Milwaukee Panthers Stole The Wisconsin Hoops Show With Their Epic Comeback
On Tuesday, it was BALL NIGHT! in Wisconsin. For those who don’t know what that’s in reference to, get some culture in your life one time. But really, it is PTI for those curious. All of the teams that could be playing basketball right now in the State of Wisconsin and the D1 and pro-level were in action on Tuesday. Bucks-Nuggets and Wisconsin-Purdue were probably the biggest ones of the night. But it turns out the one that had the most storylines was UW-Milwaukee? UWM? Really? Yes, really the Milwaukee Panthers stunned the Horizon League world by coming back from down 24 points with over six minutes left to win in overtime against second-seeded Wright State. Milwaukee advances to the semifinals as an eighth seed.
DeAndre Gholston (@TheDreeGholston) Hits the 3 pointer for Milwaukee at the BUZZER to tie the game against Horizon Regular Season champs Wright State and send the game to OT (finding Video) pic.twitter.com/vBhDDS0nOT
— NCAA Buzzer Beaters & Game Winners (@NCAABuzzerBters) March 3, 2021
How the hell does this even happen? Like that is so many points to come back from in a short period of time. Wright State only scored nine points in the final six minutes of the game. They barely made any shots from the field with most coming from the free-throw line. UWM kept hitting big shot after big shot. This is definitely a feather in the cap for Milwaukee’s season, and who knows maybe this convinces Patrick Baldwin Jr. to come there.
Milwaukee will take on Cleveland State on Monday night for the right for an automatic bid.