Tech shouldn't even have been there, Andersons shot after the clock expired against a much better MSU team. Yet going back and watching a few old games, they could really shoot the basketball. Kind of a one trick pony though if they got in foul trouble.
Not only did we have the best team back then, our band was with business too! Lol ... Every player got announced with a background band chord progression
The best ever.its a shame the ncaa destroyed unlv an that tank was fired with in 2 years of this game for absolutely no reason but In the end tark got the last laff when he sued the ncca in civil court an the ncaa had to pay tark 1 million cash on jan 1st 1997 .I have Pic of tark with a cigar in his mouth holding that 1 million dollar check.not that he needed the money but it was so fucked up the ncaa destroyed unless an in the end they had not 1 shred of evidence of any mis conduct besides a few unpaid phone bills .I heard tark never cashed that check but he had it gold plated an it set on his desk till he died.its a shame 30 years )after unlv has never recovered from what the ncaa done to this team thru would had a 10 year run ateast that only ucla could rivaled an then had tarks wishes been granted Tim Gingrich would been his successor an is the man who trained this team an run all the practice for tark an they'd been a top 5 team ever year for last 30 years but the fuckin low life ncaa had a hard on for tark so the destroyed a whole program an only violation they come up with was unpaid long distance calls. That's pretty dam sory
I don't think best team ever. But they are up there. They had Larry inside. Anthony running the show. Hunt and augmen shooting the 3s and scoring a bucket from.anywhere and some other role players that complimented the team well. A Lil lazy and not focused at times tho. But scary good. I loved this ga. Tech team tho. Kenny was my boy. Dennis shooting the lights out. And the inside being handled by very well. My favorite team in this period of my life
@@lawrencejacobs8044 it was the same team the following year that they went undefeated bro...we here in Vegas STILL don't recognize that loss to Duke.... Richard the fixer Perry had something to do with that.
It was a chilly Saturday evening waiting for my uncle to be released from jail. He had a DUI and was in the Jefferson St jail, in Atlanta and I knew before going to pick him up...I needed his mini-tv so I could watch the game. I was able to watch the entire game as we waited for him. When he saw his television, he said..."boy! What you doing with my TV!"🤣 3/31/1990 🙏🏾 RIP UNCLE JR BOY❤️ JOHN DAVID BOOKER 12/10/1944 12/18/2018
Kenny Anderson was a tremendous talent... However, in Tarks defensive scheme, Greg Anthony is a better fit... Greg Anthony is a premier defense player and the leader of the team.
Kenny Anderson was a Georgetown fan. Wore the Hoya jacket in between classes at high school. He was a lock for Georgetown, but John Thompson put little effort in recruiting him because he was spending his time prepping for the Olympics.
@@ajswan2386 AJ, it certainly wasn't that they weren't! The Jackets had the right idea from the opening tip by creating an up and down frenetic pace! Unfortunately they picked the wrong team to try and do it against for the full 40! Vegas during their heyday of success were the Runnin' Rebels for a reason! That, coupled with Georgia Tech's lack of solid depth and the altitude, played right into Vegas' hands and Tech eventually wore down after the break! When u have athletes with outside games like Tech had u need your legs and they lost those in the second half! Even the great jump shooters like Dennis Scott need their legs or their shots shorten up! I vividly remember that game well and when Tech continued to push the pace throughout the first half I knew they'd be in trouble with a limited bench
@@ajswan2386 It's awfully hard to bring your A game if your Dennis Scott when the greatest wing defender in the history of college basketball is guarding you.
Born and raised in Vegas, still here ("U. N.ever L.eave V.egas")... was the best time ever for the city... I was a young teen & even though the Rebs by far absorbed all of us ("where we as kids chose who we were when playing pickup games with the neighbors" ---i was Augmon or Anthony everytime lol).... But, straight up, the only collegiate parka jacket (en vogue in the 90's) I owned was that of Georgia Tech (still have it)... It was the game where Kenny Anderson did that reverse behind the back dribble from one hand to the other that mesmerized me as a kid....
