Jarred Dixon, a senior guard, launched a halfcourt shot with about a second left on the clock on Sunday.
He made it.
And the 6,500 fans in the arena — give or take the fans that left when Illinois State led by five with 1:45 left in the game — went absolutely wild. The team dog-piled Dixon, head coach Dana Ford was full of emotion and freshman Szymon Wojcik even celebrated without walking on his foot that is still in a boot from his surgery around four weeks ago.
Dixon’s shot put the Bears on SportsCenter in the No.