The excessively long three-pointer hung in the air and everyone in Maravich Assembly Center Saturday afternoon just knew it had to swish.
The giddy crowd and everyone on LSU's bench stood in anticipation of a fitting Senior Day ending.
It wasn't a game-winning or game-tying three, or anything that would decide a championship.
But when senior walk-on Reed Vial's first successful college field goal ever with 13 seconds left found nothing but net in his last-ever home game as a Tiger, the entire LSU team rushed across the floor and mobbed him after the final buzzer confirmed a 78-57 SEC beatdown of Mississippi State.