INDIANAPOLIS — What occurred within the ultimate seconds of Friday’s NCAA males’s event recreation between Colorado and Florida is determined by the attitude.
On one finish of the courtroom at Gainbridge Fieldhouse, it seemed like a shove. On the opposite, the defender fell.
What is not up for debate is how the sport ended. With Florida guard Zyon Pullin defending him, Colorado’s KJ Simpson rattled in a baseline jumper to provide the Buffaloes a 102-100 win over 7-seed Florida.
The shot got here with simply over a second left. The Buffaloes survived a desperation heave from Florida’s Walter Clayton Jr., who hit virtually all the pieces else within the closing minutes throughout the Gators’ livid rally.
The way in which Simpson noticed it, the area created for the ultimate shot got here hopefully.
“I seen the defender slipped a little bit bit,” mentioned Simpson, who scored a team-high 23 factors for the Tenth-seeded Buffaloes. “I do not suppose I did any off-arm or nothing. As soon as I noticed it open up, that is only a wide-open shot for me.”
Florida coach Todd Golden, nevertheless, appeared to point that Simpson might need performed a hand — or a forearm — in creating the area for his recreation winner.
“I believed ZP did his job,” Golden mentioned of Pullin. “Stayed in authorized guarding place, stayed between the ball and the basket. And once more, someway Simpson simply created about 7 ft of separation to get that shot off.”
Each groups had a prolific scoring night time. It was the primary males’s event recreation since 2005 wherein each groups scored 100 or extra factors. It was the second time in event historical past that such a recreation included a recreation winner within the ultimate 10 seconds, in response to ESPN Stats & Info. The opposite got here in 1992, when Duke and Christian Laettner beat Kentucky within the Elite Eight.
Florida (24-12) got here near pulling off an unbelievable comeback. The ten-seed Buffaloes led by 13 with 4:28 left and appeared on their technique to pulling off the upset within the South area of the bracket.
Then Clayton bought unfastened. After coping with foul bother early within the half, he virtually single-handedly pulled the Gators even. He scored Florida’s ultimate 16 factors and completed with a game-high 33. After Florida created a late turnover, Clayton drilled a 3-pointer with 9 seconds left to tie the rating at 100, which prompted a timeout from Colorado.
“We went with a small lineup as a result of we knew they have been going to attempt to get 3s and actually put strain on us off the dribble,” Buffaloes coach Tad Boyle mentioned. “We did not do an excellent job down the stretch.”
However Boyle and the Buffaloes nonetheless had one likelihood to keep away from the collapse and safe the upset.
Popping out of the timeout, Colorado needed to get Simpson in a one-on-one isolation, with 6-foot-11 middle Eddie Lampkin Jr. on the basket to place again a possible rebound.
Initially, Simpson wasn’t open. However freshman Cody Williams, a projected lottery decide within the upcoming NBA draft, waited lengthy sufficient to search out Simpson, who drove to his proper, situated the area to shoot and rattled within the shot.
After Clayton’s midcourt heave landed to the precise of the rim as time expired, Lampkin leaped by means of the photographers sitting behind the baseline and climbed into the part of Colorado followers behind the courtside media seating to revel within the win.
Colorado (26-10) superior to face 2-seed Marquette (26-9) within the second spherical Sunday.
Simpson and the Buffaloes weren’t involved with how he bought the room to shoot Colorado into the subsequent spherical. All that mattered was that it went their means.
Stated Simpson: “It seemed good as soon as it left my arms.”
INDIANAPOLIS — What occurred within the ultimate seconds of Friday’s NCAA males’s event recreation between Colorado and Florida is determined by the attitude.
On one finish of the courtroom at Gainbridge Fieldhouse, it seemed like a shove. On the opposite, the defender fell.
What is not up for debate is how the sport ended. With Florida guard Zyon Pullin defending him, Colorado’s KJ Simpson rattled in a baseline jumper to provide the Buffaloes a 102-100 win over 7-seed Florida.
