Tre Holloman hit the shot of a lifetime.
The Michigan State guard hit a half-court shot on the buzzer to carry the No. 8 Spartans to a 58-55 win over the No. 16 Maryland Terrapins on Wednesday evening that surprised the XFINITY Middle crowd.
Maryland’s Ja’Kobi Gillespie fired a 3-pointer that hit off the backboard earlier than the Spartans grabbed the rebound with mere seconds left on the clock.
Holloman launched a shot from the emblem behind the mid-court line that went by way of the ring for the win.
The Spartans stormed off their bench and swarmed the late-game hero in jubilation.
“I [saw] the rim and then the shot clock going down so I had to throw it up,” Holloman informed Large Ten Community. “We practiced those, so I just got up and it went in.”
Holloman stated the final time he had a game-winning shot was again in his senior 12 months of highschool.
“That was a lucky shot, but nobody can say we didn’t deserve to win this game,” Michigan State head coach Tom Izzo stated. “I mean we made some bad mistakes, give them credit. We threw the ball away a little bit and everything. We deserve to win this game. To come into this place, I’m so proud of my guys and Tre made the big turnover and he made the lucky shot, but we deserve to win.”
Izzo added that he felt his group “played our tail off the whole time.”
Holloman is averaging 8.8 factors per recreation and completed Wednesday evening’s recreation with 9 factors.
The win was the Spartans’ fourth win in a row and their fifth of their final six video games.
