TJ Long hit a miraculous catch-and-shoot 3-pointer at the buzzer to tie the game, then completed a four-point play to give Vermont a 66-65 win over Yale on Saturday night in Burlington, Vt.

After Aaron Deloney’s layup drew the Catamounts within 65-62 with 0.6 seconds to play, Vermont (7-2) was able to draw an offensive foul from Yale on the inbound play to set up one final shot.

Long took the baseline inbound pass from Deloney and threw up a long fallaway 3-pointer that banked into the basket to tie it at 65 apiece with 0.2 seconds left.

It turned out Long was fouled on the play, and he calmly hit the winning free throw to give the Catamounts the stunning one-point victory as Yale’s long heave in the final tick was nowhere near the basket.

“I was supposed to get the ball in the opposite corner,” Long said after the stunning win. “Me and [Deloney] kind of made eye contact there and he kind of threw me open to the wing,” Long said after the game. “It was a great pass [through Austin Mahoney] across the court, and he put it on me. I know I didn’t have time to take a dribble, so once I caught it I kind of threw it up there and got lucky with the foul and banked it in.”

Long, a Rockville Centre native who scored a game-high 23 points, was 8 of 16 from the field, including 6-for-10 from 3-point range for the Catamounts.

Shamir Bogues scored 14 points while finishing 6 of 12 from the floor, and added six rebounds, and Deloney chipped in with 10 points.

Yale (5-4) was led by Bez Mbeng, who recorded 18 points and two steals.

The Bulldogs also got 15 points, 16 rebounds and two blocks from Danny Wolf, and Matt Knowling pitched in with 10 points.

• Martin Scorsese’s “Killers of the Flower Moon” has been named best film of the year by the New York Film Critics Circle.
• This recognition is Scorsese’s third victory in this category, following his earlier wins for “GoodFellas” in 1990 and “The Irishman” in 2019.
• The film, a $200 million Apple Studios production, is based on David Grann’s nonfiction bestseller and explores the Osage murders of the 1920s.

Martin Scorsese’s “Killers of the Flower Moon” has been named the best film of the year by the New York Film Critics Circle.

It’s the third time that Scorsese has been given the best film award from his hometown’s critics, who named 1990’s “GoodFellas” their top movie, as well as 2019’s “The Irishman.” On Thursday, the group also awarded Lily Gladstone, who stars alongside Leonardo DiCaprio in “Killers of the Flower Moon,” best actress.

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“Killers of the Flower Moon,” a $200 million Apple Studios production based on David Grann’s nonfiction bestseller, chronicles the Osage murders of the 1920s.

“Oppenheimer,” Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster drama about J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Manhattan Project, picked up several awards: best director for Nolan and best cinematography, by Hoyte van Hoytema.

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The New York Film Critics Circle, founded in 1935, is the oldest critics group in the country. The awards will be handed out at a dinner on Jan. 3. Last year, the critics named Todd Field’s “Tár” the best film of 2022.

Here’s a full list of their picks:

Best Film: “Killers of the Flower Moon”

Best Director: Christopher Nolan, “Oppenheimer”

Best Actress: Lily Gladstone, “Killers of the Flower Moon”

Best Actor: Franz Rogowski, “Passages”

Best International Film: “Anatomy of a Fall”

Best Supporting Actress: Da’Vine Joy Randolph, “The Holdovers”

Best Supporting Actor: Charles Melton, “May December”

Best Screenplay: “May December”

Best Non-Fiction Film: “Menus-Plaisirs — Les Troisgros”

Best Cinematography: Hoyte van Hoytema, “Oppenheimer”

Best First Film: “Past Lives”

Best Animated Film: “The Boy and the Heron”

Special Award: Karen Cooper, director of the Film Forum, the standard-bearing New York arthouse cinema

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