Morehead State – OneManFastBreak https://onemanfastbreak.net The online journal for Basketball fans around the world Sat, 19 Mar 2011 05:21:45 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.2 MOREHEAD STATE HEADS HUGE UPSETS https://onemanfastbreak.net/2011-ncaa-tournament-morehead-state-headlines-buzzer-beaters/ https://onemanfastbreak.net/2011-ncaa-tournament-morehead-state-headlines-buzzer-beaters/#respond Sat, 19 Mar 2011 05:21:45 +0000 http://www.onemanfastbreak.net/?p=6932 [Read more...]]]>

Morehead State head coach Donnie Tyndall (center) celebrates with Demonte Harper (22) and Terrance Hill (11) after defeating Louisville in the 2011 NCAA men's basketball tournament. (Chris Humphreys/US PRESSWIRE)

Not counting the play-in games that happened earlier in the week, the first round of the 2011 NCAA men’s basketball tournament has been nothing short of spectacular.

Matt Howard’s put-back lifted Butler over Old Dominion and Temple’s Juan Fernandez beat the buzzer against Penn State. But the best buzzer-beater from the opening week was executed by Morehead State’s Demonte Harper.

Harper buried a 3-pointer from the top of the arc with 4 seconds left to put 13th-seeded Morehead State ahead, 62-61, over fourth-seeded Louisville. Then, when Louisville’s Mike Marra tried to launch a last-second shot from the wing Morehead State center Kenneth Faried stuffed Marra’s attempt and no foul was called. Ball game!

Replays show that Faried got a lot of basketball on the blocked shot, and it would have been a shame if the game ended on a controversial foul call. Watch the play:

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