This became a tradition. I had the 91 Finals to 96 and 92 NCAA tournament until 97. My friends got all of my games especially the 95 Allen Iverson tournament games.
I loved watching Jamal Mashburn play during his Kentucky years. A small forward with three point range, good crossover move to the basket, good post scorer on the block, excellent finisher at the rim, and a decent defender. Even during the years when Kentucky was on probation, they scored a critical recruit to aid the forgettables on their mission in re-building the championship culture.
Jamal mashburn was a key recruit to rebuild the Kentucky Wildcats program, Jamal is a legend in NYC went to cardinal hayes in the Bronx and player for the gauchous aau team
@@krakenwoodfloorservicemcma5975 Mashburn was before his time in that imagine him in the modern game. He was a stud then and would be a bigger stud now. UK loses this game as soon as he fouls out.
Grant Hill, Isaiah Rider and Glenn Robinson couldn't even make the 1st team All American squad....thats how stacked the NCAA basketball landscape was in 92-93!!
@@SJbzzz All the Michigan bench players except Pelinka regressed a lot, Michigan was basically a 6 or 7-man team that year (Kentucky and UNC were both 9-10 deep). Ray Jackson getting called for a BS 3rd foul in the first half against UNC was huge too.
Wow I was in the 9th grade when I saw this game, that intro gives me goose bumps lol. This was one of the best games I've seen, both team's were equally matched which surprised many people before the game. Kentucky was blowing teams out early and Michigan wasn't having it lol, this was a high drama emotional thriller for 2 hours. Mashburn was so smooth and efficient as was the Fab 5, Quite disappointing to see Kentucky lose in the tournament in the closings minutes in 1992 and 1993. I don't blame Mashburn for going pro after his Junior year, I remember when me and my high school teammates would copy Michigan with the bald heads and black Nike socks lol. Best era of college basketball in my opinion, good memories.
Fav 5 my favorite college bball team of all time. I was 15 during the NCAA tourney. Hanging with friends, girls, playing street bball and lifting for football. Great times the then. I forgot how intense this game was
If 5 players fouled out that shows Michigan was playing some basketball. You don't get fouls if you're not trying to stop someone from scoring again. 🤷🏿♂️ Just a sore loser. 🏌️
@@grandmasterciphersupreme7751 I guess you didn’t see the poor officiating. What about the dunk where Riley held onto the rim? Definitely should have been a technical. GTFO here with your crap.
@@spockistheman If he would've came down he would've elbowed Rhodes or Dent so he did the right thing. Get your non balling ass out of here. You couldn't dunk jumping off a fucking trampoline. 😆😆😆😆😆🏌️
UNC fan here. Thanks for uploading this... Reminds me how great that Michigan team we beat was. No 3 pointers fell for them this game like they did against us... UNC 93 was the epitome of the whole is better than the sum of the parts team. Go Heels
I was 12 yrs old watching this back and forth from playing Bulls vs Blazers on Sega Genesis ..To behonest as a Tarheel fan I thought we had no shot at winning to the title against Michigan but how would i know back then lol
If Mashburn doesn't foul out in overtime, Kentucky wins. His tendency of picking up cheap fouls hurt Kentucky in their two major losses. Those came against Duke in 1992 and 1993 against Michigan.
@@austinmiller4832 says the Kentucky fan!!! Yeah and NC wasn’t better than Michigan... what makes them so great... Mash... please you guys had no answer for Webber, and your clutch shooters were off... Michigan was definitely a better ball team...
This could be the case. I wonder if Pitino could have tried to hide him on a little more on D, knowing he had four fouls. Pitino did a smart thing going to a zone, especially since Michigan hadn't made a three all game, but, it was like on Mashburn's fifth foul, he had a brain cramp. It was a very obvious, and dumb foul (like you pointed out he had a tendency to pick up), and he needed to just not be so aggressive and step behind him and just put his hands up (especially with a four point lead)....Even if he had given up a bucket to Howard, the worst case scenario was UK is up 2, with him still in the game. Him not being out there for the last three minutes just absolutely crushed Kentucky.
That Kentucky team of 1993 was the main building blocks that prelude to their championship seasons of 1996 and 1998. It should have been a three peat if you take away Arizona of 1997 led by Mike Bibby, Miles Simon, Michael Dickerson, and Jason Terry.
arizona would have never beaten UNC had jerry stackhouse, jeff innis, and rasheed wallace played until their senior years. to be honest unc might have had back to back in 96 & 97 if wallace and stackhouse played that year as well....
@@juliansmith4352 read what i said. if rasheed wallace, jerry stackhouse, and jeff innis stayed until their senior years they win the national title. of the previous three, only innis was around for 96. i know what darvin ham did that game but once rolls texas tech with all 3 players on the roster....
@@blkprl34 Rasheed Wallace Jerry Stack House and jeff innis at North Carolina til senior year no doubt they make to the final four in both 1996 and 1997 a likely dream matchup for the national championship would be Kentucky @ North Carolina two traditional college basketball blue bloods with Dean Smith & Rick pitino coaching both teams
@@blkprl34 you can play the what if game with so many teams over the years and assume a team would dominate if player a or b stayed in school. Kids leave early, it happens and yeah it's fun to imagine how good a team could've been if a particular player or 2 stayed an extra year but that's only speculation. 94 Michigan lost to eventual champ Arkansas in the elite 8...would they have won the title if Webber had stayed for jr year like the other 4? We'll never know...
