Here's the official BTN video of the play, as well as a few cool views from the stands, via Twitter.
The shot heard 'round the world
The shot heard 'round the world
Video of the shot heard 'round the world
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Still amazing this morning! Liked that the B1G Network let the scene play out - ecstatic team , celebratory student rush on the court, stunned Michigan bench.
I certainly saw it and heard it but the world is mostly a pretty small world. I mean we still are lil ole NU.
Reminds me of Jerome Whitehead's basket for Marquette to beat UNCC in the NCAA semifinals in 1977. Big Al beat Dean Smith in the final game two days later. May this one spawn other big things!
Video of same play with more excited voiceover featured on USAToday.
http://www.usatoday.com/videos/spor...stern's-buzzer-beater-over-michigan/98634898/
http://www.usatoday.com/videos/spor...stern's-buzzer-beater-over-michigan/98634898/
Thanks for adding that. It was great getting to hear the homer voice over from our friends at WGN.
Hey Alaska- with all the rain in the desert it's going to be a great wildflower season out in Borrego Springs. Peak viewing will be in a week or two. I am heading out for the weekend for talks about the old railroad line that runs to El Centro and a short train ride as well as some stargazing. Here is a link to a desert wildflower preview:
http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com.../sd-no-desert-wildflowers-20170223-story.html
To tie it back to basketball, San Diego State will be one of the sites hosting the 1st round of the NCAA tournament next year. Viejas Arena is a nice venue for basketball. The new Oregon basketball arena is now the best college court on the west coast but Viejas is right up there. NU fans need to get acclimated to attending 4 games when going to first round events. Pretty exciting, I've been to 4 days of NCAA tournament games at Viejas and 2 days of opening games in Tucson at U of Arizona when the Aztecs played at Tucson, AZ.
Enjoyed the link. I guess there is another tie-in to NU Basketball inasmuch as the blooming in the desert is described in your linked article as a once in a decade event. It seems like it was almost a decade since we had our last pair of 20 win seasons which included the prospect of getting an NCAA invite back in 2009-2011.
(Now veering back off topic, ironically as you were posting I was actually doing a little research on the history of Point Loma where my law school was first situated, and where I spent my first year before it moved just north of downtown San Diego. It was informative to learn about the prior history of the site. General Fremont while attending President Grant's second inauguration had told a young lady about the place after she shared with him a dream. Years later, at the turn of the Century, she became the leader of a group that ended up purchasing land there where a Greek amphitheater and buildings for a school were erected. The amphitheater and some of the original buildings were still there in my time and apparently remain there to today.
Here is an excerpt:
But why Point Loma? Originally, some Theosophists wanted the school on the former site of Atlantis, alleged to be somewhere on the East Coast. Not true, Hargrove said, adding that he often had to correct misstatements. The highest land on the point was a “fit place for deep meditation” because, he mistakenly explained, “California is geologically the oldest part of the continent.”
Years later, Madame Tingley offered a different explanation. She had a childhood dream of building a “White City in a golden land by the sundown sea.” She had never been to California. When she was 26, at the second inauguration of Ulysses S. Grant she met Major General John C. Fremont. She told him her dream. “I know that place,” he replied. “I’ve been there! It is Point Loma. It forms the western shore of San Diego Bay.”)
Here is a link to the full account from "The San Diego Reader:"
http://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2014/apr/02/unforgettable-many-trials-madame-tingley-part-one/#
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