As Temple trailed by one with seven seconds remaining in its first round NCAA tournament game, senior guard Feyonda Fitzgerald was in control.
Temple’s leading scorer quickly got the ball up the court and took what seemed to be the perfect shot: an open layup. But University of Oregon freshman forward Ruthy Hebard came out of nowhere to deflect the potential game-winning shot as time expired.
As the buzzer sounded, Temple saw its season come to a sudden end. The seventh-seeded Owls closed their season with a 71-70 loss to No. 10 Oregon at Cameron Indoor Stadium on Saturday in Durham, North Carolina.