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Thunderous Dunk Ends in Only Way It Could: Piggy-Back Posterization

You don't see too many piggy backs in college basketball.

This clip comes to us from the Southland Conference featuring University of the Incarnate Word and Houston Baptist. Incarnate Word won the regular season finale 97-86 yesterday, and sophomore Shawn Johnson had himself a career day, finishing with 27 points. He also had a merciless dunk and got a free piggy back ride from Asa Cantwell, the poor sap he dunked over. So overall, not a bad little Sunday.

This is one of those plays that could have ended very poorly. Usually guys object to being posterized in such a demeaning way, and someone could have ended up hurt, or we could have seen an ugly little brawl. But both Cantwell and Johnson were incredibly good sports about this play. Whether it was the precariousness of Johnson being completely at Cantwell's mercy after so thoroughly posterizing him, or if Cantwell just appreciates a good old-fashioned piggy-back dunk, even if he's the dunkee, Cantwell held on to Johnson until refs were able to help wrangle him down. Both players were laughing about it, and Cantwell even gave him the sporting butt slap as they went back to action.

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