The shot got here with simply over a second left. The Buffaloes survived a desperation heave from Florida’s Walter Clayton Jr., who hit virtually all the pieces else within the closing minutes throughout the Gators’ livid rally.
The way in which Simpson noticed it, the area created for the ultimate shot got here hopefully.
“I seen the defender slipped a little bit bit,” mentioned Simpson, who scored a team-high 23 factors for the Tenth-seeded Buffaloes. “I do not suppose I did any off-arm or nothing. As soon as I noticed it open up, that is only a wide-open shot for me.”
Florida coach Todd Golden, nevertheless, appeared to point that Simpson might need performed a hand — or a forearm — in creating the area for his recreation winner.
“I believed ZP did his job,” Golden mentioned of Pullin. “Stayed in authorized guarding place, stayed between the ball and the basket. And once more, someway Simpson simply created about 7 ft of separation to get that shot off.”
Each groups had a prolific scoring night time. It was the primary males’s event recreation since 2005 wherein each groups scored 100 or extra factors. It was the second time in event historical past that such a recreation included a recreation winner within the ultimate 10 seconds, in response to ESPN Stats & Info. The opposite got here in 1992, when Duke and Christian Laettner beat Kentucky within the Elite Eight.
Florida (24-12) got here near pulling off an unbelievable comeback. The ten-seed Buffaloes led by 13 with 4:28 left and appeared on their technique to pulling off the upset within the South area of the bracket.
Then Clayton bought unfastened. After coping with foul bother early within the half, he virtually single-handedly pulled the Gators even. He scored Florida’s ultimate 16 factors and completed with a game-high 33. After Florida created a late turnover, Clayton drilled a 3-pointer with 9 seconds left to tie the rating at 100, which prompted a timeout from Colorado.
“We went with a small lineup as a result of we knew they have been going to attempt to get 3s and actually put strain on us off the dribble,” Buffaloes coach Tad Boyle mentioned. “We did not do an excellent job down the stretch.”
However Boyle and the Buffaloes nonetheless had one likelihood to keep away from the collapse and safe the upset.
Popping out of the timeout, Colorado needed to get Simpson in a one-on-one isolation, with 6-foot-11 middle Eddie Lampkin Jr. on the basket to place again a possible rebound.
Initially, Simpson wasn’t open. However freshman Cody Williams, a projected lottery decide within the upcoming NBA draft, waited lengthy sufficient to search out Simpson, who drove to his proper, situated the area to shoot and rattled within the shot.
After Clayton’s midcourt heave landed to the precise of the rim as time expired, Lampkin leaped by means of the photographers sitting behind the baseline and climbed into the part of Colorado followers behind the courtside media seating to revel within the win.
Colorado (26-10) superior to face 2-seed Marquette (26-9) within the second spherical Sunday.
Simpson and the Buffaloes weren’t involved with how he bought the room to shoot Colorado into the subsequent spherical. All that mattered was that it went their means.
Stated Simpson: “It seemed good as soon as it left my arms.”
INDIANAPOLIS — What occurred within the ultimate seconds of Friday’s NCAA males’s event recreation between Colorado and Florida is determined by the attitude.
On one finish of the courtroom at Gainbridge Fieldhouse, it seemed like a shove. On the opposite, the defender fell.
What is not up for debate is how the sport ended. With Florida guard Zyon Pullin defending him, Colorado’s KJ Simpson rattled in a baseline jumper to provide the Buffaloes a 102-100 win over 7-seed Florida.
The shot got here with simply over a second left. The Buffaloes survived a desperation heave from Florida’s Walter Clayton Jr., who hit virtually all the pieces else within the closing minutes throughout the Gators’ livid rally.
The way in which Simpson noticed it, the area created for the ultimate shot got here hopefully.
“I seen the defender slipped a little bit bit,” mentioned Simpson, who scored a team-high 23 factors for the Tenth-seeded Buffaloes. “I do not suppose I did any off-arm or nothing. As soon as I noticed it open up, that is only a wide-open shot for me.”
