It was March 14, 1958. The site was Allen Fieldhouse in Lawrence, Kansas. And Oscar Robertson was uncharacteristically nervous.
It was bad enough that the referees were actually enforcing the ten-second clock on foul shots, and teammate Ron Dykes was yelling at him to hurry. The shot Robertson was about to attempt would have given Cincinnati a 75-74 lead over Kansas State with only a second to go. A trip to the Elite Eight was on the line.
That shot hit the back of the rim, and in two overtimes the third-ranked Wildcats managed to overcome the second-ranked Bearcats, posting an 83-80 win to move on to the Midwest Regional final.