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• "You've got to want the ball," Mihalich said. "When you make a great play, that's what makes you a great player. ... When you make one or two, then it's just like, 'Gimme more, gimme more.' You get kind of addicted to it."
• Green first hit a runner with 0.2 seconds left last year against St. Francis (Pa.). This year, he hit a 3 with 0.5 seconds left against Iona in overtime (he forced OT on a 3 with 4.5 seconds left in that one) and hit a 3 with 1.5 seconds left against Marist.
• As a result, Green has earned the nickname "Win'ya" from the team's radio announcer.
• "After the first one, you're still kind of nervous about it," Green said. "You're like, 'It might've been a lucky shot and it went in.' After that second one, you just feel confident enough to take that shot in any game.
• "I think it comes down to the adrenaline. Once your adrenaline is pumping, you have no fear."
• Players who have come through more than once say they have more confidence that the next one will go in.
• "I feel lucky to get those opportunities," said South Dakota State's White, who hit two last-second 3s in an 11-day span in November. "I just feel like it's an honor to have that opportunity to shoot it and people believing you're going to make it."
• For Odum, that belief began when with a runner with 0.5 seconds left against Evansville in the 2011 Missouri Valley Conference tournament. This year, he hit a leaner with 0.8 seconds left to beat Miami on Christmas Day, then hit two free throws with 0.3 seconds left to beat Northern Iowa in January.
• "Sometimes you've got to just will it in," Odum said. "It might be a bad shot or the end of the clock and you have to take a bad one. Some players have that feel. ... I don't know if it's really competitiveness or toughness but a combination of those two and just confidence -- knowing you can hit that at the end of the game."
• Few players illustrate that better than the Seminoles' Snaer, who beat Duke and Virginia Tech on clock-beating 3s last season.
• In a two-week span this year, the senior hit a 3 at the buzzer against Clemson, hit a 3 with 1.1 seconds left against Maryland and hit a driving layup at the buzzer at Georgia Tech. Then, on Thursday night, Snaer had winner No. 6 by driving for a three-point play with 4.4 seconds left against Virginia.
• Snaer said success begins with offseason work to hone his shot. Then it's trusting himself and staying calm while muscle memory lends a hand.
• North Carolina State coach Mark Gottfried, for one, said he'd defend Snaer differently late in a close game than someone who hasn't hit multiple last-second shots. His team faces Snaer in Saturday's regular-season finale.
• "I had already told myself if (last month's) game with Florida State would've come

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