Red Deer College’s Lloyd Strickland scores 12 points in last 28 seconds of Canadian college basketball championship game (VIDEO)

Lloyd Strickland might want to open a spa after graduation, since he sure made the Langara Falcons sweat out the last half-minute of the Canadian Colleges Athletic Association men's basketball final.

A team that leads by seven points with 28.3 seconds to play, according to analytics pioneer Bill James' formula, is 43 per cent of the way to having an insurmountable lead. Yet the championship game went down to the buzzer thanks to a gotta-see-to-believe-it shooting display by Red Deer's Lloyd Strickland, who squeezed off and swished four three-pointers while scoring 12 points over those final 28 seconds. The bitter irony for Red Deer is that it did not get a shot off on its final possession when it only needed a two-point shot to tie as Langara held on 88-86 inside a raucous gym in Squamish, B.C..

It was like wherever Strickland went on the floor was the hot spot in the old NBA Jam Nintendo game.

The final 28.3 seconds took almost five minutes to complete with all the deadeye shooting and the deliberate fouling.

Of course, threes are nice, but making free throws is just as fundamental. Langara's Brody Greig, who nearly had a triple-double with 24 points, 10 assists and nine rebounds, made 7-of-8 foul shots to help the Falcons keep their cushion and exorcise the demons of a loss in the national semifinal in 2013.

Strickland, who was a 38.3 per cent three-point shooter during the regular season, scored 34 points and gave the Langara fans who knows how many grey hairs.

(Assist: North Pole Hoops.)

Neate Sager is a writer for Yahoo! Canada Sports. Follow him on Twitter @neatebuzzthenet.