I was in San Antonio for the Final Four that year. I woke up that Saturday morning so dizzy I couldn’t even stand up. I watched the KU - UNC game at the Hampton Inn and Suites. By the time the game tipped off I had taken enough Dramamine I could watch the game without getting sick. What a fun game - love this game. Got to watch the Title Game at the Alamodome
@@kansasjayhawk8386It was like 3 different games in one. First, KU blows out UNC, 40-12. Then UNC blows out KU (UNC got within 4 points). And finally, KU blows out UNC again and wins by 18.
I was on Mass street as a 22 year old when we won in 2022. I was 8 when this game happened. These guys are legends to me. I can name this roster from memory. I love the 08 Kansas team more than any team ever in any sport, even the 15 Royals or 19/22 Chiefs
I hear you. Even though I love my Royals and my Chiefs, the Jayhawks are always No. 1 in my heart even over the Chiefs and Royals. It was before you were born, but the 1996-1997 Jayhawks team is the only one that might rival the 2008 Jayhawks. The 1997 KU team was LOADED like the 2008 team. The 1997 team was ranked No. 1 in both polls from start to finish except for one week. Heading into the Sweet 16 versus Arizona, KU was 34-1 with the only loss being by 2 points in double OT on the road against a very good Missouri team. They got upset by Arizona by 3 points. But Jerod Haase, KU’s best defensive player tried to play with a broken wrist but lasted 2 minutes. Star point guard Jacque Vaughn played the whole game at way below 💯 because he had the flu. If those two were at 💯 KU likely gets by Arizona and wins the Natty. 4 seed Arizona went on to win it all by beating No. 1 Kansas, No. 1 North Carolina, and No. 1 Kentucky. But many people had said the 1997 Kansas team was the best team in college basketball over the previous 20 years!! The 2008 team though gets the nod because they actually won the Natty and were probably nearly equally loaded as the 1997 team. The 1997 team also featured future NBA HOFer Paul Pierce as a sophomore and First Team All-American Raef LaFrentz.
@@lewdiggz Yeah, the 1997 team was incredibly good. If it were possible, it’d be great to see the fully healthy 1997 Jayhawks play the fully healthy 2008 Jayhawks. That would be an epic matchup.
this was so important for the jayhawks. Roy williams did everything he could (except win the national championship) when he was at kansas. He had to leave to coach for his alma mater and you cant blame him for that. But just to move past that roy chapter kansas had to win this game and win that championship in 2008.
I was SOOO pissed at Packer when we got up 28. "Its over!" I mean he was right and at worse I thought maybe Packer jinxed KU where UNC would eventually cut it to 9-13pts under 10mins in 2ndHalf. (Even that was far fetched.) But sure the fuck enough! UNC made it a 2poss game with like 10mins left 2ndHalf. KU's ability to pick themselves up and finish strong says alot. Also Bill Self had play huge role in that too. Any team can get hot and blow out a team. But to remain calm in this type setting? After UNC completely took momentum back? Best KU game I've ever seen
Basically this same KU team came close season b4. Lost in the Elite8 to UCLA. Then Basically this same UNC team came right back and won it all the next season after this loss. Bottomline? These were 2 TREMENDOUS basketball teams who were well coached.
One of the last great games I watched in full, live. Back right before I flunked out of college and ruined my life for good. Maybe I shouldn't have watched and studied instead. But, hey, everything happens for a reason. I still think the 90's - 00's ..... when I was growing up..... was the golden age of KU basketball. Sure, KU had lots of success in the 10's .... and obviously their latest champ in '22 ... but basketball is WAY different now than it was when I was growing up. Can't turn the clock back. Not in basketball, not in life. Story of my life.
THESE are best type Bill Self Kansas teams. TOUGH, deep Frontcourt teams with solid backcourt. (Collins as 6th man? Great team.) What's crazy is KU's 2009-10 team is still Self's best Jayhawks team imo. (With the Morris Twins.) Upset by a lil white dude fr No Iowa.
Man not much has changed from 2008. Three blue bloods in the final four, coach Roy bill Cal, greg gumbel and co., just the Dome and the warmup fits lol
Howcome the National Championship Game isn't this good of quality? Anyone know where I can find the full replay of the Ku Memphis game in this quality?
You know it makes it easy to play amazing defense when you don’t space the floor and have 3 players on the same side of the court all bunched together not moving..cmon Roy Williams I thought you were this amazing coach
Anybody notice that was Billy Packers last year announcing the Final 4? You’re not supposed to piss off the sponsors by saying the game is over in the first half. If you had a sponsor like Bud light, for example, pay millions of dollars for a one minute slot in the second half you can get in big time trouble. Anyhow Im a Kansas fan and still love Roy Williams. That is a good man. Tarheel fans, don’t believe all the “I hate Roy because he left us” crap you see on the Kansas fan forums. There’s still a bigger percentage of fans that love that guy and appreciate what he did in Lawrence.
