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00:08Welcome in to another edition of Who's Number One, I'm Trey Wingo.
00:12Look, time may not really stand still, but it sure does seem to take a long time during the frenzy
00:17of the NCAA tournament.
00:18The clock melts, the shots in the air, your heart in your throat.
00:22Consequences? Pretty simple. One and done.
00:26See, the allure of March Madness is that so many games come down to this.
00:30The last shot. ESPN Classic now presents the 20 greatest NCAA tournament buzzer beaters of all time.
00:4120.
00:44Tyrone Adams. 10 seconds.
00:48It's one and done in March Madness.
00:50You know, in the NBA, you see a lot of buzzer beaters, but guess what? There's another game tomorrow night.
00:54March Madness is a little bit different. You miss that shot, and you go home.
00:58Seven seconds.
01:01Black and I'm going to go home.
01:03And the best one is this one. It's a step.
01:06That's going to be the Oregon State.
01:09Oregon State was ranked number one for five weeks in the regular season, and was number two entering the 1981
01:16tournament.
01:16In its first game, it never trailed against unranked Kansas State until Rolando Blackman drilled a 16-foot baseline jumper
01:24with two seconds left that ousted the...
01:26Future Maverick and paired with Mark Aguirre.
01:30Black 10 champs, 50 to 48.
01:33Jack Harmon, a brilliant strategist. Who's he going to go to? His P.T. Pew, his prime-time performer, Rolando
01:40Blackman.
01:41Blackman wanted the rock, baby. And oh, he delivered with that baseline jump shot.
01:46A 16-footer on a deep right side when they needed to pick when they went to their bread and
01:52butter.
01:53Here's a guy who had made his reputation through his career by hitting clutch shots, but any time a great
01:59player hits a buzzer-beating shot to win an NCAA tournament game,
02:03that kind of pushes them up in their school's rank of legends.
02:12The Terrapins have one last shot at winning this game.
02:17You see the Terps draw UNC Wilmington, you figure you notch that up as basically an easy victory, and then
02:23it goes down to the wire.
02:24The tournament on the line right now. Hold it inbounds to Nicholas.
02:28Four seconds, three seconds, he's across the court.
02:31Two seconds, one second, throws it up.
02:33And the Terrapins win on the shot by Nicholas at the buzzer!
02:43Defending national champion Maryland trailed giant killer UNC Wilmington by a point with five seconds left in the first round
02:49in 2003.
02:51Drew Nicholas took the ball and matters into his own hands.
02:54Driving nearly the length of the court and swishing a three for a 75-73 Terps win.
03:00It looks like they're about to go down.
03:02Five seconds left, Drew Nicholas gets the ball.
03:04All the way up the court.
03:06Dagger!
03:06A three-pointer by Nicholas and Maryland wins it in dramatic fashion!
03:11A fabulous shot, and for Maryland, a nice way so that the defending champ doesn't go out in round one
03:18of the next year's event.
03:20Wait!
03:20He could have just taken a two-pointer.
03:24Honestly.
03:3018-18.
03:42UCLA was 16 points back of Iowa State in the second half of the first-
03:48Overtime by driving the length of the floor, and with 1.9 seconds left, banking in the winner, 74-73.
03:57UCLA was down huge in that game.
04:00You thought that the Bruins were finished, but they chipped away slowly, and you talk about a money player with
04:06a money name.
04:08He was the type of a player that didn't score a lot, but brother, when the chips were down, you
04:14needed a big basket.
04:15He goes to the left of the court, and with 1.9 seconds on the clock, a floater, a banker
04:21off the glass, and UCLA dances with joy.
04:24Jubilation for Steve Lavin and UCLA!
04:28Even though they didn't go on and win the championship, it's a shot people remember for a long, long time.
04:33And Cameron Dowell, a pretty good player, made a great player by being able to be a part of a
04:37moment like that.
04:4117-17-17.
