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UKboiler23

Mar 6, 2011
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As Purdue fans we have dealt with our fair share of heartbreaking defeats. As awful as last night was to handle, I'm not sure it would make my top 5. My top would be:

Basketball: 2012 against Kansas
Football: 2004 against Wisconsin (of course)

What do you all have as your #1 most heartbreaking loss?
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Originally posted by UKboiler23:
As Purdue fans we have dealt with our fair share of heartbreaking defeats. As awful as last night was to handle, I'm not sure it would make my top 5. My top would be:

Basketball: 2012 against Kansas
Football: 2004 against Wisconsin (of course)

What do you all have as your #1 most heartbreaking loss?

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I would add Keady's last chance to make the final four when a Wisconsin team dropped us from the NCAA's after we beat them twice earlier that year. Can't recall the year.... and why is it always Wisconsin?

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Big Dog's last game. Mainly because we could have won it all. And I was a little kid.

Second is the Kansas game 2012 followed closely by the Ohio collapse at home where Robbie hit 8 threes
 
agree with football, but I thought losing in the elite 8 with GRob was worse than KU 2012. We were underdogs in 2012 and Robbie played like a god and although it was heartbreaking, it was not totally unexpected. I wanted to cry when we lost in the elite 8.
 
Actually I want to change mine. The most heartbreaking loss was when Robbie tore his ACL in '10. That team was going to the FF.
 
Nooo, not even close if you're old enough to remember. The Troy Lewis/ Everette Stephens team losing to Kansas State in the tourney after we beat them by like 30 in the regular season. That (along with the pre-injury Hummel team) was our National Championship team. If I remember correctly, that team was, at least, top 5 ranked all year. I also remember that they were No 1 longer than any other team that year. What a crushing loss !!!!!!!!!!
 
I was at that game in the Siverdome. I still wake up some nights in a sweat because of that game. That '80 team, the '88 team & the '10 team (before Hummel got hurt) have been the only times I thought Purdue could actually win the national championship. Each of those teams were good enough.
 
It was the Troy Lewis/Todd Mitchel and Everette Stephens loss. All I remember was us having a chance to take the lead at the end, Troy Lewis, the best point guard we ever had, with the ball, dribbling off his foot. I felt like crying.
 
I was there, too. A baseball bat to the gut would not have hurt as much. That was definitely a national championship-caliber team.
 
Wisconsin 2000 Elite 8

Gene's last, best chance at a Final Four. I still get angry at all the love for Dick Bennett before that game - he wasn't the only great coach to never have been to a Final Four at that point. Add in the fact that we were banging on the door to get in the club for years, and suddenly some new chick jumps us in line (and is still dancing in that club while we've actually fallen back in the line :D). Yeah $%#! Wisconsin.

Last night, while disappointing, wasn't really that bad - we were not going to beat Kentucky. It was disappointing because our 9 tournament streak of winning at least one game has been snapped, and we really had the game in hand and basically did everything wrong after the 1 minute mark to lose it. Plus, with all the open threes we bricked, we could've refaced the Math Building. No shame in losing to Cincy - even though I think we'd win a seven game series against them, it would be close.
 
Purdue has lost plenty of heartbreakers in the NCAA tournament over the years. A few that have really stuck with me:

Kansas State in 1988 (especially after Purdue easily beat them earlier in the season)
Duke 1994 (Big Dog's post-Kansas injury)
Memphis 1995 (I can still see that Memphis player grabbing Roy Hairston's jersey. No call.)
Georgia 1996 (Purdue upset in the 2nd round as a #1 seed. Just never saw that loss coming.)
Stanford 1998 (I really, really, really wanted to believe that was our year.)
Wisconsin 2000 (Gene's last real chance to get to the FF)
 
Geez. Why do we have to bring this topic up on a work day...now I'm going to have to have a drink
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'88 KSU by a long shot.
 
Some of the others mentioned I don't know about (either I wasn't convinced they were that good or I wasn't old enough to remember them) - but that 2010 team was as good as Duke or Butler, who played in the championship game. I don't know if I want to change my answer (Wisconsin, 2010 Elite 8), but it's damn close. I hate the Barn (come to think of it, I really, pretty much hate everyone in the Big Ten except, maybe Rutgers :D).

Some day, when we least expect it, Purdue is going to have a fluke run all the way. Some day... ;)
 
KSU in 88. That Purdue team was dominating. Troy Lewis and Everette Stephens fumbling the ball away in the closing seconds with a chance to win it at the end against a team they should of beaten handily.
 
Biggest loss was losing Hummel to injury in Minnesota. It was like watching a dream turn into a nightmare. And football wise, yes the Fumble against Wisconsin.
 
Some day, when we least expect it, Purdue is going to have a fluke run all the way. Some day... ;)

I hope you are correct, but it seems as if Purdue doesn't do flukes - we just get fluked.
 
This. The '88 team was not only the best Purdue team in my lifetime, but by far my favorite. I couldn't believe I would never see the 3 amigos play together again. Mitch Richmond banking in a 3 late, Everette dribbling off his leg, and Mitchell missing 2 free throws late, all after getting out to a 10-0 lead.

And they did beat them by 30 earlier in the year.

Robbie going down is a distant second for me.
 