I think the "3rd." Meaning UNC cut KU's 28pt lead to actually 4 with like 15mins left game. Most teams would've been completely devastated after blowing a 28pt lead in such a big setting. I think KU's ability to not fold after losing that huge lead and kept playing with confidence and still won by 18.
I think how KU was able the puck themselves up after blowing a 28pt lead and still win big was so impressive. I mean UNC cut a basically 30pt KU lead to 4 with like 10mins left 2ndHalf. 99.9% of teams in country would've folded at that point and lost to UNC by 10-15pts after blowing that lead.
I'm a +30yr KU fan. This 2007-08 UNC Tarheels team? The BEST TEAM IN COUNTRY that season. (Arguably tp10 team of 21stCentury.) I'm not gonna lie. UNC prob beats us 7 out 10gms played. KU just played the best game I've ever seen in a single game. Lol. In a game that was basically "3gms in one."
How different would it have been in 2009? In case you forgot, Chalmers, Rush and Arthur all went pro at the end of the season. Those three with Collins and Aldrich returning would have been a formidable foe.
Yeah, as a UNC fan, I remember this so well. I was honestly proud that we cut it to 4, just because we had been so awful in the first half of that game. But, Kansas showed so much moxy to be able to regroup and regain control of that game. Big ups to them, they deserved that win, and that title.
Was stunned in first half of this game how much quicker Kansas was RIP Packer you might not like him but he knew what he was talking about... Not stunned that Self>>>Roy...
So glad they beat Memphis with an ineligible player they KNEW about, but put him in the game anyway. Rose was practically an illiterate that never should have been allowed in college ever.
Bob McKillop went to the KU announcing team during the game and said "we almost beat this (KU) team? Bob Davis, the KU lead announcer said "you did not play this team".
@@pdaddy879 nope..that UNC team was all offense..they didnt play defense..KU was A LOT tougher..and they could score....KU would win 6 out of 10 vs UNC..they woudlnt blow them out like they did this game, but UNC would fall short
@@carsonc29 ill agree with part of that. They didn't play defense like the 09 unc team which was way better than both these teams. I think they came out a little too confident I think they were the best team all year and overall #1 seed and it bit them
I remember watching this game as a kid, it was incredible
It stunk for me
#RCJH
"This game is ova!" Great memories from a great team. RCJHKU!!!
I was in San Antonio for the Final Four that year. I woke up that Saturday morning so dizzy I couldn’t even stand up. I watched the KU - UNC game at the Hampton Inn and Suites. By the time the game tipped off I had taken enough Dramamine I could watch the game without getting sick. What a fun game - love this game. Got to watch the Title Game at the Alamodome
Yeah well, that almost jinxed us. Lol. ROCK CHALK!
@@kansasjayhawk8386It was like 3 different games in one. First, KU blows out UNC, 40-12. Then UNC blows out KU (UNC got within 4 points). And finally, KU blows out UNC again and wins by 18.
I was on Mass street as a 22 year old when we won in 2022. I was 8 when this game happened. These guys are legends to me. I can name this roster from memory. I love the 08 Kansas team more than any team ever in any sport, even the 15 Royals or 19/22 Chiefs
I hear you. Even though I love my Royals and my Chiefs, the Jayhawks are always No. 1 in my heart even over the Chiefs and Royals. It was before you were born, but the 1996-1997 Jayhawks team is the only one that might rival the 2008 Jayhawks. The 1997 KU team was LOADED like the 2008 team. The 1997 team was ranked No. 1 in both polls from start to finish except for one week. Heading into the Sweet 16 versus Arizona, KU was 34-1 with the only loss being by 2 points in double OT on the road against a very good Missouri team. They got upset by Arizona by 3 points. But Jerod Haase, KU’s best defensive player tried to play with a broken wrist but lasted 2 minutes. Star point guard Jacque Vaughn played the whole game at way below 💯 because he had the flu. If those two were at 💯 KU likely gets by Arizona and wins the Natty. 4 seed Arizona went on to win it all by beating No. 1 Kansas, No. 1 North Carolina, and No. 1 Kentucky. But many people had said the 1997 Kansas team was the best team in college basketball over the previous 20 years!! The 2008 team though gets the nod because they actually won the Natty and were probably nearly equally loaded as the 1997 team. The 1997 team also featured future NBA HOFer Paul Pierce as a sophomore and First Team All-American Raef LaFrentz.
