Here's Geoff Haxton, The Voice Of Oral Roberts, Calling An Incredible Buzzer Beater
The degree of difficulty of this buzzer beater is off the charts. Damien Bell-Holter, who plays center, steals the pass and baseball throws in a one-footed contested missile from half court to win the game. He even does it on the road in front of what looks to be a very raucous UALR Jack Stephens Center crowd. After the pass is intercepted, Haxton excitedly says "let's go to overtime!" before breaking out in hysterics after the shot miraculously doesn't shatter the backboard and goes in. Also, check out #22 Steven Roundtree's victory dance, it's almost as good as Bell-Holter's shot.
Since I write for Awful Announcing, I'd be remiss if I didn't point out the news anchor saying, "as they say, expect a miracle." I disagree with "they" that expecting a miracle is actually a thing that one should be doing. Besides, a certain QB in Denver certainly might be bogarting most of the miracles these days.
The win improved Oral Roberts' record to 7-3 on the season. Hopefully ORU once again can make the tournament so when it comes time to filling out our brackets we can proudly brag that we picked "ORAL" to go far in the tournament. Next, the Golden Eagles travel to Spokane for a showdown with Gonzaga.
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No comment on Curt Menefee? He was atrocious I can tolerate him for football but Fox trots him out to any event it does other than baseball. He needs to go and let the guys who know UFC do UFC.
@skytalkertv I think Fox and UFC dropped the ball with 40 minutes of hype for a blink-and-you-miss-it fight, which probably didn't gain any new fans or attract anyone to come back (though admittedly, no non-fans decided they were against the sport forever either). The reason they went with only one fight instead of two was because it was a five-round title fight that would need more time... except they were ALREADY starting after the half-hour even without an undercard bout. They could have easily swapped in another bout for all that hype - and oh by the way, if you talk to MMA-heads apparently the last of the online prelim fights was a match-of-the-year contender. That would have done FAR more to advance the cause of MMA than a half-hour of mindless hype.