In the Fab five 30 for 30, Jalen Rose said "we felt like we slayed the giant in Kentucky" damn i see why now. What a game 🥶💯 Chris Webber was a monster
The only reason why Kentucky lost was because Jamal Mashburn fouled out. The Fab Five was losing that game to North Carolina when Webber called that time out. I have no idea why the Fab Five get celebrated so much for a team that talked so much trash and never delivered
@@kevinshell8392 I'd love to sit with Mashburn and ask him what on earth was going through his head when he committed that absolutely horrific foul on Juwan Howard....Just an all-time brain fart that probably cost his team the game.
@@kevinshell8392 That was a definite foul...Had two hands on his back, and also clipped him on the elbow a little bit. Just an absolutely awful play. To this day, 31 years later, I have no idea what he was thinking in that moment.
Considering Mashburn had four fouls and Kentucky had a four-point lead, do you think he was being a bit too aggressive on Juwan Howard when he picked up his fifth?
@@gymmangymman Absolutely...His last foul was particularly awful. What on earth was he thinking there? Mashburn's a very smart dude, but that was an all-time dumb play.
Anyone else notice the timeout ( 1:32:12 ) Rose called to setup the last shot in regulation was strikingly similar to how Webber called timeout in the national championship two days later? I'm a UNC fan and felt like re-watching this game. I'm surprised not many people mentioned this play. I think this scenario could have played a big impact on how it went down for Webber in the title game.
Brian Reese's missed dunk is the tourney highlight reel? Unbelievable--had he just layed it in--it woulda been on the tourney highlight reel the next 5 years...Thank goodness for D. Williams in OT!
The quality of play in this game compared to today's college basketball is just ridiculous. Michigan would crush these small ball teams with that beautiful high-lo post game they had with Webber and Howard.
Michigan is a 1 seed this year and this Michigan team (the fab five) would demolish this year's Michigan team...even with a healthy Isaiah Livers. And I'm a Michigan fan and I love this year's Michigan team...but they wouldn't even have a puncher's chance against the Fab Five
Game was more slower and more possessions and post play back then now I feel like the game is played with more possessions more faster and more actions for plays
Heartbreaking to watch . 2 years in a row Mashburn fouls out. If he doesn’t foul out Kentucky may be celebrating 2 NCAA Championships . But they would’ve handled North Carolina ! Losing Dale Brown to that shoulder injury hurt big time also .
@@sickofguysnamedtodd2293 One of the funnier comments during this game was Billy Packer saying, after Mashburn fouled out "that foul really hurt Rick Pitino's strategy...." Um, you think, Captain obvious? Yeah, losing your best player is definitely gonna hurt you! hahaha
Three of Pitino's biggest losses were in overtime. Duke in 92 Michigan in 93 and Arizona in 97.He was 1-7 in overtime games. The only win coming against Arkansas in the 95 SEC Tournament Finals. I always wondered if the drama between Pitino and Roddick Rhodes cost them the title in 95. I also wonder how it would've been if Rhodes hadn't transferred to USC.
I think Mashburn's shot got tipped - Plus Jalen Rose ran over Tony Delk either at the end of Regulation or in overtime & it wasn't called, so everything evened out. Plus, two nights later, Chris Webber blatantly traveled before the infamous timeout & the refs missed that one, so, it all balanced out.
It's a shame that Mashburn fouled out of the two biggest games he played in. Also loved how Rose looked at the refs for a call at the end of regulation but got away with a clear charge right before.
@@MJones-ur1hp Not sure what you mean. He was great in this game and against Duke the year before. Now, he did foul out in both of those games, which wasn't good. But without him, UK gets rolled both times
I wonder if Kentucky’s lack of experience in close games hurt them in this one. They’d won 7 straight games by double digits, including an average of 31 points in the tournament prior to the FF.
Possibly. Just like UNLV’s lack of experience in close games hurt them down the stretch against Duke in 1991. And in both cases, a key player fouled out in the later minutes (Greg Anthony for the Runnin Rebs, Mashburn for Kentucky) and nobody else really stepped up. Notice in 1991 when Anthony fouled out, UNLV only scored three more points the rest of the game. Same in this game. Kentucky only scored two points the rest of the way after Mashburn fouled out. Nobody else stepped up to take over when those guys went out.
Many times during the Fab Five era, they didn’t play up to their potential. Might this game be the finest example of them actually being as good as, if not better than, they could possibly be?
You missed a lot of their games then. These games were boring compared to the games I've seen during the season. They were looking like the 87-88 Showtime Lakers.
As a die hard Kentucky fan this hurts to watch. Not as bad as the loss to Duke but anytime we lose it hurts more than any other team I call myself a fan of.
I watched some of this for the first time since 1993 and I still am amazed that Jalen Rose didn't get called for a charge on Tony Delk in the waning seconds of regulation. That was blatant. UK should have won this in regulation.
1:44:34 I hate how Packer used to constantly excuse players for their poor play due to them being tired. If Weber was truly too tired to snag that board, his work ethic should be questioned, and/or the Michigan strength and conditioning coach should be fired. These are 18-21 year old kids. Weber was a phenomenal athlete. NO ONE should be tired. These kids had days off while NBA players were, at this time, sometimes playing 4 games in 5 nights.
I am a fab 5 fan but it seemed like jalen was a point forward. He never just broke a defense down and got into the lane if he had that ! Hes be unspottable with his height!
@@robert.mills5 Yeah, interesting about Jalen...Michigan was the only time he really ever truly played point guard. He did everything in high school (as most perimeter blue chip guys do) and was a wing player in the NBA...Only really ever played PG @ Michigan, and he was pretty damn good at it.