04:43When you're going to win or contend for a national championship, your best player has to step up.
04:49Seven seconds left.
04:50Wallace will go all the way.
04:51Stopped from 20.
04:52He hit it!
04:53He hit it!
04:54Wallace for three!
04:55Wallace for three!
04:56Two seconds!
04:57One!
04:58Knocked away!
04:59And two wins!
05:00And two wins!
05:01We're going to the Green A's!
05:03They're playing for the Final Four!
05:07Syracuse overcame a nine-point deficit in the last two and a half minutes to force overtime against Georgia in
05:12a 1996 regional semifinal.
05:14But in the extra period, the Orange trailed by one with 2.8 seconds left, when John Wallace, who scored
05:20Cuse's final ten points, threw in a three-pointer for an 83-81 win.
05:25The game's on the line, and you know, this is the last shot, do or die.
05:29And Wallace stops, goes up for three, boom, knocks it through.
05:33That is just about as good as it gets right there.
05:36For Wallace to score the last ten points of the game, capped by hitting the game-winning shot, well, that
05:41was kind of the thing that told you how important John Wallace was to that Syracuse team.
05:45It was the beginning of one of the great tournament runs by an individual player in recent memory.
05:57Sixteen.
05:58Sixteen.
05:59Sixteen.
06:13That was a great moment, especially for people that, you know, grew up in L.A. and went to USC
06:24to watch UCLA get backdoored out of the tournament.
06:27That was fun.
06:29Pesky Princeton, specialist in scaring high seeds, scored seven straight points to tie defending champion UCLA late in the 1996
06:36first-round game.
06:37For a change, the Tigers got more than a moral victory.
06:41With 3.9 seconds left, freshman Gabe Luellis made a backdoor layup, a Princeton signature, for a 43-41 win.
06:48The Tigers' first in the NCAAs since 1965.
06:52There will be a new...
06:53...by an Ivy League team of white guys.
06:57Was there a black guy on the court?
06:59Champion in the NCAA has his offending national champion and been eliminated by the upstart Christian Tigers.
07:09That was the right game for an upset.
07:11You know, UCLA was just coming off a championship, feeling pretty good about themselves, and Princeton really got UCLA to
07:17play their tempo and eventually got those backdoor cuts that everyone's accustomed to seeing.
07:23Last thing you're worried about, though, if you're a fan of UCLA on that last play, is another backdoor play,
07:28because you think, they've seen it so many times.
07:31They've been burned on it so many times.
07:33You've got to guard the backdoor.
07:34What I loved about this play, high post man caught it, he looked over his shoulder, his teammate backdoored, and
07:41when he looked back again, his teammate had popped back out and backdoored a second time, and they caught the
07:46UCLA defender flat-footed.
07:48You knock the door, nobody's there. Who leaves after the first knock? You always knock a second time. Went backdoor,
07:55UCLA kid had it covered, took a step back out, did it again, presto. Game over.
08:01Masterful job of coaching, masterful job of execution. UCLA is going home early, beaten by a bunch of smart guys.
08:11Fifteen. Fifteen. Fifteen.
08:14All right, they'll be passed in with eight tenths of a second.
08:17You can prepare and prepare and prepare, and then something crazy can happen.
08:33After Southern Cal scored a basket to go ahead by two with three seconds left in a 1992 second-round
08:39game, Georgia Tech freshman James Forrest splashed the net with a 25-footer at the buzzer for a 79-78
08:46win.
