Division III nationwide championship ends on wild buzzer-beater as Mary Washington wins first title
Division III Mary Washington captured its first nationwide championship in as dramatic a style as one might think about.
Colin Mitchell hit a put-back layup on the buzzer to defeat Emory 75-73 for the boys’s basketball program’s first title.
The outstanding second occurred after Kye Robinson airballed an awkward-looking shot from the facet of the basket.
Fortunately for Mary Washington, Mitchell was in the suitable place on the proper time to get the ball and rapidly put up the layup that received them the sport.
“We trusted Kye to get to the spot,” Mitchell mentioned concerning the game-winning second, per the Indianapolis Star. “And he obtained there and shot an excellent shot. Proper place, proper time.”
The championship capped a season by which Mary Washington completed with a 30-3 file, which is now the brand new program file for wins.
It was additionally Mary Washington’s first nationwide title in any sport since 1991, when the ladies’s tennis staff claimed the NCAA championship, and the primary time a males’s program at Mary Washington has ever received a nationwide championship.
Sunday’s Division III title recreation had already been a raucous affair and simply moments earlier than the buzzer beater, it regarded as if Emery was about to power time beyond regulation.
Ethan Fauss hit a game-tying 3-pointer with 12 seconds left earlier than Robinson charged down the courtroom to start out the game-winning sequence.
“I really feel like I used to be not taking the best shot potential,” Robinson mentioned. “I really feel like I used to be making it type of laborious on myself. After which as soon as I felt my leg buckle just a little bit, I used to be like, ‘Oh, I simply must get it up.’ Undoubtedly the most effective missed shot of my life.”
Robinson was named the event’s Most Excellent Participant and he completed the championship recreation with 27 factors together with eight rebounds, 4 assists and 4 steals.