@@elliemyers6435 I remember, I went to some of his games back then, and watched him play AAU... He was more of a point forward, but Michigan played more high low with Webber and Howard, or they'd dump it in the post(or catch that spin lob they made popular). He drove and dished a little bit... He played some point guard in Denver early on and played a lotta point forward in Indiana under Bird...
I believe for every overtime they should give the players an extra foul. I don't think that letting extra time be a thing, extra timeout but not an extra foul per player.
Even though The Fab Five lost the two championship games, they were the best College Team ever. They would’ve beaten Duke and NC if it was a 5 game series.
Maybe NC but that Duke team was great. I loved the Fab Five. They were a big part of why I fell in love with basketball in the first place but they never won a Big Ten regular season championship. They aren't even the best Michigan team ever, let alone the best in CBB history.
You could change that to say: Fab Five--best starting five ever--and you might have a point--fortunately, it's about the team! All the guys. Also having a nickname like Fab Five put too much pressure on them--took away from the Michigan TEAM....
Donta Howard a lot of players didn’t want to go to Michigan and potentially sit behind the fab five. They had their sights on Avondre Jones and Charles O’Bannon, but they decided to stay home in California. Jones because he was a big man and didn’t want to wait for Webber to make up his mind about coming out, and O’Bannon obviously wanted to play with his brother Ed at UCLA. The fab five was a double edged sword recruiting wise, because while its good to get a great class like that, the drawback is that it can hurt the next couple years because guys didn’t want to have to deal with the logjam of the previous class and ride the pine for at least two years behind them. They’re gonna wanna get early playing time. Same thing happened with North Carolina in 1990 when they brought on the Pre-Fab Five. Of course this was more of a factor back then in the era when blue chippers would stay in school, not the one and done era of today. That’s how John Calipari is able to bring in great classes year after year because the attrition. Most of those freshmen aren’t gonna ever become sophomores, so he’s gotta keep bringing them in.
@@theloverswineverytime1625 when North Carolina brought in that 1990 recruiting class, they didn’t have a great class again for another three years when they had the 93 class of Stackhouse, Wallace and McInnis and those guys came as the 90 class was starting their senior year. Just like Michigan didn’t have another good class until 1994 when what was left of the Fab Five, King and Jackson were about to be seniors and the other three had already left.
@@sickofguysnamedtodd2293 Great point. Back then, players really stayed at least two years in college, so, a blue chipper didn't want to come and sit behind someone and not get playing time. It's not like now, with one and dones and the transfer portal, where a guy is out after one year, or, if a kid isn't playing as much as he feels he should, he can just leave and not have to sit out a year. In terms of UNC, their "fab five" Was Montross, Brian Reese, Derrick Phelps, and who were the last two? Matt Wenstrom and Kevin Salvadori?
If Mashburn hadn't fouled out, this game would have been over. Games were paid for back then. The Bookies were too involved. Duke benefited in those years.
This would be the next to last NCAA on CBS opening without the CWebb timeout for at least a year in the CBS opening....seemed like more than a year as a Michigan fan.
Hoosiers beat Michigan twice this year. Alan Henderson went down in February with an ACL or Indiana would have had another National Championship. We still made it to the Elite 8 without him. Oh well.
I liked that Indiana team. I liked Damon Bailey and calbert cheaney. The big ten was loaded back then. Steve Smith and Michigan state, Jim Jackson and Ohio state. This fab five team never won a big ten title. Shows how deep the league was.
Yeah, the hoosiers probably would've won the title the year before if not for the refs riding duke's nuts & giving them 42 free throws to IU's 16. But, it's a shame that neither the 1992 Hoosiers or the 1993 Hoosiers won the title...both of those teams were great, and basically home grown in Indiana.
Gimel Martinez had the worst two mins of basketball in the history of the Final Four. He was actually a decent player, but with Jamal Mashburn and Jared Prickett fouled out, was forced to guard CWebb.
Thats becuz michigan didnt have any 3pt shooters as far as the fab 5. Im big fan of the fab 5 and michigan, and the only 3pt shooters they had were on the bench. Rob pelinka and james voskul
It could have done a sports clip on Michigan softball coach that went undefeated and your girls were going on to college that doesn't happen very often where I coach when's all the games and moves up to the playoffs and wins their and then heads for the gold well that was done we had some great players on our team but yeah you can take that out footage out coach 8 or 9 years and she was a damn good coach
Jalen Rose also I always say Jalen Rose was the reason why the Fab five never won because Jalen Rose was just horrible 6 .9 guard can't shoot and can't pass he was good for nothing
No they got their asses kicked by Duke and they chose against North carolina. They never won s*** and will be like that forever and they got put on probation they were very overrated
The only reason Michigan won this game was because Jamal Mashburn fouled out. They had zero answers for him. The Fab Five talked a lot of trash but never delivered I don’t understand why they get celebrated
20 years later, Michigan makes the championship game and falls by the same margin (like against UNC) of 6. Notably, like when he lost to Syracuse in the 1987 Final Four, Pitino avenged a loss to the that team with a title (Syracuse - 1996).
yeah, it would be like saban and alabama. i say at least 3 at uk. i also think if pitino never leaves the Knicks, patrick ewing gets one ring.. but it still would be rough getting past jordan.
