UCONN will always have a special place in my heart for this game and for 1999 as well as 2014 taking down two evil empires long live the Husky

I will never forget watching this game live. Duke was strangling the life out of UConn until Okafor said, it seemed, "I am the best player on this floor and nobody is stopping me henceforth," essentially putting the team on his back very late in the game. Duke too ratcheted up their intensity but could not quote stop UConn becoming inspired by Emeka's flexing his alpha-ness.

One of the greatest backdoor covers in sports gambling history.

Such a sweet result. The officiating in this game was horrendous. The officials took Uconn's best player out of the game on some very questionable calls in the first five minutes and over-officiated the whole game. And Duke still lost.

The thing I never forgot was how quiet this crowd was. Very subdued sound to what was a pretty remarkable comeback.

The two best semifinal games on the same day was 2004. First the OK ST/ GTU game and then UCONN/DUKE. Both close games with epic finishes.

That shot that was made at the end was meant to cover spread bets on duke. It made Duke fans approximately 100 million.

Duke fans complaining about bad officiating in this game. Have they ever watched highlights on this website of how many clips they have of Duke non-calls. Its like Burt Reynolds saying mustaches are stupid. Not a UConn fan but this comeback was sweet!

Duke's nightmare - UCONN UCONN UCONN

It has been argued that the 1999 and 2004 Duke Blue Devils were the two best talented teams that they ever had... And you can blame the UConn Huskies for preventing both of those teams from winning it all... lol.

Gotta say, that no call on the Redick play was the right one. They stripped him clean and he then went flying into Okafor's arms. Not a foul. I'm sure it looked like that from the Duke bench, but not a foul.

interesting connections if this game... *Deng (Duke) and Gordon (UConn) were drafted by the same team in the NBA, the Bulls. *Charlie Villenueva was teammates with Deng in High School.

Coach K spends more time coaching the refs than he does his team. His team was dazed and confused the last 3 mins and he blames the refs. Uconn was the better team by a long shot.

Im not a UCONN fan however I was so glad that they beat the Dukies. Plus any Duke fan/player/ Coach K complaining about calls better seriously check themselves, they get enough calls than the average team.

The line on this game was 2 and duke hit a 3 at the buzzer to cover lol. The bookies always win. I remember i had the over, the over was 145 in this game

A really tough loss for DUKE -- but they "earned" it. Their play in the final 2:00 was INEXCUSABLE. UCONN deserved to win ...

waaaahhhh! but they did lose the lead. deal with it. Remember trajan langdon falling flat on his face? that was good too

this is the game that made me a uconn fan

isn't that the truth Thomas, loved this UCONN team and this game

This was the championship game in 04. Not when UConn beat GT in the Championship game. I find it funny how Coach K barely said congratulations to Calhoun. You can tell he is just sore loser after that game and hates Calhoun bc he always beats him.

HAHAHAHA Thanks Uconn! GO HEELS!!!!

I found out around the 6 min mark that Josh Boone had a doppelganger named Josh Brown;)

I can't beleive we gave up that 8 point lead. That pissed me off. We would have beaten Georgia Tech if we had made it to the final game.

1:42 big props for Gordon: 1 vs 3 = "numbers for Connecticut"

My god this was 13 years ago. Time.

@cschnei08 agreed man. i don't know what coach k was complaining about he barely even tapped him. clean call from what i saw

What a reach. Duke didn't win shit in '90, and in '91 UConn an 11 seed, wasn't expected to win it all. They weren't even expected to get out of the 1st round. Not only that, those were s16 and e8 games that you're trying to compare to a Final and Semi-Final. Whatever makes ya feel better though...

@OuterLimitsSledding i wish uconn faced duke this year (2011 ) but they choked ..we would of beat duke for 3 stra8 times in the tourny

Such a great game... U C O N N UCONN UCONN UCONN

duke fans crying - refs, refs, refs.. it aint the refs fault you guys just CHOKED here

Duke players were really scared to shoot down the stretch.

@mikhilp85 I would agree and I am a tar heel fan lol.

I love when you make a comment against duke and the fans come back saying "hater" and you just need 8 numbers, 1999 and 2004....No, I do not hate duke...from a Uconn fan.

+busdriver4687 Wow.. Dook fans crying about officiating.... now I've heard it all.. you must've not seen the 1st half when the refs basically took Okafor out of the game completely.

BIG EAST rules

I love UCONN

i think you mean almost cost UConn the game given that they were behind most of the game thanx to Okafor being forced to the bench as a result of all the ticky-tack fouls called on him in the first half. Duke took some bad shots in that last 3 minutes while at the same time UConn made almost every basket and most of their free-throws.

Well, at least the Duke fans doubled their money when Duhon made the three at the buzzer...

This is the game they show when they are training new college basketball referees to show them how not to officiate a game. Seriously, this is a fact. The refs were that bad, and Duke got absolutely hosed.

I love how Duke fans are always crying about the way games are called....claiming that so many foul calls are missed or called wrong. HEY! Guess what? It's like that for EVERY team in college B-Ball!! EVERY team gets some their way, and some not!!!!

Duke took some horrible shots down the stretch, but if that isn't a foul on Redick at the end, then I don't know what is.

Nobody benifited more from the recuiting process than coach K and here he is trying to recruit the refs, when he is crying fowl i can only think of what a bird he is.

@busdriver4687 Hahahaha. Gotta love it when Duke fans of ALL PEOPLE complain about officiating. I hate to break this news to you, pal, but this game wouldn't have even been CLOSE if the refs didn't make all those phantom foul calls on Okafor in the first half.

The two sides of Coach K. The basketball grand master who calmly weaves together the massive egos of the NBA to bring home the gold, and the whiny, entitled Ratface who blames the refs for losing when in fact they took his opposition's star center (Okafor) out of the game for most of the first half with garbage fouls.

hahah hell yeah

Dickie V cried for days. Boo Hoo.

you cant say anything because the video is the proof. duke missed STUPID shot selection on wide open looks at the end when the refs finally swallowed the whistles (after all 3 duke bigs fouled out.) owned.

I'm sorry but people who complain about calls...Duke took 4 really AWFUL shots on 4 straight possessions. Maybe Redick was fouled. Who knows? But those shots killed duke that day.

Rashad Anderson is a better shooter than Stephen Curry I said it

@RYMAC21STRIP wrong. uconn won. game over. period. duke lost. fair and square. end of discussion. aaaaaaaaaaaaand uconn will win it again in 2011 this monday night.

so did ewing and redick......uconn didnt shut anyone down. duke shot themselves after the refs handed it to uconn on a platter.

your making excuses for fouls that werent called. Whos sounding stupid?

Laettner hit a shot to beat #1 seeded UConn at the buzzer in the 1990 Regional Final... And Duke subsequently knocked out UConn in the 1991 Sweet 16. But, you probably don't remember those games.

duke was the better team. between the refs and duke taking early shots when running clock, the game went to uconn.

No he was tripped which should have been a foul. Quit with the smack talk. Your making yourself sound stupid.