Men's Basketball

12 Plays of Christmas: Boatright's Buzzer Beater

Editor's Note: Heading into the Holiday Season and the end of 2015 we thought it would be nice to look back at some of the best plays from the past year. We scoured through lots of video footage and came up with our "12 Plays of Christmas". Every day we will reveal a new play that we consider to be one of our best from the year. The list will end with play number 1 on Christmas Eve.

Play 3 - Boatright's Buzzer Beater
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In the quarterfinals of the 2015 Men's Basketball tournament No. 6 UConn in front of a packed XL Center fan base faced No. 3 Cincinnati. With 13 seconds left Shaq Thomas made the bucket for Cincinnati to tie the game at 54.
 


Ryan Boatright  took the ball down the court and drove his defender back before taking a step back and hitting the 3-pointer with two-tenths of a second on the clock Friday to keep defending national champion UConn's NCAA Tournament hopes alive with a 57-54 win.


 

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