With seconds left on the clock, Jordan scored the decisive basket against Georgetown, secured the N.C.A.A. crown, and put himself, in his own words, "on the basketball map".
His son scored the decisive basket against Louisville in the Big East tournament final, not quite his father's game winner, but close enough for Calhoun to call it payback.
Finally, UConn won a split decision with a decisive basket by Moore and the awakening of the freshman guard Bria Hartley.
Finally, Taurasi did, too, scoring the game's decisive basket and fouling out Dales, Oklahoma's best player.
James Harden, the N.B.A's sixth man of the year, scored the decisive basket during a late Spurs run, a southpaw 3-pointer from the right wing.
Walker did score the decisive basket, an impossibly high rainbow that dropped straight through for a 65-60 advantage late in the game.
And then it was left to White to make the decisive basket for the second consecutive game, this one for a national title.
Eddie Jones assisted on the decisive basket following a wild sequence of events after Grant missed two free throws with 16.6 seconds remaining and the Heat down by 101-100.
Against Spain (74 73), Nowitzki scored a game-high 27 points and scored the decisive basket: down by one and with only a few seconds to go, he drove on Spanish forward Jorge Garbajosa, and hit a baseline jump shot over Garbajosa's outstretched arms with 3.9 seconds to go.
But in Game 6, Heinsohn got the last laugh, scoring the decisive basket with a last-second tip-in.
