An entire game may seem like an eternity to a player in the moment, but to their coach, it is just a 40-minute sample size in hundreds of hours of work through a season.
Dexter Dennis gave Wichita State coach Gregg Marshall no reason to trust him to make the final shot with the score tied and 0.5 seconds remaining at Tulane on Saturday night. In front of 80 hometown fans who made the 90-minute drive from Baker, La., Dennis had no points on 0-for-4 shooting with four fouls.
But Marshall trusted his instincts, which told him to trust Dennis.