What an amazing game.\u00a0 Ohio State looks like they have the game well under control with a 12 point lead and 8 minutes left.\u00a0 Then, Iowa State goes on a 13-0 run over the next 5 minutes to take the lead.\u00a0 The teams start to battle back and forth until the stage was set.<\/p>\n
The game is tied at 75 with 29 seconds.\u00a0 Ohio State lobs the ball in to Aaron Craft.\u00a0 Up to this point, Craft had an un-characteristic stretch.\u00a0 Despite being almost an 80% FT shooter, the Ohio State guard had recently missed the first end of a 1-and-1 twice.\u00a0 Then, after being fouled on a lay-up, he missed a third FT.\u00a0 If anyone was going to be the goat for the 12 point lead slipping away, it would have been Craft.<\/p>\n
And fate now has this young man sitting with the ball around half court – holding the ball for one last shot to win the game.\u00a0 As he starts to get ready to drive, he waives a teammate away to create space.\u00a0 He has already decided what he is going to do.\u00a0 With 2 seconds left, he fakes a drive to cause the defender to back-pedal, and then, pulls up for a three-pointer.\u00a0 There is a saying that as a shooter, you have to have a short-term memory – the only memory you have is of the next shot going in.\u00a0 Aaron Craft’s memory was perfect as that three-pointer went in before the buzzer and led the Buckeyes to the Sweet 16.<\/p>\n
Thanks to Craft’s three-point shot, the Buckeyes help avoid having this year’s West region be the first one in history that did not have any of the 4 protected seeds make the Sweet 16.\u00a0 And about 45% of our pool (myself included) breathed a sigh of relief that their team is still alive.\u00a0 Survive and advance!<\/p>\n
Congratulations to the Ohio State Buckeyes!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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