Nicole Seekamp has produced a buzzer-beating match-winner to give the Adelaide Lightning a stunning 74-73 victory in Game 2 of the WNBL grand final series and force a decider with the Canberra Capitals.
Trailing by a point with 5.5 seconds remaining on Wednesday night, Seekamp inbounded from the Capitals' baseline to Lauren Nicholson before sprinting the full length of the court.
Nicholson zigzagged her way through the Capitals' defence before finding Seekamp under Adelaide's basket and the Lightning co-captain did the rest, slotting the biggest basket of her career in front of 3702 screaming fans at Titanium Security Arena.
Still-motion footage of the shot suggested it left Seekamp's hands a fraction of a second after the buzzer, angering Canberra coach Paul Goriss.
"Everybody just go back and watch the film ... go back and watch the light (on the scoreboard) light up," he said.
"If everybody has a look at the last five seconds and the last under one second, I think everyone will see the truth.
"There were several things that were flabbergasting and out of our control."
Seekamp finished with a team-high 19 points while import Nia Coffey contributed 14 points and 10 rebounds.
For the Capitals, Kelsey Griffin confirmed her standing as the competition's premier player with 24 points and a whopping 23 rebounds while Kia Nurse (16 points 10 boards) proved a valuable ally.
Capitals co-captain Marianna Tolo, the sole remaining player from the Caps' 2009-10 championship successes, was busy early before Nurse caught fire.
She notched nine straight Canberra points - including a remarkable banked three-pointer off an inbound pass - to fashion a 23-19 quarter-time advantage.
The Lightning got to within two points in the second term before an unsportsmanlike foul against Coffey on Griffin reinvigorated the Caps.
Griffin was in everything as the Capitals went on an 8-0 run to move 10 points clear before Seekamp's trey on the half-time buzzer reduced Canberra's lead to 44-37.
Griffin waged a lone hand in the third period, scoring Canberra's first nine points but she had no support and the Lightning gained the upper hand, moving ahead when Coffey sank two free throws before Nurse stroked a triple on the three-quarter-time buzzer to give the Caps a slender 56-55 advantage.
Canberra increased the buffer to 68-61 and looked like taking home the silverware in a sweep before Adelaide made their charge, paving the way for Seekamp, fittingly, to provide the last-second heroics and set up a decider in the capital on Saturday.
"What an amazing game of women's basketball," Lightning coach Chris Lucas said.
"The game had everything from both teams.
"I couldn't be prouder of the group."