Florida coach Todd Golden, nevertheless, appeared to point that Simpson might need performed a hand — or a forearm — in creating the area for his recreation winner.
“I believed ZP did his job,” Golden mentioned of Pullin. “Stayed in authorized guarding place, stayed between the ball and the basket. And once more, someway Simpson simply created about 7 ft of separation to get that shot off.”
Each groups had a prolific scoring night time. It was the primary males’s event recreation since 2005 wherein each groups scored 100 or extra factors. It was the second time in event historical past that such a recreation included a recreation winner within the ultimate 10 seconds, in response to ESPN Stats & Info. The opposite got here in 1992, when Duke and Christian Laettner beat Kentucky within the Elite Eight.
Florida (24-12) got here near pulling off an unbelievable comeback. The ten-seed Buffaloes led by 13 with 4:28 left and appeared on their technique to pulling off the upset within the South area of the bracket.
Then Clayton bought unfastened. After coping with foul bother early within the half, he virtually single-handedly pulled the Gators even. He scored Florida’s ultimate 16 factors and completed with a game-high 33. After Florida created a late turnover, Clayton drilled a 3-pointer with 9 seconds left to tie the rating at 100, which prompted a timeout from Colorado.
“We went with a small lineup as a result of we knew they have been going to attempt to get 3s and actually put strain on us off the dribble,” Buffaloes coach Tad Boyle mentioned. “We did not do an excellent job down the stretch.”
However Boyle and the Buffaloes nonetheless had one likelihood to keep away from the collapse and safe the upset.
Popping out of the timeout, Colorado needed to get Simpson in a one-on-one isolation, with 6-foot-11 middle Eddie Lampkin Jr. on the basket to place again a possible rebound.
Initially, Simpson wasn’t open. However freshman Cody Williams, a projected lottery decide within the upcoming NBA draft, waited lengthy sufficient to search out Simpson, who drove to his proper, situated the area to shoot and rattled within the shot.
After Clayton’s midcourt heave landed to the precise of the rim as time expired, Lampkin leaped by means of the photographers sitting behind the baseline and climbed into the part of Colorado followers behind the courtside media seating to revel within the win.
Colorado (26-10) superior to face 2-seed Marquette (26-9) within the second spherical Sunday.
Simpson and the Buffaloes weren’t involved with how he bought the room to shoot Colorado into the subsequent spherical. All that mattered was that it went their means.
Stated Simpson: “It seemed good as soon as it left my arms.”
INDIANAPOLIS — What occurred within the ultimate seconds of Friday’s NCAA males’s event recreation between Colorado and Florida is determined by the attitude.
On one finish of the courtroom at Gainbridge Fieldhouse, it seemed like a shove. On the opposite, the defender fell.
What is not up for debate is how the sport ended. With Florida guard Zyon Pullin defending him, Colorado’s KJ Simpson rattled in a baseline jumper to provide the Buffaloes a 102-100 win over 7-seed Florida.
The shot got here with simply over a second left. The Buffaloes survived a desperation heave from Florida’s Walter Clayton Jr., who hit virtually all the pieces else within the closing minutes throughout the Gators’ livid rally.
The way in which Simpson noticed it, the area created for the ultimate shot got here hopefully.
“I seen the defender slipped a little bit bit,” mentioned Simpson, who scored a team-high 23 factors for the Tenth-seeded Buffaloes. “I do not suppose I did any off-arm or nothing. As soon as I noticed it open up, that is only a wide-open shot for me.”
Florida coach Todd Golden, nevertheless, appeared to point that Simpson might need performed a hand — or a forearm — in creating the area for his recreation winner.
“I believed ZP did his job,” Golden mentioned of Pullin. “Stayed in authorized guarding place, stayed between the ball and the basket. And once more, someway Simpson simply created about 7 ft of separation to get that shot off.”
