Crazy Basketball Finish - Pitt vs. Butler

Last night, the game between Pitt. vs. Butler ended with crazy plays within last 1 minute. Following table shows play-by-play in the last 1 minute.

time	Butler	Score	Pittsburgh
1:00	Butler Full Timeout.
0:52	Matt Howard missed Three Point Jumper.	68-69
0:48	Andrew Smith Offensive Rebound.	68-69
0:44	Andrew Smith missed Layup.	68-69
0:42		68-69	Brad Wanamaker Defensive Rebound.
0:09		68-69	Pittsburgh Turnover.
0:07	Butler Full Timeout.
0:07	Pittsburgh Full Timeout.
0:03	Andrew Smith made Layup. Assisted by Shawn Vanzant.	70-69
0:01	Foul on Shelvin Mack	70-69
0:01		70-70	Gilbert Brown made Free Throw.
0:01		70-70	Gilbert Brown missed Free Throw.
0:01	Matt Howard Defensive Rebound.	70-70
0:01		70-70	Foul on Nasir Robinson
0:01	Matt Howard made Free Throw.	71-70
0:01	Matt Howard missed Free Throw.	71-70
0:01		71-70	Brad Wanamaker Defensive Rebound.
0:00	End Game

Butler absolutely got a chance to win, but a foul by Shelvin Mack blew it. After that, Pitt had a chance to get at least overtime play, but a foul by Nasir Robinson blew it again.

It's the craziest basketball finish ever.

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Amazing St. John's Lost Chance of Two-Round Bye in Big-East Conference Tournament

This season of NCAA BB, game records St. John's Basketball is very interesting. In special, in Big East conference games.

The Red Storms defeated many top25 teams, #11 Georgetown on Jan 3, #11 Notre Dame on Jan 16, #3 Duke on Jan 30, #9 University of Connecticut on Feb 10, #4 University of Pittsburgh on Feb 19, and #14 Villanova on Feb 26. As the result, Red Storms is ranked at 15th position in AP ranking list. Any team in top-25 didn't lose more than 9 times that Red Storms lost. Moreover, they won completely most of the games against those teams.

By the way, interestingly, red storms has beaten several times by low-ranking team in conference. Yesterday, It happed again. They were stunned by Seton hall (6-11, 12-17). The score was 84-70.

It is a pound to a penny. But the thing is that Red Storms lost the chance of two-round bye in next week's Big East tournament by this lose. It's important because it's hard time physically after playing 30 regular season games. Every team needs time for recovering player's physical strength.

Anyway, in this season, the ST. John's Red Storms is one of the most interesting teams in NCAA. As the proverbs said, a man who is really strong is weak to the strong and strong to the weak. Then, Red Storms is a REAL STRONG TEAM?

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