08:47this is what i want to see when they describe buzzer beaters the other ones are cool with like
08:51two three seconds left if the other team can get a shot off it's not a buzzer beater
08:56their buzzer beater just failed i want to see a buzzer beater it's a it's as the time is running
09:04out zero seconds left on the clock when the shots made miracle in milwaukee it was called
09:12miracle indeed forest hadn't made a three all season obviously a great play you designed a
09:19beautiful play on the inbounds to a player that's never hit a three that's that's beautiful
09:25you can see the last play develop it and all sent out of bounds they
09:29they throw to james for us and everybody's probably thinking why in the world they're throwing to the
09:33big guy that's pretty much the last guy whose hands he wanted the ball in at that point but he
09:42had one
09:42opportunity and made the most of it
09:55led by two-time all-american mark reguyer was on the verge of shaking its recent turn in frustration
10:01but saint joseph's raised the length of the court in john smith's layup we were just talking about
10:05mark reguyer like nine minutes ago or whatever with three seconds left triggered a huge upset 49 48
10:15it was the second straight year the blue devils were ranked number one and were eliminated in their
10:20first game here was de paul number one team in the country mark aguire ray myer legendary coach a lot
10:29of people thought de paul was a team that could win the ncaa that year meanwhile i mean come on
10:33st
10:33joe's played in a little crummy field house in in philadelphia that first game is like the first
10:41game in the playoffs i mean it's a hard tough game because you're feeling everybody out but
10:46the thing is is in the tournament you only get one game the entire game de paul just seemed kind
10:51of in a daze like they were shocked that saint joe's was hanging in the game it was almost like
10:55they had the mentality that you know what was going to happen wrong next right prior to the game
11:01winning shot i know that they they de paul missed the front end of a one-on-one look at
11:05this saint
11:06joseph has the ball back i think de paul was expecting to call time out but saint joe's pushed
11:10it up the floor seven seconds look at this look at this they win oh there it is unbelievable
11:21it was really one of the all-time great ncaa upsets so and they still talk about that to this
11:28day
11:33if you're florida and you lose to butler in in the first round of the ncaa tournament it's going to
11:38be a long off season for you here's dupac we're going to go to the right we're going to go
11:43to the
11:43middle no it's going to put it out
11:45are you kidding are you kidding are you kidding are you kidding are you kidding are you kidding
11:53florida called the play home run and mike miller hit one the gators trailed butler oh wait a minute
11:57no no florida what sorry florida won butler has nothing to be ashamed of by one in overtime in a
12:05two thousand first round game when miller slashed through the lane and floated in the game winner 69-68
12:10that buzzer beater launched florida all the way to the championship game
12:16florida probably didn't deserve to win that basketball game but made the plays that needed
12:21down the stretch that could have been one of the great upsets by butler butler had played
12:26a near perfect flawless game to that point butler went to the free throw line and could have easily
12:33had two ends of one and once and could have easily sealed the game here's jordan with the second
12:37it's the ball right the rebound as we see so often a missed free throw led to florida's
12:45opportunity to go to the lengthy court to hit that buzzer shot
12:50i think buzzer beating shots when they beat cinderella take out a bittersweet atmosphere
13:00canada get down one with the ball high dribble by elamin now he goes behind a pick from bosco
13:04jumps it inside bosco fade away jump rolls around falls off
13:08it's far no good tapped up no good rebound run by helipton one second gets it
13:13oh
13:2111th seeded washington took it oh my god imagine losing that way imagine winning that way
13:29three they missed like three shots before that
13:32only lead over number two seed connecticut in a 1998 regional semi-final with 33 seconds left
13:38down one the huskies got off three shots in the last eight seconds first a miss then another then
13:43well then richard hamilton feathered in a seven-foot fadeaway as time expired for a 75-74 huskies win
13:51washington had a great season under head coach bob bender and had an opportunity to continue a magical run in
13:57the tournament
14:01they thought uconn was dead in the water and all of a sudden they had those chances at the end
