More notes on the last-second, 76-74 win

My Maryland-Georgia Tech game story is filed and should be up soon. In it, Cliff Tucker said he assumed -- as nearly everyone else did -- that the final play would go to Greivis Vasquez. “Eighty, 90 percent of the time it’s going to go to Greivis,” Tucker said. But Gary Williams figured Vasquez would be double-teamed. In fact, Georgia Tech coach Paul Hewitt said he had told guard D’Andre Bell: “Don’t let him (Vasquez) touch the ball. ’ ” So Williams called the play for Tucker, who said later that he hadn’t converted a game-winner since his AAU days. Tucker said Maryland originally wanted to try to a lob pass to him underneath the basket but figured it would be too long a heave for Eric Hayes, who was inbounding the ball at midcourt. Tucker instead collected Hayes’ pass from near the corner, behind the 3-point arc, and fired in the game-winner.