On the other side was a Jayhawks team starring the most dominant player of his era.
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“But I look up and see the greatest player that ever played basketball assuring us and saying it’s okay, that he’s proud of us, that we made him proud to be a Tar Heel and be a Tar Heel alum, that you can’t be a great victor without having to experience struggles and losses and how to use this as fuel”.
Partly because of Kris Jenkins’ foul trouble, Booth got more minutes than expected.
What happened next will go down as one of the sport’s iconic moments. Michael Jordan’s game-winning jumper for North Carolina in 1982 came with 16 seconds left.
Jenkins walked away the victor. Nova Nation celebrates Villanova’s NCAA Championship title Radnor Police arrested eight people for mostly minor offenses.
“I said, ‘Is this done or is it not, ‘” Wright said.
Jay Wright admitted to have been tempted on different occasions to leave Villanova, a place he’s been the head coach for the last 15 years. “At the same time, these guys gave us an unbelievable run”.
Wright has been coaching that play for months, even years.
The ratings, while down sharply from a year ago, marked the second-biggest cable audience ever for a college basketball game, according to the statement from Time Warner’s Turner Broadcasting unit, which aired the tournament with CBS Corp. Villanova point guard, Ryan Arcidiacono raced down the court, after receiving the ball off a Daniel Ochefu screen. He underhand flipped a pass to Jenkins, who was open.
Jenkins received the ball in a jump-stop and then shot it from a few feet beyond the three-point arc.
Swish. Confetti. Party time. Or, as Jenkins put it: “One, two step, shoot ’em up, sleep in the streets”.
Plus, Villanova’s path to the championship game Monday night had toughened the team.
The school’s website immediately posted a video clip of the game’s final seconds.
They practice it. A lot. In-state hero Steve Alford was Indiana’s best player that season, but Smart stepped up when Syracuse began face-guarding Alford to keep the ball out of his hands.
Both teams were throwing haymakers and the Villanova and North Carolina fans were responding justly.
It completed a Carolina comeback from six points down with 1:52 left.
Not too much earlier, trailing 74-71, Paige knocked down his. “So obviously my brother being a coach there, you’re thinking it through just in terms of all the situations and things like that”. The 3-pointers from Paige and Jenkins have deservedly dominated the conversation Tuesday, but the quality of the rest of the game should not be ignored.
The Tar Heels (33-7) won their first ACC regular-season title since 2012, their first ACC Tournament since 2008 and reached their first Final Four since 2009. “And that we need to keep it going so we could get to the point we’re at now”. Of course, when you hit a championship-winning shot, you’re the big man on campus.
“It was helpless”, Williams said. “It was not a good feeling”.
North Carolina 77, MI 71 (1993): Chris Webber’s ill-fated timeout he didn’t have provided the clinching free throws as North Carolina captured Dean Smith’s second championship. It’s not about me taking the right shot, it’s about me making the right read.
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“If I could get a shot, I was going to shoot it”, the 22 year-old Arcidiacono told the paper, confirming what UNC was likely thinking.
