Rarely, if ever, does a Princeton athlete command the attention of the entire nation. Doug Davis ’12 now has that distinct honor — The Shot snagged a well-deserved top spot on ESPN SportsCenter’s Top 10. It also appeared online in a SportsNation poll versus some bicycle kick thing by some soccer bloke:

To be fair, "football" has a way broader appeal than Ivy League sports.

Sadly, The Shot ended up losing 48% to 52%. If you look at the map, you can see the state-by-state breakdown; apparently Davis really struck a chord with the Midwest. And as with most presidential elections, I am entirely unsurprised to see which way Massachusetts voted. Wouldn’t be surprised if there was a campus-wide one-day moratorium on SportsCenter over at Hahvahd. (An exercise in empathy: imagine if they scored the devastating buzzer-beater and we had to watch it ad nauseum on the Frist TV. I can only hope someone would intervene and switch it to Food Network or something.)

Meanwhile, Davis’s teammate Ian Hummer ’13 has cropped up on a very, very different ESPN poll. An enterprising journalist went through all the rosters in the men’s tournament, plucked out the 64 finest names, and made a bracket out of them. The criteria: “fun to say, fun to spell or cool and unusual.”