re: NCAA basketball tourney games you've seen your team play in person

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NCAA basketball tourney games you've seen your team play in person

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Syaracuse vs Kansas with melo 2003
LSU vs UCLA & UF vs George Mason 2006
Butler vs Wisconsin last year and BYU vs UF2011
ODU vs Baylor and Kentucky vs wake forrest 2010
UF vs ODU i think and Memphis vs BYU 2007

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Too many, you guys would tell me Cliffnotes.

I have been to 3 Final 4's.

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I saw that one,too. DH after our fiasco vs Purdue.

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I lived near Bham at that time and actually went to this game. Had great seats and Purdue ran a Stromile Swift led LSU out of the building. I was embarrassed for the SEC. Didn't get tickets to the next session in which State played Butler.

I remember watching a Missouri practice session (Quinn Snyder was Mizzou coach btw) that tournament and remember CBS anchor Dick Enberg signing autographs. First time I've seen someone refuse to sign a kid's autograph on the grounds that it was illegal for him to sign a dollar bill. Kid didn't have a piece of paper at the time. I thought it was a d### move (no pun intended) at the time but later realized it actually is illegal to sign your name on money.

The best regional I witnessed was a Sweet 16 at the BJCC when North Carolina and Kentucky matched up after the opener that had Georgetown playing Arizona State. I want to say that was in the mid to late 90s.

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The best regional I witnessed was a Sweet 16 at the BJCC when North Carolina and Kentucky matched up after the opener that had Georgetown playing Arizona State. I want to say that was in the mid to late 90s.

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That was a fantastic regional. And it was packed that Saturday afternoon.Now I know that LSU has more than its share of nuts but the game ended kinda late that afternoon so we picked up WHAS out of Louisville driving back home and heard some UK call in show. I'll never forget this one caller (North Carolina had won),"you know, Bill,Pitino is a good coach and all that,but he'll never win big here."

As for the 2003 LSU loss to Purdue, LSU basketball doesn't travel that well but there was a 'decent' amount,maybe 1,000 there. Purdue took over the second half and it was over with about 10 minutes left. I was hoping--and several others were too that Brady would call timeout or at a deadball take out the seniors (4 of them) and let them get that nice little standing ovation. Nope.Lunkhead kept them in the whole game and it just ended with a thud. Good ol' John.

Actually, Swift was on LSU's 2000 team that made the Sweet 16.He turned pro late that Spring,just late enough where LSU couldn't recruit anyone.