There are notable similarities between Virginia's miraculous wins in the last two rounds of the NCAA tournament and Auburn's back-to-back football miracles in 2013. However, the Cavaliers surely hope the similarities end there. Auburn's remarkable 2013 season ended without a national championship.
Auburn's Samir Doughty was called for a foul against Virginia's Kyle Guy on his attempted buzzer-beater in Saturday's Final Four game. Guy made all three free throws to give Virginia a 63-62 victory. A year removed from arguably the most embarrassing sequence of events in the program’s proud history, a team wearing orange and navy won back-to-back huge games in miraculous fashion, thereby advancing to play for a national championship.
By now you’ve likely heard that UVA rallied to win Saturday when Kyle Guy made three free throws following a pair of controversial officiating decisions in the closing seconds: one on a foul call against Auburn’s Samir Doughty, who bumped Guy as he released his attempted game-winning buzzer-beater, the other a missed double dribble after UVA’s Ty Jerome dribbled the ball off his own foot.
Instead, Jerome found Guy in the corner with the inbounds pass, and the Cavaliers guard was able to attract just enough contact from Doughty to draw a whistle and receive an opportunity to send his team to the championship game. When Jerome made his first and missed his second free throw – cutting the score to 70-68 – and UVA’s Mamadi Diakite tapped the offensive rebound backward past the half-court line, Purdue still had a 90.49% chance of victory.
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