Two straight Final Fours....

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Originally Posted by BuckyIsAB****

Thats great. But we've had very successful seasons for a while now, its time to get a ring.

You could say this is the case in all of the big 3. Except mens hoops but we are getting there

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So itsa Natty or nothing then. Unreal.

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Originally Posted by Liverpooldawg

It was still a very successful season. We got more national recognition out of that than anything MSU athletics has ever done, till we hit #1 in football. The only other thing that comes close was beating UCONN last year.

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I would say that beating UConn is the most well known of anything besides Thunder and Lightning. Clark and Palmeiro really has had more of an impact for the MLB careers they had than what they did at MSU. Pretty much anyone that follows athletics knows Mississippi State broke the 111 game streak. It is like the Miracle on Ice in 1980. Beating the Russians just got us into the gold medal game but that is the most famous.

It is weird because Morgan's shot is shown more than USCe winning the title.

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Originally Posted by Liverpooldawg

So itsa Natty or nothing then. Unreal.

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Id say at this point after UConn and SC in the other bracket yeah

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Originally Posted by Tbonewannabe

I would say that beating UConn is the most well known of anything besides Thunder and Lightning. Clark and Palmeiro really has had more of an impact for the MLB careers they had than what they did at MSU. Pretty much anyone that follows athletics knows Mississippi State broke the 111 game streak. It is like the Miracle on Ice in 1980. Beating the Russians just got us into the gold medal game but that is the most famous.

It is weird because Morgan's shot is shown more than USCe winning the title.

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Clark and Palmerio didn't actually bring that much attention to MSU, nota t the time. Women's basketball is still a pretty small market. Only a few places actually care. The Men's Final Four and being #1 in football are on a completely different level.

Us beating UCONN was the signature game of 2017- from the true Accomplishment perspective ... like Wisconsin beating undefeated Kentucky. They lost to Duke in the next game, but the big accomplishment was beating Kentucky

Germany destroying Brazil 7-1 in Belo Horizonte was the WC story in 2014. But fortunately for the Germans, they were able to also beat Argentina a few days later to actually win the trophy.

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Originally Posted by maroonmania

Amazing the shape these starters must be in. They play full out all the time and all of them play 35+ minutes. We basically get no bench scoring at all against quality competition.

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True statement, but the NCAA tournament helps dramatically with this. More timeouts and longer timeouts...gets everyone a little more rest. Plus the quarter break.

UCLA didn't go very deep on their bench yesterday either.

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Originally Posted by Liverpooldawg

Clark and Palmerio didn't actually bring that much attention to MSU, nota t the time. Women's basketball is still a pretty small market. Only a few places actually care. The Men's Final Four and being #1 in football are on a completely different level.

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I can see the perspective of football and basketball being more publicity. Football had several SI Covers and it was pretty big news especially now that Dak is the face of the Cowboys. Men's Final Four is kind of debatable to me. I guess since we had never been there it was a special type of moment with us beating UK to win the SEC tourney. Beating UConn is up there with 1980 Bama on a big time National stage. We won an Espy for it and I think it will be one of those replays that you see every March for the next decade or so.

Clark and Raffy were definitely more well known after what they did in MLB. Raffy having Hall of Fame numbers but with the finger wag and Clark just having injury issues or he would have had the numbers also. It is kind of insane that we didn't win a National Title with both of those guys on the team for 3 years especially when you throw in Brantley and Thigpen. Has there ever been a baseball team with that kind of MLB talent that didn't win a Title? That is 4 guys who made the MLB Allstar game at some point of their career.