Nearly the greatest buzzer-beater ever? Half-court heave from Vanderbilt's Tyler Tanner rims out
Tyler Tanner was inches away from March Madness immortality. After Nebraska's Braden Frager made a driving layup with 2. 2 seconds left to give the Cornhuskers a two-point lead over Vanderbilt in a second-round NCAA Tournament thriller on Saturday night, Tanner had no choice but to chuck one toward the basket.
The ball crashed off the center of the backboard and dropped halfway below the rim — and then, somehow, it rattled out, and Nebraska escaped with a 74-72 victory.
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Tyler Tanner was inches away from March Madness immortality. After Nebraska's Braden Frager made a driving layup with 2. 2 seconds left to give the Cornhuskers a two-point lead over Vanderbilt in a second-round NCAA Tournament thriller on Saturday night, Tanner had no choice but to chuck one toward the basket.
His heave from beyond half court was on target. The ball crashed off the center of the backboard and dropped halfway below the rim — and then, somehow, it rattled out, and Nebraska escaped with a 74-72 victory. “My heart sank as that ball went in the hoop and went out,” Nebraska guard Sam Hoiberg said.
“I think it took me a half a second to register it didn’t go in, and then I just screamed in elation. I thought it was in. ” Nebraska's Pryce Sandfort summed it up: “I just about died.