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Catching up with Tyler Griffey, the guy who once made that layup

You’re not alone. Tyler Griffey still thinks about ‘the shot’ — the layup that beat No. 1 Indiana at the buzzer in 2013 and sent Griffey on the arms of his teammates and Orange Krush members who rushed the court — all the time, but not because he really wants to.

For Griffey, he considers himself “indifferent” to it five years later, even if “it’s one of the more defining moments of [his] career.”

Griffey — now 27 and working as a specialist at World Wide Technology in St.