For Game Day, we thought we’d feature arguably the greatest buzzer beater for Duke in the history of the Duke-UNC thang. Candidates include Gene Banks’ 1981 thriller and the double buzzer beaters by Tre Jones and Wendell Moore, but Austin Rivers’ buzzer beater just had…so much…swagger.
When UNC misses, Miles Plumlee gets the rebound and Rivers doesn’t run from the moment…he runs to it. He comes back to Plumlee to get the ball and brings it up the left side of the court.
When he gets across half court, Rivers goes to his right, and UNC inexplicably leaves Tyler Zeller to guard a guard on the perimeter…