Most Demoralizing Loss??

**every_yard** · 01-11-2008, 12:07 AM

Don't mean to ruin every one's mood, but I thought I would see what people viewed as the most demoralizing loss in recent years in Cyclone Sports (basketball or football).

**Cyclone62** · 01-11-2008, 12:09 AM

Giving Baylor their FIRST EVER road victory.

**CrossCyed** · 01-11-2008, 12:10 AM

Missouri/Kansas potential North clinchers in football
Michigan State/Hampton in basketball

It's so hard to choose from so many.

**cloneu** · 01-11-2008, 12:18 AM

I picked Kansas in 05. So much optimism after beating Colorado and getting up in that game early. At halftime I couldn't even imagine loosing that game.

But as mentioned above it is hard to pick from so many.

**rworkman83** · 01-11-2008, 12:23 AM

Michigan State game without question...

We were minutes away from going to the Final Four. I had never been so excited. I'll never be able to get over the fact that we were literally minutes away from the Final Four, which is something I may never see in my lifetime...

**Cyclone62** · 01-11-2008, 12:26 AM

Yea, losing the shot at the Final Four was bad, but was it embarrassing? Not really.

**cyclonedave25** · 01-11-2008, 12:29 AM

As for embarrassing loss, it has to be Hampton.
i don't even wanna talk about it. Horrible, just horrible.

**cmoore_23** · 01-11-2008, 12:31 AM

im going to say uconn.. just because it capped off such a bad fall.. we were ranked 9th at one time..

**Iastfan112** · 01-11-2008, 12:44 AM

Since this is demoralizing I would have to go with Kansas,we were up, then even later we had multiple chances to win the games but managed to screw it up

**arganbright2** · 01-11-2008, 12:49 AM

That UCONN game was terrible. Not only were they new to Division 1-A, they completely dominated every phase of that game. I sat first row right behind the UCONN bench and those 70 players and coaches on their sideline were louder than the rest of the crowd. (I'm not even joking)

**Drive4cy** · 01-11-2008, 12:52 AM

-Blowing that big lead to UCLA in the sweet 16 in 1997 was fairly demoralizing. Cameron Dollar over Cato still bothers me.

-UConn game was bad but the way the second half of that season went down it didn't surprise me all that much.

-Losing to Missouri in 2004 at JTS with all that was at stake was just unbelievable.

**CrossCyed** · 01-11-2008, 12:59 AM

In the sense of the word demoralizing, that backalley beatdown we got from OU in 2002 when we were #9 and they were #2....that was PAINFUL.

**BvK1126** · 01-11-2008, 01:11 AM

I picked Hampton, with the 2004 football loss to Missouri a close second. McCarney's football teams had broken my heart enough times that I should have known better than to get my hopes up too high, even though I felt like someone had punched me in the gut after Missouri intercepted Meyer's goal-line pass in OT.

The Hampton loss was just completely inexplicable. There was no way a team that talented -- that had run roughshod over the Big 12 for the second straight year -- should have lost that game, especially with an 11-point lead with less than 10 minutes to go. I still feel sick to my stomach whenever I think about that game.

**BryceC** · 01-11-2008, 05:50 AM

You could have heard a pin drop after the Mizzou loss. Although I was a supporter of the coach throughout his tenure, I always felt differently about the program at that time.