Tulsa's NCAA upset over UCLA was 20 years ago

[OUHoops]

Man, does that make me feel really old. Time flies.

 

[IndySooner]

Man, does that make me feel really old. Time flies.

That's what I was thinking. Also makes the Tyus Edney play 19 years ago. Crazy.

 

[oSuJeff97]

Yep - time flies.

Me and my buddies watched that game in my dorm room my freshman year at OSU.

We were going crazy pulling for Tulsa to win that game.

Of course, we weren't so pleased with Tulsa two days later when they beat us with a three-pointer at the buzzer.

 

[WTSooner]

Anybody have a box score of that game?

I was 16. That was a lifetime ago. lol

 

[sunny]

I think the more exciting game was the next one against osu and Big Country. Its on You Tube. Watch the last two minutes. A tip in on a missed free throw and finally "Sweet Lou" Dawkins nails a three to put a dagger in the aggies.

 

[oSuJeff97]

I think the more exciting game was the next one against osu and Big Country. Its on You Tube. Watch the last two minutes. A tip in on a missed free throw and finally "Sweet Lou" Dawkins nails a three to put a dagger in the aggies.

The two games were exciting in different ways.

The Tulsa-UCLA game was exciting because Tulsa just came out and completely destroyed UCLA for 10-15 minutes.... just decimated them.

It was about as good 10-15 minutes of basketball that I've ever seen any team play.

Tulsa was up like 45-13 or something like that with 5 minutes left in the first half.

UCLA spent the whole rest of the game trying to catch up. They actually did perform much better in the second half and actually got the final margin down to something relatively respectable. I think it was something like 115-105 or something like that. If they had 5 more minutes of game time, they may have actually caught them, but the hole was just too deep.

The OSU-Tulsa game was more exciting in a conventional way. IIRC, OSU was up by maybe 10 at halftime, but then it got close and was basically a single-possession game down the stretch. Of course, Dawkins (who shot like 20% from 3) hits the 3 in the corner for the win.

The crazy thing is that those two teams that Tulsa beat would meet the very next season in the Final Four, and UCLA would go on to win the title.