It should have been apparent long before the ball left J.P. Moorman's hands, traveled 70-feet through the air of Desert Financial Arena and ripped through the net, delivering the season's most stunning finish.
The gap is closing.
UC Riverside's wild November 11th win over Arizona State was the first of several notable victories, over a 24-hour period, that served notice (or should have) that the "haves" no longer have as much as they once did over the "have-nots."
The following day Furman knocked off Louisville, Princeton toppled South Carolina, Oakland outlasted Oklahoma State and Santa Clara stunned Stanford.