NEW YORK — Every once in a while in sports, we just happen to get the priceless and indelible scenario of the perfect ending to an amazing event. The sort of thing that feels like an out-of-body experience just to witness as it happens.
Kansas State’s spellbinding Markquis Nowell furnished just that on Thursday night at Madison Square Garden, which appropriately enough still is regarded by many as the mecca of basketball itself.
Miles from where he grew up, the Harlem native who already had broken the NCAA Tournament single-game assist record with a stupefying 19, stole the ball from fellow New Yorker Tyson Walker with three seconds left in overtime.
