It was a moment that will live on forever.
In the hallowed halls of March Madness lore, the Hunter family are near the top.
Ten years ago, on March 19, 2015, Georgia State and the Hunter family shocked the entire country.
At the time, Ron Hunter was head coach of the Georgia State Panthers, while his son, R.J., was one of the star players on the roster.
Georgia State was the 14th seed, going up against the mighty three-seeded Baylor Bears.
Coach Hunter was manning the sideline on a wheeling chair because of the torn Achilles tendon he suffered the week prior, when he celebrated with his team winning the Sun Belt Conference championship.
With 2.7 seconds remaining in the game, Hunter fell off his stool after his son hit one of the biggest shots in the history of the NCAA tournament.
The younger Hunter pulled up with less than three seconds left and drilled a 3-pointer to win the game and stun Baylor 57-56 in the opening round of the tournament.
As soon as the shot went in, Hunter fell from his stool and sprawled on to the floor.
He couldn’t believe it.
Georgia State was moving on and the Hunter family was forever stitched into the fabric of legendary March Madness moments.
“I saw him cannonball off his chair,” Hunter’s son told the media after the game.
“I told him they gotta get him a chair with the back or something because that wasn’t going to work.”
The elder Hunter was speechless after the game, just wanting to enjoy the moment as a father.
“I’m going to start off by saying this, first of all it was a great game, but I’m not going to be Coach, I’m going to be Dad right now,” Hunter said during his postgame opening statement.
“I’m proud as hell of this guy, this is my son.”
It was a moment in time no one who was watching will ever forget when and where they were.
A moment that epitomizes the very definition of what this tournament is all about.
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