Top 5 WWLL? (Woolys Worst Loss List)

[Saulbadguy]

WWLL
You decide 2006.

Some early candidates:

03 UMKC
06 Nebraska
Western Carolina (what year was that?)

Something to pass the time..

[fatty fat fat]

Great thread.

05 OU was pretty bad. (Held to like 33 points by an NIT team)
ku 01-02 was bad both times (28, 35 point losses)

[pissclams]

Please add the 2003 loss to UMKC by 41pts to the list.

[Saulbadguy]

Please add the 2003 loss to UMKC by 41pts to the list.

Whoops.

[ChicagoCat]

UMKC is far and above the worst I can recall.  I don't know if its fair to blame him for the Colorado Big 12 tourny game that Pasco declared us number one in but I'll blame him anyways.  The loss to the EA sports all stars in exhibition in 03 was pretty awful.  

[JesusShuttlesworth]

Nothing like getting your ass handed to you by a Mid-Con team in front of a mostly KSU crowd at Municipal Auditorium (a place that KSU has played in a Final Four). 

Very typical of the Wooly era.  Get the everyone excited enough to start caring, and then piss down your leg and embarrass the team, the University, and the alumni. 

[bigdeal]

Wooly's worst loss?  2000 through 2006 seasons....The Lost Years

[slucat]

UMKC
OSU when we were tied or close or ahead at halftime then came out and pissed down our leg
NU last year was pretty horrid.

[Saulbadguy]

Nothing like getting your ass handed to you by a Mid-Con team in front of a mostly KSU crowd at Municipal Auditorium (a place that KSU has played in a Final Four). 

Very typical of the Wooly era.  Get the everyone excited enough to start caring, and then piss down your leg and embarrass the team, the University, and the alumni. 

Was it a mostly KSU crowd? I was not there.

[michigancat]

1) UMKC (duh)
2) Nebraska (with 10:13 left in the second half, we had 22 points)
3) Wisc. Green Bay (They went 10-20 that year.)
4) Western Carolina (duh)
5) Oklahoma '00 (Most incredible late-game stupidity ever.  Worse than Pasco.)

[JesusShuttlesworth]

Was it a mostly KSU crowd? I was not there.

Yes.  By far.  The Muni was packed with purple that night.  That loss was a HUGE blow to the already suspect fan support from KC area fans. 

I sat on the baseline right behind Greg Gurley.  That guy did nothing but talk crap on K-State all game long.  He was so bad that I thought Tim Ellis was going to go after him at one point in the night. 

[ScubaSteve]

Colorado in the Big 12 Tournament.

"The Pervis Pasco Fiasco."

[WilliamTheWildcat]

The Okie St. loss at home in 03(?).

Up by 20 and we went into a shell.  They kept running their O and started hitting shots. Closed the gap to 15.  Then 12. They played relentless D and fouled and fouled us when we were able to work the ball down for a bunny..  KSU couldn't hit a FT down the stretch to save their lives.

It was a case of a "great" coach vs a 'great guy' coach.

Pisses me off to this day.

[ksuno1stunner]

Great thread.

05 OU was pretty bad. (Held to like 33 points by an NIT team)
ku 01-02 was bad both times (28, 35 point losses)

ou is the luckiest team ever in the whole wide world.  i'm assuming u mean nebraska though

[GoldbrickGangBoss]

The fact that UMKC beat you by 41 is the only reason I know UMKC exists.

[Saulbadguy]

The fact that UMKC beat you by 41 is the only reason I know UMKC exists.

Go 'Roos!

[BrotherDDay]

Here's one off the radar, but very worthy of consideration:  Home loss to CU in '05.

K-State finally retires some jerseys -- Barrett, Parr and Boozer.  One thinks K-State will be fired-up and send the Buffaloes back to the Rockies with their tails between their legs.

K-State leads by 10 in the first half -- past the midway point.  This is looking pretty good.

CU comes back and ties the game right before the half. Uh-oh.  One can sense another Wooly flameout.

But there's hope...

Halftime: Jerseys retired, Parr, Barrett and Boozer talk about how great K-State basketball was and will be.  Wooly must be getting the team fired up in the locker room.

But,...
Boozer was drugged by Wooly, apparantly.  When he has the mic, he tells the crowd that Wooly is the man, K-State basketball will be back with Wooly as the coach, you need to support the team.  Very weird... not a good sign.

Second Half:
Wooly never tells anyone to guard Roby, or any other Buff outside the 3-pt line.  They burn down the nets.

In true Wooly coached team fashion, the Cats fall by 10 to the Buffs on a day when it's supposed to be a feel-good afternoon for K-State Basketball.

Pathetic.  I didn't think I could feel as worse as I did after the Roos game at the Muni, but this game took allowed it to happen.  I've never seen so many male K-State fans go ballastic after a game at Bramlage than this one.  It wasn't a good afternoon for wives in Manhattan who were lucky enough to attend this game with their husbands. 

