Kentucky's Bronson Koenig Makes Game-Winning 'Hail Mary' Shot for Final Four Triumph!
In a wild NCAA Tournament moment 10 years ago, Wisconsin's Bronson Koenig beat the buzzer and second-seeded Xavier.
The toughest year of Bronson Koenig's career was coming to an end, and he was letting it all out in a St. Louis hotel. The Wisconsin Badgers men's basketball team had played Pittsburgh in the first round of the NCAA Tournament in 2016, but the 47-43 win was far from a masterpiece.
Koenig had gone 1-for-8 and finished with two points. For the first time in a run of 44 straight games that dated to the previous year's national runner-up team, he didn't make a single three-pointer. "I played horrible," Koenig said.
"I was extremely stressed out. My mental health wasn't very good. I had put so much pressure on myself to be kind of the representative of the Native basketball community for all Native people, obviously my family, the state of Wisconsin … I put so much pressure on myself to perform.
I also didn't know how to take care of myself. I didn't have the tools to deal with the traumas and things that were going on that kind of went unchecked back then. " The moment that would define his decorated Badgers career, a buzzer-beater to topple Xavier in the second round, was less than a day away, but he didn't feel it then.
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