On Thursday afternoon, in a mostly empty Greensboro Coliseum, Reece Beekman hit a game-winning buzzer-beater to propel Virginia to a 72-69 victory over Syracuse in the ACC tournament quarterfinals. With the game-winner, Beekman joins the vaunted company of De’Andre Hunter, Malcolm Brogdon, and Darius Thompson as recent Hoos to achieve the same feat. The first year guard was 0-for-5 from the field before his big shot and hadn’t made a three since February 10th at Georgia Tech, but none of that mattered in the moment.
Kihei Clark drove the lane with 3.5 seconds left on the clock, kicking it to Beekman as the seconds ticked down.