The most important shot of the game happened by accident.
Gavin Skelly got trapped in the paint and tried to feed it to Dererk Pardon. It flew over Pardon’s head. But Bryant McIntosh tracked it down in the corner and nailed a three right in front of his own bench. Northwestern trailed by 10 when the ball left his hands, the team’s biggest deficit of the night. When the ball tickled the twine, it kickstarted a 20-2 run that turned the game on its head and gave Northwestern an incredible and historic victory that now has the team in its first ever Big Ten tournament semifinal.