Each groups had a prolific scoring night time. It was the primary males’s event recreation since 2005 wherein each groups scored 100 or extra factors. It was the second time in event historical past that such a recreation included a recreation winner within the ultimate 10 seconds, in response to ESPN Stats & Info. The opposite got here in 1992, when Duke and Christian Laettner beat Kentucky within the Elite Eight.
Florida (24-12) got here near pulling off an unbelievable comeback. The ten-seed Buffaloes led by 13 with 4:28 left and appeared on their technique to pulling off the upset within the South area of the bracket.
Then Clayton bought unfastened. After coping with foul bother early within the half, he virtually single-handedly pulled the Gators even. He scored Florida’s ultimate 16 factors and completed with a game-high 33. After Florida created a late turnover, Clayton drilled a 3-pointer with 9 seconds left to tie the rating at 100, which prompted a timeout from Colorado.
“We went with a small lineup as a result of we knew they have been going to attempt to get 3s and actually put strain on us off the dribble,” Buffaloes coach Tad Boyle mentioned. “We did not do an excellent job down the stretch.”
However Boyle and the Buffaloes nonetheless had one likelihood to keep away from the collapse and safe the upset.
Popping out of the timeout, Colorado needed to get Simpson in a one-on-one isolation, with 6-foot-11 middle Eddie Lampkin Jr. on the basket to place again a possible rebound.
Initially, Simpson wasn’t open. However freshman Cody Williams, a projected lottery decide within the upcoming NBA draft, waited lengthy sufficient to search out Simpson, who drove to his proper, situated the area to shoot and rattled within the shot.
After Clayton’s midcourt heave landed to the precise of the rim as time expired, Lampkin leaped by means of the photographers sitting behind the baseline and climbed into the part of Colorado followers behind the courtside media seating to revel within the win.
Colorado (26-10) superior to face 2-seed Marquette (26-9) within the second spherical Sunday.
Simpson and the Buffaloes weren’t involved with how he bought the room to shoot Colorado into the subsequent spherical. All that mattered was that it went their means.
Stated Simpson: “It seemed good as soon as it left my arms.”
INDIANAPOLIS — What occurred within the ultimate seconds of Friday’s NCAA males’s event recreation between Colorado and Florida is determined by the attitude.
On one finish of the courtroom at Gainbridge Fieldhouse, it seemed like a shove. On the opposite, the defender fell.
What is not up for debate is how the sport ended. With Florida guard Zyon Pullin defending him, Colorado’s KJ Simpson rattled in a baseline jumper to provide the Buffaloes a 102-100 win over 7-seed Florida.
The shot got here with simply over a second left. The Buffaloes survived a desperation heave from Florida’s Walter Clayton Jr., who hit virtually all the pieces else within the closing minutes throughout the Gators’ livid rally.
The way in which Simpson noticed it, the area created for the ultimate shot got here hopefully.
“I seen the defender slipped a little bit bit,” mentioned Simpson, who scored a team-high 23 factors for the Tenth-seeded Buffaloes. “I do not suppose I did any off-arm or nothing. As soon as I noticed it open up, that is only a wide-open shot for me.”
Florida coach Todd Golden, nevertheless, appeared to point that Simpson might need performed a hand — or a forearm — in creating the area for his recreation winner.
“I believed ZP did his job,” Golden mentioned of Pullin. “Stayed in authorized guarding place, stayed between the ball and the basket. And once more, someway Simpson simply created about 7 ft of separation to get that shot off.”
Each groups had a prolific scoring night time. It was the primary males’s event recreation since 2005 wherein each groups scored 100 or extra factors. It was the second time in event historical past that such a recreation included a recreation winner within the ultimate 10 seconds, in response to ESPN Stats & Info. The opposite got here in 1992, when Duke and Christian Laettner beat Kentucky within the Elite Eight.
Florida (24-12) got here near pulling off an unbelievable comeback. The ten-seed Buffaloes led by 13 with 4:28 left and appeared on their technique to pulling off the upset within the South area of the bracket.
