Information of Nicholas Fein’s spectacular buzzer-beater Tuesday evening to carry No. 13 Norwell over fourth-seeded Swampscott in dramatic style in Div. 3 boys basketball state event motion shortly made its means throughout the state.
Lower than 24 hours later, Fein’s heroics reached a nationwide viewers.
The unbelievable half-court heave from Fein wound up making the Wednesday morning version of “SportsCenter’s” Prime 10 performs, coming in at No. 2. The one play ranked increased on the record got here from professional golfer Tom Kim, who sunk a hole-in-one on Tiger Woods’ Jupiter Hyperlinks group within the TGL — a simulated golf league.
You may watch the SportsCenter phase on Fein here.
The stage for Fein was set with Norwell inbounding the ball within the frontcourt with 3.8 seconds left and trailing Swampscott by two factors. Fein instantly met a double group after receiving the inbound go and truly took a few dribbles backward. However it gave him the separation he wanted as he launched his shot from simply contained in the half-court line with a second remaining.
What occurred subsequent resulted in pandemonium for Norwell and utter disbelief for Swampscott as Fein’s shot swished via the web to offer the Clippers a 43-42 victory. The long-shot basket despatched gamers from the Clippers’ bench — and a few followers within the stands, too — bolting onto the court docket in a wild celebration. Fein did his greatest Derek Fisher impersonation as he ran across the court docket along with his teammates and followers gleefully chasing after him.
This isn’t the first time this season Fein pulled off a buzzer-beater. In simply the second recreation of the marketing campaign in opposition to Middleboro, Fein got here up with a last-second steal and transformed a layup as time expired to clinch one other win for Norwell.
Fein’s unbelievable shot retains Norwell’s goals of attempting to assert back-to-back Division 3 state titles alive. The Clippers, who defeated Outdated Rochester in final 12 months’s state remaining, advance to the state quarterfinals the place they await the winner of No. 5 Springfield Excessive College of Science and Know-how and No. 12 Higher Lawrence Tech.