14:10uconn in classic husky form was able to bang the boards play volleyball up against the glass
14:16the ball seems to be up there forever and you are looking at the clock going when is this game
14:21going to end and finally it bounced to rip it's almost as if the great ones have a clock in
14:32their
14:32head and they know exactly how much time they have they're never rushed they take their time and then
14:38they make the play that wins the game
14:45now here we go the hand of the ball she looks looks plays it in far side for a three
14:51from charlotte smith
14:52she hit it she hit a three-point basket north carolina wins on a three-point basket by charlotte smith
15:0160 to 59 the car heels are national champions anytime you win a national championship on the
15:10last shot of the game it's a shot to be remembered for the ages only seven-tenths of a second
15:16was left
15:17in the 94 women's national championship game so north carolina forward charlotte smith was stroking
15:22her shot even as she was catching an inbounds pass just outside the three-point arc her rainbow gave unc
15:27the title over louisiana tech 60 to 59 smith had 20 points 23 rebounds they're down by two seconds
15:38ticking off the clock game almost over carolina will have it but only seven-tenths of a second
15:43to try to get off a shot there's certain situations where a coach will feel you know we don't want
15:50this
15:50game to go five more minutes and instead of going for the tie she shoots from beyond the three-point
15:56arc
16:02we wanted to win the championship that's why you're there they called a play to win the championship
16:06and i think that's why they were able to win i think it really helped give a defining moment to
16:11the women's tournament because until that point they had really been lacking that sort of play in a
16:16championship game
16:22larry down in the corner to bottom he jumps with 18 footer is up and good 45 to 30. we
16:28had all the
16:28confidence in the world that was going to win the third national championship and become champion
16:32cincinnati had a hammer lock on the 1960 63 title game leading upstart loyola by 15 in the second half
16:39but the ramblers rally forced overtime and won 60 to 58 on vic rouse's last second footback loyola's
16:46starters played the entire 45 minutes and committed just three turnovers i guarantee you one thing
16:53they'll give it the hardness when it's time i'm supposed to take the last shot and we're working it down
16:59the clock so with about four or five i went to the basket but in the corner of my eye
17:05i saw hunter who
17:06was wide open so i flipped it to him i just tried to position myself to take a good shot
17:13thought it
17:14was going in man it it hit down in and came right back out and when he shot it i
17:20knew he had missed
17:21it and i went to box him out and i turned around as i boxed him out and as i
17:26went to the ball i saw ross
17:27go up over that and i saw man hunter shoots he off the rim rouse in the scores it's over
17:34we won we won we
17:36won we won we won the ball game
17:47a game-winning layup is nice a game-winning foul line jumper is something else a game-winning shot from
17:53half court those don't happen very often three now four seconds three seconds three trying to dribble
17:59two seconds one second
18:09us reed he became a household name in the state of arkansas as he drilled a 49 footer a half
18:17court shot
18:18at the buzzer when you loft a shot like that it's almost like you're at a halftime contest
18:26to maybe win a new car with the clock almost gone and his team down one u.s reed of
18:32arkansas fired in
18:33a 50 footer for a 74 73 second round win over defending champ louisville it was part of a skyrockets
18:40in sight afternoon delight three afternoon games all decided on buzzer beaters the very same day
18:45march 14th 1981 saint joseph's de paul and kansas state oregon state the others i remember just
18:52watching it sail through the air and then as it got closer and closer to the rim you said that's
18:57got
18:57a chance it's a shot that at the end of every practice guys are horsing around they shoot half
19:04court shots and you know every now and then someone will make one any kid who's ever gone into their
19:10backyard and made believe they were the hero of the game they always dream of hitting the shot
19:15from midcourt here's us reed living out everybody's dream
19:248888
19:25leitner against the end of prime back to leitner he dribbles takes the shot at the buzzer
19:31what a shot by christian leitner
19:35in a preview surely this is the last christian leitner buzzer beater on this list
19:41right what would follow two years later with 2.6 seconds left in overtime in a 1990 regional final