Then Clayton bought unfastened. After coping with foul bother early within the half, he virtually single-handedly pulled the Gators even. He scored Florida’s ultimate 16 factors and completed with a game-high 33. After Florida created a late turnover, Clayton drilled a 3-pointer with 9 seconds left to tie the rating at 100, which prompted a timeout from Colorado.
“We went with a small lineup as a result of we knew they have been going to attempt to get 3s and actually put strain on us off the dribble,” Buffaloes coach Tad Boyle mentioned. “We did not do an excellent job down the stretch.”
However Boyle and the Buffaloes nonetheless had one likelihood to keep away from the collapse and safe the upset.
Popping out of the timeout, Colorado needed to get Simpson in a one-on-one isolation, with 6-foot-11 middle Eddie Lampkin Jr. on the basket to place again a possible rebound.
Initially, Simpson wasn’t open. However freshman Cody Williams, a projected lottery decide within the upcoming NBA draft, waited lengthy sufficient to search out Simpson, who drove to his proper, situated the area to shoot and rattled within the shot.
After Clayton’s midcourt heave landed to the precise of the rim as time expired, Lampkin leaped by means of the photographers sitting behind the baseline and climbed into the part of Colorado followers behind the courtside media seating to revel within the win.
Colorado (26-10) superior to face 2-seed Marquette (26-9) within the second spherical Sunday.
Simpson and the Buffaloes weren’t involved with how he bought the room to shoot Colorado into the subsequent spherical. All that mattered was that it went their means.
Stated Simpson: “It seemed good as soon as it left my arms.”
INDIANAPOLIS — What occurred within the ultimate seconds of Friday’s NCAA males’s event recreation between Colorado and Florida is determined by the attitude.
On one finish of the courtroom at Gainbridge Fieldhouse, it seemed like a shove. On the opposite, the defender fell.
What is not up for debate is how the sport ended. With Florida guard Zyon Pullin defending him, Colorado’s KJ Simpson rattled in a baseline jumper to provide the Buffaloes a 102-100 win over 7-seed Florida.
The shot got here with simply over a second left. The Buffaloes survived a desperation heave from Florida’s Walter Clayton Jr., who hit virtually all the pieces else within the closing minutes throughout the Gators’ livid rally.
The way in which Simpson noticed it, the area created for the ultimate shot got here hopefully.
“I seen the defender slipped a little bit bit,” mentioned Simpson, who scored a team-high 23 factors for the Tenth-seeded Buffaloes. “I do not suppose I did any off-arm or nothing. As soon as I noticed it open up, that is only a wide-open shot for me.”
Florida coach Todd Golden, nevertheless, appeared to point that Simpson might need performed a hand — or a forearm — in creating the area for his recreation winner.
“I believed ZP did his job,” Golden mentioned of Pullin. “Stayed in authorized guarding place, stayed between the ball and the basket. And once more, someway Simpson simply created about 7 ft of separation to get that shot off.”
Each groups had a prolific scoring night time. It was the primary males’s event recreation since 2005 wherein each groups scored 100 or extra factors. It was the second time in event historical past that such a recreation included a recreation winner within the ultimate 10 seconds, in response to ESPN Stats & Info. The opposite got here in 1992, when Duke and Christian Laettner beat Kentucky within the Elite Eight.
Florida (24-12) got here near pulling off an unbelievable comeback. The ten-seed Buffaloes led by 13 with 4:28 left and appeared on their technique to pulling off the upset within the South area of the bracket.
Then Clayton bought unfastened. After coping with foul bother early within the half, he virtually single-handedly pulled the Gators even. He scored Florida’s ultimate 16 factors and completed with a game-high 33. After Florida created a late turnover, Clayton drilled a 3-pointer with 9 seconds left to tie the rating at 100, which prompted a timeout from Colorado.
“We went with a small lineup as a result of we knew they have been going to attempt to get 3s and actually put strain on us off the dribble,” Buffaloes coach Tad Boyle mentioned. “We did not do an excellent job down the stretch.”