@@wiltchamberlainisthegoat13me and my best friend was talking about that the other day that 97 team was stacked
@@lewdiggz Yeah, the 1997 team was incredibly good. If it were possible, it’d be great to see the fully healthy 1997 Jayhawks play the fully healthy 2008 Jayhawks. That would be an epic matchup.
40:54 One of the greatest lines spoken by a sports commentator
this was so important for the jayhawks. Roy williams did everything he could (except win the national championship) when he was at kansas. He had to leave to coach for his alma mater and you cant blame him for that. But just to move past that roy chapter kansas had to win this game and win that championship in 2008.
18:47 "It's key for Kansas to shoot well from the perimeter..." - Billy Packer, hot take expert
I'm a UNC fan and I gotta say Kansas smashed us that night. Fair play to them.
Pretty remarkable comeback though. Just ran out of steam
All 4 Final Four teams that year had at least 35 wins on the season. Might not ever see that again!
7 legit NBA players on the KU roster
And here we are again in '22..
Too bad Roy retired. Would have killed to see a rematch between coaches.
Didn't play the Carolina way that night lol INCREDIBLE RUN BY KANSAS
I was SOOO pissed at Packer when we got up 28.
"Its over!"
I mean he was right and at worse I thought maybe Packer jinxed KU where UNC would eventually cut it to 9-13pts under 10mins in 2ndHalf.
(Even that was far fetched.)
But sure the fuck enough!
UNC made it a 2poss game with like 10mins left 2ndHalf.
KU's ability to pick themselves up and finish strong says alot.
Also Bill Self had play huge role in that too.
Any team can get hot and blow out a team. But to remain calm in this type setting? After UNC completely took momentum back?
Best KU game I've ever seen
Basically this same KU team came close season b4.
Lost in the Elite8 to UCLA.
Then Basically this same UNC team came right back and won it all the next season after this loss.
Bottomline?
These were 2 TREMENDOUS basketball teams who were well coached.
Sherron Collins, a Soph at the time was SO HUGE all Final Four.
Strong dribbling and key buckets.
ill never forget that score of 40-12
Haha, me too man.
Proud Jayhawk when was Kansas last championship
@@TACKHEAD 40-12
Master Chief So when?
WHEN YOU FUCKING WATCH PACKER AT 38-12 HE SAYS ITS OVER
One of the last great games I watched in full, live.
Back right before I flunked out of college and ruined my life for good. Maybe I shouldn't have watched and studied instead. But, hey, everything happens for a reason.
I still think the 90's - 00's ..... when I was growing up..... was the golden age of KU basketball.
Sure, KU had lots of success in the 10's .... and obviously their latest champ in '22 ... but basketball is WAY different now than it was when I was growing up.
Can't turn the clock back. Not in basketball, not in life.
Story of my life.
What really stunned UNC was that Kansas front court was more physical and more athletic like Darell Arthur
THESE are best type Bill Self Kansas teams.
TOUGH, deep Frontcourt teams with solid backcourt. (Collins as 6th man? Great team.)
What's crazy is KU's 2009-10 team is still Self's best Jayhawks team imo. (With the Morris Twins.) Upset by a lil white dude fr No Iowa.
Man not much has changed from 2008. Three blue bloods in the final four, coach Roy bill Cal, greg gumbel and co., just the Dome and the warmup fits lol
Howcome the National Championship Game isn't this good of quality? Anyone know where I can find the full replay of the Ku Memphis game in this quality?
You know it makes it easy to play amazing defense when you don’t space the floor and have 3 players on the same side of the court all bunched together not moving..cmon Roy Williams I thought you were this amazing coach
Whos here after finding out these two teams will meet in the finals this year?
👇
Same place, same result!
At 34:45 it was done. Love watching this game.
Travis Eastwood Wyeth was Kansas last championship
This same UNC team came back to rule in 2009
This game is over
kidjayhawk 1:30:15 Billy Packer with his disclaimer
Curtains for UNC😂😂😂😂😂😂
-and Billy Packer, as it turned out.
OVAH!
kidjayhawk when was Kansas last championship
TheWakeup011 when was Kansas last championship
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I don't know what was more impressive, KUs 28 point lead or UNCs almost with in 5 comeback. Its a toss up.
Billy Packer almost got bit in the ass by that comeback
@@SonicTheo And that’s saying something giving how pro-ACC Billy was.