LOOK HERE CHANCES ARE YOU WEREN'T EVEN BORN BACK THEN. TWO IF YOU THINK THAT KENTUCKY ISNT PAYING THERE PLAYERS YOUR FUCKING CRAZY. I HAVE THREE THINGS FOR YOU JOE SMITH. 1966 NCAA tournament legendary coach Adolph Rupp KENTUCKY WILDCATS WEREN'T SO WILD THAT DAY VS Newly appointed men's basketball coach Don Haskins beat Kentucky 72-65 FOR THE 1966 NCAA CHAMPIONSHIP. SO WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU THINK THAT 1948 Kentucky Wildcats COULD DO WITH THE FAB FIVE. I DROP THE MIC AND WALKED OFF STAGE....
@@bradypatrick5405he didn't win one but two NCAA finals games is impressive and very close to an NBA title. Over 150 mill in oncourt earnings and I can say Webber has had a blessed life. Idk
@@vivahernando1 ---UM basketball was a veteran in the NCAA tounrey well before Webber showed up. Therfore, it doesn't give Webber that much credit as he was looking for.
To whoever blew the dust off their VHS to upload this, you're a gentleman and a scholar.
great game. loved it
Amen!!!
This became a tradition. I had the 91 Finals to 96 and 92 NCAA tournament until 97. My friends got all of my games especially the 95 Allen Iverson tournament games.
I RECORDED THIS GAME AND THEN LOST IT @ A H.S. TRACK MEET W.T.F.
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Nothing better when the game meets the hype, or in this case the game was better than the hype. One of the best Final Four games I've seen.
A lot of great talent that year in college basketball.
This was the greatest game the Fab 5 ever played together.
And the only reason they won was because Jamal Mashburn fouled out. They had zero answers for him
I loved watching Jamal Mashburn play during his Kentucky years. A small forward with three point range, good crossover move to the basket, good post scorer on the block, excellent finisher at the rim, and a decent defender. Even during the years when Kentucky was on probation, they scored a critical recruit to aid the forgettables on their mission in re-building the championship culture.
Jamal mashburn was a key recruit to rebuild the Kentucky Wildcats program, Jamal is a legend in NYC went to cardinal hayes in the Bronx and player for the gauchous aau team
He was overrated.
@@krakenwoodfloorservicemcma5975 you sound stupid !
@@krakenwoodfloorservicemcma5975 bullshit
@@krakenwoodfloorservicemcma5975 Mashburn was before his time in that imagine him in the modern game. He was a stud then and would be a bigger stud now. UK loses this game as soon as he fouls out.
I live in Kentucky but became a Michigan fan when I was 9 yrs old. Been to many football and basketball games in Michigan. Go Blue
College basketball will never be the same.
Agree
Grant Hill, Isaiah Rider and Glenn Robinson couldn't even make the 1st team All American squad....thats how stacked the NCAA basketball landscape was in 92-93!!
Hands down the best game of the Fab Five run. This was the team you expected all along. To think they blew it against UNC...I still don't get it.
That was all on Fisher bad coaching them boys was exhausted go look at the boxscore he played them like race horses
@@SJbzzz All the Michigan bench players except Pelinka regressed a lot, Michigan was basically a 6 or 7-man team that year (Kentucky and UNC were both 9-10 deep). Ray Jackson getting called for a BS 3rd foul in the first half against UNC was huge too.
Did MI blow it or did the refs kiss Dean Smith's ass give NC every call?
They were definitely the most talented team in that Final Four. I hated seeing what happened that following Monday night. Shish happens, i guess.
Well the refs had the fix in!!!!! Montrose should've fouled out!
Wow I was in the 9th grade when I saw this game, that intro gives me goose bumps lol. This was one of the best games I've seen, both team's were equally matched which surprised many people before the game. Kentucky was blowing teams out early and Michigan wasn't having it lol, this was a high drama emotional thriller for 2 hours. Mashburn was so smooth and efficient as was the Fab 5, Quite disappointing to see Kentucky lose in the tournament in the closings minutes in 1992 and 1993. I don't blame Mashburn for going pro after his Junior year, I remember when me and my high school teammates would copy Michigan with the bald heads and black Nike socks lol. Best era of college basketball in my opinion, good memories.
Fav 5 my favorite college bball team of all time. I was 15 during the NCAA tourney. Hanging with friends, girls, playing street bball and lifting for football. Great times the then. I forgot how intense this game was
They never won anything and got put on probation
@@Alphasports576what the heck does that have to do with this fellas high school memories? We all miss those days. GO CATS!
It took the Monster Mash and about 4 other guys fouling out, plus Dale Brown getting hurt for Michigan to pull out a 3 point win in O/T.
That Kentucky team was sick good--wonder what a KEntucky UNC final might've been like.
If 5 players fouled out that shows Michigan was playing some basketball. You don't get fouls if you're not trying to stop someone from scoring again. 🤷🏿♂️ Just a sore loser. 🏌️
@@grandmasterciphersupreme7751 I guess you didn’t see the poor officiating. What about the dunk where Riley held onto the rim? Definitely should have been a technical. GTFO here with your crap.
@@spockistheman If he would've came down he would've elbowed Rhodes or Dent so he did the right thing. Get your non balling ass out of here. You couldn't dunk jumping off a fucking trampoline. 😆😆😆😆😆🏌️
Only two Kentucky players fouled out, Mashburn and Jared Prickett. Jimmy King fouled out for Michigan.
UNC fan here. Thanks for uploading this... Reminds me how great that Michigan team we beat was. No 3 pointers fell for them this game like they did against us... UNC 93 was the epitome of the whole is better than the sum of the parts team. Go Heels
one the highest IQ teams of all time. George Lynch, and D Phelps and Montross were great leaders
Can you believe Michigan won a big game like this without making a three??? That would be unheardof now :)
Eric "Eazy E" Riley was flatout balling off the bench and great upload!
