No. 1 seed Gonzaga Bulldogs and No. 11 seed UCLA Bruins went head to head in a thrilling game. The teams were tied neck and neck 81-81 and went into overtime.
Nearing the end of overtime, Gonzaga was leading 90-88. UCLA guard Johnny Juzang made a layup tying up the game. With three seconds left on the clock, Gonzaga Freshman Jalen Suggs took three dribbles and made a game winning three point jumper leading the Bulldogs one win closer to an undefeated season and national title.
“I mean, it was nuts. And I still can’t speak. I have so many things going on in my head. I just can’t believe that happened. I don’t think it’s really going to hit me until I wake up tomorrow. Tonight was special,” said Suggs. “I’ve always wanted to run up on the table like Kobe and D-Wade and go like that, and that’s the first thing I did,” said Jalen Suggs, Gonzaga’s star guard. “Man, that is something that you practice on your mini-hoop as a kid or in the gym just messing around. And to be able to do that, it’s crazy.”
“He’s a hell of a player. I mean, he’s electric,” head coach Mark Few said of Suggs. “Especially when you get him out in transition. He’s confident enough.”
Gonzaga’s head coach revealed that Suggs makes shots just like he did at the end of the game in their practices. “We made a lucky one at the end, but I’m just telling you, he makes those ones all the time in practice… I knew when he shot it, it was going in,” Few said.
Suggs’ buzzer-beater shocked viewers across the world and he truly made his mark in college basketball history. Many athletes and viewers took to social media to express their excitement about the game.
Gonzaga is the first team to have an undefeated record into the championship game since Larry Bird and Indiana State in 1979. If Gonzaga wins tonight against Baylor, they could become the first team to go undefeated since the 1976 Indiana Hoosiers team.
It will be interesting to see how Gonzaga will play against Baylor after this huge win.
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