Is this the greatest individual NCAA title game performance ever?

[CavaliersFTW]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnjC0nm2q5U


26pts 27reb 20blks 3stl 1a

A double-triple-double... 55th win in a row, 2nd title in a row, seriously!? :wtf:

[SpecialQue]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnjC0nm2q5U


26pts 27reb 20blks 3stl 1a

A double-triple-double... 55th win in a row, 2nd title in a row, seriously!? :wtf:

Selfish motherfvcker.

[Jameerthefear]

60's player. Disregarded.

[Im Still Ballin]

Too many 5-10 white guys.

Weak era.

[AintNoSunshine]

I haven't clicked the link but let me guess, it's from the 60's right?:lol

It's impressive someone old as you actually learned to use the internet

[CelticBaller]

i think i just saw my neighbor in that video

[Psileas]

Either this or the famous Walton one (44/13, on 21-22 FG, in 33 minutes). I had heard about the 26/27 part for some time, but ignored the 20 blk, 3 stl one. Which raises his game to GOAT status.

[ILLsmak]

lol 20 blocks.

-Smak

[JUDGE WITNESS]

i think i see my great grandmother in there

[TheReal Kendall]

:roll: :roll:

[navy]

Weak ass era.

[3LiftHeatCurse]

Tall athletic black guy playing against shorter white guys.

Enough said.

[Smoke117]

Numbers wise yes, but the game was really far away as modern basketball goes when Russell was in College. I'd say Bill Walton had the greatest college game of all time: The man was 21/22FGA for 44 points with 13 rebounds leading his team to the NCCA championship. I'm trying to look and I can't find his block, but Walton was one of the best defensive centers ever in his short prime in the NBA. That year he won MVP when he played 65 games he should have won DPOY too. He was EXTREMELY DOMINANT as a defensive player while he was such a fantastic team player who did all the dirty work besides. He could be a diva, but he always put it out there at all times. His career would have been legendary if not for his poor DNA and feet. He was easily the best defensive player in the league that year he won MVP though. He should have won both, easily. With his ability to pass, score, defend, rebound, he was some kind of freak.

[Psileas]

Numbers wise yes, but the game was really far away as modern basketball goes when Russell was in College. I'd say Bill Walton had the greatest college game of all time: The man was 21/22FGA for 44 points with 13 rebounds leading his team to the NCCA championship. I'm trying to look and I can't find his block, but Walton was one of the best defensive centers ever in his short prime in the NBA. That year he won MVP when he played 65 games he should have won DPOY too. He was EXTREMELY DOMINANT as a defensive player while he was such a fantastic team player who did all the dirty work besides. He could be a diva, but he always put it out there at all times. His career would have been legendary if not for his poor DNA and feet. He was easily the best defensive player in the league that year he won MVP though. He should have won both, easily. With his ability to pass, score, defend, rebound, he was some kind of freak.

Interestingly, Walton's game also came at an era that the usual suspects like to underrate (since Wilt was still active). It's funny how they try to undermine the NBA of that era, yet say nothing of that kind about Walton's performance in the NCAA of exactly the same era and have no problem with it claiming GOAT status (because they know Walton played well into the 80's, so it's going to be tougher for them to hate on him, there will be more posters reacting). It's almost as if, in some people's minds, 1973 NCAA > 1973 NBA. Not that I care about their opinions, but it shows another case of hypocrisy at its finest.

[LAZERUSS]

Interestingly, Walton's game also came at an era that the usual suspects like to underrate (since Wilt was still active). It's funny how they try to undermine the NBA of that era, yet say nothing of that kind about Walton's performance in the NCAA of exactly the same era (because they know Walton played well into the 80's, so it's going to be tougher for them to hate on him, there will be more posters reacting). It's almost as if, in some people's minds, 1973 NCAA > 1973 NBA. Hypocrisy at its finest.

C'mon...an unathletic white guy beating the twin tower black guys...


doesn't count.

BTW, no one ever brings up Goodrich leading a team with no starter taller than 6-5 to a championship in one season, and then scoring a then Finals record 42 points in the title game to lead them to their second straight title.

Know why?

because he was a 6-1 white guy.

[Psileas]

C'mon...an unathletic white guy beating the twin tower black guys...


doesn't count.

BTW, no one ever brings up Goodrich leading a team with no starter taller than 6-5 to a championship in one season, and then scoring a then Finals record 42 points in the title game to lead them to their second straight title.

Know why?

because he was a 6-1 white guy.

Good call. I also recall something like a 58 point eruption by Bill Bradley, but it wasn't a Final, "only" a Semifinal.

[LAZERUSS]

Alcindor's last college game wasn't too bad, either.

37 points, on 15-20 FG/FGA, 7-9 FT/FTA, and with 20 rebounds, and in leading UCLA to their third straight title with an easy win over Rick Mount's Purdue team, 92-72.

Alcindor's college career wasn't too bad.

88-2 record (and both losses by margins of 46-44, and 71-69), with 3 titles, and 3 Tourney MVPs.

[LAZERUSS]

Good call. I also recall something like a 58 point eruption by Bill Bradley, but it wasn't a Final, "only" a Semifinal.


I believe Goodrich and Bradley were co-MVPs, albeit, Goodrich won a title.