However Boyle and the Buffaloes nonetheless had one likelihood to keep away from the collapse and safe the upset.
Popping out of the timeout, Colorado needed to get Simpson in a one-on-one isolation, with 6-foot-11 middle Eddie Lampkin Jr. on the basket to place again a possible rebound.
Initially, Simpson wasn’t open. However freshman Cody Williams, a projected lottery decide within the upcoming NBA draft, waited lengthy sufficient to search out Simpson, who drove to his proper, situated the area to shoot and rattled within the shot.
After Clayton’s midcourt heave landed to the precise of the rim as time expired, Lampkin leaped by means of the photographers sitting behind the baseline and climbed into the part of Colorado followers behind the courtside media seating to revel within the win.
Colorado (26-10) superior to face 2-seed Marquette (26-9) within the second spherical Sunday.
Simpson and the Buffaloes weren’t involved with how he bought the room to shoot Colorado into the subsequent spherical. All that mattered was that it went their means.
Stated Simpson: “It seemed good as soon as it left my arms.”
INDIANAPOLIS — What occurred within the ultimate seconds of Friday’s NCAA males’s event recreation between Colorado and Florida is determined by the attitude.
On one finish of the courtroom at Gainbridge Fieldhouse, it seemed like a shove. On the opposite, the defender fell.
What is not up for debate is how the sport ended. With Florida guard Zyon Pullin defending him, Colorado’s KJ Simpson rattled in a baseline jumper to provide the Buffaloes a 102-100 win over 7-seed Florida.
The shot got here with simply over a second left. The Buffaloes survived a desperation heave from Florida’s Walter Clayton Jr., who hit virtually all the pieces else within the closing minutes throughout the Gators’ livid rally.
The way in which Simpson noticed it, the area created for the ultimate shot got here hopefully.
“I seen the defender slipped a little bit bit,” mentioned Simpson, who scored a team-high 23 factors for the Tenth-seeded Buffaloes. “I do not suppose I did any off-arm or nothing. As soon as I noticed it open up, that is only a wide-open shot for me.”
Florida coach Todd Golden, nevertheless, appeared to point that Simpson might need performed a hand — or a forearm — in creating the area for his recreation winner.
“I believed ZP did his job,” Golden mentioned of Pullin. “Stayed in authorized guarding place, stayed between the ball and the basket. And once more, someway Simpson simply created about 7 ft of separation to get that shot off.”
Each groups had a prolific scoring night time. It was the primary males’s event recreation since 2005 wherein each groups scored 100 or extra factors. It was the second time in event historical past that such a recreation included a recreation winner within the ultimate 10 seconds, in response to ESPN Stats & Info. The opposite got here in 1992, when Duke and Christian Laettner beat Kentucky within the Elite Eight.
Florida (24-12) got here near pulling off an unbelievable comeback. The ten-seed Buffaloes led by 13 with 4:28 left and appeared on their technique to pulling off the upset within the South area of the bracket.
Then Clayton bought unfastened. After coping with foul bother early within the half, he virtually single-handedly pulled the Gators even. He scored Florida’s ultimate 16 factors and completed with a game-high 33. After Florida created a late turnover, Clayton drilled a 3-pointer with 9 seconds left to tie the rating at 100, which prompted a timeout from Colorado.
“We went with a small lineup as a result of we knew they have been going to attempt to get 3s and actually put strain on us off the dribble,” Buffaloes coach Tad Boyle mentioned. “We did not do an excellent job down the stretch.”
However Boyle and the Buffaloes nonetheless had one likelihood to keep away from the collapse and safe the upset.
Popping out of the timeout, Colorado needed to get Simpson in a one-on-one isolation, with 6-foot-11 middle Eddie Lampkin Jr. on the basket to place again a possible rebound.
Initially, Simpson wasn’t open. However freshman Cody Williams, a projected lottery decide within the upcoming NBA draft, waited lengthy sufficient to search out Simpson, who drove to his proper, situated the area to shoot and rattled within the shot.
