Kentucky Slips Past Lsu On Wild Buzzer Beater Off Full-court Pass

It’s connected January, but Mark Pope’s Kentucky squad pulled disconnected a spot of March magic to conclusion LSU successful Baton Rouge connected Wednesday.

The Tigers led nan Wildcats by 18 points early successful nan 2nd half astatine Pete Maravich Assembly Center, but Kentucky stormed each nan measurement backmost to trim LSU’s lead to 1 constituent pinch conscionable complete 5 minutes near successful nan game. At that point, nan chaos was only opening for what was an unbelievable finish.

Kentucky’s prima defender Otega Oweh went to nan free-throw statement pinch conscionable 4 seconds near connected nan timepiece and his squad down 2 pinch a chance to necktie nan game. He made nan first, but missed nan 2nd foul changeable successful a infinitesimal that whitethorn person caused nan Kentucky fans watching astatine location to move nan channel.

But nan crippled wasn’t done yet, pinch LSU guardant Pablo Tamba astatine nan statement pursuing an intentional foul arsenic nan Tigers led by one. He missed some free throws, giving Kentucky nan shot pinch 1.6 seconds near to nonstop a dream down nan level disconnected an inbound from down nan baseline.

That dream was answered arsenic Collin Chandler sent a hail-mary walk to nan other foul statement which sewage complete an LSU defender and into nan hands of Kentucky large man Malachi Moreno. Moreno quickly turned astir and sewage up a midrange jumper which recovered nan bottommost of nan nett and gave nan Wildcats an unthinkable comeback win.

Shades of Christian Laettner’s iconic March Madness buzzer beater, which was ironically to hit Kentucky.

With nan thrilling win, Pope’s Wildcats beforehand to 11–6 arsenic LSU falls to 12–5 and an 0–4 commencement to its SEC schedule. We’ll spot whether Kentucky has immoderate much magic up its sleeve erstwhile nan Wildcats adjacent deed nan level Saturday against No. 24 Tennessee.

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