The secretariat was downstairs, looking at tenths. Umeå got the points, Hansson accounted for 36, and took his Umeå to its first men's semi in the club's history after 3-0 in the match series.

"I've fired a shot and missed sometime, but never before decided on the last shot in a game. It was so damn nice, if Luleå had won this one, you never know how the series ended," Hansson told Folkbladet.

Pitted against series winner Borås in the semis

Umeå, which in previous years has never won a single playoff game, is now in its first Swedish Championship semi-final on the men's side.

"There are a lot of people who have predicted the wrong things, so we're used to that, but we believe in ourselves and the reason we now won up in Luleå is that we haven't for a moment looked further ahead than the closest game we're playing," says Umeå coach Boris Balibrea.

In the upcoming Swedish Championship semis, Umeå will be pitted against the regular season winner Borås Basket.