This one definitely had to hurt. It always stings to lose to your in-state rival in any event but it was how the University of Florida lost to Florida State in men’s basketball on Tuesday night that will be remembered for a long time.
via Business Insider:
Florida scored the final seven points of the game. Unfortunately for the Gators, the last two points went in the wrong basket. To make matters worse, those final two points were scored at the buzzer to give the Florida State Seminoles the win.
After Florida tied the game with an alley-oop with 8.0 seconds remaining, Florida State called a timeout with 3.0 seconds left to set up a final shot. On the inbounds pass, the Seminoles took a long, contested 3-point shot which came up well-short. But Jacob Kurtz of Florida inadvertently tipped the ball in as he was going for a rebound giving Florida State a 65-63 win.
The victory snapped a Gators’ five-game win streak in the series dating back to 2008.