After Clayton’s midcourt heave landed to the precise of the rim as time expired, Lampkin leaped by means of the photographers sitting behind the baseline and climbed into the part of Colorado followers behind the courtside media seating to revel within the win.
Colorado (26-10) superior to face 2-seed Marquette (26-9) within the second spherical Sunday.
Simpson and the Buffaloes weren’t involved with how he bought the room to shoot Colorado into the subsequent spherical. All that mattered was that it went their means.
Stated Simpson: “It seemed good as soon as it left my arms.”
INDIANAPOLIS — What occurred within the ultimate seconds of Friday’s NCAA males’s event recreation between Colorado and Florida is determined by the attitude.
On one finish of the courtroom at Gainbridge Fieldhouse, it seemed like a shove. On the opposite, the defender fell.
What is not up for debate is how the sport ended. With Florida guard Zyon Pullin defending him, Colorado’s KJ Simpson rattled in a baseline jumper to provide the Buffaloes a 102-100 win over 7-seed Florida.
The shot got here with simply over a second left. The Buffaloes survived a desperation heave from Florida’s Walter Clayton Jr., who hit virtually all the pieces else within the closing minutes throughout the Gators’ livid rally.
The way in which Simpson noticed it, the area created for the ultimate shot got here hopefully.
“I seen the defender slipped a little bit bit,” mentioned Simpson, who scored a team-high 23 factors for the Tenth-seeded Buffaloes. “I do not suppose I did any off-arm or nothing. As soon as I noticed it open up, that is only a wide-open shot for me.”
Florida coach Todd Golden, nevertheless, appeared to point that Simpson might need performed a hand — or a forearm — in creating the area for his recreation winner.
“I believed ZP did his job,” Golden mentioned of Pullin. “Stayed in authorized guarding place, stayed between the ball and the basket. And once more, someway Simpson simply created about 7 ft of separation to get that shot off.”
Each groups had a prolific scoring night time. It was the primary males’s event recreation since 2005 wherein each groups scored 100 or extra factors. It was the second time in event historical past that such a recreation included a recreation winner within the ultimate 10 seconds, in response to ESPN Stats & Info. The opposite got here in 1992, when Duke and Christian Laettner beat Kentucky within the Elite Eight.
Florida (24-12) got here near pulling off an unbelievable comeback. The ten-seed Buffaloes led by 13 with 4:28 left and appeared on their technique to pulling off the upset within the South area of the bracket.
Then Clayton bought unfastened. After coping with foul bother early within the half, he virtually single-handedly pulled the Gators even. He scored Florida’s ultimate 16 factors and completed with a game-high 33. After Florida created a late turnover, Clayton drilled a 3-pointer with 9 seconds left to tie the rating at 100, which prompted a timeout from Colorado.
“We went with a small lineup as a result of we knew they have been going to attempt to get 3s and actually put strain on us off the dribble,” Buffaloes coach Tad Boyle mentioned. “We did not do an excellent job down the stretch.”
However Boyle and the Buffaloes nonetheless had one likelihood to keep away from the collapse and safe the upset.
Popping out of the timeout, Colorado needed to get Simpson in a one-on-one isolation, with 6-foot-11 middle Eddie Lampkin Jr. on the basket to place again a possible rebound.
Initially, Simpson wasn’t open. However freshman Cody Williams, a projected lottery decide within the upcoming NBA draft, waited lengthy sufficient to search out Simpson, who drove to his proper, situated the area to shoot and rattled within the shot.
After Clayton’s midcourt heave landed to the precise of the rim as time expired, Lampkin leaped by means of the photographers sitting behind the baseline and climbed into the part of Colorado followers behind the courtside media seating to revel within the win.
Colorado (26-10) superior to face 2-seed Marquette (26-9) within the second spherical Sunday.
Simpson and the Buffaloes weren’t involved with how he bought the room to shoot Colorado into the subsequent spherical. All that mattered was that it went their means.
Stated Simpson: “It seemed good as soon as it left my arms.”