Be sure you come on out this Saturday to watch Jermaine Taylor and Kenrick Zondervan’s last home basketball games at UCF. They deserve all the support we can get!
UCF 2009 Men’s Basketball Conference Highlight Video
This was uploaded by the UCF Video dept on the UCFAA channel of YouTube. Takes the video and adds the feed of 740am with Marc Daniels and Mike O’Donnel calling the game. A must watch ending to an epic game! I love it when Tulsa comes to town!!!
Rompza buzzer beater lifts Knights over Tulsa 74-72
He points out how this community is really missing something special in it’s own backyard. The only irony is part of the reason could be blamed on the paper which has done a poor job of highlighting this fact to its readers. Hopefully people will catch on soon because there are only a few games left where Orlando can watch Jermaine live this season. Come on our Orlando!
UCF’s Taylor should not be well-kept secret
Proof?
Jermaine Taylor Amazing One Handed Alley-Oop DUNK!!!
Our rivals to the west have been able to say SCOREBOARD for awhile in terms of basketball & football for way too long now, but not anymore. We have the last laugh as UCF beat USF last night in front of a great atmosphere in the UCF Arena. I took some pictures and video that I’ll hopefully post a big later but someone else has already added a video of the end of the game showing the type of atmosphere we had. Check that out below.
The game was a blast, thanks to Kirk and the boys for finally taking the Bulls down!
UCF vs. USF Dec. 6, 2008
Welcome to Keith Clanton who signed a national letter of intent with UCF today! Clanton is a huge pickup for Kirk and the Knights, without a doubt one of the biggest signings in UCF basketball history. He is a 6′8 power forward who plays locally at Orlando Christian Prep with a great resume including:
Here is video of him signing via WFTV.
Here is the article in the Orlando Sentinel.
(photo courtesy of ucf.rivals.com)
These have to be two of the best ever dunks at UCF. Video may not due them justice…
Diakite Huge Slam vs NC A&T
Jermaine Taylor Amazing One Handed Alley-Oop DUNK!!!
Kirk appears to have done an amazing job in recruiting. We have one of the youngest teams in the nation but we have one bright future. I think we’re going to have a surprisingly great year even though we have 8 freshman and only 2 upperclassmen. Sure we’ll have some lumps with all the youth, but I like this team…I like them a lot. We had two of the greatest dunks in UCF history in the same game courtesy of Dave Diakite and Jermaine Taylor. Here are pics of Diakite’s dunk courtesy of Brandon at UCFSports.com.
Let’s pack the Arena for USF on Dec 6th! We owe the Bulls big time.
Thanks to KnightVision and UCF for getting this video up on YouTube! Great stuff from the basketball crowds this year, especially Biggie dancing!
Sorry I’m a little late on this, I actually just flat out forgot. Here are just a couple pics I took of Senior Night / Sign Protest ‘08. Honestly I was too involved in the game and even the events in the student section to remember to take many pics. However there is a set of crowd shots (5,600+) and pics of the Helmet-Man/Rowdy Knight sign protest, as well as one of our own. Exciting game that went down to the wire with UCF beating Rice in front of an electric crowd.
First off a huge thank you to the seniors. I am REALLY REALLY going to miss watching MOD and Dave Noel play. I can’t say enough great things about what they’ve meant to UCF as we moved from the A-Sun to C-USA. No one expected much from UCF making that giant leap, but a 5th, 2nd, and now possibly 3rd/4th place finish in the past 3 seasons can be attributed heavily to their contributions. Chip, Stanley, and Mike B were also absolutely instrumental over the past twos and especially this year. Stanley has flat out exceeded expectations this year, Chip is a magician with the ball, and no one has a smoother shot that Battle. It’s too bad that Billings and Battle had some injury problems during their career here.
As for the whole sign issue. I put 100% of the blame on the UCF Administration for letting the issue get out of control on Saturday night. Anyone could have seen that coming from a mile away. They created so problems this year, that didn’t exist. They have no one to blame but themselves. I sincerely hope that the re-evaluate their policies over the off season and come back with a better game plan. There is no reason for signs to be banned, end of story. Not only that, they really need to lose the us vs them mentality if it does exists. Let’s work as a team- coaches, players, students, and administration to make UCF basketball the best experience it can be. Oh and lastly Helmet Man will go down in history for his masterful plan to sneak in 50 signs. GREAT JOB!
Back to the important business, the Knights play two final games this season and if they win out they will get 3rd place which is huge considering it means not playing Memphis until the Champ game. It all starts this Wednesday night at Houston, it doesn’t get much bigger of a game than that…
GO KNIGHTS!
Note: I’ll be skiing in Colorado for the next week so this may be my last post in awhile.
It’s been one heck of a great year for UCF Sports maybe the best ever, but that doesn’t mean things are perfect in Knight-land. There’s been some real head scratchers all year that has put a sour taste in my mouth more than a few times. Here are some things that give some credence to sayings such as U Can’t have Fun University and the No Fun Administration.
Why do I bring this up now? Because quite frankly I’m not happy that I can’t bring a sign thanking MOD, Dave, and our other seniors on Senior Night like we have in years past for players like Dexter, Gary, and Josh.
I sincerely hope that the UCFAA understands that just because we have these top facilities, great coaches, and improving teams doesn’t mean we won’t speak our minds when something occurs that we as fans don’t like. And we don’t like some of what’s going on right now.
Here’s a signature floating around on Rivals that I find to be funny, although I don’t agree with the clueless comment.
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