BYU's Rydalch nails half-court buzzer-beater; Bill Walton does Bill Walton things


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MARRIOTT MADNESS — There have been a lot of game winners this week, even with teams from the state of Utah.

It started last Saturday with Jordan Pryor's 75-foot shot for Westminster to beat Western New Mexico. Then Gordon Hayward hit a game-winner for the Jazz to give Utah's NBA team its first win in Dallas since 2010.

How about a little more?

Here's some of our favorite moments from the week in sports.

Rydalch's buzzer-beater

Lexi Eaton Rydalch has scored a lot of points and made a lot of game-winning shots in her career.

The former Springville High standout made perhaps one of her biggest for BYU (21-4, 13-1 WCC) Thursday night.

With one second on the clock in a tie home game against San Francisco, Rydalch dribbled up the court and released a 45-foot buzzer-beater from just inside the midcourt stripe to lift the BYU women's basketball team to a 65-62 win over the Dons (14-10, 5-8 WCC).

Don't believe us? Watch it for yourself:

San Francisco led by 27 points from Taylor Proctor, led for 38 minutes, 33 seconds of the game. But it was the final 10 seconds that counted most for BYU.

Rydalch finished with a game-high 27 points, and Kalani Purcell notched her 13th double-double at BYU with 17 points, 11 rebounds, two assists and two steals.

The win gave the Cougars their 13th-straight win, and a 10-0 mark at home in 2015-16. BYU returns to the Marriott Center for a noon tipoff Saturday against Santa Clara.

More Walton antics

Bill Walton has become a household legend, not for his Hall of Fame NBA career — but for what he's brought to the broadcast world in a short post-retirement career.

Fans of BYU and Utah know his zany one-liners and humorous persona well. So what can Walton do next to improve his act?

How about … play the Glockenspiel on-air and courtside?

Done, and done.

During Cal's home game Thursday night on ESPN, Walton brought out the Glockenspiel and apparently insulted a Cal student's hat for "looking like a beaver."

His play-by-play colleague Dave Pasch of ESPN was not amused. But whatever, Pasch; Cal routed No. 11 Oregon, 83-63 … so what else was there to talk about?

Have bags, will Bengals

Cincinnati quarterback Andy Dalton has led a revolution for the once-struggling Bengals, but he still has trouble with one thing: tying luggage on car racks.

Dalton sent out a plea on Twitter, telling his 159,000 followers to be on the lookout for two suitcases he lost in the Dallas-Fort Worth area en route to the airport. He didn't expect the tweets to take off, but figured — it's worth a shot.

Someone who refers to himself on Twitter as Robert L. apparently found the luggage — and let him know, without seeking any kind of reward.

And guess what? It worked.

The power of social media is real, indeed.

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