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The Super Bowl gave Marcus Paige and Ryan Arcidiacono national championship flashbacks

Marcus Paige was very aware that the Patriots’ comeback occurred in the same stadium as last year’s NCAA men’s basketball national championship.
Marcus Paige was very aware that the Patriots’ comeback occurred in the same stadium as last year’s NCAA men’s basketball national championship.

The Patriots pulled off the greatest Super Bowl comeback of all time Sunday night, capping arguably the greatest 12 months of major sports championship games ever. Those 12 months began, of course, with The Shot.

Coincidentally, The Shot and The Comeback, the bookends of the wild year in sports, occurred in the same building, NRG Stadium in Houston. Former North Carolina point guard Marcus Paige didn’t find that coincidence funny at all:

Paige, of course, was the one who hit the shot before The Shot, the acrobatic 3-pointer that would have sent last year’s NCAA final to overtime before Kris Jenkins’ game-winner.

Paige’s tweet gave former Villanova point guard Ryan Arcidiacono flashbacks of his own, so he couldn’t resist a short and sweet response:

Paige was having none of it:

Arcidiacono agreed that there was something about the stadium, though he’d probably dispute Paige’s choice of the word “wrong”:

The exchange was all in good fun, of course, but the déjà vu for Paige must have been very real as he saw the Patriots stun the Falcons in overtime.