San Antonio – It is the moment you have become for him Throughout this magic Florida The season, which was filled with transformations, turns, historical return and much more. to Walter Clayton JuniorThe situation full of pressure in the late game was not a new thing. Just one week ago, the star goalkeeper in Gators helped his team from nine down with 2:51 to shock Texas Tech and ticket tickets to the four finals.
This time, with less than two minutes staying in the national semi -final match on Saturday against the seeds of the highest OporneClayton and Gators were looking to deliver the dagger. Cleiton holds the ball in his hands. The first-team in the world’s first team showed why Kemba Walker was like this tournament, where he was wandering in the corridor, buried hostility and took a mistake to send believers in Florida madly.
“He was doing it throughout the year for us,” coach Todd Golden said of Clayton in an exclusive interview with Fox Sport after the match. “I don’t want to say that we consider it a foregone foreground, but we believe he is the best goalkeeper in America. He is a great leader for us.”
The unforgettable Caliton bucket served as another golden A moment in a season full of them, and now, for the first time since the Billy Donovan championship teams in Florida in 2006 and 2007, Gutors will return to the national title game. Florida overcame another deficit in the second half to download Oporn and complete the sweeping of the tigers season, 79-73.
Florida’s defense, who entered the tonight in the tenth place in Kinbum, woke up in the last twenty minutes, which makes it difficult for all Greater America John BromAnd even more difficult for the Ocean Ocean attack, to go. Twelve minutes from the second half, Oborn designed only four shots. Gators closed the tigers from the city center, and they grabbed it to 7 from 25 pm on Saturday.
Change the range 11-0 in the second half game, and in many respects, the Florida Road to the National title game summarized. Will Richard Clayton delivered one bucket, buried 3, Ali Martin It is followed with another three times, and finally, Clayton mired to the edge to get a bucket off the rotation. Three of the players who were previously in Belmont, Yona and Florida Atlantic, respectively, have proven that they are the ideal pieces of Golden and his employees.
With Ubourne’s four -point cling 12 minutes, Cleiton responded to another. With a little more than four minutes, Denver Jones Democter 3 points to make it one point game. Clayton then returned to the right with a bucket of theft.
“He always finds a way to make winning a great time for winning,” Golden said of Clayton. “There is no player in America preferring to have the ball in his hands late in the game with the game on the line.”
Repeated and over, Clayton wanted his team and for you on Monday night.
“He is incredible, man,” a student in Florida Thomas Haig He said when asked about Clayton. “We trust him in every situation, and this is what he does – it knocks on big shots every day.”
Nothing greater than Saturday night in San Antonio, where Clayton became the first player since Larry Bird in 1979 with successive games of 30 points in the eighth elite or later in the NCAA championship. As a result, Gators is one of the two left.
Golden said: “Our surrounding men – Clayton, Martin and Richard – are breathing to everyone in this team,” said Golden. “Tonight was a testimony to our group in all ways.”
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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