Final seconds that saved Houston’s championship hopes in the Sweet 16

Indianapolis – One game. One killing The game was really a plan of B. One passage. One amazing Go from the position of a player who had no assistance all night. One layout. One open The layout with 0.9 seconds is left.

Then Houston Cougars could finally exhale with the victory of 62-60 and get rid of the persistent Purdue, his wizard’s wizard and his turbulent crowd. Houston was the first seed No. 1, which looked over the edge of the cliff this March.

“That’s the only thing you can ask for your team to give everything they have,” said Purduue coach Matt Painter. “Houston was one game better than us.”

About the one game. The distribution of Milos Uzan in the last second second settings of the game, but that was a simple part.

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How many fate twists can be pushed for 2.8 seconds? For Uzan, Oklahoma previously last year to create the most important basket of the season for Houston. For Joseph Tugler, Make An Impromptu Bounce Pass That Allowed His Beleaguered Team To Play Another Day, Arguably The Most Important Assist So Far of the NCAA Tournament, WHIC IS SAYING SOMETHING FOR A 6’8 Everywhere on Offense, Keeping the boilermakers in the hunt, but at this particular moment felt he serpent no choice but to zig when it might have been better to zag.

Everyone was throwing for a game that would persist for two programs and perhaps this whole tournament, depending on where Houston goes from here.

The score was tied 60-60, Purdue gathered from 10 points down. Boilermakers scored 11 goals in the second half. Smith helped all 11 of them. Painter would say later he had never seen such a thing. “In principle, he took us from our (defensive) principles,” said Houston Guard Lj Cryer in the leaf dressing room Cougars. “And he postponed us apart.”

But at the moment it was Smith’s defensive tasks that would put him in the center of this intersection. Houston had property on the baseline, 2.8 seconds remained when she left the game to review the game over who touched the ball for the last time during the reflective Scrum, Cougar’s 16th.

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The game was supposed to go to Cryer, which comes from the screen to the right corner. It is Houston’s big shot, although he was 2 to 13 at the time. Smith was guarding Uzan, an incoming passersby, but he felt he had no choice, but there was an open scream. The problem was that he could go a little far away and no one else turned. Cox would probably be the guy and there was a hole in the middle.

Saan quickly changed the game and handed over Tugler, who realized that Smith left and no other diver boilermaker was diving, Saan would be the most open player Houston Basketball on the planet. He immediately bounced the ball back to Uzan. Game, set, match. A ticket to Eight Eight for Houston, a blow in the intestine for Purdue.

Through the side line, Houston’s coach Kelvin sampson drew his hands in Glee. Gee, let it play.

So much ifs. If there is no review, perhaps Houston has no time to argue and organize your thoughts. If Cryer is not so open from the screen, if Smith does not decide to go out so far if Cox rushes to help if the Uzan passes the ball where he should go, if Tugler feels warm hours and a hurie shot if Purdue could catch another defensive reflection. . . Everything is changing. Boilermakers charged and the crowd became a larger factor. Cougars did not want overtime.

Then everyone had their view.

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Tugler: “It was an arrested game. Someone else must be open. They have to leave someone. I just bounced it toward the basket.”

Cryer: “It wasn’t a game we had developed. We dropped her to be honest. Jojo played his instincts and made a good passage back to Milos. A moment.”

Sampson: “We call it three reading, where they took the first option, but our discipline allowed us to get to the second option and then read the reading to get to the third option. It helped us save us, so we’ll get on.

“I think (Cryer) was carrying two people with him, which means we were on three three, and we always talk to our boys about the advantages of hunting numbers. Once you have the advantage of the number, it will now become the right reading.”

“That’s why you’re working on those things day after day, you never know when you need it.”

Smith: “We knew they were about to get out of the back screen and Cryer was going to get the shot in the corner. We saw it in the movie. I just tried to take it away.

When huge baskets appeared in the tournament games in Houston, it was almost the famous soaking of Lorenzo Charles for the state of North Carolina to defeat Cougars in the 1983 title game. Sure that one was more important for the National Championship. But this could mean more and more if Cougars are constantly moving.

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This ended the loud night when Houston had to deal with both Purdue Resolve and Dav Boilermakers. It led to something furious battle, where Houston still grabbed control and Purdue would never completely disappear.

“Up and down, up and down, had a way, we had a way,” Tugler said.

“It was an advantage, but not as bad as playing in Kansas or playing in Arizona or playing in Iowa or playing in West Virginia,” Sampson said about Pro-PurDue Lucas Oil Stadium. “That’s why I didn’t make a big problem.”

Cryer mentioned how the crowd when the boilermakers gathered: “It makes you feel like your back is a little against the wall.” Cougars seemed a bit of an end.

Until the last 2.8 seconds. Joseph Tugler is the only fourth assistance in the last seven games and perhaps the biggest passage in his life.