Allen was so close to sending Duke to Final Four

Kansas and Duke gave college basketball fans the game they had been waiting for with the thrilling 85-81 Kansas win in overtime.

The Elite Eight victory sent Kansas to the Final Four, but Grayson Allen was mere inches away from punching the Blue Devils' ticket to San Antonio.

With time winding down in regulation after a Svi Mykhailiuk 3, Allen's fadeway over Malik Newman and Silvio De Sousa looked set to give Duke a buzzer-beating win. The shot just didn't fall … after doing everything else.

The shot off the backboard softly hit the rim, returned to the backboard and rolled around the rim before falling off. Somehow it didn't go in.

This was more than a "game of inches" moment. Had that shot gone down, Allen would have become a March hero for Duke in the same category as Christian Laettner.

Instead, his college basketball career is over.

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