Chris Chiozza can’t use his phone after Florida buzzer beater over Wisconsin

Chris Chiozza isn’t going to be using his phone for a little while after hitting a buzzer beater to send Wisconsin home.

Chris Chiozza is the big man on campus at Florida for the next few weeks after he hit the biggest shot of the tournament, so far. With seconds to go, Chiozza pulled up for a desperation floater that he somehow knocked down. His buzzer beater knocked off Wisconsin and sent Florida into an Elite 8 contest with South Carolina, Sunday. That’s the kind of thing that’ll make someone popular.

Perhaps a little too popular. After the game Chiozza reached for his phone and found something he could no longer use. Easily over a hundred messages had poured into his phone in merely a few minutes all in response to his gamewinner. Hopefully he has a lot of free space otherwise his phone might start deleting a handful of those messages before he can read them. Then again, that might be for the best cause that’s a whole lot of texts to go through in one evening. If he actually does go through all of them, which might be impossible at this point.

Did he turn his phone off before the game started? If so then that means every single message poured in at the exact same time and he got blasted by them all at once. Personally, I’d be scared of my phone if something like this started happening, because the never-ending text sound and never-ending vibration would make it look possessed. Well that or the phone would crash and go into a soft reset.

Chiozza is probably still getting messages at this very moment, but hopefully they’ve slowed down a little to the point where he can actually use his phone again. As a college student there is nothing more important than his phone which means it needs to be usable at all times.