Here it is, Folks: The Top 10 Games, Post Style

[PantherU]

We spent a couple hours on this list in our Post Sports staff meeting last week Monday. The big board had over 25 games, and we made it a point to have at least one of every sport for the discussion, but we left some sports by the wayside for obvious reasons. A few of the sports were too individually driven for the writers to put them on, and others didn't really have big moments. I wasn't the one who decided every single game, but I was the one who did the write-ups. They are ranked; feel free to pick them apart - several staff writers already did, and this is the best list we could come up with. The link to the article is below, the lead-in is in this thread:

The 10 Greatest Games in UWM Division I History

A collaboration of amazing wins by the Panthers

by Jimmy Lemke
Sports Editor

When the end of the year inched closer and closer, the Post began a lengthy search - a search for the 10 greatest sporting events in the schools history began.

Since the school was re-christened the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 1956, there have been thousands of games covering everything from basketball to football to shooting.

The sheer amount of contests is staggering, and theyre being added to with every passing year.

As the list of great sporting events grew, the Post came to the conclusion that since the grand majority of them occurred after the program moved to Division I in all sports in 1990, the list should reflect it.

As far as the Post knows, no publication has attempted to compile such a list before. After hours of deliberation, the Post compiled a list of the 10 greatest games in our schools D-I sports history:

www.uwmpost.com/article/ff8081811225eab9011263d73e5d0037

NOTE:[/u][/i] We are getting a new website, since this one is complete crap. We're stepping it up to a much better, easily updated and interactive website. Hopefully doing this will take out all these stupid —s where there should be dashes.

[milwsport]

Hard to argue with those but you left out a very impressive Football win. It was over St. Norbert's, which at the time was ranked sixth or seventh in the country, and it was accomplished by a UWM team that had only one or two victories. It was sometime in the 1950's.

Then there was also the UWM FB win over Illinois State. The Redbirds normally beat us by 30 to 40 points. It was the season opener for both teams. ISU was the defending NCAA D-2 champs. (now called D-1AA). We kicked their butts running up a 28 point lead and then hung on to win 33 to 29. That game was in the mid 70's. I think it was like 1974,5, or 6.

I don't know if it was the game you mentioned against Rice, but I know the men's Baseball team beat a team iranked in the top five in one of it's NCAA appearances. If that was the game the ranking should've been mentioned.

[PantherU]

What a coincidence, both those football games were on the original list. But, we kept all of them, even old D-I games, off the map. We cut it down to only D-I, then again to only D-I post-1990. I believe it's mentioned in the article. The 10 Greatest Games of UWM Division One Post-1990 History would be a really long title...it's pretty long as is.

[PantherU]

And yes, Rice was the #1 overall team. Forgot to mention that one.

[milwsport]

Well if you do a "Pre-1990" article you can include those FB games then. It's worth mentioning that ISU had almost all of its starters back from its championship team when we beat them.

I almost made my tuition that night. I bet on UWM and was getting anywhere from 35 to 45 points. LOL

[PantherU]

Haha maybe we can write an article about that bet...that would be a pretty cool feature to have this upcoming fall.