great game. loved it

Amen!!!

This became a tradition. I had the 91 Finals to 96 and 92 NCAA tournament until 97. My friends got all of my games especially the 95 Allen Iverson tournament games.

I RECORDED THIS GAME AND THEN LOST IT @ A H.S. TRACK MEET W.T.F.

✌🏿😆

Agree

Grant Hill, Isaiah Rider and Glenn Robinson couldn't even make the 1st team All American squad....thats how stacked the NCAA basketball landscape was in 92-93!!

Jamal mashburn was a key recruit to rebuild the Kentucky Wildcats program, Jamal is a legend in NYC went to cardinal hayes in the Bronx and player for the gauchous aau team

He was overrated.

@@krakenwoodfloorservicemcma5975 you sound stupid !

@@krakenwoodfloorservicemcma5975 bullshit

@@krakenwoodfloorservicemcma5975 Mashburn was before his time in that imagine him in the modern game. He was a stud then and would be a bigger stud now. UK loses this game as soon as he fouls out.

That was all on Fisher bad coaching them boys was exhausted go look at the boxscore he played them like race horses

@@stiffjabzz4237 All the Michigan bench players except Pelinka regressed a lot, Michigan was basically a 6 or 7-man team that year (Kentucky and UNC were both 9-10 deep). Ray Jackson getting called for a BS 3rd foul in the first half against UNC was huge too.

Did MI blow it or did the refs kiss Dean Smith's ass give NC every call?

They were definitely the most talented team in that Final Four. I hated seeing what happened that following Monday night. Shish happens, i guess.

Well the refs had the fix in!!!!! Montrose should've fouled out!

Real basketball

Best nickname ever for Eric Riley!

That Kentucky team was sick good--wonder what a KEntucky UNC final might've been like.

If 5 players fouled out that shows Michigan was playing some basketball. You don't get fouls if you're not trying to stop someone from scoring again. 🤷🏿‍♂️ Just a sore loser. 🏌️

@@grandmasterciphersupreme7751 I guess you didn’t see the poor officiating. What about the dunk where Riley held onto the rim? Definitely should have been a technical. GTFO here with your crap.

@@spockistheman If he would've came down he would've elbowed Rhodes or Dent so he did the right thing. Get your non balling ass out of here. You couldn't dunk jumping off a fucking trampoline. 😆😆😆😆😆🏌️

Only two Kentucky players fouled out, Mashburn and Jared Prickett. Jimmy King fouled out for Michigan.

No wAy... Michigan was better...

@@petervandermey7896 Michigan wasn’t better than Kentucky that year. Definitely not.

@@austinmiller4832 says the Kentucky fan!!! Yeah and NC wasn’t better than Michigan... what makes them so great... Mash... please you guys had no answer for Webber, and your clutch shooters were off... Michigan was definitely a better ball team...

This could be the case. I wonder if Pitino could have tried to hide him on a little more on D, knowing he had four fouls. Pitino did a smart thing going to a zone, especially since Michigan hadn't made a three all game, but, it was like on Mashburn's fifth foul, he had a brain cramp. It was a very obvious, and dumb foul (like you pointed out he had a tendency to pick up), and he needed to just not be so aggressive and step behind him and just put his hands up (especially with a four point lead)....Even if he had given up a bucket to Howard, the worst case scenario was UK is up 2, with him still in the game. Him not being out there for the last three minutes just absolutely crushed Kentucky.

arizona would have never beaten UNC had jerry stackhouse, jeff innis, and rasheed wallace played until their senior years. to be honest unc might have had back to back in 96 & 97 if wallace and stackhouse played that year as well....

@@blkprl34 UNC lost to Texas tech plus Darwin ham shattered the backboard in 1996 second round

@@juliansmith4352 read what i said. if rasheed wallace, jerry stackhouse, and jeff innis stayed until their senior years they win the national title. of the previous three, only innis was around for 96. i know what darvin ham did that game but once rolls texas tech with all 3 players on the roster....

