San Diego State survives stunning 57-56 heartstoppper over Creighton to keep hopes of an improbably national title alive
There are the rarest moments in sports when time completely stops, freezing absolutely everything. Eyes stretched wide, jaws in freefall, hands glued to skulls as if all had starred into the eyes of Medusa at the exact nanosecond something beyond comprehension occurred.The Elite Eight game Sunday against Creighton at the KFC Yum! Center, during an NCAA Tournament swept away by lunacy, had used more than 39 minutes to solve precisely nothing.
“I’ve missed free throws before,” Trammell said. “You can’t let your confidence waver or you have no chance.”The final 34 seconds battered emotions on both sides so mightily that the see-sawing stretch sprint threatened to trigger a cardiac event. Controlled? That would test the eyes of those beholders for certain. How about madness, full-throttle and full-tilt?
Officials rushed to the video review to determine who touched the ball last and whether any time remained. When the whole of it was waved off — deciders saying after the game that “the clock hit zero before the ball touched out of bounds” — the Aztecs rushed from the bench like teens with GA tickets to a Taylor Swift concert.
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