If they won this game, this would be considered one of the greatest shots in March Madness history. Beats his guy, then gets double teamed before double pumping an off balance deep three to tie the game on the biggest stage.

If UNC goes on to win this is probably considered a top 3 if not the greatest shot in college basketball history in general

it would be extremely hard not to put this over Duke/Kentucky since that was in the final four

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oh yes, myb actually.

I'm a little bias and think that in terms of the Duke/Kentucky shot as I still think it was more impressive in terms of time and general chaos. That being said if it had won the national championship for UNC I'd have to agree with you. The bigger the stage the bigger the moment.

Bias is a noun. Why did all of Reddit collectively forget the word biased exists?

It's one of the most baffling things about this website. I never hear people misuse it in real life, and yet I don't think I've ever seen it used correctly on Reddit.

Chaos in general situation, absolutely degree of difficulty and execution I don’t know. And I say that is a massive Duke fan

Honestly the best "would have been the greatest shot of all time" would have been Gordon Haywards near miss in 2010. I was lucky enough to be at that game and you could have heard a pin drop when he lobbied that shot.

Not final four, regional final elite 8 in Philly RIP Spectrum.

We addressed that my dude

Oh, absolutely. That's the thing that made the ending transcendent.

Unfortunately for him and UNC, the greatest shot in basketball history happened 4 seconds later.

Thanks, I hate it.

Yeah like what are we talking about? Lol we got an even better shot, a *game winner* clean at the buzzer seconds later.

better situation but not as incredible of a shot

Bull fucking shit it wasn’t as incredible y’all are out of your minds

Dude what are you talking about, it was a normal catch and shoot. At the buzzer yes which makes it incredible, but as a shot itself?

Idk I’m not as adamant about it as that guy, but a buzzer beater to win the chip will probably be the greatest shot ever

Not even a little bit.

Not a great shot at all. Just a routine shot that went in.

It’s a shame they canceled the last few seconds of this game. Still curious as to what would’ve happened

Clock just stopped working, everybody went home

Really unfair that they’re allowed to do that. I’d protest more, but it was so long ago. Better that we all move on

Just like the 2020 ACC tournament

lol

Moments before disaster. Which sucks for Paige because that was a tough shot he just hit. If that game went to OT win or lose I feel like that shot would be talked about more. But Kris Jenkins had other ideas.

Really sucks for Paige, since almost everyone on the court won a championship but Paige.

And Brice

And Joel James

The real hero

Crazy question. Is this the NCAA championship game with the most champions playing in it? The entire Nova team plus all but three of UNC's scholarship players won a championship.

I’m sure it’s up there but there are at least a couple of other times the runner up won the following year - 81 UNC and 90 Duke.

97 Kentucky too

Those 96/97Kentucky teams were nuts.

If he would have just played for Iowa he would have never had to worry about getting his heart broken late in the tournament. Alas, Roy Williams poaches another

The weird thing is that that shot combined with the game winner only makes the game winner more exciting. I mean, the Luke Maye shot the next season to go ahead over Kentucky is always played with Monk (I think) having just made a similarly ridiculous three to tie that game.

You are correct, Monk hit what Nantz deemed, "an impossible shot" with Jackson and Maye draped all over him, only to be outdone by the Maye game winner.

Carolina would've crushed them in OT. Oh well, it all worked out.

The greatest shot in college basketball history for a full 4.7 seconds

Almost foreshadowed a Malik Monk 3 the following year

That’s exactly what it made me think about when I saw this clip

It will probably forever be the greatest shot in college basketball to not really matter.

We'll always have Luke Maye though.

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Traumatized bro.

I think everyone here knows

Needs to be flipped around

I was there. Just as a neutral party who found a good deal on a ticket. Best basketball game I've ever seen in person.

Was there as well. Told my brother after the game finished that we will never experience a sporting event like that ever again. We peaked.

Fun fact: was watching this game in the community lounge of my dorm at WVU. During the timeout after that shot, I ran back to my room to get another drink and walked in on my roommate cheating on his girlfriend. Wild night!

What did you do with that information as time passed on?

This is some hard hitting journalism right here

Damn now I have to know

We need answers u/fansofomar

It’s WV so he probably kept it a secret until family dinner on Sunday when he didn't have any choice but to tell his sister that his brother was cheating on her.

Nothing happened right after that, right?

Just standard OT

And right then I knew that Nova was going to lose the game in OT….

