Last play of game

[ZmoneyKSU]

Have we ever run a successful play at the end of the game... or at the end of the half for that matter?  I can remember Jake driving and dishing to Beasely to win in Norman  4 years ago.  Other than that I really can't remember too many successful end of the game plays or shots.  Have there been others?

[kso_FAN]

Tony Atchison.

[One Nut Willie]

That last play of the game won be $150 so I'll take it, even though I expected a bigger margin of victory.

[sys]

martin's 3 @ ut is something i'll never forget.

[kso_FAN]

Tim Ellis*

*Granted, it was for a tie, and we ended up losing the game, but it was still a great "last play of game".\

Hoskins to Cartier.  

[michigancat]

there just aren't that many games that are decided at the last possession. We really have a pretty high number over the last few years.

[Goldbrick]

Have we ever run a successful play at the end of the game...

Depends on your definition of 'successful'.

[jtksu]

I remember several at the end of the half.  There's a reason SC highlights game winners, it doesn't happen that often.  Also, seems like we've hit free throws in the final seconds to win games...though I can't think of a single instance.

[Bill Clarahan]

I remember several at the end of the half.  There's a reason SC highlights game winners, it doesn't happen that often.  Also, seems like we've hit free throws in the final seconds to win games...though I can't think of a single instance.

Ed Nealy as a freshman

In Lawrence

eff KU

[Stevesie60]

Nick Russell's last second* 3 against UNLV made me  hardcore.

* of the half

[Saulbadguy]

Drew Lavender

[kso_FAN]

Drew Lavender

 

MANHATTAN — Kelvin Sampson wasn't in the room.

He didn't hear Jim Wooldridge's testy comments at the beginning of Saturday's postgame news conference. He didn't watch Wooldridge stand up only to sit back down. He didn't see the pain on Wooldridge's face or the hear the agony in his voice. He didn't witness Wooldridge squirming in his seat or wrenching the final statistics package with clenched fists.

Sampson didn't see or hear any of that. Still, the Oklahoma coach knew what his K-State peer was going through.

"I feel so badly for Jim Wooldridge and his kids because they deserved to win that game, too," Sampson said after his Sooners rallied for a dramatic 69-68 victory over the Wildcats at Bramlage Coliseum. "Jim has done a wonderful job here, and his kids played their hearts out today."

But it wasn't enough. The No. 21 Sooners (19-6, 8-4) rallied from a 16-point deficit during the last 19 minutes and won at the buzzer when Drew Lavender's left-handed, no-look hook bounced off the backboard, hung on the rim and finally fell through the net.

Lavender's shot, which provided the last of his game-high 29 points, left the Wildcats (13-10, 3-9) in a state of emotional wreckage.

"It's hard to deal with," Wooldridge admitted after calming himself. "The kids did it, they really fought. You could see the exhaustion. One more play, just one more in a 40-minute game."

What made this loss all the more frustrating was that it was so similar to three other nail-biters — against Nebraska, Texas Tech and Texas — that went against the Wildcats.

"Boy, we've had some doozies with these guys, haven't we," Wooldridge said.

[ChiComCat]

The reason Wooly didn't have it happen is because, basically, Wooly sucked.

Wooly's last year, we lost 9 games by 5 pts or less.  Granted, we did win 6 so that record isnt that telling.  But if you watch the games, down the stretch, Wooly would always want the ball to Cartier as he was our best scorer.  Problem being, his plan was to give the ball to Cartier and have him shoot the winner, without drawing a play up.  While Cartier could shoot, it was pretty much only set shots.  We lost a number of the games by Cartier turning the ball over trying to drive to create a shot, or chucking a bad one up on a position in the final seconds.

Cut to

martin's 3 @ ut is something i'll never forget.

And you see the coaching difference as Huggs ran a great play to open up Cartier for a 3 that was a set shot, right in his wheelhouse.

[unleashthemob]

Anthony Bean was notorious for last second heroics in his short time at Ksu..

[wabash909]

Anthony Bean was notorious for last second heroics in his short time at Ksu..

A real "cardiac cat", if you will.

[EMAWzified]

Ed Nealy as a freshman

In Lawrence

eff K

Absolutely hilarious. Cats looked doomed as KU went to the line with a 1 point lead with like 1 second on the clock. Hawk misses FT, Nealy rebounds, fouled by Crawford (overrated KU bum) on an over the back. Goes to line, sinks two FTs, Cats win. Those were the days.

Of course, the all-time last-second moment was Blackman's Sports Illustrated cover shot.

[Saulbadguy]

 

MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) -- Icy weather in central Kansas caused Texas Tech to arrive late for its game against Kansas State, but the Red Raiders were there at the end -- when it mattered most.

Curtis Marshall hit a 3-pointer with two seconds left to lift Texas Tech to a 79-76 win over Kansas State on Wednesday night.
Tied at 73 with less than a minute to go, Jarrius Jackson hit a 3-pointer from the top of the key to give the Red Raiders the lead. Cartier Martin answered with a deep 3 to tie the game again at 76 with 33 seconds to go, but Marshall got loose on the wing and drained his only 3-pointer of the game.
Kansas State had one last chance, but Clent Stewart's desperation 3-pointer banked out as time expired.
"It was a tough day for us, but it ended pretty good," said Texas Tech coach Bob Knight, whose team's plane had to land in Ponca City, Okla., where the Red Raiders then took vans 250 miles to Manhattan. They arrived less than an hour before the scheduled tip-off.
But the extra traveling didn't hamper Texas Tech's offense. Marshall finished with 16 points to pace five players in double figures. Ronald Ross added 18 points and seven assists for Texas Tech (9-4, 1-1 Big 12), while Martin Zeno scored 16 points, Jackson had 15 and Devonne Giles had 12.
Fred Peete and Jeremiah Massey each had 15 points for Kansas State, and Cartier Martin added 14. The Wildcats (10-3, 0-2) lost their second consecutive Big 12 game after leading late. Kansas State lost to Nebraska in double-overtime on Saturday.
"That was a tough one. We talk all the time that in this league, you are going to be in a lot of games like this," Kansas State coach Jim Wooldridge said. "It was tough to come away with the loss."
The Wildcats led most of the way, taking a 42-38 lead at halftime. Kansas State hit 13-of-19 (68 percent) from 3-point range, including five from Peete and four from Martin.
Kansas State also got a big lift from the bench. Lance Harris and Tyler Hughes each added 10 points, including several baskets late in the game.
But Texas Tech managed to stay close, taking its first lead in nearly 20 minutes with 10:07 remaining. The teams then swapped leads seven times down the stretch before Marshall hit the game-winning 3.
"We just didn't get enough stops on defense," Massey said. "Those guys made shots all game. We played terrible defense."
Kansas State shot 58 percent (28-of-48), but committed 19 turnovers resulting in 22 Texas Tech points. The Red Raiders shot 50 percent (31-of-62) from the field.
"Obviously the difference in the game tonight was turnovers," Wooldridge said. "We gave too many points off turnovers. That's what won the game for them."