NBA News NBA News, Match Reports and Updates
The Kansas State Wildcats, vying for a NABC Hall Of Fame Classic championship, made a furious comeback to overcome a lackluster first half, but ultimately fell short on a last-second play by the Nebraska Cornhuskers, dropping their first game of the season 86-85 in front of a packed house at the T-Mobile Center in Kansas City.
K-State (5-1) came into the game looking to carry momentum from yesterday’s victory over Mississippi State, but came out of the locker room sloppy on both ends of the floor. Untimely consecutive turnovers, combined with a complete void of defense on back cuts allowed the Huskers (6-0) to build up a 15-point lead in the first half, at 27-12. The Cats found a couple of key buckets down the stretch, as well as a couple of stops on the defensive end, to shrink the lead to 6 with just over 2 minutes to play on a PJ Haggerty jumper, but the visitors righted the ship a bit, managing to hit a three from the top of the key at the buzzer to take a 10-point lead into the locker room, 45-35.
Advertisement
Buoyed by Abdi Bashir’s barrage of long-range shots and PJ Haggerty’s relentless attack on the basket, K-State erased the deficit by the 14:00 mark, tying the game at 52. The two teams essentially traded buckets the rest of the way out, neither team building a lasting lead. We had our first spicy moment of the season, as Nebraska’s Jamarques Lawrence straight-up tackled Elias Rapieque on a breakaway opportunity, resulting in a flagrant-1, and spurring a K-State 5-point lead with 7:21 left on the clock. Nebraska quickly extinguished that lead, and both teams went back to trading buckets – and the lead – the rest of the way home. With the score tied at 85 apiece on a PJ Haggerty layup and 27 seconds to go, Nebraska set up a final play – an ill-fated three attempt from Pryce Sandfort fell short, but coaches-son Sam Hoiberg came up with an unlikely rebound and drew a foul on the outback with one second left on the clock. A make and a miss by Hoiberg,…
Source link : https://sports.yahoo.com/article/k-state-gets-nubbed-huskers-063430608.html
Author :
Publish date : 2025-11-22 06:34:00
Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.
