ESPN is doing some sort of top highlights of all time.

Jerome Lane’s backboard breaking dunk is on the list. Since they list by date — Jan 25, 1988 — it is somewhere in the middle of the list.

Vote early and often.

After 10 pm. That’s when I was finally able to sit down and watch this. So many things to get done even after the kid’s holiday concert. Needless to say, I was screwed. By 9:20, I stole a glance at a sports website to check something else before I could get to the TV. I caught that the game was in OT. I was just hoping it would end by 9:30 — I extended the taping a half-hour.

Three phone calls came starting at 9:35. I had to ignore each of them. Each time, though, apparently my face betrayed my emotions. The wife thought I might be heading for a nervous breakdown. I just don’t know as I type this whether I have the final minutes on the DVR.
…Hideous call by one official. Denying the charge call on Nelson taken by Cook. Instead, they call something against Young — but count the basket. Then they give a call back to Pitt. At best, it might fire the team up a little more with the “everyone is out to get us” type mentality kicking in.

It did seem to embarrass the officials with that bad of a call — that they looked at to determine who it was on. Pitt is getting some more calls. Less than 5 minutes into the half, Pitt’s in the bonus.

Wow. A 12-0 Pitt run with under 6 minutes. Pitt with a 50-48 lead. Complete defensive battle. Both teams just contesting everything. Making it a battle up and down the court. Brutal. Beautiful.

OT.

Oh, crap. Cook had his left knee buckle. Hate to think it, but all you can think is ACL.

Duke fans chanting for Duke as Mike Cook lies on the floor. Hell, even Domer fans have more class.

DeJuan Blair fouls out. Huge for Duke that Lance Thomas was able to play. If not, they would have lost at least Henderson if not Nelson by now.

Time runs out on the DVR with 56.3 seconds left. Duke with the ball and up 63-62.

OMG!!!!

Pitt won?!?!?!?

Levance Fields. Wow.

Here’s the link to the ESPN video highlights.

Nothing like being the team that comes back in the second half after a horrible 1st half. It beats beating up your own team for choking and blowing it.

Losing Cook, though, is brutal. There is love and hate for Cook from fans. I understand it, but I am a fan. Gilbert Brown is going to have to be huge. It also means more size deficiency issues. Benjamin and Wanamaker will get more action in a 3-guard line-up. That or Cassin Diggs and McGhee will have to make a huge jump.