Jack Gohlke made 10 three-pointers, and Oakland earned the first major upset of the NCAA tournament with a first-round win over Kentucky.
Jack Gohlke made 10 three-pointers to help No. 14 Oakland earn an NCAA tournament upset over No. 3 seed Kentucky. , along comes a Cinderella team out of central casting. It may have an anthropomorphic mascot modified by a color. It may have a lifer coach who plays golf almost daily, organizes charity drives and. It may have a sharpshooter come off the bench and out of nowhere and leave a mark that lasts forever.
Coach Greg Kampe’s 40th season at Oakland, which came seven years after sepsis nearly killed him, produced his first NCAA tournament victory. Graduate student Jack Gohlke, a deadeye transfer from Division II Hillsdale College, drained 10 three-pointers that accounted for all but two of his 32 points.
The entire night belonged to Gohlke, a 24-year-old from Pewaukee, Wis., whose prior basketball highlight had been making first-team Great Midwest Athletic Conference last year. Gohlke walks into gyms to do one thing: launch it without a conscience from deep. He took 335 shot attempts this season — and 327 of them came from behind the three-point arc. All week long, Kampe repeated to him: “Just go shoot it, baby. You’re the best.
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