On Tuesday, Dante Maddox, Jr., was stuck in an elevator.
On Friday, the Toledo guard made the tiebreaking shot in the final minute of the Rockets’ 85-83 victory over Ohio.
“[I was trying] not to think too much,” Maddox said after the critical Mid-American Conference win.
That statement could have been uttered earlier in the week.
Maddox was at a UT men’s basketball fund-raiser Tuesday when the elevator at a local business malfunctioned and the doors wouldn’t open. He spent 30 fearful minutes alone, as coach Tod Kowalczyk and athletic trainer Brian Jones reassured Maddox over the phone and through the doors to remain calm.