@@blkprl34 Rasheed Wallace Jerry Stack House and jeff innis at North Carolina til senior year no doubt they make to the final four in both 1996 and 1997 a likely dream matchup for the national championship would be Kentucky @ North Carolina two traditional college basketball blue bloods with Dean Smith & Rick pitino coaching both teams

@@blkprl34 you can play the what if game with so many teams over the years and assume a team would dominate if player a or b stayed in school. Kids leave early, it happens and yeah it's fun to imagine how good a team could've been if a particular player or 2 stayed an extra year but that's only speculation. 94 Michigan lost to eventual champ Arkansas in the elite 8...would they have won the title if Webber had stayed for jr year like the other 4? We'll never know...

thanks for that. i totally forgot that game Bulls vs Blazers! i was also 12 when this game took place.

you wanna see another beautiful game it's the elite 8 between arizona and providence back in '97

Michigan is a 1 seed this year and this Michigan team (the fab five) would demolish this year's Michigan team...even with a healthy Isaiah Livers. And I'm a Michigan fan and I love this year's Michigan team...but they wouldn't even have a puncher's chance against the Fab Five

Kentucky too. the 93 Michigan and 96 Kentucky team would go undefeated now.

These teams today are literally the same size as these teams 🤦🏾‍♂️

@@malikthompson8014 No they aren’t.

wasn't that the black hawk down era?

yep

Broski thank you for your service I lost Ranger buddies from 3rd Ranger Battalion and Delta! Gone but never forgotten!!!!!!

The Dale Brown injury was probably more critical because even with Mashburn fouling out, he would’ve been a secondary option for a go to guy

@@sickofguysnamedtodd2293 One of the funnier comments during this game was Billy Packer saying, after Mashburn fouled out "that foul really hurt Rick Pitino's strategy...." Um, you think, Captain obvious? Yeah, losing your best player is definitely gonna hurt you! hahaha

one the highest IQ teams of all time. George Lynch, and D Phelps and Montross were great leaders

I think Mashburn's shot got tipped - Plus Jalen Rose ran over Tony Delk either at the end of Regulation or in overtime & it wasn't called, so everything evened out. Plus, two nights later, Chris Webber blatantly traveled before the infamous timeout & the refs missed that one, so, it all balanced out.

Yes, they did. Kentucky did get all the calls.

His last several fouls were terrible

@@gijoey5912 Yep! His #1 weakness was peaking up cheap and unnecessary fouls.

Monster Mash

Except when it counted in big games.

@@MJones-ur1hp Not sure what you mean. He was great in this game and against Duke the year before. Now, he did foul out in both of those games, which wasn't good. But without him, UK gets rolled both times

@@MJones-ur1hp , I think you have Mashburn confused with Weber.

@@MJones-ur1hp You must be outta your mind.

he looked sick after the buzzer sounded

How about the no call travel by Ford. Michigan was up by 2. Nice try.

Travis Ford walked before that. Nice try

You missed a lot of their games then. These games were boring compared to the games I've seen during the season. They were looking like the 87-88 Showtime Lakers.

Um, going into this game, even with a winning-streak, Michigan definitely didn’t look that impressive. In fact, for much of that season, they didn’t.

Um, going into this game, even with a winning-streak, Michigan definitely didn’t look that impressive. In fact, for much of that season, they didn’t.

Um, going into this game, even with a winning-streak, Michigan definitely didn’t look that impressive. In fact, for much of that season, they didn’t.

those Unlv running red rebel teams were better@@grandmasterciphersupreme7751

Possibly. Just like UNLV’s lack of experience in close games hurt them down the stretch against Duke in 1991. And in both cases, a key player fouled out in the later minutes (Greg Anthony for the Runnin Rebs, Mashburn for Kentucky) and nobody else really stepped up. Notice in 1991 when Anthony fouled out, UNLV only scored three more points the rest of the game. Same in this game. Kentucky only scored two points the rest of the way after Mashburn fouled out. Nobody else stepped up to take over when those guys went out.

Maybe NC but that Duke team was great. I loved the Fab Five. They were a big part of why I fell in love with basketball in the first place but they never won a Big Ten regular season championship. They aren't even the best Michigan team ever, let alone the best in CBB history.

Big Ten was tough back then

Um ...no. They were good but best ever isn’t even a conversation they would be in. The best win it

I would have taken that duke team any day and the 1993 IU team if Henderson was healthy

You could change that to say: Fab Five--best starting five ever--and you might have a point--fortunately, it's about the team! All the guys. Also having a nickname like Fab Five put too much pressure on them--took away from the Michigan TEAM....

He did a lot of that in high school, dude was a flat out beast. Changed his game in college. He was more of a scorer after Webber left too.

@@robert.mills5 Yeah, interesting about Jalen...Michigan was the only time he really ever truly played point guard. He did everything in high school (as most perimeter blue chip guys do) and was a wing player in the NBA...Only really ever played PG @ Michigan, and he was pretty damn good at it.

@@elliemyers6435 I remember, I went to some of his games back then, and watched him play AAU... He was more of a point forward, but Michigan played more high low with Webber and Howard, or they'd dump it in the post(or catch that spin lob they made popular). He drove and dished a little bit... He played some point guard in Denver early on and played a lotta point forward in Indiana under Bird...