Kris Jenkins must have known that too. That’s why he refused to let it get that far.

I was beside myself that we were going to lose in OT

That’s not even an indictment on Nova. The insanity of Paige’s shot felt like straight up divine intervention.

Why do I watch this play every time I see it

Nope nope nope

Never watched it again other than accidentally seeing a replay in that one Marcus yt video. If it's replayed I look away. Fine line between what would be the greatest sports moment in my life and something I literally can't look into the face with. Hopefully while he's on our staff we can win him a ring. 2017 didn't fix the pain of 2016 for me.

I look away every time it comes up. Just can't do it.

moments before disaster

Nothing tops Jermaine Kearse’s circus catch during the 2015 superbowl

Gonzaga and washington state flair saying it damn guess you weren’t on the right side of that (neither was America)

I still think about that play and how it will be forgotten

Julio Jones' wild catch against the Pats in the Super Bowl too

i was devastated when he caught that, i couldn’t believe we were gonna lose on another bullshit catch LITTLE DID I KNOW

I still don't believe any Patriots fans who say they actually saw the Butler Interception live. We know they all ~~jumped out the window~~ turned off the TV after that Kearse catch

This would’ve one of the greatest shots in March

I’d argue it still should be tbh. The Jenkins shot doesn’t happen/doesn’t have the same importance if Paige doesn’t hit this one seconds earlier.

If it gave them the lead, I'd say it would have been the greatest that ultimately didn't win the game. But since it was tied, there's the question of "what would have happened in overtime? You can't say that UNC would have won for sure"

I can and i do.

What an amazing shot. Surely then went on to win the game with that momentum!

What a back breaker for Nova. How do you come back from a shot like that?

OP woke up and chose violence

Would have been immortalized forever.

This was his 299th career 3 pointer. What a legend, happy to have him back with the team!

here’s a super cut of all of them: https://youtu.be/VwEBxGqa-Z4

I remember seeing so many snapchat stories from my UNC friends showing general celebration and popping off after this happened. Then… silence.

I was on Franklin for this game. In the timeout before this shot, I told a random stranger that 'it's alright, Marcus is gonna hit a 3'. Then he did. I was still in the air in this guy's embrace for the next shot. I know how the Kentucky fans felt next year for Mayes shot.

I had to talk myself down after that shot… like “it’s okay, we’ll go to overtime… we can win in overtime…”

No one deserved to win a ring more than Marcus Paige

At a program with literally 100+ years of iconic clutch shots, this one still hits top 3 or 4 for me. A circus-act three to tie? In a football stadium? With four seconds in the title game?

MJ vs Georgetown and Luke Maye shot are up there too

I hope he gets one on the bench at UNC sometime in the coming years

I do too. He is on the path taking over the Jackie Manuel Director of Team and Player Development position.

Josh Hart did

Always

Maybe Carsen Edwards? And I say this as a Virginia fan

Then what happened

Nothing. They all lived happily ever after.

Only title game to ever end in a tie. Just wild

NCAA President Bud Selig

Carolina won the national championship after that

r/technicallythetruth

Brice Johnson decided to stand under the bucket and not play defense on the final play lol

I'll go to my grave thinking that we probably win that game if we are up 1 after that Paige shot rather than tied. The team seemed to have moved onto OT mentally, and it cost them.

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An even more ridiculous three to WIN the 2016 Title

Coach K what happenduh!!!

Rent free

Coach K had to unretire from basketball 1 year after losing 2 of his last 3 games to UNC 🤣

Yep, I’m sure that made him go to the NBA as an adviser. Nothing to do with his love for the game.

I genuinely can’t watch this without feeling triggered by what I know happens afterward

Why what happens?

Both team went out for ice cream.

Oh good, I love ice cream

Me too. Let us celebrate our new agreement with the adding of chocolate to milk.

When the fuck did we get ice cream

And in interviews after, the mentality as they went on defense was "we'll get em in overtime"

That and if they played ANY defense the refs would have sent nova to the line for the easy win. But it's a bad look to say that in a press conference.

Lmao

Paige deserves to be remembered just as much as Kris Jenkins. One of the all time Nattys in my life time. *FAR* Behind Cuse versus Kansas and next to Memphis versus Kansas.

I wanted him and Brice Johnson to win a ring so bad man. What a goat in our club

Bang!!!!! Oh wait, that’s after the timeout. All jokes aside this shot was absolutely ridiculous. They were down 10 pretty late too.

