… Z was just as important if not moreso during those final minutes, due to his DEFENSE and REBOUNDING!!!
Somewhere around the 6:00 mark, Rob had pulled us to within 3. Then Mitchell comes down and chucks a horrible 3 early in the shot clock. Brick. Arkansas goes the other way and has a straight line drive to the rim until Z challenges it at the last second, forcing the dude to go left hand and whiff on the layup. I couldn’t believe he missed. We were very lucky tbh, but Z did contest it. IMO this was the most important play of the game. Arkansas hits that layup and they go back up five. A little later, he again contests several more layups which the Hogs all miss, as well as grabbing practically every defensive rebound. Those stops/rebounds were the ballgame. His alley oops were just icing on the cake!!!
Somewhere around the 6:00 mark, Rob had pulled us to within 3. Then Mitchell comes down and chucks a horrible 3 early in the shot clock. Brick. Arkansas goes the other way and has a straight line drive to the rim until Z challenges it at the last second, forcing the dude to go left hand and whiff on the layup. I couldn’t believe he missed. We were very lucky tbh, but Z did contest it. IMO this was the most important play of the game. Arkansas hits that layup and they go back up five. A little later, he again contests several more layups which the Hogs all miss, as well as grabbing practically every defensive rebound. Those stops/rebounds were the ballgame. His alley oops were just icing on the cake!!!