Lol yeah he was a great closer..2 college title game losses and 1 nba finals loss.

And Pitino was a poor sport at the end of the game with Fisher.

Jeffrey Beshears, basketball is a team sport unless your Jordan.

i know, i was a big UK and mash fan that era. this game made me a real believer .

Packer was so blatantly biased, it's pathetic. And he just wouldn't shut up about Mashburn fouling out. I thought he was gonna cry.

Until Webber two nights later before the infamous timeout

Donta Howard a lot of players didn’t want to go to Michigan and potentially sit behind the fab five. They had their sights on Avondre Jones and Charles O’Bannon, but they decided to stay home in California. Jones because he was a big man and didn’t want to wait for Webber to make up his mind about coming out, and O’Bannon obviously wanted to play with his brother Ed at UCLA. The fab five was a double edged sword recruiting wise, because while its good to get a great class like that, the drawback is that it can hurt the next couple years because guys didn’t want to have to deal with the logjam of the previous class and ride the pine for at least two years behind them. They’re gonna wanna get early playing time. Same thing happened with North Carolina in 1990 when they brought on the Pre-Fab Five. Of course this was more of a factor back then in the era when blue chippers would stay in school, not the one and done era of today. That’s how John Calipari is able to bring in great classes year after year because the attrition. Most of those freshmen aren’t gonna ever become sophomores, so he’s gotta keep bringing them in.

This aged well. Isiah todd and josh christopher says otherwise

@@sickofguysnamedtodd2293 Great point. I was gonna write the same thing, almost word for word ✊😊

@@theloverswineverytime1625 when North Carolina brought in that 1990 recruiting class, they didn’t have a great class again for another three years when they had the 93 class of Stackhouse, Wallace and McInnis and those guys came as the 90 class was starting their senior year. Just like Michigan didn’t have another good class until 1994 when what was left of the Fab Five, King and Jackson were about to be seniors and the other three had already left.

@@sickofguysnamedtodd2293 Great point. Back then, players really stayed at least two years in college, so, a blue chipper didn't want to come and sit behind someone and not get playing time. It's not like now, with one and dones and the transfer portal, where a guy is out after one year, or, if a kid isn't playing as much as he feels he should, he can just leave and not have to sit out a year. In terms of UNC, their "fab five" Was Montross, Brian Reese, Derrick Phelps, and who were the last two? Matt Wenstrom and Kevin Salvadori?

Gimel Martinez had the worst two mins of basketball in the history of the Final Four. He was actually a decent player, but with Jamal Mashburn and Jared Prickett fouled out, was forced to guard CWebb.

no wonder in the packer points for the national championship game billy packer puts zero threes as his 2nd packer point of 4

Take that Golden State. It is possible to win a crucial game and not hit one 3.

Thats becuz michigan didnt have any 3pt shooters as far as the fab 5. Im big fan of the fab 5 and michigan, and the only 3pt shooters they had were on the bench. Rob pelinka and james voskul

I liked that Indiana team. I liked Damon Bailey and calbert cheaney. The big ten was loaded back then. Steve Smith and Michigan state, Jim Jackson and Ohio state. This fab five team never won a big ten title. Shows how deep the league was.

Yeah, the hoosiers probably would've won the title the year before if not for the refs riding duke's nuts & giving them 42 free throws to IU's 16. But, it's a shame that neither the 1992 Hoosiers or the 1993 Hoosiers won the title...both of those teams were great, and basically home grown in Indiana.

Juwan Howard is relevant

No way. Maybe two more

yeah, it would be like saban and alabama. i say at least 3 at uk. i also think if pitino never leaves the Knicks, patrick ewing gets one ring.. but it still would be rough getting past jordan.

Yep I said the same exact thing especially in overtime

Jalen Rose also I always say Jalen Rose was the reason why the Fab five never won because Jalen Rose was just horrible 6 .9 guard can't shoot and can't pass he was good for nothing

You appear to be crazy.

Dude was like 19 years old 😂. Somebody is hurting inside

@@vivahernando1 --Wheres his ring then pal? Hooooooooooooooooooo

​@@bradypatrick5405he didn't win one but two NCAA finals games is impressive and very close to an NBA title. Over 150 mill in oncourt earnings and I can say Webber has had a blessed life. Idk

@@vivahernando1 ---UM basketball was a veteran in the NCAA tounrey well before Webber showed up. Therfore, it doesn't give Webber that much credit as he was looking for.