Anybody notice that was Billy Packers last year announcing the Final 4? You’re not supposed to piss off the sponsors by saying the game is over in the first half. If you had a sponsor like Bud light, for example, pay millions of dollars for a one minute slot in the second half you can get in big time trouble. Anyhow Im a Kansas fan and still love Roy Williams. That is a good man. Tarheel fans, don’t believe all the “I hate Roy because he left us” crap you see on the Kansas fan forums. There’s still a bigger percentage of fans that love that guy and appreciate what he did in Lawrence.
I think the "3rd."
Meaning UNC cut KU's 28pt lead to actually 4 with like 15mins left game.
Most teams would've been completely devastated after blowing a 28pt lead in such a big setting.
I think KU's ability to not fold after losing that huge lead and kept playing with confidence and still won by 18.
I think how KU was able the puck themselves up after blowing a 28pt lead and still win big was so impressive.
I mean UNC cut a basically 30pt KU lead to 4 with like 10mins left 2ndHalf.
99.9% of teams in country would've folded at that point and lost to UNC by 10-15pts after blowing that lead.
I'm a +30yr KU fan.
This 2007-08 UNC Tarheels team?
The BEST TEAM IN COUNTRY that season. (Arguably tp10 team of 21stCentury.)
I'm not gonna lie. UNC prob beats us 7 out 10gms played.
KU just played the best game I've ever seen in a single game.
Lol. In a game that was basically "3gms in one."
We could've gotten blown off the floor but came back and made it a game and got our championship next season
talking about my high school game way to go kansas on sat football wise
Kansas kicked our butt that year. 2009 it would've been a different outcome. This same UNC team rolled over everyone.
How different would it have been in 2009? In case you forgot, Chalmers, Rush and Arthur all went pro at the end of the season. Those three with Collins and Aldrich returning would have been a formidable foe.
@@williamparks1503 definetley a game I would've liked to seen. Carolina has that same problem players turning pro.
Yeah, as a UNC fan, I remember this so well. I was honestly proud that we cut it to 4, just because we had been so awful in the first half of that game. But, Kansas showed so much moxy to be able to regroup and regain control of that game. Big ups to them, they deserved that win, and that title.
KU all the way! Red and blue thru and thru!
Proud Jayhawk trash
@@TACKHEAD fuck the fartheels
@@user-bv2jy8jz2m fuck the Jay mockers
@@TACKHEAD Trash?. Isn't that the Kettle calling the Pot Black...
@@TFNARMY_2009 Which makes no fn sense.. smh
That was a great UNC team
I'm a +30yr Jayhawks fan and 100% agree with you.
probably the best besides the 1982 team
Dating back to 2008 oh for four against Kansas in NCAA Play
Was stunned in first half of this game how much quicker Kansas was RIP Packer you might not like him but he knew what he was talking about... Not stunned that Self>>>Roy...
UNC 0-5 IN TOURNAMENT AGAINST KANSAS DATING BACK TO 2008... SAN ANTONIO ALWAYS BEEN HOUSE OF HORRORS FOR UNC UTAH GAME IN 1998...
42:56 Freshmen Aldridge
WHO CALLED THE S.W.A.T. TEAM???
It was basically "3gms" in 1
Hanstravel got the crap knocked out of him
National champion and national player of the year. What have you done Mr Pless?
@@MrDcbrockwell89 Great point he was a good player but they didn't win because of Roy
@@MrDcbrockwell89 Didn't win this because of Hanstravel
@@MrDcbrockwell89 And he's done nothing in the NBA.. So...........
wow all the way from kansas great firsthalf though
Roy Williams run and gun offense did not work against this KU team. KU was so quick getting down the floor on defense
The referees blow so many calls against Carolina that's the reason why
The game that got Billy Packer fired. Shame for telling the truth
So glad they beat Memphis with an ineligible player they KNEW about, but put him in the game anyway. Rose was practically an illiterate that never should have been allowed in college ever.
Heels came back roy no time out guy
Collins & Green?
2 best 6th men of 21stCentury
*Remy Martin.
Lol
i think the better man lost that night
UNC fans were so confident they'd win after watching KU barely get past Davidson
carsonc29 Kansas sucks 😂
Bob McKillop went to the KU announcing team during the game and said "we almost beat this (KU) team? Bob Davis, the KU lead announcer said "you did not play this team".
UNC just had an off off night. They would beat Kansas 7out of 10
@@pdaddy879 nope..that UNC team was all offense..they didnt play defense..KU was A LOT tougher..and they could score....KU would win 6 out of 10 vs UNC..they woudlnt blow them out like they did this game, but UNC would fall short
@@carsonc29 ill agree with part of that. They didn't play defense like the 09 unc team which was way better than both these teams. I think they came out a little too confident I think they were the best team all year and overall #1 seed and it bit them
Carolina way
Manning was an awful coach
Huh?