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Top Competitions Countdown: No. 2, Men's Basketball Shocks Dayton At The Buzzer
April 02, 2020 | Men's Basketball
BOULDER - The shot brought back memories of Askia Booker's buzzer-beater to beat Kansas in 2013 in both its magnitude and drama.
With the clock ticking down, trailing by one point, Tyler Bey was double-teamed in the post, but he calmly found D'Shawn Schwartz wide open on the right wing. Schwartz drained a 3-pointer, with time expiring as the ball hit the apex of its arc, to lift Colorado to a 78-76 overtime win over No. 13 Dayton on Dec. 21. The win was perhaps the biggest non-conference victory for CU since Booker's shot in 2013 and put it at No. 2 on our countdown of top competitions from 2019-20.
Though March Madness was eventually wiped out due to the coronavirus pandemic, this contest had every feel of an NCAA Tournament game: two top-tier basketball teams competing on a neutral floor (Chicago's United Center) in front of a passionate, hostile crowd that favored the Flyers.
CU found itself down by 14 points in the first half, but rallied to lead by as many as eight in the second half. However, the Flyers had their own dramatic big shot as Obi Toppin made a 3-pointer with six seconds remaining in regulation to send the game to overtime.
Dayton went ahead by one point with 10 seconds left in the extra session before Schwartz's heroics.
Schwartz hit five 3-pointers in seven attempts, finishing with 20 points, but it was McKinley Wright IV who made perhaps the biggest difference in the game. Wright, who had originally committed to Dayton out of high school before the school changed head coaches, was booed the every time he touched the ball. That fueled the Buffs junior to score a season-high 29 points and pull down 10 rebounds for his sixth career double-double.
Bey (12 points, six rebounds, four steals) and Evan Battey (nine points, 12 rebounds) were also difference makers for CU.
The 13th-ranked Flyers were the highest-ranked team Colorado had defeated away from Boulder since beating No. 8 Missouri in the 1990 Big Eight Tournament.
CU went on to tie its school record for regular-season wins (21) and finished the year 21-11 overall and 10-8 in the Pac-12 prior to the season ending early due to the pandemic. The Buffs were considered a virtual lock to make the NCAA Tournament, according to bracketology experts, and were ranked a school-record 13 weeks during the season. Dayton would not lose another game in 2019-20, finishing 29-2 and ranked No. 3 in the final AP poll.
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With the clock ticking down, trailing by one point, Tyler Bey was double-teamed in the post, but he calmly found D'Shawn Schwartz wide open on the right wing. Schwartz drained a 3-pointer, with time expiring as the ball hit the apex of its arc, to lift Colorado to a 78-76 overtime win over No. 13 Dayton on Dec. 21. The win was perhaps the biggest non-conference victory for CU since Booker's shot in 2013 and put it at No. 2 on our countdown of top competitions from 2019-20.
Though March Madness was eventually wiped out due to the coronavirus pandemic, this contest had every feel of an NCAA Tournament game: two top-tier basketball teams competing on a neutral floor (Chicago's United Center) in front of a passionate, hostile crowd that favored the Flyers.
CU found itself down by 14 points in the first half, but rallied to lead by as many as eight in the second half. However, the Flyers had their own dramatic big shot as Obi Toppin made a 3-pointer with six seconds remaining in regulation to send the game to overtime.
Dayton went ahead by one point with 10 seconds left in the extra session before Schwartz's heroics.
Schwartz hit five 3-pointers in seven attempts, finishing with 20 points, but it was McKinley Wright IV who made perhaps the biggest difference in the game. Wright, who had originally committed to Dayton out of high school before the school changed head coaches, was booed the every time he touched the ball. That fueled the Buffs junior to score a season-high 29 points and pull down 10 rebounds for his sixth career double-double.
Bey (12 points, six rebounds, four steals) and Evan Battey (nine points, 12 rebounds) were also difference makers for CU.
The 13th-ranked Flyers were the highest-ranked team Colorado had defeated away from Boulder since beating No. 8 Missouri in the 1990 Big Eight Tournament.
CU went on to tie its school record for regular-season wins (21) and finished the year 21-11 overall and 10-8 in the Pac-12 prior to the season ending early due to the pandemic. The Buffs were considered a virtual lock to make the NCAA Tournament, according to bracketology experts, and were ranked a school-record 13 weeks during the season. Dayton would not lose another game in 2019-20, finishing 29-2 and ranked No. 3 in the final AP poll.
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