New Delhi, May 1 -- With 0.4 seconds left, a basketball in his hands, and a 98.7 percent chance of losing, Braylon Mullins did the only thing a 19-year-old freshman from Greenfield, Indiana, could do. He shot it.

down two, no timeouts, fractions of a second remaining - that no team in NCAA Tournament history had ever survived.

It went in.

The building at Capital One Arena in Washington, D.C., split in half. One side erupted into chaos so electric it shook the walls. The other went so silent it felt like a funeral. On the UConn sideline, Dan Hurley leaped into the air, nearly lost his blazer, and then walked directly into the path of a game official and pressed his forehead against the referee's in what can only be described as an act o...