20 For 20: Swanson's Buzzer-Beater Tops Fresno State

Our 20 For 20: Two Decades of Reynolds Center Magic series continues this week with Dante Swanson's buzzer-beater against Fresno State on March 5, 2003.

With the 2002-03 regular-season winding down, Tulsa hosted Fresno State in a battle of the top two teams in the Western Athletic Conference. The Golden Hurricane held a slim 37-35 lead at halftime, but Renaldo Major scored 10 points in the second half for the Bulldogs, who grabbed the advantage for much of the final 20 minutes. The final half featured six ties and eight lead-changes and neither squad held a lead of more than four points. Major's final points came at the free-throw line, where he hit a pair of shots that gave Fresno State a 59-58 edge with 1:31 to play. Jarius Glenn tied it for the Hurricane at the charity stripe with 59 seconds left and after the Bulldogs' Terry Pettis missed a jumper with 29 ticks to play, Tulsa could hold for the last shot. Down to just 1.9 seconds on the clock, Jason Parker found Swanson on the wing and the senior pumped once before letting fly a 3-pointer that banked in at the buzzer to give TU a 62-59 win.

Click the video below to see Swanson's game-winner and hear Bruce Howard's call of that final play. Click here to look back at all of our Reynolds Center moments so far.

20 For 20: Swanson's Buzzer-Beater Tops Fresno State

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