Hornbuckle gets redemption, sends Lady Vols to championship game

Ball don’t lie.

Alexis Hornbuckle had missed every shot she’d taken in the game, but on her eighth try, she sent the Tennessee Lady Vols to the national championship game. Hornbuckle scored with less than a second remaining in the game to give the No. 1 Lady Volsa 47-46 victory over No. 2 LSU. From the AP:

“I couldn’t make a shot all night, but honestly, that was the only one that mattered,” Hornbuckle said. “I just wanted to stay positive and I crashed the boards and looked up and I said I didn’t want to pull this down, with my luck I might as well try to tip it in. And luckily it went in.”

I didn’t get to watch this game live and I still haven’t seen the final shot (I did listen to the game on Sirius), so if you have a video link, I’d love to check it out. Comment and let me know where.

Confirmed by the story from what I heard, it seems as though Candace Parker is not up to snuff (but her injury-best is still decently good), but it looks as though the Lady Vols will need either a better Parker or more efficient shooting all around if they’re going to beat Stanford on Tuesday.