Three best freshman seasons of all-time in college basketball - Carmelo, Anthony Davis and Kenny Anderson! His addition was what helped Ga Tech make the leap from first weekend NCAA team to a national contender! Honorable mention freshman - Zion!
@@bradlewis6514 uhh Chris Jackson would hang 50 on all those dudes. A consensus First Team All-American Freshman & Sophomore Years. NBA Lottery Pic 1990. 3rd Pick Overall..
@@arisdelis1 he was legit regular season wise in college no doubt Anno! But not only were Anthony Davis, Carmelo and Anderson superb as freshman they did what the future Mahmoud Abdul Rauf could not! Perform well during March! In fact if I remember correctly Anderson as a frosh outplayed the soph Jackson in the '90 tournament second round! Jackson was good as I said but unlike the three I mentioned he failed even getting his team past the second round of the Dance
@@arisdelis1 and I was referring to complete freshman seasons! Oh that's right LSU couldn't even get out of the first round during Jackson's frosh season! He got outperformed by a guy named Hardaway and UTEP! And Hardaway was at that time an unknown on the national level
In a fashion sense, this game was a preview of things to come once the Fab Five came on the scene. Many players on both teams were sporting compression shorts under their regular basketball shorts. The Fab Five simply expounded on that trend.
lol @6:42 I used to always hate when they made Kenny's intros and they said he was from Rego Park, NY. Yes it's in Queens but it don't hit as hard for us NYers as if they announced him being from QUEENS, NY. If you not from NYC you wouldn't know where the hell Rego Park, NY was. sounds like a damn suburb.
The 4 keys to the game: 1. Rocky Mountain High - Moses Scurry with a huge game off the bench, provided a bigger lift than Georgia Tech's sixth man, Karl Brown (who had a solid game before fouling out) 2. "Augmon" Tation - Augmon had a sensational game and was instrumental in the second half comeback 3. Kenny do it? - Yes he can! Not quite enough to overcome a more talented team, however 4. Three point Hunt-er - He hunted them down! 5 big threes shoot down the Yellow Jackets!
I forgot just how tough GT was but the Rebels closed out strong. Duke would not fair quite so well a few days later but would get their revenge the next year.
Best College point guards EVER, Earvin Johnson(1 title ) Isiah Thomas(1 title), Allen Iverson, Chris Jackson, Henry Bibby ( 3 titles), Kenny Anderson, Bob Hurley (2) Trea Young, Mike Bibby 1).
The fab five wouldn't no what the hell hit then this tea. Was way to much for any team in history of collage basketball ball..the 91 Duke loss was a fluke tark new when to have his team at its peak an the 91 team was never supposed to be in the tournament an was banned until right before tournament tark done had them play their best by that time an what is missed is how dam good them Duke teams were they probably a top alltime team .but I'd take this team against anyone anytime with tark coaching it's a shame the ncaa destroyed tark an unlv has never recovered in 30 years an only violation they had was some unpaid long distance calls
Next year in Indianapolis CBS would make Jim Nantz the lead announcer on college basketball with Billy packer until his retirement then in 2004 he would replace Greg Gumbel as their lead NFL announcer
@@ajswan2386 omg he was the furthest thing from it! He would criticize Duke way more than he complemented them! And I would know that first hand cing as how I've been a die-hard Duke fan since the early '80s! Billy Packer always made you aware at least once during a telecast that he bled Wake Forest black and gold! No matter what teams we're playing he would reference Wake! He made certain u knew where he attended or his announcing partner would make mention of it
@@bradlewis6514Trying so hard my ass if Kenny Anderson threw a no look pass he would say too much mustard for me. Bobby Hurley would come down and do one and he would yell great pass!
