Originally Posted by
Buckeye Devil
I think it is truely a rare situation that you don't try and get points, especially in college basketball. I can understand it a little more in the pro's because if you make it, they can call timeout, draw up a play, and get the ball at half court. The college game is different since a timeout does not advance the ball to mid court.
I can understand the points made here about how you miss it. But if Z tried to make it and missed it, Butler would have still had to advance the ball to mid court and throw up a desperation shot at the end. And who knows how a missed shot (that Z would have tried to make) might have bounced? It could have gone to Duke. Or there could have been a contested rebound that knocked some time off the clock, or a loose ball resutling in a scramble on the deck.
I don't profess to be the expert or mean to second-guess a 4 time NC winner, but it seems to me that it is safer to take the point when the opportunity presents itself. But the important thing is that I am wearing a 2010 NC shirt that drives people around me crazy.