A short history of interesting March Madness game-winners
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A sad fact: In a world in which the coronavirus didn’t exist, this weekend would have been Final Four weekend (and I would have been in Las Vegas). Oh, what could have been … Now I'm stuck at home in Ohio, where I conducted an exhaustive review of everA short history of interesting March Madness game-winners
A sad fact: In a world in which the coronavirus didn’t exist, this weekend would have been Final Four weekend (and I would have been in Las Vegas). Oh, what could have been … Now I'm stuck at home in Ohio, where I conducted an exhaustive review of every single game-winning shot in NCAA Tournament history while social distancing. Unfortunately, two of the game-winners date to the 1940s, when highlight film of many games was unavailable. So attempting to rank the best of the 124 game-winners (click here for game-winner criteria) would be fruitless. (Plus, there’s plenty of “Best of March Madness” YouTube clips out there for you to watch.) Instead, let's focus on the most interesting and absurd factoids from tournament games that involved game-winners. The first game-winning shot in the NCAA Tournament came in the 1944 national championship game. With score tied at 40 in the waning seconds of a Utah-Dartmouth overtime «thriller,» the Utes' Herb Wilkinson caught a pass from Wat Misaka and buried a championshi Read more