@@bradlewis6514 Coach K can get the fuck outta here too. Never recruiting inner city players. Now whites giving up on the game playing baseball since we stopped playing it and he cant keep his ass out of Chicago now.
such a shame the caa destroyed unlv an tark over a few unpaid long distance phone bills .unlv has an never will recover from all the santions placed upon them in the early 90s
@@damienkirksey7026 Damien, it's because people didn't see the Vegas players and team administration from beyond the troublemaker tabloids! Being in Vegas was their downfall and it shouldn't have been! They we're nieve and got brutally taken advantage of (singled out)! I loved when they won that national championship and Tark had the trophy sitting front and center in his office to rub it in the NCAA's face when they'd come to see him
@@damienkirksey7026 Vegas was doing the same thing North Carolina, DUKE, Kentucky, Kansas, Syracuse, Georgetown, UCLA, etc, etc, etc... all had been doing for DECADES. But they weren't a so-called "Blue Blood" program, and had a so-called "renegade" as a coach...so the NCAA went after them hard. And they basically destroyed everything Tark spent nearly two decades building, in one flail swoop. And the NCAA has been worse off for it ever since. UNLV was one of the few Western powerhouses in college basketball(besides UCLA and Arizona). They made people on the East Coast stay up late and watch them, they were must see TV. Not just this team, but the vast majority of Tark's teams.
That was the second time in five years that Michigan St had been hosed by clock-related issues in the regionals! Kansas '86 then Georgia Tech! Or the Spartans may have added two more FF's to their resume under Heathcote! I personally believe they would have
I remember both of those games well! But in the end it wouldn't have mattered at least in '90! Vegas wasn't gonna be denied! I still to this day think that team is the best since the field went to 64 in 1985! The level at which they were playing at the end of the '90 season they could have beaten anybody
@@bradlewis6514 If MSU had beaten Tech in the 1990 Sweet 16 they wipe;d have had a tough game in the Region Finals against Minnesota. The two teams had split during the regular season with each team winning on the road.
MY UNCLE IS MOSES SCURRY #35!!! GOATED IN THE FAMILY
Moses was ballin' during the tournament that year.
Loved his part and gold yo unk is cool af
@@melvinhogan2679 He still lives in Vegas too lol
Lethal Weapon 3 meets the Runnin Rebels. Classic.
Thanks for this video. Lethal Weapon 3 was incredible. What a year of massively talented teams. Stacked rosters.
Tech shouldn't even have been there, Andersons shot after the clock expired against a much better MSU team. Yet going back and watching a few old games, they could really shoot the basketball. Kind of a one trick pony though if they got in foul trouble.
Not only did we have the best team back then, our band was with business too! Lol ... Every player got announced with a background band chord progression
A classic. That 90s UNLV team was one of if not the best college team ever
The best ever.its a shame the ncaa destroyed unlv an that tank was fired with in 2 years of this game for absolutely no reason but In the end tark got the last laff when he sued the ncca in civil court an the ncaa had to pay tark 1 million cash on jan 1st 1997 .I have Pic of tark with a cigar in his mouth holding that 1 million dollar check.not that he needed the money but it was so fucked up the ncaa destroyed unless an in the end they had not 1 shred of evidence of any mis conduct besides a few unpaid phone bills .I heard tark never cashed that check but he had it gold plated an it set on his desk till he died.its a shame 30 years )after unlv has never recovered from what the ncaa done to this team thru would had a 10 year run ateast that only ucla could rivaled an then had tarks wishes been granted Tim Gingrich would been his successor an is the man who trained this team an run all the practice for tark an they'd been a top 5 team ever year for last 30 years but the fuckin low life ncaa had a hard on for tark so the destroyed a whole program an only violation they come up with was unpaid long distance calls. That's pretty dam sory
Definitely THE best
@@Atonement- The best ever? come on they had 5 losses. Great team but not best ever.
I don't think best team ever. But they are up there. They had Larry inside. Anthony running the show. Hunt and augmen shooting the 3s and scoring a bucket from.anywhere and some other role players that complimented the team well. A Lil lazy and not focused at times tho. But scary good. I loved this ga. Tech team tho. Kenny was my boy. Dennis shooting the lights out. And the inside being handled by very well. My favorite team in this period of my life
@@lawrencejacobs8044 it was the same team the following year that they went undefeated bro...we here in Vegas STILL don't recognize that loss to Duke.... Richard the fixer Perry had something to do with that.
