Bothell trailed the entire game until Mike Hartvigson’s free throw put the Cougars up 42-41 with 2:30 remaining.

After a Viking miss, a short Devin Willis jumper put Bothell up 44-41 at 1:45.

Inglemoor’s Paul Ena then scored inside to make it 44-43 with a minute left.

Bothell attempted to run out the clock but Inglemoor fouled Kurt Stottlemyer at the 20-second mark. In a one-and-one situation, the Cougar senior missed his first attempt and the Vikings pushed the ball up-court to call timeout with 12 ticks remaining, down by one.

With a foul to give, Bothell corralled Bryant with eight seconds left.

Inglemoor coach Greg Lowell then drew up a play for all the marbles.

“It was supposed to be a screen and roll,” Bryant said after his heroics.

“But they sagged so I just stepped back to my left, got a good screen from Todd (Campbell), pulled up and let it go.”

He said he knew the shot was good as soon as it left his hand, and the win avenged a double-overtime loss to Bothell at Inglemoor three weeks ago.

“That was definitely on my mind because I got four fouls early in that game and didn’t play much,” Bryant said. “So we wanted to show them that they didn’t beat our best.”

Inglemoor (5-2, 2-1) will travel to Bothell(3-3, 2-1) to meet again on Jan. 30.

Lowell said Tuesday’s game gave him an eerie sense of deja vu.

“It did because we had a lead the last time against them and they kept battling and tonight Bothell made some nice plays down the stretch — particularly inside. But I was really pleased with our kids because we talk about finishing games and we needed to make a play to do it. We ran the right thing, set a good screen and Benji hit the shot.”

Bothell coach Ron Bollinger said he was not surprised it went down to the wire.

“It’s a big rivalry and this game was very similar to the last one. 

They controlled the first half and I thought we controlled the second half and we came back to take the lead. We just didn’t make our free throws at the end.”

Bollinger said a defensive breakdown on the final play led to Bryant’s game-winner.

“We were supposed to double the ball on the pick and roll and we didn’t,” he said. “In fact we didn’t even single it. We just kind of stayed behind it. But, hey, he hit a big shot and that’s good for him.”

Bryant led all scorers with 19 points and Campbell added 10, nine rebounds and three blocked shots for the Vikings.

Hartvigson led the Cougars with 14 points and 11 rebounds, and Willis and Stottlemyer added 10 points apiece.

Inglemoor hosts top-ranked Garfield on Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. The unbeaten Bulldogs are led by the celebrated Tony Wroten, considered one of the top sophomore prospects in the country. Last week, in Wroten’s first game back from being declared ineligible, Garfield beat Duncanville (Tx.)--ranked 12th nationally by USA Today--57-56 and the 15-year olds’ stat line looked like this: 19 points, eight rebounds, six assists, six steals and three blocked shots.

Bothell, in its first home game of the season, hosts Eastlake.