More of the same
Fifty percent free throw shooting and no points in the last 4 minutes. Translation, Clemson blows a 5 point lead with 4:07 left en route to losing 67-66.
Really, the first 36 or 38 minutes of the game weren’t too painful. In fact, they were pretty fun to watch. Unfortunately the shit hit the fan with about 10 seconds left.
Clemson had just forced a Florida State turnover as the shot clock wound down with about 21 seconds left and grabbed the last possession in a game tied at 66… Well it should have been the last possession. With 8 seconds left a loss of focus lead to dribbling the ball off a foot and into an over-and-back violation.
Florida State took a time out. Coming off the time out, the Noles got the ball to their ace who drove, lost his footing, and had his lame duck shot easily blocked. And he got a foul charged against, if I overheard the arena loudspeaker correctly, the Clemson “phantom player.” One made free-throw later and it was all done.
Adios NCAAs. Buenos dias NIT!
actually the foul was credited to gravity. Gravity’s third foul of the game.
I hate it when we get into a position where the game is decided by the refs. It should have never come to that.
Ugh.
I feel slightly better now that I know that all the favorites got upset yesterday. In a sense, that makes the loss less bad.
*shakes fist angrily at gravity* Damn you!!!!