Prime Stacey Augmon putting the clamps in the 2nd half and Kenny Anderson with crazy court vision. Very fun game to watch.
It was a chilly Saturday evening waiting for my uncle to be released from jail. He had a DUI and was in the Jefferson St jail, in Atlanta and I knew before going to pick him up...I needed his mini-tv so I could watch the game. I was able to watch the entire game as we waited for him. When he saw his television, he said..."boy! What you doing with my TV!"🤣
3/31/1990
🙏🏾 RIP UNCLE JR BOY❤️
JOHN DAVID BOOKER
12/10/1944
12/18/2018
hahah!! Great story, thanks for sharing! You did the right thing borrowing the TV for this epic game. :)
@@vixhex
Absolutely 💯 😂
No disrespect to Greg Anthony, but can you imagine Kenny Anderson with that Rebel team? Wow!!
They would be unbelievable & unbeatable
Kenny Anderson was a tremendous talent... However, in Tarks defensive scheme, Greg Anthony is a better fit... Greg Anthony is a premier defense player and the leader of the team.
Kenny Anderson should've went to UNC
@@baseline-G Yep!
Kenny Anderson was a Georgetown fan. Wore the Hoya jacket in between classes at high school. He was a lock for Georgetown, but John Thompson put little effort in recruiting him because he was spending his time prepping for the Olympics.
This is phenomenal.. the level of play and energy in was through the roof in those days
Imagine that “Lethal Weapon 3” full on 9mm graphic and Billy Packer’s “Mexican Standoff” comment being used in the 2023 tourney. 😂
My Guy Kenny Anderson!! UNLV was too much for everybody that tournament!! I just wish Kenny hadn’t got into foul trouble!! Great upload!!! 👍🏽
If Scott and Oliver were on their A game they beat UNLV that night.
@@ajswan2386 AJ, it certainly wasn't that they weren't! The Jackets had the right idea from the opening tip by creating an up and down frenetic pace! Unfortunately they picked the wrong team to try and do it against for the full 40! Vegas during their heyday of success were the Runnin' Rebels for a reason! That, coupled with Georgia Tech's lack of solid depth and the altitude, played right into Vegas' hands and Tech eventually wore down after the break! When u have athletes with outside games like Tech had u need your legs and they lost those in the second half! Even the great jump shooters like Dennis Scott need their legs or their shots shorten up! I vividly remember that game well and when Tech continued to push the pace throughout the first half I knew they'd be in trouble with a limited bench
@@ajswan2386 It's awfully hard to bring your A game if your Dennis Scott when the greatest wing defender in the history of college basketball is guarding you.
Born and raised in Vegas, still here ("U. N.ever L.eave V.egas")... was the best time ever for the city... I was a young teen & even though the Rebs by far absorbed all of us ("where we as kids chose who we were when playing pickup games with the neighbors" ---i was Augmon or Anthony everytime lol).... But, straight up, the only collegiate parka jacket (en vogue in the 90's) I owned was that of Georgia Tech (still have it)... It was the game where Kenny Anderson did that reverse behind the back dribble from one hand to the other that mesmerized me as a kid....
Kenny was a ill point guard Stacy was amazing in the second half great game.
UNLV IS STILL THE GREATEST COLLEGE TEAM OF ALL TIME!!!
Except the 1992 Duke team would beat them 6 out of 10 times if they played
#Kenny Anderson is the Best College Freshman Point guards ever 🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀
Three best freshman seasons of all-time in college basketball - Carmelo, Anthony Davis and Kenny Anderson! His addition was what helped Ga Tech make the leap from first weekend NCAA team to a national contender! Honorable mention freshman - Zion!
@@bradlewis6514 uhh Chris Jackson would hang 50 on all those dudes. A consensus First Team All-American Freshman & Sophomore Years.
