Sean Woods makes Unforgettable run as MVSU coach

ITTA BENA, Mississippi - Even now, at age 41, Sean Woods wonders about what might have been.

On March 28, it will have been exactly two decades since the Kentucky point guard hit that running, 10-foot bank shot over the fully extended arms of Christian Laettner that put UK 2.1 seconds from upsetting mighty Duke in the 1992 NCAA Tournament round of eight.



What Woods still allows himself to ponder is how famous he would be if Laettner had not trumped the UK guard's runner with a stone-cold clutch shot of his own? "You tell me," Woods says. "How famous do you think I would be?"

Well, not Kardashian famous, but ahead of Bryce Drew. On the 20-year anniversary of his shot that almost decided the greatest college basketball game ever, Woods and the Mississippi Valley State University men's basketball team he coaches are creating a story that may produce an even more improbable ending.

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