It happens every March. Some college basketball player hits a late shot in the NCAA Tournament and Mario Chalmers’s phone blows up. After all, he nailed the three-pointer with 2.1 seconds left that tied the 2008 national title game against Memphis. He likes especially when posters include video. “I see that occasionally,” he said in a phone interview this week after a Memphis Grizzlies practice. “It’s not something I go looking for, but I’m still impressed. I still get butterflies in my stomach when I see it.”
So it was that last Sunday, as Kansas battled Duke all the way into overtime for a spot in the Final Four, that Chalmers phone pinged even more than usual.