Was 1992 Duke vs. Kentucky the greatest game in NCAA basketball history?

Yes, hands down and going away the best NCAA basketball game ever. I'm not a hardcore fan of either, (Maryland) but a more thrilling game wire to wire I've never seen. I see people list some great UPSETS, but these where 2 Giants colliding and BOTH living up to the hype.

I'll tell you one thing...it's way up the list, that's for sure.

Of course, there have been so many great games that no one remembers any more, or knows anything about... Houston ending UCLA's 47 game winning streak (Alcindor), Notre Dame ending UCLA's 88 game winning streak (Walton)... I'm inclined to list the 1982 NCAA final as the best Championship Game I've seen, considering the stars on both NC and Georgetown, and the fact that it lived up to the hype, with room to spare...

I think you could certainly call Duke-Kentucky the best NCAA tournament game ever played, and it would be hard to prove you wrong. And Trish beat me to my point (good job, Trish!) , which is that it's easy to list major upsets as the greatest games ever (especially if they're close games, as the two UCLA games were...although they were not really MAJOR upsets), but for two heavyweights like Duke and Kentucky to go at it the way they did in that game, it was truly a game for the ages, that lived up to every bit of the hype, and then some!

So yeah, considering the circumstances of that game, it's as good a candidate as any to be called the best game ever.

one of the best. Others include National title games:

NC State vs. Houston

Indiana vs. Syracuse

UNC vs. Georgetown

Villanova vs. Georgetown

and Princeton upsets defending champions UCLA in first round.

I would personally go for the Indiana Syracuse game with the game winning basket by Keith Smart (im a hoosier fan, and sorry for the 2002 NCAA tournament upset with Duke :), but the 1992 Duke Kentucky Game would come 2nd. Princeton UCLA would come 3rd

It was the greatest game ever I was 7 years old sitting in the living room watching it with my dad when the game was finally over we didn't have a TV anymore he threw the remote so hard into the screen it cracked and the remote busted into 1000 pieces my dad hasn't watched a Kentucky game since I'm 21 now and I still don't bring up '92 around my dad I didn't remember alot about the game until I watched it on ESPN classics when I was 13 it was the greatest game ever AND Kentucky SHOULD HAVE WON the shot was bull crap or lucky whatever you want to call it Lattener and Duke SUCKS UK #1

I am too young to remember that game, but I do believe the 1999 and 2004 comeback wins with Duke and UConn were pretty good. Yeah, I know I am obsessed with UConn, but Duke is okay, I guess.

Give the 10 points to TUS

The two best Final Four games were, and take your pick:

Villanova's 9-10 (90%) second half shooting is often cited, though the Cats shot a no less respectable 13-18 (72%) in the first.

Lowly rated Villanova shot 78% from the field to defeat heavily favored and #1 ranked Patrick Ewing's Georgetown (and, future NBA player David Wingate) on April 1, 1985 by a score of 66 to 64.

A NCAA Championship where a team shot 78% from the field and only won by 2 point?

That 1985 Villanova victory over Patrick Ewing's Georgetown was a great game.

Now, another great Final Fours game was the late Howard Porter (a former NBA player and a P.O. officer found murdered recently in Minneapolis in May, 2007) led Villanova's 2 overtime victory over All American Jim "Big Mac" McDaniels highly ranked Western Kentucky as Villanova kicked most of their scholarship players off of the team at midseason of the 1970-71 season leaving only 5 scholarship players left on the Villanova team.

The 1971 NCAA Semi Final of Villanova playing only 5 players through the entire NCAA playoffs as Villanova only had 5 scholarship players left on the team.

Villanova's scholarship and starting power forward Hank Siemiontkowski fouled out with seconds left in regulation with Villanova down against highly ranked Western Kentucky in the 1971 NCAA Final Four in the Houston Astrodome which resulted in Villanova playing two overtimes with only four scholarship players and a very inexperienced walkon as Howard Porter picked up the slack basically having Villanova playing 4 on 5 for two overtimes in the NCAA Final Four against the heavily favorite Western Kentucky where Howard Porter lifted his unranked Villanova team to a 92-89 double overtime victory with Villanova playing both overtimes with only four scholarship players.

Villanova went into the NCAA Finals against the "Wizard of Westwood" and his great UCLA teams and first or second team All Americans in Curtis Rowe, Sidney Wicks, Steve Patterson, and Henry Bibby (yes, the 1971 Bibby is related to the 2007 Bibby) with Villanova playing the closest game losing 68-62 to UCLA which was UCLA's closest championship game in UCLA's string of six or more straight NCAA championships as UCLA had a dynasty head and shoulders above everyone else in the nation for years.

1971 Villanova 92, Western Kentucky (2 OTs with unranked Villanova only having 4 scholarship players against highly ranked Western Kentucky for the double overtime)

1985 Villanova 66, Georgetown 64 (Villanova shot 78% from the field to win by two points against Patrick Ewing's Georgetown where Chris Ford was the point guard for Villanova)...

...and no I am not a Villanova fan, just think it odd for 4 scholarship players on an unranked team in one case to defeat a highly ranked team, and, similarly, think it odd that Villanova had to shoot 78% from the field to win a NCAA Final by only 2 points against a much higher ranked and heavily favored Patrick Ewing's Georgetown...

and many other great NCAA games including the North Carolina State air ball which turned into an accidental "alley oop" with no time left on the clock.

NO? This might sound crazy but the college basketball game i have ever seen was in the 2005 NCAA tournament. Granted Im only 15 but in my opinion the Illinois vs. Arizona would be something I would pay top dollar for.

BUT THATS MY OPINION?

No, it's 1995 UCLA vs. Missouri.

Tyus Edney sprinting down the court and hitting a game winner with time expiring >>>>>>> Christian Laetner hitting a free throw shot to win a game.

For important tourney games, yes, it certainly deserves consideration as one of the best (definitely one of the best finishes). But I've seen better games in conference tournaments, or even regular season that beat that game out in terms of overall excitement.

Duke is

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