Best I've ever witnessed in all my years of watching Bulldog Athletics!! Absolute Clutch putting your team on your BACK type performance!!
Best I've ever witnessed in all my years of watching Bulldog Athletics!! Absolute Clutch putting your team on your BACK type performance!!
As some have said, Dontae vs UK in SEC tourney and while not basketball, Dak's performance against LSU in '14 where he basically willed the Bulldogs to victory is the only other game or performance that comes to mind.
Absolutely awesome job, Morgan William. Have always loved your heart and fight, but last night definitely sealed your place in Bulldog lore. Again, outstanding job!!!
I still say it's Dontae Jones in the 96 SEC Championship game. His stat line wasn't as good and he had a little more help, but he was the catalyst for the ridiculous run we had in the second half, and it was against what many consider to be the greatest college basketball team of all time.
So yesterday AFTERNOON around 3:30, if we were told that we'd have one of our guards go off for 41 points and nail 6 treys, 100% of us would be thinking it was Victoria. Coming on the heels of McCowan's performance on Friday night, all I can say is I love the talent on this team.
Helluva a game, Morgan! Arguably the best in MSU sports history given that it came at the right time fighting for a championship.
The biggest difference is the stakes weren't nearly as high in those games. The LSU football game was special because we hadn't beaten them in so long, but it was just a regular season game at the end of the day. Also, that LSU team wasn't very good. And in the SEC Tourney, both teams had already locked up an at-large bid (and UK had already locked up a 1-seed), so it was pretty much just playing for a conference tourney banner and bragging rights.
Two other performances (both defensive performances) I thought were stellar by MSU players. Darryl Williams and Marcus Bullard shutting down Ray Allen and the Shephard kid from UConn in Sweet 16. And in a losing effort ... Winsome Frazier (at about 80% to maybe 90% recovered from ankle break) shutting down JJ Redick and holding him to 11 points in NCAA 2nd Round.
Agree in that it wasn't on a playoff or tourney stage, but it was uber important for our football team given our history of ineptitude against LSU (in Baton Rouge no less). But again, Morgan doing what she did last night is without a doubt the single best individual single-game performance to lead the good guys (or gals) to a victory that I have witnessed. So proud of them all!!!
Hail State and here's to two more wins on the season.
Now UCONN has to worry about MO. We have a height advantage over UCONN that we didn't have over Baylor. If Victoria can pump in about the same 24 we should be able to hang with the Huskies. But I would most definitely turn Itty Bitty loose to fire away. I can just hope for fair officiating something that was not present at the game yesterday. A tool job by the Refs and we won't have a chance.
Shit that's one of the best performances in the NCAA men's or women's tourney ever ..
http://www.espn.com/womens-college-b...t-performances
Espn ranks her performance as 3rd best all time in the women's tournament.