NIU ran completely our of gas and players, had to win it in regulation, had a good chance in the first OT.
I think I can live better losing on the half court shot, than a choke job like that. A tale of two games, it was the best of times and the worst of times.
If you give up 12 points in 44 seconds, you deserve to go home. Aggy did their part to take advantage of the UNI mistakes but they were not in control the majority of that game. OU is going to roll them.
Classic choke job, unfortunately. They panicked in regulation, even before the stupid inbounding problems. They stopped running their offense and jacked up shots.
If Texas had only known to kick their designated inbound passer in the knee, it could have been different.
Meanwhile Xavier goes down to Wisconsin, on a buzzer beater three, from the corner, another top seed goes down. Sure looked liked aggy was going to join the parade.
I wasn't pissed or angry about losing on a half-court shot. **** happens. But this **** pisses me the f**k off. UNI didn't let A&M come back. They handed it to them. They literally passed the ball to them twice and gave them 4 free points. What the heck did I just watch?
Watch A&M make it all the way to the Final Four. They absolutely should've lost tonight, but I wouldn't be surprised if they ag their way into Houston.
It's "madness," george, it takes it's toll, like your in a time warp of turnovers. No Riff-Raff to inbound the ball, all they had left was FranknFurter.
UNI could have just thrown the deep pass every time and even if it got picked off, they probably could have run out the clock.
One rule I would like to see changed that came to play in this game. Why is it not an offensive fouls if the shooter jumps into the defensive player, Where was the foul when Curroso(?) hit the UNI player on the shoulder on his way to a layup. The Uni player was standing there and move AWAY from Curroso?
Last TO, all the guy had to do is throw it high to the rafters in the center of the court. Even if the aggs would have come down with the ball, they would have had less then a second. Instead he tries to throw it off their foot (2nd time). Just dumb, dumb, dumb.
Why were they out of TO's in the last minute? They were winning the entire game. Why did they use so many TO's?
Coaching was bad late and they straight up panicked. That shouldn't happen to a Div 1 team. But it did. C'est la vie.
It was funny because you could see the coach saying basically just that after the last turnover. They came to the bench and he gave the guy kind of a confused smile and a quick jerk of the finger, looked like he was basically saying "just throw it over there!"
They had two timeouts during this meltdown stretch, had to use them both, trying to inbound the ball. They should have let that kid that got hurt back in sooner, to inbound the ball. He was hobbled a bit, but he could have gotten the ball inbounded at least. That one time they just threw it straight out of bounds, cost them the time that was left at the end. He came back for the overtime. They did ok, just missed a big free throw in the last seconds, that cost them dearly. If they make it, aggy had to make a three to tie, with the miss, House just bullied his way inside, to send it to another overtime. Actually UNI had over four seconds left and just threw up a half court shot, that didn't go in, they had time for a better shot. A&M even had enough time to rebound and get off a longer shot, that didn't miss by that much. You have to keep the ball out of the corners, in that situation. Set some picks or even double pick screens if you have to. If you inbound to a corner, the guard either has to dribble or pass out of it, as soon as the ball hits his hands. They would be in the corner, hold the ball to their chest, bend over with their back to the defense. Then they were just stymied by the double team, nowhere to go. Here's the breakdown of the meltdown. https://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/ncaa...hern-iowa-s-historic-collapse-084136276.html#
