With a flick of his wrist, Ty Rogers cemented his name into NCAA tournament lore with a buzzer-beating three-pointer to defeat Drake 101-99 in the first round, impacting the Toppers’ run to the Sweet 16.

With a click of the mouse, the fans gave the play a deeper impact on the school.

By a vote of the fans, the shot was selected as the Pontiac Game-Changing Performance of the NCAA tournament, meaning Western will receive a $100,000 contribution from Pontiac into the its general scholarship fund.

“That’s terrific,” President Gary Ransdell said of the award. “It’s great that Ty put us in a position to get us that result from that great athletic moment. We’re grateful for Ty, but we’re also grateful for the whole team and their great performance. Because remember we had to come back in that game.”

The endowment comes from a play and a game that many national college basketball analysts, such as ESPN’s Andy Katz, are calling, “the most exciting game of the tournament.”

After being nominated as one of four plays in the running for the reward last week, Western received a $5,000 contribution from Pontiac.

The other nominees featured plays from other teams in the tournament including UCLA, North Carolina, Memphis and Kansas.

Ransdell said the money will go into Western’s general scholarship fund, but he has an idea on what they might call the new abundance of funds.

“We might have to make it the Ty Rogers Scholarship,” he joked.

Reach David Harten at sports@chherald.com.