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Sean Miller sentimental about legendary voice of college hoops Bill Raftery

Arizona head coach Sean Miller's days at the University of Pittsburgh as the starting point guard were highlighted by one of the great plays in college basketball history, "The Pass" as he so calls it in his household. The play was a two-on-one fast break to which Miller threw a pass to forward Jerome Lane, a standard play by most accounts, but when Lane took off something was different. Not only did Lane dunk the basketball, he obliterated it and subsequently the backboard which shattered into a million shards of glass upon impact.

It had happened before, but what made this moment great was the voice of legendary color analyst Bill Raftery on that evening's ESPN telecast as he coined the phrase, "Send it in, Jerome!