"That's really when I thought this team has a chance to be in the Final Four and go all the way in the national championship," Nail said. "By the middle of the second half you're going to get winded. "The Razorbacks took back the lead in a back-and-forth second half, but Grant Hill — the biggest remaining piece from those Blue Devils' title teams — hit a game-tying 3-pointer with 1:26 remaining.
Now, he looks back on that team with appreciation. "I never really understood it. "It showed in Arkansas' second home game that season, when the No. "I felt like we had a good chance if we could get past Michigan," Richardson said. They were tough. "In order for us to have a chance to win, we had to figure out a way to get cheap baskets.
Re: 1994 Basketball Roster « Reply #4 on: February 02, 2007, 01:38:42 pm » Only two seniors on that team...and crawford had broken his ankle during the tournament. Scotty hit so many big shots throughout his career going back to his freshman year.
"Richardson experimented with different lineups and played 10 different players against Duke. ... NATIONAL SEMIFINALS: Arkansas 91, Arizona 82 Duke 70, Florida 65 NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP: Arkansas 76, Duke 72 Help ; About Us ; The defining sequence of Arkansas' 1994 national championship run came in the final game of its season, fittingly, with "1:00" left on the clock against Duke.Clint McDaniel passed to Corey Beck, who took two dribbles to the right baseline; star forward Corliss Williamson was too close, so Beck flipped a pass back to Dwight Stewart, a 6-9 center with a smooth touch; he bobbled Beck's pass, but gathered control of the ball and flipped it to Scotty Thurman in the wing; Thurman splashed a rainbow 3 with just a second remaining on the shot clock and 50.7 seconds left in the game.With that shot, Thurman broke a 70-70 tie, spurring the Razorbacks to a 76-72 victory and their first national championship. "Williamson remembers that being a turning point in the season. "Our kids are playing well but Michigan is playing a terrific game," Clinton said on the CBS telecast. — saw their development and wanted to be a part of it. 1, and that attracted national attention from the White House.Clinton, who was the governor of Arkansas when Richardson was hired, attended a few home games during the regular season (Nail remembers the band being forced to leave the instruments in the arena the night before games). You must prepare for the next day and get ready to play. "That day was over. If it's on the court, if it's a statue.
"He would always tell me he was preparing for when I was going to go to college and play basketball," Thurman said.
The Razorbacks spent the entire month of December at No. 1 in the AP Poll the following week. "'Right side, Thurman. Former Arkansas coach Nolan Richardson and most of his former players from the 1994 National Championship Team were on hand for a ceremony prior to the tip of Arkansas' basketball … ""Enjoy basketball. It's a quarter-century later that Richardson thinks less about the championships that could have been, and more about the one his team did win.That 1993-94 team celebrated its 25th anniversary reunion this year, when Arkansas played Ole Miss on March 2, a 74-73 win in Bud Walton Arena. "That unselfish answer explains how the 1993-94 Arkansas team became the most fun Southeastern Conference men's basketball champion of all time — even if it didn't always feel that way for the Razorbacks at that time.Kentucky has eight national championship teams. "I don't care how many minutes you can give me but give me those minutes as hard as you can. It was about pride. We got the selfish thing out of the way early. "Arkansas fell from No. Anybody. No subs. 1 pick in the 1993 NBA Draft — but the four remaining members of the Fab Five filled the starting lineup.
We're loaded.
This was a 15-deep team with a simple philosophy. The 1994 National Championship team, the only National Championship team in Arkansas Basketball history, was honored at Bud Walton Saturday for the 25th Anniversary. We were an offensive team that was going to be score points.
You see players today who don't want to talk to you or avoid the press. I played in the times when none of you can imagine what you had to go through. "There was nobody that had to get up 15 or 16 shots a game," Beck said. '"Richardson would push the Razorbacks back to the national championship game in 1995, resetting the SEC record for points before the team fell to UCLA, 89-78. "I told them all it don't take no smarts to dunk.
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