{"id":752965,"date":"2026-06-22T13:50:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T13:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/752965\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T13:50:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T13:50:14","slug":"odafe-oweh-thought-hed-be-the-one-with-basketball-dreams-then-his-brother-stole-march-madness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/752965\/","title":{"rendered":"Odafe Oweh thought he\u2019d be the one with basketball dreams. Then his brother stole March Madness."},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-attrs=\"{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/lastmanstandig.substack.com\/?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share Last Man Standig &quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}\" data-component-name=\"ButtonCreateButton\" class=\"button-wrapper\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lastmanstandig.substack.com\/?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share\" class=\"button primary\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Share Last Man Standig <\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/7ddd2e26-5379-471a-9b92-13b873118b2f_4300.jpeg\"  alt=\"\"  width=\"1456\" class=\"img-OACg1c image-IE_pDY pencraft pc-reset pressable-lg-kV7yq8 pencraft pc-reset\"\/>Edge defender Odafe Oweh during Commanders OTA<\/p>\n<p>ASHBURN, Va. \u2014 The Owehs know how to do March Madness.<\/p>\n<p>Start with Odafe. On March 9, the highly sought-after free agent edge defender agreed to a four-year, $96 million contract with a Washington Commanders team seeking help for its much-maligned defense. Generating 7.5 sacks for the playoff-bound Los Angeles Chargers following an in-season trade ensured a hot market for his services.<\/p>\n<p>Eleven days later, younger brother Otega grabbed the spotlight in the NCAA Tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Otega, Kentucky\u2019s leading scorer, tied the Round of 64 matchup against Santa Clara with a twisty layup, only for the Broncos to bury a 3-pointer for the lead with 2.4 seconds remaining.<\/p>\n<p>Calm in the clutch, Oweh quickly advanced the ball and banked in a buzzer-beating 3-pointer from just inside halfcourt to force overtime.<\/p>\n<p>As the 6-foot-4 guard dribbled up the left side of the court moments after Santa Clara\u2019s go-ahead 3-pointer, his older brother had a premonition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI knew he was going to make it. We have some type of playmaking genes,\u201d Odafe said. \u201cSo when he was dribbling, I was like, \u2018Go! Go! Go!\u2019\u201d<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Share Last Man Standig Edge defender Odafe Oweh during Commanders OTA ASHBURN, Va. \u2014 The Owehs know how&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":752966,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-752965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=752965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/752966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=752965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=752965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=752965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}