What’s being asked of struggling Gilbert?
CHARLESTON, S.C. – With the final seconds ticking off the clock in regulation and the score tied, UConn guard Alterique Gilbert got the ball, kept the ball and took the ball to a place where nothing positive had been happening for him and where nothing would. His shot from the lane was stuffed by Xavier’s Tyrique Jones.
About a half-hour later, with Friday having turned to Saturday sometime during all the great athletic theater and tension at TD Arena, Gilbert was given another opportunity, the Huskies this time trailing by one. With a second overtime about to expire, he got the ball, kept the ball and took it back to the lane, into the teeth of a defense that ate him up a final time.
Gilbert stumbled, another potentially game-winning play fizzled, and that is how this marathon ended for UConn — with a crushing 75-74 loss at the Charleston Classic that