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Purdue's last-second victory over Texas, along with Trey Kaufman-Renn's excellent effort, got a lot of attention from the college basketball world.
Purdue buzzer-beater video: Trey Kaufman-Renn hits game-winning tip-in to send Purdue to Elite Eight sportingnews.com
The first rule of being a basketball broadcaster is to be aware of what the score of the game is, especially when the game is tied, and there is the potential for a buzzer-beater. An ESPN announcer on the call for the Ole Miss - Minnesota NCAA Women's Tournament game forgot that rule and embarrassingly dug herself into a hole with repeated asinine comments.Ole Miss scored to tie the game at 63-63 with 3.5 seconds left before the Golden Gophers called a timeout to draw up a play for a potential game-winner. This left the ESPN crew of Krista Blunk and Andrea Lloyd to set the scene, and they failed, miserably.Blunk leaned on Lloyd during the break in the action, and understandably so, given that Lloyd is a veteran broadcaster and a member of the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame, but certainly didn't think that her counterpart didn't have any idea what the score of the game was.Lloyd began by saying that "the clock was the problem" for Ole Miss, which didn't make any sense given the score was tied up, but then things got worse. A lot worse.Lloyd went on to say that Ole Miss would go for the quick steal before having to foul, then spouted out the free-throw shooting percentage of Minnesota players on the floor that the Rebels may want to put on the line.It was an absolutely brutal watch for any fan paying any attention at all to the broadcast.To make the situation that much more uncomfortable, Minnesota's Amaya Battle went on to hit a tough jumper with one second remaining to give her team the win. Naturally, Lloyd didn't say a single word as pandemonium broke out on the floor.While Lloyd's mistakes were about as embarrassing as they come in the world of broadcasting, there is something extremely fitting for the error to come during the same broadcast that continually showed Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz in the crowd.
St. John’s is moving on to the Sweet 16. Hee Red Storm faced off with Kansas in the second round. It was a 65-67 win for the team on Sunday to send them Sweet 16, capped off with a buzzer-beater by St. John’s guard Dylan Darling. While it was an unreal shot to win the […] The post Dylan Darling’s buzzer-beater for St. John’s was one-of-a-kind for this reason appeared first on ClutchPoints.
After a crushing, buzzer-beating loss to the St. John's Red Storm on Sunday, the legendary Kansas coach said he will determine his sideline future in the coming days.
St. John’s got its newest hero following Sunday night’s Second round win. But the victory didn't come that easily as their guard Dylan Darling managed to score a buzzer-beater in the final seconds. But Rick Pitino and his men continued to trend even after their press conference, courtesy of a funny ...
Rick Pitino let fans and reporters in on what led to his decisive call to stun Kansas in the second round of the NCAA Tournament. The St. John’s head coach surprisingly went to scoreless guard Dylan Darling with the game on the line at Viejas Arena in San Diego, Calif. With 3.9 seconds left in a … The post Rick Pitino has awesome story behind last-second play call to beat Kansas appeared first on Larry Brown Sports.
St. John's head coach Rick Pitino celebrates 67-65 win against the Kansas Jayhawks in the 2026 NCAA Tournament at Viejas Arena on March 22, 2026 in San Diego, California.
Rick Pitino has been to the Sweet 16 before, and he sure acted like it on Sunday after St. John’s beat Kansas at the buzzer. St. John’s guard Dylan Darling caught the ball in the backcourt with 3.9 seconds left and got all the way to the cup for a layup that sent the crowd … The post Rick Pitino had ice-cold reaction to St. John’s beating Kansas at the buzzer appeared first on Larry Brown Sports.
St. John’s shocked Kansas with a last-second buzzer-beater as Rick Pitino leads the Red Storm to their first Sweet Sixteen since 1999. A Duke showdown awaits.
A brutal photo of Vanderbilt’s buzzer-beater attempt showed just how close the shot came to going in. The image spread around social media Saturday after the Commodores suffered a heartbreaking 74-72 loss to the Nebraska Cornhuskers in the second round of the NCAA Tournament at Paycom Center in Oklahoma City, Okla. Vanderbilt’s Tyler Tanner came … The post Brutal photo shows how close Vanderbilt’s 50-foot buzzer beater came to going in appeared first on Larry Brown Sports.
Vanderbilt sophomore Tyler Tanner was a friendly bounce away from NCAA Tournament immortality. 5-seed Vanderbilt trailed 4-seed Nebraska 74-72 in the closing seconds of their South Regional matchup at Paycom Center in Oklahoma City, Okla. With 2.2 left on the clock and no timeouts remaining, Vanderbilt needed a miracle to advance to the next round … The post Vanderbilt was a lucky bounce away from unreal 50-foot buzzer-beater appeared first on Larry Brown Sports.
Not only are the bracket pools and buzzer-beaters in March magical, but so are the players’ shock at becoming famous in tournament history. Otega Oweh of Kentucky made a moment in the Enterprise Center that will be remembered for decades on a day when the stakes were much higher and the lights seemed a little […] The post What Otega Oweh said after Kentucky’s thrilling win over Santa Clara appeared first on ClutchPoints.
Kentucky was only able to beat Santa Clara during the First Round of March Madness because a nearby referee did not pay attention to Herb Sendek on the final play of regulation. The head coach of the Broncos tried to call a timeout just milliseconds before Otega Oweh beat the buzzer to force overtime. It […] The post Santa Clara Robbed Of March Madness Upset Over Kentucky By Referee Who Was Not Looking appeared first on BroBible.
