Highlights! Did you see that bank shot?

It’s rarely fair to distill a win down to one play, to minimize the smaller things that happen on a possession-to-possession basis, to overwrite long-run consistency with some absolute get-out-of-your-seat stupidity.

So I would never do that. Other than this time. Did you guys see that bank shot?

NC State was facing a pivot point here, after another Sam Hauser three cut the margin to five and State went and got lost for the majority of its next offensive possession. If the most likely outcomes happen, then UVA gets either a shot clock violation or a defensive rebound off a bad miss, and then that momentum rolls back to their end.

But Cam Hayes found the like 0.005% result there, and that is a beautiful thing. UVA plays good defense, and while this is not one of its better defensive teams, it played great defense on this possession. And UVA still got burned by randomness.

Sports are so good.