 pm
At the risk of being called a ghey, I think the women’s team will do one of two things:
Lose in the 2nd round to Iowa at Iowa, or lose to UCONN in the Finals in a close game.
March 17th, 2009 @2:39 pm
Aren’t we forgetting 2002 Indiana’s Tom Coverdale. I think this was the douche bag who magically recovers from a fake ankle sprain in the regional finals in order to drain second half 3 pointers and beat OU in the Final 4.
March 17th, 2009 @2:41 pm
I prefer to block out the Kansas game (a team we had already beaten 3 effin times that year) and remember the OU/Arizona game as for all the marbles. Two #1 seeds in the Final Four; Sean Elliott (pre-kidney disease) and Steve Kerr (pre-Jordan’s coattails); and King even sat out the last 7 minutes or so while Wiley went bonanas.
Anyone else remember Stacy King walking back to half court and “rolling the dice” after a free throw?
March 17th, 2009 @2:45 pm
You’re right….that did sound ghey!
March 17th, 2009 @2:46 pm
I told Gravy to add Quannas White’s ankle. Apparently he doesn’t know funny. Fail.
March 17th, 2009 @3:56 pm
That little shit from Pawnee is starting to make my list.
It’s like he can foul as much as he wants and the refs wont call it because he’s a little, white, punk that can hit wide open jump shots. In other words, he’s them. That’s why they are referees and not players.
Jesus, that little shit mauled AJ in OKC and he was never called for a foul. If thats how the next 3 years are going to be for him; money says he’s on the list and soon.
March 17th, 2009 @6:13 pm
Funny thing is, I believe Page (aka little shit from Pawnee) wanted to go to OU, but OU didn’t offer him. Hope it doesn;y come back to bite us later.
March 17th, 2009 @8:18 pm
… on the ankle.
March 17th, 2009 @11:36 pm
rollin’ the dice and the synchronized leg crossing on the bench during free throws…
that team kicked ass
March 18th, 2009 @10:41 am
I was at the OU-KU national championship game in that horseshit “neutral” arena in KC in ‘88 where KU fans outnumbered OU fans 5-1 to watch Danny Manning get ever call and make every shot he took. I still remember seeing Scooter Barry’s (remember that little bitch?) dad, Rick Barry jumping up and down in the aisles like a coked-up Jayhawk. Eff Danny Manning and Scooter Barry and Mark Pritchard, Chris Piper and the other horrible players on that KU team.
March 18th, 2009 @11:46 am
I was at that game. F KU for ‘88. And Double F the refs for stealing the game. Mookie was mugged 3 times on every possession.
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