19:48christian leitner took an inbounds pass turned and sank a leaning 15 footer he gave duke a 79 78 win
19:55over top seeded yukon the blue devils survived despite going without a basket for 10 minutes in
19:59the second half connecticut duke was names that we would certainly get to know in that sense over the
20:05next decade but that was the first time that connecticut and duke had really gone head to head
20:10connecticut had been a team that seemed destined to be in the final four they seemed to be one of
20:14those teams that just was going to get there because they kept doing things that needed to
20:18be done to get there they're about to get there they're about to get there and uh suddenly you
20:23know all they got to do is make one stop duke has an inbounds play set up with 2.6
20:30seconds left
20:31in overtime i always say the most dangerous guy is the guy who's throwing the ball in bounds
20:38leitner accepts the ball from the official gets it into brian back to leitner takes the shot at the
20:42buzzer
20:46he noticed that no one was guarding him so he called the audible for brian
20:51leitner buried it no doubt about it it's part of his legacy as one of the great college basketball
20:58players of the last 25 years and that foreshadowed something that leitner would do a little bit
21:22i can just see that shot in the corner right now he pulls up and shoots it
21:35you don't get any bigger than that because of you and your you know your courage really in that
21:40situation you're able to give your school a national championship something that's so hard to come by
21:44the hoosiers have won the national championship and there is pandemonium
21:51wow in the 1987 championship game indiana's keith smart was benched for a stretch of the
21:57second half by bob knight responding to his angry coaches challenge smart got his retribution by
22:02burying a baseline jump shot with four seconds left to beat syracuse 74-73
22:0924 seconds to go here is keith smart indiana at the time steve alfred was their key player
22:16then you're thinking that steve alfred is the guy that's going to get this shot
22:21but as time ran down alfred wasn't open keith smart was open in that left corner
22:27and calmly hit a fadeaway jumper keith was a 50 percent shooter particularly with that shot you
22:38know a short baseline jump shot 12 14 foot shot coach just said to us after the game listen it
22:44won't
22:44really sink into you until you're 5 10 15 years removed that when they pull up the the standings
22:50and then look at 1987 you'll know that you're a champion
23:00when you see digger phelps here at espn i just you know talk about the ending of the 88 game
23:05win
23:05streak at ucla don't talk about danny age and there are eight seconds to go
23:10ames against paxton five seconds inside eight scores for two seconds one second on the clock
23:18it is all over it is all over oh let's talk about danny age oh danny and the miracles
23:29with eight seconds left in the 1981 regional semi-final byu was a point behind number two
23:35seed notre dame when danny aims set sail the all-american guard zigzag through defenders like
23:40they were traffic cones negotiating the length of the court and finishing off the stunned irish
23:45with a layup and a 51 50 byu upset danny age was one of the best all-around athletes the
23:51ncaa has seen
23:52he was one of those guys you wanted the ball in his hand if he didn't make the shot he
23:56would make the
23:56pass somehow he would make the play you needed to win
24:01literally went one against five over 94 feet in a matter of eight seconds to win a game
24:06and he was too quick for him he made him look like cigar scorer indians he just weaved his way
24:11through
24:12it like a like a lamborghini going through traffic behind his back between three players he went
24:17close to coast he put a show on through the irish defenders scored and it was all over and he
24:24knew
24:24he knew he knew and he let it go you could see him looking around love me love me love
24:29me
24:37when you're under three seconds left in the ball game it's usually all over in basketball they've got
24:43to go the length of the court with two point five left like long pass
24:56as a coach or as a player anybody that's been on a team you practice that stuff you know all
25:01the time
25:01and you almost never get to use it and almost never works sykes threw a pass into the front court
25:07jenkins
25:08just tipped it over to drew he goes up with the jumper boom
25:15fan favorite valparaiso trailing mississippi by two with 2.5 seconds left in the midwest regionals
25:21first round in 1998 executed perfectly its version of basketball's tic-tac-toe jamie sykes a 60-foot
25:27pass to bill jenkins jenkins a touch pass to bryce drew on the wing for a three bang valpo 70
25:33to 69
