Who you gonna call?

By VITO FORLENZA
Collegian Staff Writer

It was inevitable.

He would find the ball -- somehow.

With just seconds left in the second overtime of No. 20 Indiana's 98-95 double overtime win against Penn State yesterday, Hoosier guard A.J. Guyton confirmed what many predicted for those final seconds -- he would be the one to determine the fate of both teams.

It was Guyton who took one of the last shots in regulation, setting up Luke Recker's game-tying put back.

And, it was Guyton who took the last shot at the end of the first overtime, sending it to a second.

When he finally took a pass in the closing moments, he put the ball on the floor looking for an opening.

But the Nittany Lion defense, which smothered him nearly all day, never gave him that opening.

Just as he had much of the afternoon, Guyton launched the ball amidst heavy traffic and well beyond the three-point arc.

And, just as it had much of the afternoon, the ball found its way to the basket -- this bucket to clinch the Hoosiers' victory.

"I think it got caught in the wind current that moved it toward the basket," said Hoosier coach Bob Knight, expressing his lack of confidence in that last shot. "We had three really good looks, and here we just kind of jack around and throw it up, and we win."

The final shot put the proverbial exclamation point on a spectacular day for Guyton. The junior finished with a game- and career-high 33 points, four rebounds and three assists, hitting 12 of 25 (48 percent) from the field, including 7 of 16 (43.8 percent) from three-point land.

"With the clock winding down, I just wanted to get the shot off," Guyton said. "Throw it as high as I could, hoping it would make it to the rim, and it did. I was as surprised as anybody else that it went in. A fade away 3 at the buzzer is a tough shot."

Guyton, however, added that his game-winning shot wasn't one of desperation because he felt he was in control when heaving it.

Although Guyton said he was surprised he converted on the final attempt, Lion guard Joe Crispin said he knew it was going to fall the moment it was released.

"For some reason I did," Crispin said. "I don't know what I was thinking … it wasn't a good feeling."

Crispin's prophecy was based on Guyton's consistent precision from behind the arc. He was under constant pressure, but no matter where the Lion defenders forced him, he usually was successful.

"The guy's a big time player, and he made some big shots for them," said Lion coach Jerry Dunn. "We asked our guys push out on him, and the further out they push, the further out he made them."

But it was Guyton's complete performance that kept Indiana in the ball game after it twice fell behind by 16 points.

In the Hoosiers' 20-3 run to close out the first half, he paced Indiana with 10 points, two assists and two rebounds, which not only got the Hoosiers back into