{"id":432497,"date":"2023-04-01T21:55:23","date_gmt":"2023-04-02T01:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=432497"},"modified":"2023-04-01T21:44:58","modified_gmt":"2023-04-02T01:44:58","slug":"san-diego-state-tops-florida-atlantic-with-buzzer-beater","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/san-diego-state-tops-florida-atlantic-with-buzzer-beater\/","title":{"rendered":"San Diego State tops Florida Atlantic with buzzer-beater"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Butler scored a jumper with the gong, and San Diego State clinched their first National championship match by beating Florida Atlantic 72-71 in the Final 4.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">SAN DIEGO STATE WILL PLAY FOR THE NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5NWXWvl138\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/5NWXWvl138<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 CBS Sports College Basketball \ud83c\udfc0 (@CBSSportsCBB) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CBSSportsCBB\/status\/1642323677378396160?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 2, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s unbelievable,&#8221; Butler said. &#8220;This is what I came here to do. I&#8217;m glad the shot went in. I&#8217;m just happy for my team right now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Florida Atlantic led with 14 points during the game, but San Diego State got back with excellent defense in the clinch time.<\/p>\n<p>Jaedon LeDee scored with 36 seconds on the clock to make it a one-possession game. Then FAU gave the ball in the attack to Johnell Davis, but he didn&#8217;t score a layup. When San Diego rebounded, they chose not to take timeout and gave the ball to Lamont Butler, who scored the winning basket in the last second of the game with a step back from the baseline.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Dance, sing, or get out of the way because the AZTECS ARE GOING TO THE NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TheTimeIsNow?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#TheTimeIsNow<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MFinalFour?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#MFinalFour<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/70YqitR8zr\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/70YqitR8zr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 San Diego State Men&#8217;s Basketball (@Aztec_MBB) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Aztec_MBB\/status\/1642323650002161665?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 2, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The plan was just to get downhill,&#8221; Butler said. &#8220;They cut me off a little bit. I looked up; there were two seconds left, so I got to a shot that I was comfortable with. And I hit it.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Butler scored a jumper with the gong, and San Diego State clinched their first National championship match by beating Florida Atlantic 72-71 in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":432498,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[],"news_category":[16707,16715,14084],"gn_keywords":[18562,18560,18561],"acf":{"announce":"Lamont Butler shocked Florida Atlantic and secured his team championship game.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/432497"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432497"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/432497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":432499,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/432497\/revisions\/432499"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432497"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=432497"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=432497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}