25:35the coach demonstrated some ingenuity there and some guts to not try and give it to one player who
25:42then is going to shoot but to make that extra pass to get someone a free look at the basket
25:47that was great coaching and great execution on valpo to be patient in that situation and get a great shot
25:57the way the play was executed it was as if those guys practiced nothing but that play from the
26:04opening day of practice that season every college and high school coach practices at least a couple
26:10times a week and if you get it to work once a year during practice you're lucky but you gotta
26:15have an
26:15end just in case and in that particular case against mississippi it was perfectly executed and it really
26:21put tiny valpo on the mat it was one of those tournament cinderella teams anytime you have a 12
26:27or 13 team win a game like that it kind of adds to the historical significance of it
26:39ucla was number one seed and a program that had kind of been saddled with early round losses in the
26:46ncaa tournament and this was the best team they'd had in a long time and you're trailing to missouri
26:51an eight seed you're a one seed you know you cla you know they they don't have a chance they're
26:57going to make a heroic play cameron brings it into tyus edney edney with the basketball into the front
27:02court down to the lane goes down
27:13top seeded ucla was on the brink of being upset by missouri in a 1995 second round game when tyus
27:20edney
27:20weaved and water bugged the length of the court went up over two defenders and gave the bruins a 75
27:25-74
27:26survival ucla learned to win their first national championship in 20 years what i think is so
27:31remarkable about that play was the fact that at full speed tyus edney went behind his back with his
27:36left hand to allude two missouri defenders
27:43he shot over a couple of guys that were six foot 10 6 11. i still to this day don't
27:49know how that
27:50bank shot went in but if anybody had that touch inside it was him shows how delicate the ncaa tournament
27:56is if he misses that shot that season ends in tremendous disappointment for ucla but that ball
28:02goes in the magical ride just kind of takes off from there they ended up winning the national
28:07championship so in order to win a national championship you have to be talented you have
28:12to be good but you also have to be fortunate and in that play their backs were against the ropes
28:17and
28:17they were able to pull it out three three three three jim baines giving the basketball to burrell he
28:30heaves it down the floor and it is caught by george the shot in the air it went the basket
28:35is good by
28:36tate george at the buzzer in a 1990 regional final game trailing by a point connecticut's tate george missed
28:44a game-winning jumper with four seconds left but the huskies got a reprieve when clemson's sean tyson
28:49couldn't convert a free throw after a timeout scott burrell threw a long inbounds pass and george
28:55swished a 15-footer clemson missed the free throw scott burrell grabbed the rebound and as a freshman
29:02had the presence of mind to call time out with one second to play we got in that time out
29:07and the
29:08kids have recalled this and the only thing i kept saying is we're not gonna lose this game we've come
29:11too far we've come too far we're not gonna lose this game and it is caught by george the shot
29:15in the
29:16air it went and what a finish here at the meadowlands that game essentially was over for him to get
29:24the
29:24ball and being able to square up and make that shot is is miracle it had to be perfect execution
29:33and the
29:34first thing was it was a great full court pass by scott burrell and when you have a baseball player
29:40like
29:41scott burrell my first round draft shows like take george it does make the play a lot easier
29:45i still think somebody was a little slow on the clock on that one when i watched that play it's
29:50still hard for me to believe you could catch the ball she would turn around jump shot in less than
29:53two
29:53seconds we've played it back a million times to see and he does do it in one practice back here
30:02in
30:02spring as we're just getting ready for the pros you can do about one out of 15 times
30:09two two two two
30:11how are they gonna work it they're gonna just take all the time off and set up for the last
30:15shot
30:16maybe take it in five or six seconds we played them 20 times i still don't think they win but
30:22one game
30:22than one game five seconds left to wittenberg wittenberg tries about a 30-footer
30:28no good step back
30:29liver is on carol
30:31slams it in the cinderella team has done it the glass slipper fits
30:37some people will tell you it's the greatest buzzer beater in ncaa history because it might have been