Best nickname ever for Eric Riley!
Rob Pelinka was Kobe Bryant's agent along with a bunch of other superstars. He's now vp of basketball operations and GM for the Lakers.
This was college basketball at its finest hour.
Real basketball
Gj for posting these games college basketball was way cool back in the day
I was 12 yrs old watching this back and forth from playing Bulls vs Blazers on Sega Genesis ..To behonest as a Tarheel fan I thought we had no shot at winning to the title against Michigan but how would i know back then lol
thanks for that. i totally forgot that game Bulls vs Blazers! i was also 12 when this game took place.
Possibly the most underrated National Semi Final Game Ever
If Mashburn doesn't foul out in overtime, Kentucky wins. His tendency of picking up cheap fouls hurt Kentucky in their two major losses. Those came against Duke in 1992 and 1993 against Michigan.
No wAy... Michigan was better...
@@petervandermey7896 Michigan wasn’t better than Kentucky that year. Definitely not.
@@austinmiller4832 says the Kentucky fan!!! Yeah and NC wasn’t better than Michigan... what makes them so great... Mash... please you guys had no answer for Webber, and your clutch shooters were off... Michigan was definitely a better ball team...
This could be the case. I wonder if Pitino could have tried to hide him on a little more on D, knowing he had four fouls. Pitino did a smart thing going to a zone, especially since Michigan hadn't made a three all game, but, it was like on Mashburn's fifth foul, he had a brain cramp. It was a very obvious, and dumb foul (like you pointed out he had a tendency to pick up), and he needed to just not be so aggressive and step behind him and just put his hands up (especially with a four point lead)....Even if he had given up a bucket to Howard, the worst case scenario was UK is up 2, with him still in the game. Him not being out there for the last three minutes just absolutely crushed Kentucky.
That Kentucky team of 1993 was the main building blocks that prelude to their championship seasons of 1996 and 1998. It should have been a three peat if you take away Arizona of 1997 led by Mike Bibby, Miles Simon, Michael Dickerson, and Jason Terry.
arizona would have never beaten UNC had jerry stackhouse, jeff innis, and rasheed wallace played until their senior years. to be honest unc might have had back to back in 96 & 97 if wallace and stackhouse played that year as well....
@@blkprl34 UNC lost to Texas tech plus Darwin ham shattered the backboard in 1996 second round
@@juliansmith4352 read what i said. if rasheed wallace, jerry stackhouse, and jeff innis stayed until their senior years they win the national title. of the previous three, only innis was around for 96. i know what darvin ham did that game but once rolls texas tech with all 3 players on the roster....
@@blkprl34 Rasheed Wallace Jerry Stack House and jeff innis at North Carolina til senior year no doubt they make to the final four in both 1996 and 1997 a likely dream matchup for the national championship would be Kentucky @ North Carolina two traditional college basketball blue bloods with Dean Smith & Rick pitino coaching both teams
@@blkprl34 you can play the what if game with so many teams over the years and assume a team would dominate if player a or b stayed in school. Kids leave early, it happens and yeah it's fun to imagine how good a team could've been if a particular player or 2 stayed an extra year but that's only speculation. 94 Michigan lost to eventual champ Arkansas in the elite 8...would they have won the title if Webber had stayed for jr year like the other 4? We'll never know...
College basketball at its finest..It will never be the same.
In the Fab five 30 for 30, Jalen Rose said "we felt like we slayed the giant in Kentucky" damn i see why now. What a game 🥶💯 Chris Webber was a monster
The only reason why Kentucky lost was because Jamal Mashburn fouled out. The Fab Five was losing that game to North Carolina when Webber called that time out. I have no idea why the Fab Five get celebrated so much for a team that talked so much trash and never delivered
@@kevinshell8392 I'd love to sit with Mashburn and ask him what on earth was going through his head when he committed that absolutely horrific foul on Juwan Howard....Just an all-time brain fart that probably cost his team the game.
@ …… But honestly I didn’t see much of a foul but yes you’re right he should have let that go especially when you mean that much to your own team
@@kevinshell8392 That was a definite foul...Had two hands on his back, and also clipped him on the elbow a little bit. Just an absolutely awful play. To this day, 31 years later, I have no idea what he was thinking in that moment.
Mashburn is a great businessman.
i was in somalia when this happened live. i've never seen this game until now....
wasn't that the black hawk down era?
yep
Broski thank you for your service I lost Ranger buddies from 3rd Ranger Battalion and Delta! Gone but never forgotten!!!!!!
Considering Mashburn had four fouls and Kentucky had a four-point lead, do you think he was being a bit too aggressive on Juwan Howard when he picked up his fifth?
His last several fouls were terrible
@@gijoey5912 Yep! His #1 weakness was peaking up cheap and unnecessary fouls.
@@gymmangymman Absolutely...His last foul was particularly awful. What on earth was he thinking there? Mashburn's a very smart dude, but that was an all-time dumb play.
Anyone else notice the timeout ( 1:32:12 ) Rose called to setup the last shot in regulation was strikingly similar to how Webber called timeout in the national championship two days later? I'm a UNC fan and felt like re-watching this game. I'm surprised not many people mentioned this play. I think this scenario could have played a big impact on how it went down for Webber in the title game.
Flint Michigan Here I miss Old school stuff
Brian Reese's missed dunk is the tourney highlight reel? Unbelievable--had he just layed it in--it woulda been on the tourney highlight reel the next 5 years...Thank goodness for D. Williams in OT!
