Duke Basketball: Top 10 game-winning shots of the Coach K era
By Matt Giles
10. Chris Duhon vs. Wake Forest
Date: Feb. 24, 2001
Place: Lawrence Joel Coliseum
Final Score: Duke 82, Wake Forest 80
It happened at the buzzer, a floater to sink the hopes of an ACC foe on its home court. And it happened just a couple weeks before the Duke basketball team entered the Big Dance that ended with the program’s third national championship.
And it all happened so fast.
With 7.5 seconds left, No. 22 Wake Forest’s Robert O’Kelley drained a 3-pointer to tie the game at 80. Immediately, No. 3 Duke’s Shane Battier inbounded to Jason Williams, who scurried down the floor before pulling up for what looked like it would be a 3-pointer of his own.
But it wasn’t. It was a midair fake and beautiful dish to Chris Duhon near the corner.
The freshman guard, with then just 2.0 seconds on the clock, took one quick dribble to his left to scoot by the defender and tossed up a floater from about 15 feet.
Nothing but net.
No time left.
Nothing but pain for the Demon Deacons.
Nothing but pure joy, followed by loads more that year, for Duke basketball fans.
No way I’ll ever forget it.