Midnight Madness traditionally produces some eye-catching slams, but this year's crop of dunks have been especially impressive.
There was Pepperdine guard Keion Bell leaping over a line of seven people. There was Buffalo forward Mitchell Watt pulling off a heel-flick alley-oop. And now a new video is circulating the web featuring a UNC-Asheville guard who jumps as though he has spring-powered legs.
(Video courtesy UNC-Asheville Athletics)
Six-foot-4 senior guard John Williams won UNC-Asheville's dunk contest on Friday night with a jam that landed him on ESPN's "Pardon the Interruption" on Wednesday afternoon. Williams takes a running start, hurdles 7-foot-2 teammate Sean Hobbs at mid-court, catches a lob pass as he leaps over 6-foot-1 guard J.P. Primm and throws down a two-handed alley-oop slam.
Williams' dunk combines some of the elements of hurdling and the triple jump, so it's a tad surprising he has no track and field background. Instead he lettered in crew, soccer and golf in high school before focusing solely on basketball in college, blossoming into a Big South Player of the Year candidate this season and UNC-Asheville's all-time leader in blocked shots.
There was some pressure on Williams to pull off his double hurdle dunk considering how he'd raised the bar in a previous dunk contest two years ago. That night, Williams not only leapt over Hobbs for a jam but also dunked after taking the ball in midair from the outstretched arms of a teammate standing on a ladder high above the rim.
For those who feel the need to diminish Williams' dunk for pushing off as he leapt over Hobbs, cut him some slack. It was the second time in the previous 30 seconds he had to clear Hobbs because he botched the first dunk attempt.
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