Everytime I think about “The Shot”, I’ll also think about “The Hush,” as one phogger referred to it. It’s the moment after Mario’s shot when Kansas fans, no matter where they were, stopped cheering while Memphis hail mary heave was in the air only to redouble their cheering when the shot bounced off the backyard.
On every video of the shot with crowd noise, you can hear it (or is it not hear it?). The most explicit example of the hush is in this video:
If I hadn’t been watching the game with Mr. Guapo and Dr. No, I would have liekd to have been here.
