Former Duke player hits crazy buzzer beater to send Ivy League title game to OT
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In today’s age of college athletics, sometimes all a players need is a second…or third chance.
In the case of Penn’s TJ Power, he’s taking full advantage of his third opportunity in college, as he became a March legend with a 44-point performance in his team’s Ivy League Championship win over Yale on Sunday.
The underdog Quakers upended the top-seeded Bulldogs thanks to Power’s heroics, as he nailed a 3-pointer as time expired in regulation to send the game to overtime at 75.
From there, Power & Co. rode that momentum to an 88-84 win that sent Penn to the NCAA Tournament in Fran McCaffery’s first season at the helm.
Power’s success is also made notable by the fact that the 6-foot-9 forward was rated a 5-star recruit by 247Sports in the Class of 2023, which originally landed him at Duke.
But after playing sparingly with the Blue Devils, the Massachusetts native transferred to Virginia in hopes to carving out a role in the ACC. Instead, another year of limited action saw Power opt to join McCaffrey in the head’s coach first season at Penn.
Power averages 15.8 points, 7.6 rebounds and 2.4 assists per game, and he tallied the 44 points on 14-for-26 shooting.
The forward even tacked on 14 rebounds, which as ESPN Insights reported, makes Power the 2nd player in the last 20 season to record 40+ points and 10+ rebounds in a conference tournament title game.
Parker is currently the sports editor for the Enterprise-Journal in McComb, Mississippi. He's a graduate from Mizzou who has experience covering the Tiger football and basketball beats for SB Nation, and he's worked for a variety of sports news outlets in the past.