 

[fatty fat fat]

Nice add brother. Everyone here was adding the regulars, nice job thinking outside the box.

[Fausto]

"2000 through 2006 seasons....The Lost Years"

What?  I thought the common spin on this was these years were vital in rebuilding the program from the depths of what it was under the former regime...and ultimately led us to such an elevated level we could attract a top shelf coach like Huggins.

[ksu_FAN]

Western Carolina always sticks out there in my mind.  UMKC is less etched in my memory b/c I was on the road to Phoenix. 

A couple more:

1. Getting swept by a bad Northwestern team in a home and home.

2. Getting beat by a bad Baylor team while not being able to solve a 2-3 zone.

3. ISU in the first round of the Big 12 tourney coming off the UT win.

[Saulbadguy]

The 04/05 losses (any of them) were bad because we sucked in football ,too. 

I'll nominate RUTGERS for the Top 5 in the WWLL. 

We rolled in to that game undefeated, although many of our wins were close wins. It sucked for many reasons..the hot dog fiasco, the inept handling of the deal by the K-State ticket office, no student section due to winter break, and Rutgers guards just lighting us up. We almost came back, but Clent turned it over at a crucial time, and we lost our momentum.

[michigancat]

Yep, excellent selection from BB.  IIRC, CU was the 11 seed in the Big xii tourney that year.

I thought about the Northwestern series.

Didn't think of the ISU game, but that was pitiful.

[fatty fat fat]

Iowa State was terrible. I missed a HS tennis practice to watch that one.


Sigh...how much time I wasted watching wooly ball.

[ksu_FAN]

Another way of categorizing Wooly's 5 worst "losses":

1. Nick Williams
2. Fred Peete
3. Dez Willingham
4. Marcus Hayden
5. Travis Reynolds

Granted, these types of losses happen and often there is nothing a coach can do.  However, that's a pretty fair line-up right there and losing players like that kills a program.

[Dan Rydell]

Granted, these types of losses happen and often there is nothing a coach can do.  However, that's a pretty fair line-up right there and losing players like that kills a program.

Whatever, dude.  Losing players builds a program.  Addition by subtraction, wheat from the chaff, all that good stuff.  Don't you read KSF.com?

Nick Williams left because he was scared of competition from Dez Willingham.  Dez Willingham left because he was scared of competition from Fred Peete.  Fred Peete left because he was scared of competition from Mario Taybron. 

Similarly, Travis Reynolds left because he was scared of Marcus Hayden, who in turn left because the weed made him scared of everything.

These players weren't buying into the system and by forcing them out Wooly was able to replace them with skilled two-star recruits, who turned this program around and beat ku this year.  Then we turned around and fired him, the ungrateful bastages that we are.  Hopefully we don't make the same mistake twice.

 

[michigancat]

Granted, these types of losses happen and often there is nothing a coach can do.  However, that's a pretty fair line-up right there and losing players like that kills a program.

Whatever, dude.  Losing players builds a program.  Addition by subtraction, wheat from the chaff, all that good stuff.  Don't you read KSF.com?

Nick Williams left because he was scared of competition from Dez Willingham.  Dez Willingham left because he was scared of competition from Fred Peete.  Fred Peete left because he was scared of competition from Mario Taybron. 

Similarly, Travis Reynolds left because he was scared of Marcus Hayden, who in turn left because the weed made him scared of everything.

These players weren't buying into the system and by forcing them out Wooly was able to replace them with skilled two-star recruits, who turned this program around and beat ku this year.  Then we turned around and fired him, the ungrateful bastages that we are.  Hopefully we don't make the same mistake twice.

 

What's funny/sad about that is people actually made similar arguments to that...the main one being Dez Willingham being afraid of Clent Stewart.

[sys]

losing players doesn't hurt programs, but not replacing them does.


there really can't be any debate beyond umkc.  that was just a mind boggling defeat.  buty if i had to throw another out there as competition, baylor 05-06 would be in it for me.  mostly because i lost a hell of lot of money on that game.

[Andy]

losing players doesn't hurt programs, but not replacing them does.


there really can't be any debate beyond umkc.  that was just a mind boggling defeat.  buty if i had to throw another out there as competition, baylor 05-06 would be in it for me.  mostly because i lost a hell of lot of money on that game.

i lost on that too...kstate an 8.5 pt road favorite wtf was i thinking???  looks really dumb now but man...baylor was bad...oh well

[Andy]

my official vote goes to the western carolina game.
i've posted about this before but that one still gets me because it was a home loss to an absolute nobody.  wooly's 2nd season (2001-2002), winter break game with about 1500 people there, me included.  This to me was the first real sign that something wasn't right.  the team looked flat and unmotivated (like we typically saw 4-5 times a season under wooly) and i really started freaking out that we would lose that innocuous record for most consecutive home winning seasons because we had already lost to miss. and wichita state at home.

[WILDCAT NATION]

Nebraska '06 was by far the worst, imo.