Miraculously, the Barton College men’s basketball team executed a near-impossible opportunity in the final 1.6 seconds in Saturday afternoon’s final game of the 2025 Hampton Inn/Tru Hotels 45-Second Classic in Wilson Gym.
Perfect execution would be draining a highly improbable shot that would have either won the game or forced overtime. The shot, however, didn’t fall and the Bulldogs of the NCAA Division II Conference Carolinas dropped a tough-to-take 83-81 decision to the Augusta (Georgia) Jaguars of the Div. II Peach Belt Conference.
The outcome left the Bulldogs of new head coach Joel Zimmerman as the lone winless (0-2) team in the four-team, two-day round-robin affair. The Jaguars, who lost to Barton in the 2024 Classic, wound up 1-1…