Texas Tech Rally from 16 to beat Arkansas in the first OT game of March

Dallion Williams I was able to barely take a shot for the first 30 minutes. He didn’t miss out when it was most important Texas Tech In an unlikely place for Elite Eight.

Williams scored a go-ahead basket with 7.3 seconds remaining in overtime after tied the game with three pointers at the end of regulation as he made Arkansas 85-83 win Thursday night.

“The team is at the heart of Dallion Williams,” coach Grant McCusland said. “He’s just a resilient guy. I can’t even explain it. I put my faith in him because I believe he finds a way in a one-game scenario to do whatever it takes to win. Anything to be honest.”

March Madness’s first overtime game came thanks to a ferocious comeback by the third seed Red Raiders (28-8) With 13 points, less than five minutes left against John Calipari’s 10th seed Razorbacks (22-14).

Texas Tech has now got a chance in the school’s second final after losing the title game to Virginia in 2019 and progressed to play top-seeded Florida in Saturday’s Western Regional Final.

The idea seemed very unobtrusive for most of the game as Arkansas broke into a double-digit lead early, controlled most ways, leading by 16 points in the second half.

“In the huddle, the coach said he would find a way to beat this no matter how much we go down,” guarded. Christian Anderson I said. “As a team, we had that look, but we’re not losing to this game no matter what… we had to find a way to make it happen.

Williams lost 13 of his 15 shots in front of a massive condition of friends and family from Sacramento for the match, and the Red Raiders dropped the stretch after opening the game.

However, the Red Raiders closed regulations and ran 16-3 behind Anderson’s three-pointers and Williams’ three baskets. The biggest came when he rattles at 3. Jonas Aidoo I had missed one frontend.

Williams had missed eight of his first nine attempts before that.

“It was obviously not in, but I was shooting open things,” Williams said. “They’re going to fall.”

JT Toppin He then scored to start overtime, giving Texas Tech their first lead since the opening minutes and went back and forth from there. DJ Wagner Tie it for Arkansas with 34 seconds left.

Williams then took the lead in Texas technology, sending the Red Raiders wild celebrations in the midcourt as Wagner’s final shot scored the front rim and Williams pointed to the crowd following the third-largest comeback in Sweet 16 history.

Calipari could only leave the court with a lip-sigh as his first season in Arkansas ended with a broken heart after becoming the first coach to take four schools to the Elite Eight.

“We’re all disappointed here,” Calipari said. “But I told them, there’s nothing my team can do to disappoint me for what they’ve done this year. I’m very proud of them.”

Anderson led the Texas Tech with 22 points, with Toppin and Williams adding 20 each.

Jonell Davis Razorback scored 30 points Carter Knox Added 20.

Report by the Associated Press.

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