Desmond Bane drifted to the corner, accepted a pass from Alex Robinson, and launched a possible game-winning three with just under three seconds left in Thursday’s Kansas-TCU Big 12 tournament quarterfinal game at Sprint Center.
The shot never reached its target.
The 6-foot-5 freshman from Richmond, Ind., was fouled by KU’s Svi Mykhailiuk and calmly drilled three free throws with 2.5 seconds left to give the Horned Frogs an 85-82 win over the No. 1-ranked Jayhawks.
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“We ran a high ball screen for one of our better penetrators, Alex Robinson, and I know he likes to throw that drift pass to the corner and I was spotting up, hands free, ready and he found me and I shot and luckily I got fouled, stepped to the line, all my teammates came to me, tried to calm me down, make sure everything was cool and I stepped up to the line and knocked them down,” said Bane, who scored 16 points.