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D-III Minnesota school drains perfect buzzer-beater, officials erroneously wave it off

St. Olaf couldn’t have run the play any better.

The Oles, down one point to Augsburg with just 0.2 seconds left on the clock Wednesday night at the Skoglund Center, ran an in-bounds play along the baseline in a last-ditch effort to grab the win — an impressive feat considering they had just climbed all the way out of a 17-point hole in the second half.

They ran it perfectly, too. Senior Troy Diggins Jr. expertly jumped up in the middle of the lane and tapped the in-bounds pass into the net, draining the game-winner and setting off a massive celebration on the court.