There is a beauty to basketball when it’s played well, and what happened in the final seconds Friday night in a college game between Wake Forest and the Charlotte 49ers really was beautiful.
Wake Forest won on a three-pointer from Isaiah Mucius as the buzzer sounded, earning a thrilling 82-79 victory, but it wasn’t as simple as that.
Let me describe it for you in case you weren’t there, and you almost certainly weren’t. There were maybe 1,000 people in the stands at 11 p.m. when Wake Forest restarted the game’s final possession, after first calling a timeout with 21 seconds left.