BLOOMINGTON, IN — Bryant McIntosh thought the shot was good when it left his hands.
“I actually said, ‘I hit it.’ It felt great,” McIntosh said afterwards.
The junior point guard cocked his head to the left as he watched the ball descend towards the hoop. He had just leapt from the halfcourt line in Assembly Hall, hung in the air, and launched what would’ve been a miraculous game-winner at the buzzer.
If it had gone in, the shot would’ve all but punched the ticket to the Wildcats’ first NCAA Tournament. It would’ve gone down as the biggest shot in Northwestern basketball history.