I was in the nosebleed section for this game as a 15 year old from Fairfax, VA. I'll never forget the moment of silence during UConn's final 3 point attempt, followed by the final buzzer, and everyone in the arena went absolutely crazy over what we just witnessed out of GMU. I might be biased as a Fairfax kid, but this will go down as one of my all time favorite sport moments. Thank you for uploading an absolute gem of a game.

Verne Lundquist’s call at the end was a good one

One of the best tournament games of all time.

Loved Verne Lundquist’s call: “By George, the dream is alive!”

Nearly 20 years later and i still dont understand how this Uconn team lost this game. 9/10 times this is a 20 point blowout. Insane upset.

What a perfect game, perfect setting, perfect duo on the mic. By George, the dream is alive…

This happened my second semester @ GMU. Surreal to say the least. Still have the GMU jersey and Final Four hat. Helped put GMU on the map!

Another classic call by Uncle Verne. What a crazy weekend of games. Texas/WVU, Gonzaga/UCLA, BC/Nova. One of the best tournament weekends ever.

I was watching this game as a 7 year old kid in Naples Florida as a Gator fan I didn't care who won but this game was easily 1 of the Best NCAA tournament games I've ever watched and it was even better because as an a seven-year-old kid watching my Florida Gators win their first of back-to-back national championships and I've been a Gator fan ever since thanks for the upload

This may have been UConn’s most talented team.

Loved this GM team. My favorite March Cinderella

still can't believe we lost this game. This Uconn team was absolutely STACKED! 6 future NBA players

"By George, the dream is alive!" Gotta love ol' Verne Lundquist

I remember watching the live broadcast of this. George mason was definitely the “Cinderella story” of that year’s tournament, kind of like St. Peter’s this year.

1:35:14 after 17 years, Jim Larrañega’s dream is still alive

The Dream is Alive!!!!

Not only did George Mason win, but they came back from being down 9 at halftime and kept it up in overtime to do so. This is still a better run than Loyola-Chicago even though that one is the only one I’ve been old enough to actually pay attention to and even though I enjoyed it more

I was in the Mason Pep Band for this game. Still an amazing memory.

great game I love the NCAA's..March Madness is one of my life's pleasure

I remember sitting at a bar and a UCONN fan was running his mouth with a Duke fan about who was the better team that season. I remember thinking to myself how I wished I could be a part of that conversation being a George Mason fan. Never in my wildest dreams could I have imagined we would end up beating UCONN later that year.

And now Tony Skinn is the head coach and GMU

Coming back to this game after seeing what St. Peters has done and Jim Larrañaga leading Miami to their first elite 8. Who would've thought he led George Mason to the original Cinderella story, and during the greatest Cinderella story ever with St. Peter's, he leads Miami to the their best year ever. Even from a Noles you gotta love it.

Even nearly 20 years as a Virginia Native I still vividly remember this run one of the great tourney runs 🖤💯

03/26/2006 - 18 years ago

Denham Brown is one of the most underrated huskies in program history. I feel like if they just let him shoot 25x, he'd be a 34ppg game. He'd have dominated. That was really the main issue with this team. I mean you can say they could have been better defensively, better from the line, sure, but ultimately they just had too many options offensively, they never let one guy take over. Denham Brown could've taken over.

How about the off-air conversation between Raf and Verne at 1:28.22 and later? "This is just incredible, isn't it?"

A lot of Political Science and Communications majors in the game lol

Communications and sports management seem to be very popular majors for athletes at GMU 😀.

Greatest Final Four run by a mid-major in recent history, even with VCU and Loyola later following suit... had to beat 3 blue blood programs with Hall of Fame coaches and top recruits/NBA prospects (MSU, UNC, UConn) in the same tournament.

Tony Skinn addressed himself as the point guard in the intros, but it was Folarin Campbell who actually played the position.

Still exciting to watch

Man those uniforms are awfully baggy.compared to today's game lol

1:35:05 Who here thought the last UCONN 3 pointer was going in?

Great memory even today did not see GM BLINK just were every bit the equal to Uconn that day.

This UConn team hit a wall late in the season and never came out of it. They were ranked #1 for most of January and February but suddenly started barely beating losing teams like Louisville, Notre Dame and South Florida, lost to a middling Syracuse team in the Big East tournament, then struggled big time in the NCAA's. Trailed the 16 seed by double digits in the second half before coming back to win, barely scraped past a substandard Kentucky team, then needed some fortunate calls in OT to get past Washington the game before this. Credit to George Mason for sure but something was off with this UConn bunch toward the end.

Bill Raftery is so great in this game.

gmu alum here. was a junior that year. the slipper fits!!!

One of the best games in the modern era.

Goes to show the best team doesn’t always win the tournament

can you up[load the 2006 florida georgetown game

That's what I like about the internet I can see season games an hour road too the final four tourny that the years I missed u can watch Ed it like u been there so cool thanks

Can you re-upload this game with the minute and a half that you cut out in the late parts of the 2nd half? It's not the full game unless every bit of the game is on here. It's like the Virginia-Auburn game you uploaded. There a whole 4 minutes missing from the game.

Saint Peters brought me here there run reminds me of George Mason's

The state of virginia is amazing

Gabe Norwood 🇵🇭🇵🇭

Jeff Adrien might have tipped it in...Marcus Williams got some tough calls late...

30 min away from my house

This isn’t the full game. It went from 17.6 seconds to 7.9 in the #nd half.

This was 18 years ago!?

who was best cinderella in the last 20 years?

By George! What a ballgame

1:14:39 Gabe Norwood

George Mason got all of the foul calls in this game. That was a bullahit call against Hilton Armstrong on Jai

UConn had the best team in the tournament but they struggled from the jump. Barely got past Albany, weathered a storm from a feisty Kentucky team, and had to make a comeback against Washington. Their magic ran out here.

At 4 mins exactly how does George Mason go up magically by 4 when the previous break they were only up by 2??? Scorekeeper error???

The 1st double digit seed to the final four

02:19 BILL RAFTERY SAID AND VERNE LUNDQUIST GEORGE MASON GOES MMMMMPPPPP 01:35:08 DENHAM BROWN FOR THREE NO GOOD BY GEORGE THE DREAM IS ALIVE

Gabe Norwood from Gilas Pilipinas played here!

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I don't think GMU even won their conference.

I wanted GMU to win as much as the next guy, but there was quite a lot of bad officiating down the stretch of regulation and OT.

The worst loss in UConn history

And people like Bob Huggins wish to tell me that the P5 leagues should separate and have their own NCAA college basketball tournament? Why do college basketball coaches not understand the business of their own sport better? 25% of all office workers participate in a pool. You have all the betting action in Vegas, Atlantic City and elsewhere. This tourney is about GAMBLING. Unlike college football, the majority of college basketball fans do not view the sport until the NCAA tourney. They want to see the George Masons in the field because picking the upsets drives the pools. CBS and Turner know this. They call the shots. Not the coaches, schools, boosters, or athletic directors. It's all about the NCAA and the money they get from TV. College basketball has a different financial structure than NCAA football. Take George Mason away and the NCAA tourney goes bankrupt. They are ESSENTIAL. But moreover, there are too many people who just don't get that non-BCS teams being in a postseason tourney drives the popularity of college basketball and its economics. Whereas Cincinnati making the college football playoff is more about FAIRNESS.

36:43 Seriously? "That could be a dagger". There was a whole half of ball left, glad Verne got cut off. That comment looks even dumber in hindsight, but at the time it was still bad.

GO LOBOS ALL THE WAY