What an amazing finish. When Farmar missed a 3 down 7 with about 2 minutes left I thought the game was over, Gonzaga scored to go up 9, and never scored again as UCLA got the final 11 points.
A lot of luck involved but after the ref wiped out Collison's basket and he missed the front end of the 1 and 1 I think UCLA deserved some luck. I'm still puzzled why Morrison passed out of the double so quickly, he wasn't close to a 5 count and if he holds the ball UCLA probably fouls him. He did make the right play, had he tried to get the ball to Ravio, Bozeman was just sitting there suckering him and would have had the steal and a layup, throwing crosscourt was the right play. But Batista too figured they're going to foul me and was surprised they went for the steal.
And then Luc with that sliding steal from behind against Raivio, what a great play man I love that kid. Bozeman and Hollins came up huge tonight.
Even though I think Morrison is a jerk, he's a hell of a player, everytime UCLA made a run he'd bust it with a shot or a pass, he missed 2 late shots and people are trying to blame him but Batista really lost the game. he missed a shot late, got the rebound and instead of pulling it out went right up and Hollins blocked it and UCLA goes down and scores, just completely forgot about clock. And then he got stripped by Bozeman leading to the go ahead.
I had WVU in the final 4 beating Duke so I missed both in that bracket. I have Memphis beating UCLA in the 8, I still have UCONN and BC in the other half although I'll be rooting for UW to beat UCONN.
Don't know about Memphis they were clearly the best team we played all year but UCLA fell way behind and then came all the way back before losing by 8. Farmar went nuts in the 2nd half, had 23 of his 28 after halftime. UCLA is a much better defensive team now than they were then but Memphis is so athletic I suspect they'll take UCLA out. Even if they do what a year for a UCLA fan this team is so much fun to root for they just don't quit.
