new it was going in.
It was one year ago, almost exactly. Xavier-Wisconsin in the second round. Two seconds left, tied at 63. On an inbounds play, the Badgers’ big man, from just inside half-court, passed the ball to Bronson Koenig, who was curling toward him around the top of the arc. Bronson caught the
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Nothing but net.
The buzzer sounded. Game over. Season over. That’s how quickly it can all end. And, of course, in March, seedings mean nothing.
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Whenever someone was talking about buzzer beaters … they showed the shot.
Whenever they were
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To this day, I can’t hear “One Shining Moment” without envisioning the ball leaving Bronson’s hands and falling through the net.
The more I was forced to relive that moment, the more I knew I had to come back to Xavier. We have unfinished business.
This year, we’ve started saying
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