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Nathan Bain stood in this impossible position, on the floor of Cameron Indoor Stadium — “the Mecca of college basketball,” as he called it — and tried hard not to cry. He was wearing headphones and looking into the camera, lip trembling and eyes watering, the sudden hero of an unfathomable shocker, life and sports having taken him to a place he could not have dreamed.
The Stephen F. Austin senior had just made the basket of a lifetime — a runout layup that left his hand with about a tenth of a second on the clock — to beat almighty, No.