The quality of play in this game compared to today's college basketball is just ridiculous. Michigan would crush these small ball teams with that beautiful high-lo post game they had with Webber and Howard.
you wanna see another beautiful game it's the elite 8 between arizona and providence back in '97
Michigan is a 1 seed this year and this Michigan team (the fab five) would demolish this year's Michigan team...even with a healthy Isaiah Livers. And I'm a Michigan fan and I love this year's Michigan team...but they wouldn't even have a puncher's chance against the Fab Five
Kentucky too. the 93 Michigan and 96 Kentucky team would go undefeated now.
These teams today are literally the same size as these teams 🤦🏾♂️
@@malikthompson8014 No they aren’t.
Eric Riley also was on the 89 championship team for Michigan besides pelinka,he was a Redshirt
Back in a time when both NCAA and NBA were so much better
Game was more slower and more possessions and post play back then now I feel like the game is played with more possessions more faster and more actions for plays
I always enjoyed watching the big guys banging around in the post. That’s one thing I miss from old school ball
Heartbreaking to watch . 2 years in a row Mashburn fouls out. If he doesn’t foul out Kentucky may be celebrating 2 NCAA Championships . But they would’ve handled North Carolina ! Losing Dale Brown to that shoulder injury hurt big time also .
The Dale Brown injury was probably more critical because even with Mashburn fouling out, he would’ve been a secondary option for a go to guy
@@sickofguysnamedtodd2293 One of the funnier comments during this game was Billy Packer saying, after Mashburn fouled out "that foul really hurt Rick Pitino's strategy...." Um, you think, Captain obvious? Yeah, losing your best player is definitely gonna hurt you! hahaha
Three of Pitino's biggest losses were in overtime. Duke in 92 Michigan in 93 and Arizona in 97.He was 1-7 in overtime games. The only win coming against Arkansas in the 95 SEC Tournament Finals. I always wondered if the drama between Pitino and Roddick Rhodes cost them the title in 95. I also wonder how it would've been if Rhodes hadn't transferred to USC.
he looked sick after the buzzer sounded
RIP baggy shorts.
My favorite team of all-time.
These refs hated Michigan. The no call travel on Ford at the end of regulation and Mashburn caught his own air ball in overtime.
I think Mashburn's shot got tipped - Plus Jalen Rose ran over Tony Delk either at the end of Regulation or in overtime & it wasn't called, so everything evened out. Plus, two nights later, Chris Webber blatantly traveled before the infamous timeout & the refs missed that one, so, it all balanced out.
Yes, they did. Kentucky did get all the calls.
Big Blue had 3 nba all stars. Why was it close
It's a shame that Mashburn fouled out of the two biggest games he played in. Also loved how Rose looked at the refs for a call at the end of regulation but got away with a clear charge right before.
Mashburn was phenomenal!
Monster Mash
Except when it counted in big games.
@@MJones-ur1hp Not sure what you mean. He was great in this game and against Duke the year before. Now, he did foul out in both of those games, which wasn't good. But without him, UK gets rolled both times
@@MJones-ur1hp , I think you have Mashburn confused with Weber.
@@MJones-ur1hp You must be outta your mind.
I wonder if Kentucky’s lack of experience in close games hurt them in this one. They’d won 7 straight games by double digits, including an average of 31 points in the tournament prior to the FF.
Possibly. Just like UNLV’s lack of experience in close games hurt them down the stretch against Duke in 1991. And in both cases, a key player fouled out in the later minutes (Greg Anthony for the Runnin Rebs, Mashburn for Kentucky) and nobody else really stepped up. Notice in 1991 when Anthony fouled out, UNLV only scored three more points the rest of the game. Same in this game. Kentucky only scored two points the rest of the way after Mashburn fouled out. Nobody else stepped up to take over when those guys went out.
Boy did monster Mash rip these boys man😭
When people tell me that the modern UConn huskies are the greatest team of all time I send them links to videos like this.
Webber, hero at the end of this game, goat at the end of the title game.
Do you have the game Georgia Tech vs Southern University '93
Many times during the Fab Five era, they didn’t play up to their potential. Might this game be the finest example of them actually being as good as, if not better than, they could possibly be?
You missed a lot of their games then. These games were boring compared to the games I've seen during the season. They were looking like the 87-88 Showtime Lakers.
Um, going into this game, even with a winning-streak, Michigan definitely didn’t look that impressive. In fact, for much of that season, they didn’t.
Um, going into this game, even with a winning-streak, Michigan definitely didn’t look that impressive. In fact, for much of that season, they didn’t.
Um, going into this game, even with a winning-streak, Michigan definitely didn’t look that impressive. In fact, for much of that season, they didn’t.
those Unlv running red rebel teams were better@@grandmasterciphersupreme7751
As a die hard Kentucky fan this hurts to watch. Not as bad as the loss to Duke but anytime we lose it hurts more than any other team I call myself a fan of.
I was hoping for UNLV vs Michigan
I watched some of this for the first time since 1993 and I still am amazed that Jalen Rose didn't get called for a charge on Tony Delk in the waning seconds of regulation. That was blatant. UK should have won this in regulation.
How about the no call travel by Ford. Michigan was up by 2. Nice try.
Travis Ford walked before that. Nice try
Jalen Rose voice Got to give the Peeooppllee...Give the people what they want.
