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Article: WILDCATS CAN'T WAIT TO REWRITE THE SCRIPT LAETTNER'S MIRACLE SHOT AND DUKE'S '92 WIN STILL RANKLE KENTUCKY FANS.(SPORTS)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- March 22, 1998
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Byline: FRANK VEHORN, STAFF WRITER
ST. PETERSBURG, FLA. -- The woman with the blue wildcat painted on her cheek quickly turned away from the television and sighed loudly.
``Not again,'' she pleaded. ``I've seen that replay a thousand times and I can't watch anymore.''
Kentucky fans don't have to see the clip from the 1992 East Regional championship game between Duke and Kentucky to be reminded that with 0.2 seconds showing on the clock, Christian Laettner turned loose a jump shot that ended what is called the greatest college game ever played.
The image of Laettner going up and sending the ball on a perfect arc to the basket for a ...