Xmastime Hall of Famer Bobby Plump Mention!

I'm sure I'm not the only one who's forgotten how much a classic it would've been if Butler had pulled off the upset against Duke 5 years ago. Here's a great oral history on it.

Hayward's heave bounced off the glass, bounced off the inside of the rim, and fell off. "Oh! It almost went in! It almost went in!" Nantz shouted on the telecast. Stevens fell to his knees. Howard dropped to the court, covering his face in his hands. Hayward turned and clenched his fists.

A collective gasp of the 70,930 fans inside the stadium cut through the silence. Duke was college basketball's national champion. Butler was not. It was later determined by ESPN's SportsScience that if Hayward's shot was three inches to the left, the ball would have banked off the backboard and fell in. It was that close. The Bulldogs came three inches from winning the national championship.