Kelvin Sampson raised his arms in the air. LJ Cryer and Emmanuel Sharp Jump for joy off solid wood. Jim Nantz allowed tears of joy in the stands.
the Houston Kogar One of the greatest returns ever in the history of the NCAA championship on Saturday evening in Alamodome, a contract Cooper Flage and Blue Duke Devils To one field goal in the final 10:31 on its way to the amazing victory 70-67 of winning.
The Kelvin Sampson team relied on its highest defense and time shooting in time to beat the Duke 11-1 during the final 1:26 of the match, and he got a date on Monday night with Florida Gutors in the national championship match.
“No one lost anything as long as you are not resigning,” Sampson said in a post -game interview. “When you resign, then I don’t care, I lost.”
Dukes held 14 points with a little more than eight minutes in the game and the atmosphere was one of the satellite of the blue demons. Cooper Flag looked like he was ready to lead the Duke team to a place in the title game.
After that, everything changed.
Cryer, one of the elderly in the fifth year that moved three years later in Baylor, designed six consecutive points that started three times. After another stop, Joys Roberts Cut the lead to six, then Jojo Tugler He had compensation to cut the lead to four. In a little more than three minutes, the chop – or so it seemed.
Flagg hit three times with 3:03 to push the progress of the blue demons to nine. After a bucket Emmanuel SharpThe teams were traded from free pomegranate and Duke seven with 1:26 around the clock.
“I said to our group,” said Sampson in his opening statement after the victory. “It is much easier to close the victory when it reaches 20 years. It is much more difficult when you are in the third or fourth. ”
Adhere to the victory of 67-61 with a little more than 40 seconds, Tugler reached a banned shot and a sharp drilling of three despair of the right wing to reduce it to three points. The next sequence is when you tend to standards, as Sion JamesThe inner incoming corridors were stolen Melik Wilson. Tugler criticized the dunk home to cut the lead to one.
Duke protect Teres Protector69 % free throw was shot, to the free throw line and was long in the first attempt. Flagg tried to seize the bounce but it was called for a mistake.
Roberts, 63 % shooter of throwing, shot 150 free throws every night last week, according to Samson, both free pomegranate to connect the 68-67 cooking with 19 seconds.
“This was a moment that would bear fruit in hard work,” Sampson said of Roberts’s free throws.
Duke called Timeout and faced a play for Flagg, but the star student missed the back bird in the corridor. Cryer continued to hit a pair of free pomegranate and was despair of Tyrest Proctor as long as the celebration was in the chop.
“I hear what people say.” Duke this. Duke that. “Duke is great.” We were not 34-4 playing in the Qaluti Games League. “
John Vanta is an anchor and national basketball writer in Fox Sports. It covers sport in a variety of capabilities, from connecting to the FS1 games to working as a major host on the Big East Digital Network to provide comments in the field of 68 media networks. Follow it in john_fanta.
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