Hunter’s 3-pointer with 4.2 Seconds Left Lifted Eagles Past L’ville

According to antecedent – On the border of seeing his unheralded, 13th-seeded Morehead State affairs about-face into something abundant added impressive, the drillmaster could accept alleged a play for his NBA-bound centermost or his bouncer who couldn’t miss.

Instead, he absitively to go with a dream.

Executing a play that came to his drillmaster the night before, Morehead State’s Demonte Harper dribbled patiently and watched the alarm beat down. Then, he stepped up abaft the 3-point band and swished the attack with 4.2 abnormal larboard Thursday for a 62-61 achievement adjoin No. 4 Louisville and the aboriginal big agitated of the NCAA tournament.

“The drillmaster said, ‘Hey, I dreamed about this endure night, this exact situation,” Harper said. “He said, ‘I apperceive absolutely who I’m traveling to. I’m traveling to put it appropriate in your hands, Demonte.’ He said, ‘At 6 seconds, I wish you to advance and cull up and hit the shot.’ I hit the shot. It feels aerial appropriate now.”

After Harper’s ambitious basket, the Cardinals (25-10) had a adventitious to win it, but Morehead State’s best player, centermost Kenneth Faried, blocked Mike Marra’s attack from the corner.

And that’s how abstruse drillmaster Donnie Tyndall, and not Louisville’s Rick Pitino, begin himself on the attic of the Pepsi Centermost celebrating. Morehead State of Kentucky — acceptance 9,000 at the abject of the Appalachian Mountains — won its aboriginal main-draw bold in the NCAA clash back 1984 and will play No. 12-seed Richmond.

“I anticipate to be a first-round bold adjoin an in-state power, to be able to beating them off, I don’t anticipate it’s anytime been bigger than that in the history of our school,” Tyndall said.

Chris Smith had 17 credibility for Louisville, which bankrupt the year on its aboriginal two-game accident band of the season. The Cardinals played the end of the bold afterwards their arch scorer, Preston Knowles, who bare to be helped off the cloister afterwards affliction his larboard abate with 8:51 left.

“This is as boxy a accident as I’ve had in apprenticeship and I’ve been apprenticeship a continued time,” Pitino said.

After Morehead State (25-9) alleged abeyance for its endure possession, abaft by one with 23.8 abnormal left, Harper seemed an absurd applicant to yield the a lot of important attack in the program’s unspectacular history. He was 2 for 9 from the attic and hadn’t hit any of his 5 3-point attempts.

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