On the sideline, Brad Stevens, then an assistant coach with the Butler Bulldogs, couldn't believe the call. He still can't now, 17 years later.
"It was a charge," Stevens told ESPN. "It could've gone either way," Horford told ESPN.
At the time, the contest seemed little more than a fierce game in the furnace of March Madness, but, as years passed, and as both Horford and Stevens reached the NBA, it would come to represent something more: the beginning of an unlikely bond.
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