I forgot to mention my lifetime is 92-present so some of those I was either not around for or too young. 2012 was just horrible because we had control the whole game against the eventual runner-up. I will say, 2010 did sting but after losing Hummel I wasn't as confident going in to the tourney.
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#1 JBC missing his baby hook to take the lead late against UCLA in final four semi-final
#2 1988 KSU
#3 J. Sitching miss against IU in Nit Final
#4. Hummel last game
# 5 Texas loss in Hoosier Dome
 
I'm a little bit older than most who are posting here. The most heartbreaking loss for me was the 1980 NCAA Semi-final game against UCLA. We were a six seed going into the tournament and got through Indiana and Duke in the regional. Purdue trailed most of the game but had a chance to take a one point lead late in the game. They got the ball down low to JBC, but his 5-foot shot bounced off the rim. They still played a consolation game then and we killed Iowa for 3rd place. If we'd played like that on Saturday we'd have rolled over UCLA. To make matters worse, UCLA had to vacate the game later for some sort of violation.

This post was edited on 3/20 2:56 PM by SoloBoiler
 
I was at the 90 Texas game, and that one has to rank in the top 5. Wasn't it Scheffler who had his layup blocked from behind at the end of the game, or was it Riley?
 
Thought it was a questionable no call against Tony Jones on a lay up. http://articles.latimes.com/1990-03-19/sports/sp-493_1_purdue-stephen-scheffler-travis-mays

This post was edited on 3/20 1:15 PM by paintball1979
 
Kansas State while playing in the finals of 4.0 doubles tennis tournament. No Tune-In Radio, no BTN2Go, no ESPN - just reports from a put upon wife who shuttled back and forth from the tournament desk to court side with updates. Lost the match, too. The loss to Kansas (Duke - it sucks getting old) also came during a tennis tournament. And this year - well, blame me for being at the BNP Paribas Open (watching not playing obviously) while the game was going on. Next year NO tennis in any form whatsoever during the Boilers' run for the Final Four. For less chronologically challenged Boilermakers who are not familiar with the Three Amigos let me recommend Mark Monteith's Passion Play.

This post was edited on 3/20 3:23 PM by gleap1969
 
Not Riley for sure.. just checked the box score... Scheffler was 6/17 from the floor. A career 68.5% from the field, and I believe that was a NCAA record. That was a rough game..
 
You're right it was Jones. My memory is terrible.

"INDIANAPOLIS - While Texas celebrated its 73-72 upset victory over No. 10-ranked Purdue Sunday in the second round of the NCAA Midwest Regional, Boilermaker Coach Gene Keady launched into an obscenity-laced tirade against the officiating.

"We've got good kids who work hard and they're in there crying their eyes out because we've got guys (officials) who don't understand the game," he said."

lol
 
Re: Most heartbreaking loss? Texas block

That was bad, but about 5-6 minutes earlier, Berning was called for a block when the Texas player lowered the shoulder and almost ran him over. Turned a 3-4 point lead (which would've been stretched further) into a 1 or 2 point game. IMO, that was the difference in that game.

Losing Hummel probably kept us from the final four 2 years in a row (which hurts the program, recruiting etc.)
 
VCU 2011, I felt like someone punched me in the stomach. Also the ass kicking by Duke in ACC challenge a few years back.
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Mount and the boys getting crushed by UCLA in the championship game in '69 was my first worst. Many of the others discussed would also make the list. Most crushing though to me are not game losses but losses that affected the programs long term. Robbie collapsing at Minny and the "Fumble". Both occurred when we seemed to be on cruise control and headed for that place we've always wanted to be and then had it snatched away.
I didn't expect a big win yesterday and hated to see it end that way but I feel very good about where we are going. If Matt can put together consistant classes of this caliber of player we'll see the success and stability that we've been asking for.
 
The loss to KSU in '88 is my first fairly clear Purdue sports memory (lucky me), but I think I was too young for it to be truly heartbreaking.

Even though it wasn't as big of a game or as good of a Purdue team, the loss to Kansas in 2012 still gnaws at me. Purdue was indisputably the better team that day, and if anyone deserved a surprise tournament run to end his career it was Robbie Hummel.
 
Most heartbreaking loss had to be Kansas State 1988. So much promise leading up to the game just all ended in a thud. Worst weekend ever in Detroit/Pontiac. At the time, never would have thought I would see the eventual national champion Kansas)
 
1. 1988 Dribble off the leg (I think Keady's best team)
2. 1994 The fluke injury to Big Dog letting Duke off the hook
3. 1980 A Freshman in High School and after being dogged be all the Hoosier fans in the late 70s I really thought we had a chance to get one in Indy.
4. 1990 The screwing in the Hoosier Dome had great seats for that one
5. 1986 The one that still gets me angry!! The loss to LSU yet another screwing by the NCAA committee being a 6 seed and having to go play on the 11 seeds home floor it was a double ot loss with alot of questionable calls. This was like the third year in a row Keady and our Boilers got screwed by the committee (84 Memphis,85 Auburn) I still remember Dale Brown sheepishly saying in the post game he felt bad for Purdue having to come down and play on their home floor.
6. 2000 Loss to the cheese heads Keady's last chance at a final four
 
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