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Xavier Gets Lucky Bounce for Basket After Gonzaga Fails to Secure Rebound

Kyle NewportJun 16, 2018

It doesn't matter how the basketball goes through the hoop. Points are points.

In the final minute of the first half of Saturday's Elite Eight battle in San Jose, California, the 11th-seeded Xavier Musketeers lucked out by getting an unbelievable bounce after the Gonzaga Bulldogs couldn't haul in a rebound.

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Xavier forward RaShid Gaston was officially credited with the basket, giving him perhaps the most unlikely two points of his career.

The wild bucket cut the Musketeers' deficit to eight points, although they would go into the break down 10 after a three-quarters-court shot went for naught:


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