College Basketball Served Fans With A Bevy Of Buzzer Beaters On Wednesday Night

It’s only January, but nan Wednesday nighttime that assemblage hoops conscionable had felt for illustration March.

In a loaded slate, fans were graced pinch an bonzer magnitude of thrillers, which included a number of buzzer-beater wins crossed nan nation—on some nan men’s and women’s sides. Undefeated Vanderbilt fell successful a blowout to Texas, shrinking nan number of unbeaten men’s teams to three.

That was only nan appetizer pinch plentifulness of courses up arsenic a number of teams recovered ways to triumph successful chaotic manner arsenic nan timepiece deed zero. With full-court passes, large comebacks, half-court heaves and improbable putbacks, hoops fans were presented pinch a dependable dose of mayhem.

On a chaotic nighttime of assemblage basketball, present are nan astir thrilling finishes from crossed nan land:

Kentucky erases 18-point deficit, thumps LSU connected Malachi Moreno’s chaotic shot

Kentucky came each nan measurement backmost against LSU to propulsion disconnected a miraculous win. The Wildcats had an opportunity to necktie nan crippled pinch 4 seconds left, but Otega Oweh missed nan 2nd of 2 free throws. Luckily for Kentucky, LSU missed 2 foul shots aft an intentional foul, providing Mark Pope’s squad pinch a last changeable to triumph nan game.

It was Malachi Moreno to nan rescue disconnected an unbelievable full-court inbound that led to a turnaround midrange to triumph nan game. Shades of Christian Laettner.

Ole Miss takes down No. 21 Georgia successful overtime pinch miraculous putback

Ole Miss had aggregate chances to descend a crippled victor against Georgia connected nan road, but nan Rebels made things arsenic melodramatic arsenic imaginable pinch misses and a flailing loose shot that led to a chaotic putback by Patton Pinkins to crystal nan game. How did he moreover get that changeable disconnected successful time?

SMU’s heave sinks Virginia Tech

Something was successful nan h2o crossed assemblage hoops Wednesday arsenic SMU defender Boopie Miller continued nan nosy pinch a half-court heave arsenic clip expired to conclusion Virginia Tech. The Mustangs were down by 2 erstwhile Miller’s changeable went up arsenic SMU’s last hope. Somehow, nan heavy runner recovered its measurement done nan nett and nan crowd astatine Moody Coliseum erupted arsenic nan location squad precocious to 13–4.

TCU’s Marta Suarez nails a three-pointer to conclusion West Virginia astatine nan buzzer

No. 10 TCU has only mislaid 1 crippled this play and guardant Marta Suarez made it her ngo to support it that way. She took nan inbound pinch 2.8 seconds near successful nan game, had her defender connected an land and sank a clutch three-pointer to springiness nan Horned Frogs a 51–50 triumph complete West Virginia. Suarez missed her first 5 three-pointers connected nan night, but she remained assured and drained her first erstwhile it mattered most.

Cincinnati WBB forces overtime pinch UCF connected last-second three

Cincinnati’s Mya Perry scored 24 of nan Bearcats’ 63 points Wednesday night. None were bigger than nan 3 she made astatine nan extremity of regularisation to unit overtime arsenic clip expired. She inbounded nan shot and sewage it backmost erstwhile she stepped down nan three-point statement for nan clutch bucket. She followed that up by scoring 5 of Cincinnati’s 10 points successful nan other play arsenic nan Bearcats near pinch a 63–59 triumph connected nan roadworthy complete UCF.

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