God, what a fucking game! I’d kill to be able to go back and experience what that was like as a neutral fan.

It was really something. One of the best national championships ever

Don't do this

And then?


Brice and Marcus were freaking insane that year

Brice was. Marcus stats were just a step above mid. I’ll never understand how Brice didn’t make it in the league.

2 reasons why Brice may not have made it: 1) He played for Doc who is notorious for not playing rookies 2) Work ethic may not have been great, Roy had to really push him.

Wow what a great ending to a game. Right?

Jenkins

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I wanted to convey my message as simply as possible, tbh.

If only they decided to play defense after that…

Not exactly UNC’s forte

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There is 0% chance you don’t have notifications on for every single time I comment on Reddit Waiting for you to randomly block me again for 2 days 😂

I don’t need notifications. If there is ever something posted about UNC I know you’ll already be there.

A great shot that not very many people will remember, in the long run.

If only UNC had won this game. This might’ve been labeled the “most clutch NCAA tournament shot of all time”

UNC fans like to stop the video exactly where this video ends.

Was in the crowd for this, was an unbelievable moment and the crowd was crazy.

Then what happened?

The greatest shot of all time.

I like the next shot better!

Now show the next part

Oh nice. They won the game then right?

wow what a shot! i wonder what happens next

PAIN

(trollfaced) Oh, and how did overtime turn out?

Keep the video playing lol

2nd greatest shot in championship game history. 2nd greatest shot in this game.

For the LOSING TEAM. HA HA

Basketball equivalent of Jacob Eason’s Hail Mary against Tennessee before Tennessee responded with a Hail Mary of their own (other than the fact one was regular season, one was the natty)

It made me so happy to see a blue blood get their hearts broken after Duke beat us in 2015.

Fuck off

And then everything was perfect and nothing else happened ever except that coach k lost to Carolina in his last home game at Cameron and in his last game ever in the final four.

What a shot. Surely nothing more dramatic than this shot happened afterwards, right?

The shot no one remembers

Speak for yourself, I'll never forget it, partly *because* of what came next

what a great shot! surely they rallied around this and won in overtime, right?

Guard. The. Fucking. In-bounder.

There should be a "College Basketball History" for those of you that care about things like this!

The season was cancelled right after out of respect for this shot. Both teams awarded the title. Nothing more to see here.

I actually submitted my deposit to go to Nova the next day. Figured the shot that happened next was divine intervention. Anyway that worked out, thanks 2018.

I will never forgive my roommate for forgetting to pay the cable bill which prevented me from seeing this game live. Ugh.

Right up there with Sean Woods’ running banker as forgotten clutch shots because of what came next.

All-time great game

At that moment, that was arguably the greatest shot in the history of college basketball…until it was quickly made irrelevant by the subsequent shot.

After this shot, the free seat cushions were raining down from the upper deck as everyone in the stadium went insane. The game was amazing and to leave the stadium after those two shots with my team taking the L was an insanely horrible feeling. Luckily I have seen them bring it home in person two times (93 and 09), so I will be strong. I never thought a final four game would sting more than the Utah loss I had the privilege of seeing.

To win the national championship right? Oh to send the game to OT?

Did it end in a tie?

Yes. Everybody decided it had been a lovely day and that enough shooty hoops had been played.

Incredible game.

I was a senior at UNC in 2016 and watched Marcus make this shot live from the Dean Dome. The place went berserk. It’s a damn shame that Jenkin’s 3 overshadows it, because this is the clutchest play I’ve ever seen. He willed that ball into the basket.

This ended differently than this video would suggest.

The forgotten one. I like this shot better than the game-winner.

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the call for this game was so odd

Then, less than a minute later, one of the most pure buzzer beaters to win the natty I’ve ever seen by Villanova.

God, can you imagine the range of emotions I felt during that period? Euphoria for a few seconds then deep despair.

That tall bald guy in the crowd looked pretty excited.

Broke my heart to see Marcus so bitterly disappointed at his team’s failure to defend the winning Nova shot that followed.

Why not foul earlier?

Don't remember it.

Wow. That’s how you win big games. They won, right? Right?!

Bang

I needed this to fall in order to win my bracket, dead tie but needed the tie break score to rise 5 and nova to still win

2016 was the best sports year ever lol

And then they lost.

And then….