This is March.
USA Today Sports' Scott Gleeson gives his take on if Duke has what it takes to win the national championship and send Coach K off right in his farewell season.The blank expressions of Rutgers’ players, the downcast faces, the hushed tones depicted the heartbreak of a team that had fought back from the brink, turned a season that once looked destined for nowhere into one that became memorable for so many reasons.
For it to end this way, for it to come to such a sudden conclusion, turned jubilation into heartbreak within a matter of seconds. Geo Baker, Ron Harper Jr. and Caleb McConnell sat in the postgame press conference in tears and tried to describe how it all happened, an impossible task.Rutgers and Notre Dame delivered an NCAA Tournament classic, one that ended with the Fighting Irish escaping with an 89-87 double-overtime victory in a game that started Wednesday night but ended Thursday morning.“They were one possession better,” coach Steve Pikiell said.
Notre Dame’s Paul Atkinson Jr. made a layup with 1.4 seconds remaining in the second overtime and Baker couldn’t get a desperation heave off in time as the final second melted off the clock.
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