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Texas Tech and Arkansas produce overtime thriller late Thursday night in San Francisco

In a night full of great hoops, it was the night cap that shined the brightest as Arkansas and Texas Tech dueled it out for 45 minutes. In the other three games, Florida topped Maryland 87-71, Duke outlasted Arizona 100-93 while Cooper Flagg and Caleb Love each scored 30 or more, and Alabama hit an NCAA Tournament record 25 three-pointers including ten makes from Mark Sears in a 113-88 demolition of BYU.

Texas Tech and Arkansas one-upped everything else we saw though, late into the night in San Francisco. In the first half, Arkansas opened up an early lead and maintained it for all of the first half, leading by as many as 15. Texas Tech took momentum into the break though, as the Red Raiders scored the final six points of the half including a Darrion Williams three just before the halftime buzzer.

It seemed as if Texas Tech would be the team hot out of the gates in the second half, but Arkansas stormed right back to take a 44-33 lead. The lead only grew from there, as the Razorbacks extended the lead to 61-45 with Johnell Davis doing the heavy lifting. That 16-point lead would eventually become the biggest deficit overcome by a team in the second half of a Sweet 16 matchup.

Over the next four minutes, Texas Tech made its run, cutting the deficit to seven. Once again, Davis was the go-to guy for the Hogs, scoring six straight to give Arkansas a 69-56 lead with 4:43 to play.

Fueled by two buckets from Darrion Williams and two threes from Christian Anderson, a 10-0 run put Texas Tech right back in the game with 2:06 to go. After a John Calipari timeout, Karter Knox came up with a huge three for Arkansas to push the lead back to 72-66 with 1:28 left.

It was an all-out scramble over the last minute and a half, with Anderson first cutting the deficit in half with another three. After a defensive stand from both teams, Texas Tech fouled Jonas Aidoo for a one-and-one with 27 seconds left. Aidoo missed the front end, giving the Red Raiders a chance to tie with their final possession.

With nine seconds left, Texas Tech did just that, as Williams buried a massive three to tie the game at 72-72. After D.J. Wagner’s last-second attempt fell off the rim, the teams headed to overtime and all the momentum stood with the guys from Lubbock.

To start overtime, the teams traded leads a handful of times before Trevon Brazile leveled the score at 81-81 with 1:24 left. In the final 84 seconds, the teams went back and forth again, as Big 12 Player of the Year JT Toppin gave the Red Raiders an 83-81 lead before Wagner evened the score with 34 seconds left.

Although Texas Tech couldn’t wind the clock all the way down, it did the best it could, giving Williams the ball with under 15 seconds left on the game clock, and the Red Raiders’ go-to guy delivered a bucket with seven seconds to go.

Once again, Arkansas was frantic in the final seconds, and Wagner barely got a shot off, one which was tightly contested and bounced off the front end of the rim to give Texas Tech a dramatic 85-83 win.

Grant McCasland often tells his players that the “toughest team wins” and over the course of the final ten minutes of regulation and five minutes of overtime, it was clear who the toughest team was.

Arkansas got big games from Johnell Davis and Karter Knox, with 30 and 20 points respectively, but there was a trio of Red Raiders with 20+ points, with most of the damage being done late. Christian Anderson’s 22 points led Texas Tech, while Darrion Williams and JT Toppin each added 20 points to get the Red Raiders over the line.

The TTU win sets up what should be an instant classic Saturday night in San Francisco, as the top-seeded Florida Gators take on this Texas Tech squad that is hoping to get Chance McMillian back from injury as well.

Other Things to Note:

• The Sweet 16 continues on Friday at 7:09 ET on CBS and 7:39 ET on TBS with South and Midwest regional semifinals