Generally speaking, when I think of a New Year's Eve buzzer beater, I think of someone scrambling through the party while the ball is dropping in order to find their New Year's Eve kiss partner.
For UC Santa Barbara and Cal State Northridge, getting lucky on New Year's Eve was the result of getting a very different kind of ball to drop.
The Gauchos were down by two to Fresno Pacific, an NAIA school, on the final possession of the game when Jordan Weiner followed up an airball from Orlando Johnson to tie the game at the buzzer:
Not to be outdone, Northridge's Devon Peltier hit a three from the corner with 0.4 seconds left that bounced off the top of the back board before falling through:
My vote is for UCSB's. Why? Because the headline "UC Santa Barbara's Weiner gets lucky on New Year's Eve" could legitimately have been written.
Monday, January 3, 2011
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Posted by Rob Dauster at 3:16 PM
Labels: Buzzer Beater, Cal St Northridge, UC Santa Barbara
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