Connecticut Coach Dan Hurley likes to call his baby-faced freshman guard Braylon Mullins “the Bringer of Rain,” a nod to his high, arcing jumpers that seem to fall from the sky.
On Sunday, with 0.4 seconds left and Connecticut’s season hanging by a thread, Mullins launched his highest, longest rainbow yet — a 35-foot prayer that splashed through the net. It was the kind of shot that instantly lights up social feeds and loops on highlight reels for years — one that will resurface every March as long as madness reigns, replayed alongside the likes of Christian Laettner, Kris Jenkins and Jalen Suggs.
