OT: Division II Championship

[SoCalwarrior]

If you watched the GT-UNC game, you heard the announcers talk about the finish of the Barton-Winona State game.  I've posted the final 3 minutes on the blog.  Entertaining stuff.

http://www.muscoop.com/index.php?action=tpmod;blog=view;cont=32;uid=5

[Eye]

For folks who didn't see it, it was very reminiscent of the end of the 2001 Duke at Maryland game. Winona did about seven things wrong in succession, missed a front end and the first of two on free throws, didn't get three stops, fouled on one of the makes, turned the ball over on an in-bounds pass, and turned the ball over while trying to run it up the floor at the end. Winona had won 57 in a row and won the title a year ago, longest D2 streak in history, trying to become first to go back-to-back at D2 in quite a while and first to go undefeated as the D2 champ in quite a while. Winona has a couple of players, their center Smith (junior), and their point guard Malvik, who seem to be possibilities to play somewhere after college, probably in a minor league or in Europe. Malvik is from Holmen, same conference as Christopherson. Roster also includes former Madison-area preps Jonte Flowers (brother of Michael Flowers) and Quincy Henderson.