{"id":83446,"date":"2023-03-17T02:14:17","date_gmt":"2023-03-17T02:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/17\/how-furman-beat-virginia-and-busted-your-bracket\/"},"modified":"2023-03-17T02:14:17","modified_gmt":"2023-03-17T02:14:17","slug":"how-furman-beat-virginia-and-busted-your-bracket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/17\/how-furman-beat-virginia-and-busted-your-bracket\/","title":{"rendered":"How Furman beat Virginia and busted your bracket"},"content":{"rendered":"

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One of the primary thrilling finishes of the 2023 NCAA Tournament additionally gave us our first March Badness play to eat within the type of Virginia\u2019s gorgeous 68-67 loss to the Furman Paladins<\/a><\/span>. Clad in Willy Wonka purple, Furman earned their golden ticket to the event for the primary time in 43 years, after successful the SoCon Championship Game. However, it was Virginia\u2019s ultimate minutes that sealed their very own ignominious destiny. There\u2019s the Princeton offense after which there\u2019s the South Harmon Institute of Technology<\/a><\/span> (S.H.I.T.) offense, Virginia ran down the stretch.<\/p>\n

Early within the second half, it appeared Virginia was about to overwhelm Furman, till the latter switched to a 1-3-1 zone halfway via the second half and instantly started chipping away at Virginia\u2019s double-digit lead. We\u2019ve seen this from Tony Bennett System groups earlier than. UVA robots neglect easy methods to operate once they come throughout spunky mid-majors.<\/p>\n

Where did Virginia go incorrect?<\/h2>\n

After defending the lead over the ultimate 5 minutes, turnovers and ill-advised heat-check pictures from distance pushed Virginia out to a 63-67 lead with 19 seconds remaining. Bennett\u2019s Wahoos function with machine-like effectivity. However, within the final 20 seconds, Virginia\u2019s offense resembled a damaged merchandising machine.<\/p>\n

A missed free throw by Kihei Clark and two free throws by Furman\u2019s Garrett Hien on the opposite finish pulled the Paladins inside two factors. On the following inbound, Reece Beekman inexplicably appeared again after assembly the entice and laced a bounce move to Clark, who was instantly caught within the pincers of Furman\u2019s entice deeper underneath the incorrect basket. At that second as an alternative of a) launching the ball off a defender\u2019s leg b) whipping a skip move to wide-open teammate Isaac McKneely, or c) calling a timeout, Clark misjudged how a lot time was left and his arm energy by winding up a hook move that was intercepted by Hien, who kicked it to Pegues for the game-winning 3-pointer.<\/p>\n

Furman\u2019s second-leading scorer Jalen Slawson was nonetheless in shock strolling into the locker room, bellowing<\/a><\/span>, \u201cHe just freaking threw the ball!\u201d in response to a query.<\/p>\n

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Who deserves the blame?<\/h2>\n

The obvious blame has been placed on point guard Kihei Clark. The fifth-year guard committed a cardinal point guard sin with fewer than seven seconds remaining, but Tony Bennett bore witness to his fifth-year starter\u2019s sacrilege. Any head coach worth his salt would have the situational awareness to realize that a point guard who picks up his dribble while trapped in the corner of an opposing backcourt was in peril.<\/p>\n

Instead, Bennett preserved his timeout until after<\/em> JP Pegues\u2019 redemptive triple soaked the net to award the Paladins with a one-point lead. For Virginia, the loss extends its NCAA Tournament winless streak into its fourth year.<\/p>\n

The last time the Wahoos won an NCAA Tournament single-elimination matchup, it was their national championship win over Texas Tech. In 2022, their season ended in the NIT Quarterfinal. The 2021 Cavs limped into the first round and were chucked from the tournament by 13-seed Ohio. Virginia\u2019s premature exit is nothing new. In 2018, they were the first 1-seed to get chopped down by a 16-seed in NCAA Tournament history. However, Virginia was just flat-out unprepared once that game tipped off. <\/p>\n

Bennett is the most hot-and-cold coach in the country. That may have to do with how he programs his offense\u2019s movements and leaves them devoid of self-expression when plays break down that leaves them vulnerable, but Furman\u2019s trap can\u2019t be anything worse than what Clark sees in practice every day. There\u2019s rough blame to go around and Bennett will have to stew on this one for another year, but he\u2019s becoming a perennial March Badness contender.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n