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Gary Parrish

Amazing? Agonizing? Flip a coin, 'cause both apply to title game

By | CBSSports.com Senior Writer

SAN ANTONIO -- Joey Dorsey dropped to his knees.

So yeah, he actually collapsed.

Like his team in general.

Joey Dorsey can't help his team from where he's sitting. (AP)  
Joey Dorsey can't help his team from where he's sitting. (AP)  
And as the ball rotated through the air -- spun and spun like the heads of thousands of Memphis fans -- Dorsey hoped and wished and even prayed a little from his helpless position on the bench, tried to imagine a scenario under which what he thought was happening wouldn't really happen. But it happened.

Man, did it happen.

Mario Chalmers swished the long jumper, just drained it to complete one of the great comebacks in NCAA tournament history. And suddenly Memphis and Kansas were headed to an overtime that seemed improbable three minutes earlier, an overtime that would ultimately solidify this title game as a classic.

Kansas 75.

Memphis 68.

And what will you remember most from Monday night?

Chalmers' OT-forcing 3-pointer?

Or Memphis' OT-forcing choke?

Or both?

In the end it'll likely depend on your rooting interests -- whether you live on the left or right side of the Mississippi River, whether you typically yell Rock Chalk Jayhawk or Go Tigers Go. For Kansas fans, this was Mario and the Miracles and a jumper as ridiculous as it was pure. For Memphis fans, this was up nine points with less than two minutes remaining and an unfathomable, self-inflicted undoing that'll be impossible to get over.

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