On a night where the routine shots just were not falling, somehow the most utterly no-way-that’s-good shot of the game banked home and saved a season. Michael O’Connell etched his name in NC State basketball lore with an almost comical skyward-heave that went too far and still was true.
What a ride.
NO. WORDS. pic.twitter.com/hyftX6y0id
— ACC Men's Basketball (@accmbb) March 16, 2024
I’ve watched it 50 times and it has yet to feel any less astounding. I don’t know what to say. March. Sports. Occasionally basketball prayers get answered, and this was a one-in-who-knows kind of basketball prayer, and it flipped a team from dead to alive in an instant, ultimately preserving State’s season for at least one more day.
I don’t know what’ll happen tomorrow, and I’ve seen that particular movie a couple times so I’m leery, but now I feel like I can relax about the whole thing. We were dead. It was all over. No pressure now. And this shot is history, regardless.