30:41the biggest upset in the championship game certainly there was no way that north carolina state could beat
30:48houston by slamma jamma by slamma jamma they were outstanding i mean when you looked at the big guy
30:54inside of lashua and you got glide to glide drexler four out of seven jimmy v has no shot
31:02for one night one day it's anybody's game baby and for that moment it was nc states
31:10tied with houston's five slamma jamma at 52 in the 1983 national championship game underdog north carolina
31:17state held for the last shot but managed only a desperate derrick wittenberg air ball with the
31:22ball falling well short of the rim lorenzo charles leaped up and dunked over akim olajuwon and wolfback
31:28coach jim valvano ran in circles of joy when we came out you know we were going to hold the
31:33ball a
31:33little bit and try to get the last shot houston's defense will be swarming you better believe it
31:39i saw thorough bailey in the corner which is his shot he didn't take the shot he threw it all
31:44the way up to
31:45talk to derrick we were always taught at the end of the game that uh you cannot be standing there
31:51with the ball with time on the clock wittenberg shoots the jumper it's short and out of nowhere
31:55comes lorenzo charles lorenzo charles slams it in the wolfpack has won the national championship
32:04i just happened to be standing up under the basket at the time so i could see that the ball
32:09was going to
32:09fall short i just remember looking up at the clock and it's saying zero zero zero 54 52 and it
32:17took
32:17until that moment to really that was his second basket of the game talk about talk about great timing
32:26realize what it just happened and who would ever forget running around the court looking for somebody
32:31to hug a moment that will always stand out in college basketball welcome back to who's number one and
32:41the 20 greatest ncaa tournament buzzer beaters of all time here's the one
32:51one two heavyweights going at it as good an ncaa tournament game as has ever been played
33:04all right uh grand hill will make the inbound plays you really didn't know how it was going to end
33:09up
33:09but you really didn't want this game to end bobby hurley up the floor with later they throw it the
33:15length of
33:15the floor later catches comes down dribbles shoots scores considering the teams the time the
33:30circumstance the difficulty of shot it is the granddaddy of all buzzer beaters with duke trailing
33:37kentucky by one with 2.1 seconds left in overtime in a 1992 regional final grant hill inbounded from
33:44under his own basket just above the free throw line at the other end christian leitner caught the
33:48pass fainted pivoted and put in a jump shot as soft as a baby's breath duke won 104-103 and
33:55went on to
33:56gain its second straight national championship the moment that i remember from that game is not
34:00leitner hitting the long shot of course nobody will ever forget that but the moment that i remember
34:04was the play directly preceding it it goes sean woods has put the kentucky wildcats up by one with
34:12two point one seconds left what a great shot to end just the most unbelievable basketball game i
34:18thought that that was it and i guess coach k wasn't thinking the same way hey he had some other
34:22things
34:22up his sleeve coach k huddles us together and looks at all of us in our eyes and our faces
34:29and says look
34:30guys we're gonna win coach k is so great at those situations i think we're all
34:39feeling confident there's no question in my mind that when we left the huddle that that group believed
34:47it could lose something good i still wonder if rick patino wonders if maybe they should have guarded the
34:53inbound pass we decided to play five versus four and go for the steal we did not want to let
34:59them
35:00get an easy shot so we were going to surround christian leitner he had two guys up on leitner one
35:07was
35:07supposed to be behind him one was supposed to be in front of him instead they both were behind him
35:13here's
35:14the law i was amazed how in control christian leitner was puts down a dribble turns with a jumper to
35:23have
35:23the presence to know that he could take one dribble and get into his get into his shot was absolutely
35:28remarkable as soon as left his hand i knew it was good i knew it was good
35:41it's one of those games where it ended in such a dramatic way that people
35:47now remember what they were doing when they were watching the duke kentucky game in 92.
35:56you just gotta love march madness and on the subject of madness
36:00here are resident second-guessers now to debate the merits and demerits of esp nothing to second guess
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