Seriously, As far as buzzer beaters go for UF. UF hall of fame .......... Couldn't ask for a better, more dramatic contest. A few observations: Crowd: Bucknuts showed up. Did they out number us? Football note to our secondary: If you guys could hit the way UF's BB team does during end game celebrations (see Tyree) we got nothing to worry about against FSU. Some are critical of CMW's end game clock management, what say you now? Fleming is fast becoming a favorite. Watch a replay or two of the game to appreciate it, I'm telling ya, OSU stretched the UF rubber band about as far as it would go. Will help our RPI (OSU will do well) SOS, ranking, confidence, ..... all of it. Hats off and WELL DONE!!!
Maybe set up a poll with these as a starting point. Joe Lawrence buzzer beater to beat TCU and send UF to the NIT quarterfinals. I know it was only the NIT but UF had not had much of any post season success then. Mike Miller and Butler buzzer beater in OT in the first round of the NCAA's on our way to a spot in the Finals Chandler Parson at NC State with a 3/4 court heave. All net. Roberson shooting over Jarvis Hayes at the buzzer for the win where Jarvis Hayes and Peep were trading daggers down the stretch. Cheese with the three to down Wisconsin and send us to the Elite Eight Appleby with the DEEP three to tear out tOSU's heart. Stacey Poole spinning along the free throw line to beat the buzzer against Vandy. To this day Eddie Fogler claims that Stacey traveled on that play. Don't post the poll until other folks chime in with other great moments.
erv had a buzzer beater to tie the game and force OT against uga. We won. parsons had a game winner against usc at the buzzer.
Good ones. And while they were great for the Gators other teams melting down should not be on the list. Tennis balls at Vandy and then Dwayne S hitting both after the T to send it into OT and Donyell Marshall missing two free throws at the end of a Sweet Sixteen game where the Gators dominated in overtime are the kinds of things I am talking about.
I was at that NIT game and it was ridiculous. That was back before we had had much success in basketball. So fun to watch the program grow from there. BTW, do you remember the crowd chant at TCU's center? I was also in Winston-Salem for the MM shot. One of my favorite all-time sports moments. Still gives me chills thinking about it. I should have been at the Parsons game in Raleigh, but I was sick that day....such a bummer.
My favorite buzzer beaters are the most recent ones! When is the next one!? For real though, hard to beat the Cheese winner vs Wisconsin.
I don't remember the chant, but Joe Lawrence was a REALLY good three point shooter. Shot over 50% one year.
Ric Clarson with the 30-footer at the buzzer to beat LSU. 1978, I think. This was in the days of no shot clock, no 3-pointers, and no alternating possessions. The Gators rallied from a 7-point deficit with less than a minute to go, an unheard-of accomplishment in those days. Gators chipped away, and then tied up an LSU dude with a couple of seconds to go to force a jump ball. Gators won the jump, tapped it out, Clarson chased it down, grabbed it, spun around, heaved it, SWISH!!! Pandemonium in the Alley! One of the most amazing finishes I've ever seen.
He was a dead-eye marksman. Perfect form on his shots. I do think teams have gotten a lot better at defending the 3 since then.
Top-ranked Florida capped a perfect run through the Southeastern Conference when Kentucky failed to get off a shot on its final possession, allowing the Gators to escape with a 61-60 victory in the league championship game Sunday, March 16, 2014.
Agree. Most coaches back then had it burned into their brains that long jump shots were bad shots and didn't work too much on defending them (why defend what they thought was a poor shot) and didn't recruit specialists on making the shot. Rick Pitino revolutionized the game by embracing the three point shot.
