Another year of the PCL Championship at the Palestra, another classic game. It’s the best bang for your buck in Philadelphia. It’s so notorious that you can just say PCL Championship and everyone immediately knows you’re talking about basketball and where it’s going to be played. There’s nowhere else you can get excitement, drama, glory, and agony all in one place. Take the best movie director in the universe and they couldn’t write a script better than how these games actually play out. Last year Roman Catholic’s Xzayvier Brown banks in a buzzer beater to send the game into OT and this year Kabe Goss answers at the OT buzzer after Archbishop Ryan’s Ryan Everett hit a three to put the Raiders up one:

Great call by Bob Long and Huck Palmer. The “unbelievable” makes me laugh every time. Roman Catholic has a golden horseshoe stuck up their ass.

It’s a game of inches:

I’ve probably watched 100 different angles of this shot:

Where else can you get these reactions only five seconds apart?

What a game. There is no atmosphere like the Palestra. And nobody rushed the court so Jay Bilas could sleep soundly. Kyle Filipowski is walking out of Winston-Salem with two healthy ankles if this guy is working security on Saturday:

Even the post-game was electric: