Alley-oops are fun. Alley-oops that feature one-handed throw downs are even more fun. One-handed alley-oops to put an exclamation point on a team winning their conference tournament are the best.
Those first two statements have always been true. On Saturday, we learned that the final statement is true as well. Iowa State and West Virginia faced off with the Big 12 tournament championship on the line. The Cyclones came out on top, 80-74, to win their third conference tournament title in four years.
The Mountaineers kept things close, but couldn’t seem to really close the gap late in the game on Iowa State. This is partly because things seemed to become inevitable after senior guard Deonte Burton went way up to throw down after West Virginia’s press was broken.
https://twitter.com/SInow/status/840728110001717248
The other angles of this dunk are just as sick.
Deonte Burton with the flying hammer, WVU defender nearly kilt pic.twitter.com/YBn40wiSu3
— CJ Fogler account may or may not be notable (@cjzero) March 12, 2017
Deonte Burton. Get hyped, stay hyped. Dunk you very much. pic.twitter.com/cNu1ZdUYLv
— Troy Machir (@TroyMachir) March 12, 2017
It’s totally possible that you see a better dunk during March Madness, but don’t bet on it. In addition to this being a super impressive jam by Burton – who finished the game with 16 points, five rebounds, and three steals – there was a huge group of Iowa State fans in the crowd, so this sent them into a frenzy.
Iowa State is the No. 21 team in the nation, per Ken Pomeroy’s ratings. It should be a pretty dangerous team heading into the NCAA Tournament, especially if Burton is going to yam on people like this.