NBA Lottery Pic 1990. 3rd Pick Overall..
@@arisdelis1 he was legit regular season wise in college no doubt Anno! But not only were Anthony Davis, Carmelo and Anderson superb as freshman they did what the future Mahmoud Abdul Rauf could not! Perform well during March! In fact if I remember correctly Anderson as a frosh outplayed the soph Jackson in the '90 tournament second round! Jackson was good as I said but unlike the three I mentioned he failed even getting his team past the second round of the Dance
@@arisdelis1 and I was referring to complete freshman seasons! Oh that's right LSU couldn't even get out of the first round during Jackson's frosh season! He got outperformed by a guy named Hardaway and UTEP! And Hardaway was at that time an unknown on the national level
@@bradlewis6514 Zion???
In a fashion sense, this game was a preview of things to come once the Fab Five came on the scene. Many players on both teams were sporting compression shorts under their regular basketball shorts. The Fab Five simply expounded on that trend.
NBA 1991 #1 Draft Picks
Duke students chanting, "WE WANT YOU!!!"......UNLV: Hold my beer😂😂
BEFORE THE HIGH SCHOOL TO PROS/ONE AND DONE ERA .. COLLEGE BASKETBALL 🏀 ALWAYS PROVIDED HIGH LEVEL GAMES EVERY YEAR .. IT WAS A MUCH BETTER GAME ..
OMG this game took place a day before WrestleMania VI.
lol @6:42 I used to always hate when they made Kenny's intros and they said he was from Rego Park, NY. Yes it's in Queens but it don't hit as hard for us NYers as if they announced him being from QUEENS, NY. If you not from NYC you wouldn't know where the hell Rego Park, NY was. sounds like a damn suburb.
the signatures seen in the player introductions are RAD AF 😎
The 4 keys to the game:
1. Rocky Mountain High - Moses Scurry with a huge game off the bench, provided a bigger lift than Georgia Tech's sixth man, Karl Brown (who had a solid game before fouling out)
2. "Augmon" Tation - Augmon had a sensational game and was instrumental in the second half comeback
3. Kenny do it? - Yes he can! Not quite enough to overcome a more talented team, however
4. Three point Hunt-er - He hunted them down! 5 big threes shoot down the Yellow Jackets!
Augmon was a beast in this game
Bobby Cremins was all class in that interview but he wasnt exactly Nostradamus when he said UNLV dook would be a great game.
Best college team of all times hands down the ncaa was hating
I forgot just how tough GT was but the Rebels closed out strong. Duke would not fair quite so well a few days later but would get their revenge the next year.
One of the best games ever
Best of all time easy that year no doubt
G. Tech was Point Guard U...
Some one should tell the Michigan Fab 5 that UNLV had the baggy shorts first.
Yep, I remember my dad also pointing this out way back when. Baggy shorts and compression shorts started here!
Flyin Illini 1989
This Georgia Tech team is seriously good, how did they fall to a 4 seed?
They didn't have a bench
Best College point guards EVER, Earvin Johnson(1 title
) Isiah Thomas(1 title), Allen Iverson, Chris Jackson, Henry Bibby ( 3 titles), Kenny Anderson, Bob Hurley (2) Trea Young,
Mike Bibby 1).
Game i would love to see fabe five against this UNLV team
UNLV would destroy the overrated fab 5
UNLV was on a completely different level....
The fab five wouldn't no what the hell hit then this tea. Was way to much for any team in history of collage basketball ball..the 91 Duke loss was a fluke tark new when to have his team at its peak an the 91 team was never supposed to be in the tournament an was banned until right before tournament tark done had them play their best by that time an what is missed is how dam good them Duke teams were they probably a top alltime team .but I'd take this team against anyone anytime with tark coaching it's a shame the ncaa destroyed tark an unlv has never recovered in 30 years an only violation they had was some unpaid long distance calls
Imagine 90 UNLV playing 2019 Virginia team. Theyd win by 30
Imagine basically any champ from the 90s vs 2019 Virginia...I wouldn't give uva much of a chance against any of them.
