For once there's point to it

Cal and Notre Dame are playing - it's a 2-point game (58-56) with 32 seconds to play and of course Cal is going to town working the clock, fouling and so on. Now, nothing drives me crazier than a team that's down by 6 or more doing this. Even if the other team doesn't make their free throws (and, in fact, here ND missed one), you will not have enough time to make up the deficit. Down by 2, you just might.

But I don't think Cal's going to pull it out - they're now down by 1 (60-59) and there's a half a second left ... make that 62-59 as she makes both shots. But it is barely possible for Cal to get a three here. So it's not impossible, so it's not damned annoying. In fact, it would be so cool if they won.

But what usually happens, happened: Cal got the shot off... but Notre Dame still won.