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Was this the most famous miss in NCCA tournament history?

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I know we talk all the time about game winners, of course.

But how about the most famous miss in mens college basketball tournament history? Does such a thing exist?

I'd argue yes, it does, though much more rare than the game winner. I think it would be Hayward's miss in 2010 vs Duke:



Obviously there aren't nearly as many "famous misses" but anything else come to mind?
 
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Just reading the thread title, it is obviously Gordon Hayward.

Hard to think of any others that combine the stakes (championship won or lost), degree of difficulty (half-court shot), and proximity (off backboard and front rim). He was probably 0.2 degrees of arc away from immortality.
 
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Rocktheworld said:
Maybe doesn’t belong on the Mount Rushmore of misses but my mind goes straight to that guy on Arizona (Derek Williams or something?) missing a three that would have buried us during Kemba’s run that looked so good coming off his hands
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IIRC, Derrick Williams took the early, ill-advised pull up 3 from the top of the key which missed badly (hit the backboard first), then Arizona ended up getting the rebound, kicked to a guy in the corner (whose name I have no idea) and his miss was right on line, but just barely long.
 
It's Gordon Hayward against Duke. The NC State one is a decent call, but that's famous as much for the subsequent make as much as the miss
 
Tenspro2002 said:
IIRC, Derrick Williams took the early, ill-advised pull up 3 from the top of the key which missed badly (hit the backboard first), then Arizona ended up getting the rebound, kicked to a guy in the corner (whose name I have no idea) and his miss was right on line, but just barely long.
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I was a junior at the time so you can imagine my recall of exact details is extremely poor lol

Still can’t think of a time there was as big a collective gasp/sigh than that shot
 
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I remember Coach K getting pissed off in the postgame interview room because reporters kept asking him questions about how close Haywards' shot was to going in.
 
Tenspro2002 said:
IIRC, Derrick Williams took the early, ill-advised pull up 3 from the top of the key which missed badly (hit the backboard first), then Arizona ended up getting the rebound, kicked to a guy in the corner (whose name I have no idea) and his miss was right on line, but just barely long.
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It was Jamelle Horne - I will never forget his name because I still believe that shot is going in. Never seen a shot look so good and yet miss. I think he was like a 40+% 3pt shooter as well.
 
I'm surprised nobody has brought this up: Yes, there are a ton of other narratives surrounding this game, but Denham Brown's stepback 3 at the end of overtime against G***ge M***n. It was a great look and almost went in.

That would have won the game, sent us to the Final Four (and potentially another championship), and cemented Brown as a legend having hit shots at the end of both regulation and OT.
 
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Tenspro2002 said:
IIRC, Derrick Williams took the early, ill-advised pull up 3 from the top of the key which missed badly (hit the backboard first), then Arizona ended up getting the rebound, kicked to a guy in the corner (whose name I have no idea) and his miss was right on line, but just barely long.
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That second shot was 100% going in, until it didn't. I aged like 10 years in a second.
 
Travelman32 said:
I know we talk all the time about game winners, of course.

But how about the most famous miss in mens college basketball tournament history? Does such a thing exist?

I'd argue yes, it does, though much more rare than the game winner. I think it would be Hayward's miss in 2010 vs Duke:



Obviously there aren't nearly as many "famous misses" but anything else come to mind?
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I think the most famous “miss”, if you will, was Chris Webber calling timeout with no timeouts left, against Duke.
 
Jay-Bone said:
Didn't Darius Washington from Memphis miss a couple free throws for a big game?
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Chris Douglas-Roberts and Derrick Rose cost me hundreds of dollars in 2008. I had Memphis beating Kansas in my bracket. Memphis couldn't make a FT to save its life. I think I still finished 2nd overall.

62-58 Memphis with 1:15 left. Douglas-Roberts is fouled and misses the front end of a 1-and-1. Kansas then scores with 60 seconds left, bringing it to 62-60. After the teams trade misses from the floor, CDR is again fouled with 15 seconds left. In the double-bonus now, CDR misses both. But Memphis grabs the offensive rebound. Rose, however, only makes 1 of 2. Chalmers then hits a 3 to send the game to OT.

They went 1-5 over the last 1:15.

I remember the 2004 UConn squad being bad at FT shooting and a lot of people saying it would eventually bite us in the butt. It never did. But people said the same thing about that Memphis team and boy did it.
 
I remember picking Tinsley in the first round of a Tournament player pool because I thought ISU was headed deep. I had no players from #1 seeds. I don't remember where I finished but it was probably dead last.

 
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