March Madness: 'There's something pure about Jack Gohlke,' Oakland's masterful 3-point shooter
Oakland guard Jack Gohlke is trying to take his overnight celebrity in stride
PITTSBURGH (AP) — The shots at times looked crazy. Maybe some of them were crazy. Off balance. Deep. Double-teamed. Hand in his face. Hand on his back. Off flares. Off curls. Spotted up. On the run.
It didn't matter. Not to Jack Gohlke. The Oakland guard had practiced them all thousands of times in nondescript gyms across the Midwest during a quietly excellent basketball career that suddenly and in the most March Madness of ways got very, very loud on Thursday night when the 24-year-old master's degree student helped the 14th-seeded Grizzlies upend third-seeded Kentucky one gasp-inducing, bracket-wrecking 3-pointer at a time.
There were 10 3s in all — one short of the NCAA Tournament single-game record — in the kind of star-making performance that will be forever etched into the fabric of what makes this event so special.
The fallout overnight was typical. Thousands of new followers on social media. A couple of national television hits. Autograph requests and congratulatory texts and all the rest.