Jalen Rose was a terrible defender
Early 90s had legit Final 4s
1:44:34 I hate how Packer used to constantly excuse players for their poor play due to them being tired. If Weber was truly too tired to snag that board, his work ethic should be questioned, and/or the Michigan strength and conditioning coach should be fired. These are 18-21 year old kids. Weber was a phenomenal athlete. NO ONE should be tired. These kids had days off while NBA players were, at this time, sometimes playing 4 games in 5 nights.
I am a fab 5 fan but it seemed like jalen was a point forward. He never just broke a defense down and got into the lane if he had that ! Hes be unspottable with his height!
He did a lot of that in high school, dude was a flat out beast. Changed his game in college. He was more of a scorer after Webber left too.
@@robert.mills5 Yeah, interesting about Jalen...Michigan was the only time he really ever truly played point guard. He did everything in high school (as most perimeter blue chip guys do) and was a wing player in the NBA...Only really ever played PG @ Michigan, and he was pretty damn good at it.
@@elliemyers6435 I remember, I went to some of his games back then, and watched him play AAU... He was more of a point forward, but Michigan played more high low with Webber and Howard, or they'd dump it in the post(or catch that spin lob they made popular). He drove and dished a little bit...
He played some point guard in Denver early on and played a lotta point forward in Indiana under Bird...
Any sucked on defense and that's why Kobe Bryant scored 81 points on them he never was good in defense even in college
@@robert.mills5he never changed anything he was terrible on defense
To whoever called that timeout lol eerie foreshadowing
This game was an officiating fk up!! They called the dumbest fouls ever! On both sides!
I believe for every overtime they should give the players an extra foul. I don't think that letting extra time be a thing, extra timeout but not an extra foul per player.
You'd think they were something. Mashburn took a bunch of dudes and had them beat until some very sketchy calls late.
Even though The Fab Five lost the two championship games, they were the best College Team ever. They would’ve beaten Duke and NC if it was a 5 game series.
Maybe NC but that Duke team was great. I loved the Fab Five. They were a big part of why I fell in love with basketball in the first place but they never won a Big Ten regular season championship. They aren't even the best Michigan team ever, let alone the best in CBB history.
Big Ten was tough back then
Um ...no. They were good but best ever isn’t even a conversation they would be in. The best win it
I would have taken that duke team any day and the 1993 IU team if Henderson was healthy
You could change that to say: Fab Five--best starting five ever--and you might have a point--fortunately, it's about the team! All the guys. Also having a nickname like Fab Five put too much pressure on them--took away from the Michigan TEAM....
Why didnt the Wolverines capitalize and get more recruiting after this? It seems like they didn't recruit well.
Donta Howard a lot of players didn’t want to go to Michigan and potentially sit behind the fab five. They had their sights on Avondre Jones and Charles O’Bannon, but they decided to stay home in California. Jones because he was a big man and didn’t want to wait for Webber to make up his mind about coming out, and O’Bannon obviously wanted to play with his brother Ed at UCLA. The fab five was a double edged sword recruiting wise, because while its good to get a great class like that, the drawback is that it can hurt the next couple years because guys didn’t want to have to deal with the logjam of the previous class and ride the pine for at least two years behind them. They’re gonna wanna get early playing time. Same thing happened with North Carolina in 1990 when they brought on the Pre-Fab Five. Of course this was more of a factor back then in the era when blue chippers would stay in school, not the one and done era of today. That’s how John Calipari is able to bring in great classes year after year because the attrition. Most of those freshmen aren’t gonna ever become sophomores, so he’s gotta keep bringing them in.
This aged well. Isiah todd and josh christopher says otherwise
@@sickofguysnamedtodd2293 Great point. I was gonna write the same thing, almost word for word ✊😊
@@theloverswineverytime1625 when North Carolina brought in that 1990 recruiting class, they didn’t have a great class again for another three years when they had the 93 class of Stackhouse, Wallace and McInnis and those guys came as the 90 class was starting their senior year. Just like Michigan didn’t have another good class until 1994 when what was left of the Fab Five, King and Jackson were about to be seniors and the other three had already left.
@@sickofguysnamedtodd2293 Great point. Back then, players really stayed at least two years in college, so, a blue chipper didn't want to come and sit behind someone and not get playing time. It's not like now, with one and dones and the transfer portal, where a guy is out after one year, or, if a kid isn't playing as much as he feels he should, he can just leave and not have to sit out a year. In terms of UNC, their "fab five" Was Montross, Brian Reese, Derrick Phelps, and who were the last two? Matt Wenstrom and Kevin Salvadori?
A lot of talent but seems like not much plays were run back in the day lol
Rose didn’t greet the Kentucky player at mid court for the handshake 😂😂😂
Lol yeah he was a great closer..2 college title game losses and 1 nba finals loss.
And Pitino was a poor sport at the end of the game with Fisher.
Jeffrey Beshears, basketball is a team sport unless your Jordan.
What's a lot of bad calls by the referees especially in overtime
Frank Fallon is the best pa announcer 😏
4:40 the packer points for semi final game 2
If Mashburn hadn't fouled out, this game would have been over. Games were paid for back then. The Bookies were too involved. Duke benefited in those years.
Webber was incredible
i know, i was a big UK and mash fan that era. this game made me a real believer .
Kentucky had some god awful suits in the 90s lol
Jimmy king locked Ford down overlooked
This would be the next to last NCAA on CBS opening without the CWebb timeout for at least a year in the CBS opening....seemed like more than a year as a Michigan fan.
Hoosiers beat Michigan twice this year. Alan Henderson went down in February with an ACL or Indiana would have had another National Championship. We still made it to the Elite 8 without him. Oh well.