@@tumbleweedconnection79062019 Virginia was ass Texas Tech should of won
Too much STACY in the second half....
Plastic man!
Fun fact. Grant Hill made more NBA all-star teams than every NBA player from this game combined. Duke was better in 91.
Next year in Indianapolis CBS would make Jim Nantz the lead announcer on college basketball with Billy packer until his retirement then in 2004 he would replace Greg Gumbel as their lead NFL announcer
I hated Billy "Butt"Packer racist Duke homer.
@@ajswan2386 omg he was the furthest thing from it! He would criticize Duke way more than he complemented them! And I would know that first hand cing as how I've been a die-hard Duke fan since the early '80s! Billy Packer always made you aware at least once during a telecast that he bled Wake Forest black and gold! No matter what teams we're playing he would reference Wake! He made certain u knew where he attended or his announcing partner would make mention of it
@@ajswan2386 Don't try so hard next time showing your hatred for Duke LMAO
@@bradlewis6514Trying so hard my ass if Kenny Anderson threw a no look pass he would say too much mustard for me. Bobby Hurley would come down and do one and he would yell great pass!
@@bradlewis6514 Coach K can get the fuck outta here too. Never recruiting inner city players. Now whites giving up on the game playing baseball since we stopped playing it and he cant keep his ass out of Chicago now.
Hunt was my guy
Motor City 313
such a shame the caa destroyed unlv an tark over a few unpaid long distance phone bills .unlv has an never will recover from all the santions placed upon them in the early 90s
Dennis Scott
Only thing that messes up this game is Billy Packer
Brent finna get fired
The refs ruined this game on both sides! Let the guys play!
Everyone talks about UNLV's blowout of Duke, but people forget another ACC team gave them serious fits
I was upset when my gophers lost by three to Georgia tech in the elite 8
@@gregpettis1113 93-91… Clem Haskins was a pre game commentator in the beginning of this video
This is making me hate the ncaa even more
The way they treated UNLV
@@damienkirksey7026 Damien, it's because people didn't see the Vegas players and team administration from beyond the troublemaker tabloids! Being in Vegas was their downfall and it shouldn't have been! They we're nieve and got brutally taken advantage of (singled out)! I loved when they won that national championship and Tark had the trophy sitting front and center in his office to rub it in the NCAA's face when they'd come to see him
@@damienkirksey7026 The NCAA has always been nothing but a two-faced double standard setter
@@damienkirksey7026 Vegas was doing the same thing North Carolina, DUKE, Kentucky, Kansas, Syracuse, Georgetown, UCLA, etc, etc, etc... all had been doing for DECADES.
But they weren't a so-called "Blue Blood" program, and had a so-called "renegade" as a coach...so the NCAA went after them hard. And they basically destroyed everything Tark spent nearly two decades building, in one flail swoop.
And the NCAA has been worse off for it ever since. UNLV was one of the few Western powerhouses in college basketball(besides UCLA and Arizona). They made people on the East Coast stay up late and watch them, they were must see TV. Not just this team, but the vast majority of Tark's teams.
The NCAA is corrupt. They have their good boy universities that they like.
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Georgia Tech shouldn't have been here. Got an out and out GIFT in the Sweet 16.
That was the second time in five years that Michigan St had been hosed by clock-related issues in the regionals! Kansas '86 then Georgia Tech! Or the Spartans may have added two more FF's to their resume under Heathcote! I personally believe they would have
I remember both of those games well! But in the end it wouldn't have mattered at least in '90! Vegas wasn't gonna be denied! I still to this day think that team is the best since the field went to 64 in 1985! The level at which they were playing at the end of the '90 season they could have beaten anybody
Yeah, the shot was late
@@bradlewis6514 If MSU had beaten Tech in the 1990 Sweet 16 they wipe;d have had a tough game in the Region Finals against Minnesota. The two teams had split during the regular season with each team winning on the road.