I liked that Indiana team. I liked Damon Bailey and calbert cheaney. The big ten was loaded back then. Steve Smith and Michigan state, Jim Jackson and Ohio state. This fab five team never won a big ten title. Shows how deep the league was.
Yeah, the hoosiers probably would've won the title the year before if not for the refs riding duke's nuts & giving them 42 free throws to IU's 16. But, it's a shame that neither the 1992 Hoosiers or the 1993 Hoosiers won the title...both of those teams were great, and basically home grown in Indiana.
Michigan won the game and didn't hit one 3-pointer
Gimel Martinez had the worst two mins of basketball in the history of the Final Four. He was actually a decent player, but with Jamal Mashburn and Jared Prickett fouled out, was forced to guard CWebb.
no wonder in the packer points for the national championship game billy packer puts zero threes as his 2nd packer point of 4
Take that Golden State. It is possible to win a crucial game and not hit one 3.
Thats becuz michigan didnt have any 3pt shooters as far as the fab 5. Im big fan of the fab 5 and michigan, and the only 3pt shooters they had were on the bench. Rob pelinka and james voskul
It could have done a sports clip on Michigan softball coach that went undefeated and your girls were going on to college that doesn't happen very often where I coach when's all the games and moves up to the playoffs and wins their and then heads for the gold well that was done we had some great players on our team but yeah you can take that out footage out coach 8 or 9 years and she was a damn good coach
Juwan Howard is so terrible how the fuck did he get drafted
Jalen Rose also I always say Jalen Rose was the reason why the Fab five never won because Jalen Rose was just horrible 6 .9 guard can't shoot and can't pass he was good for nothing
Then webber goes and blows it with the famous Timeout lol
Pitino should’ve called a damn time out
Early-mid 1990s? By far most influential period of time in history
THE FAB FIVE SHOULD HAVE WON TWO NATIONAL TITLES STRAIGHT UP…..
No they got their asses kicked by Duke and they chose against North carolina. They never won s*** and will be like that forever and they got put on probation they were very overrated
Back when college athletics were more innocent
1:29:17 must be embarrassing to miss a dunk lol….not to mention the fact that they would have made it to the championship if he didn’t miss it 🤦🏻♂️
The only reason Michigan won this game was because Jamal Mashburn fouled out. They had zero answers for him. The Fab Five talked a lot of trash but never delivered I don’t understand why they get celebrated
Jim Nantz doesn’t age
I LOVED JALEN’S I JUST GOT HOME FROM PRISON LOOK WITH THE SHAVED HEAD …..
Jalen Rose is wasn't that good because he was terrible on defense. And that's why Kobe let his ass up for 81 points
Feels like a lot of fouls in this game.
Travis Ford thought his travel no call would be the most famous in F4 history.
Until Webber two nights later before the infamous timeout
HORRIBLE officiating in this game!
Yep I said the same exact thing especially in overtime
Commentary is so bad ! Hating on Michigan so bad ! Them & the media 1:49:28 how tf did Webber get away with his using arm on that spin move???
Packer was so blatantly biased, it's pathetic. And he just wouldn't shut up about Mashburn fouling out. I thought he was gonna cry.
Go Blue!!!
20 years later, Michigan makes the championship game and falls by the same margin (like against UNC) of 6.
Notably, like when he lost to Syracuse in the 1987 Final Four, Pitino avenged a loss to the that team with a title (Syracuse - 1996).
Rick Pitino wins at least six championships if he never leaves Lexington for the NBA.
I’ll go to my grave saying this.
No way. Maybe two more
yeah, it would be like saban and alabama. i say at least 3 at uk. i also think if pitino never leaves the Knicks, patrick ewing gets one ring.. but it still would be rough getting past jordan.
Michigan had too many turnovers
Jared Prickett was the worst player ever at UK at making layups. He must have air-balled 50 layups during his career.
Lots of talent on showcase in this game, but the one that really stood out was reserve guard Rob Pelinka, who is as relevant today as ever.
Juwan Howard is relevant
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LOOK HERE CHANCES ARE YOU WEREN'T EVEN BORN BACK THEN. TWO IF YOU THINK THAT KENTUCKY ISNT PAYING THERE PLAYERS YOUR FUCKING CRAZY. I HAVE THREE THINGS FOR YOU JOE SMITH. 1966 NCAA tournament legendary coach Adolph Rupp KENTUCKY WILDCATS WEREN'T SO WILD THAT DAY VS Newly appointed men's basketball coach Don Haskins beat Kentucky 72-65 FOR THE 1966 NCAA CHAMPIONSHIP. SO WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU THINK THAT 1948 Kentucky Wildcats COULD DO WITH THE FAB FIVE. I DROP THE MIC AND WALKED OFF STAGE....
You appear to be crazy.
Yeah but they weren't stupid enough to get caught that changes everything
You walked off the stage and you're a legend in your own mind
Ray jackson might be the most overrated hype job in the history of college basketball dude was mediocre
Chris Webber was the most arrogant man ever! It was almost as if karma cam back at him for the NC game!
Dude was like 19 years old 😂. Somebody is hurting inside
@@vivahernando1 --Wheres his ring then pal? Hooooooooooooooooooo
@@bradypatrick5405he didn't win one but two NCAA finals games is impressive and very close to an NBA title. Over 150 mill in oncourt earnings and I can say Webber has had a blessed life. Idk
@@vivahernando1 ---UM basketball was a veteran in the NCAA tounrey well before Webber showed up. Therfore, it doesn't give Webber that much credit as he was looking for.
Billy Packer is hating on Michigan as much as possible in every way. Hate!