Oklahoma (12-1) had plenty of chances to close this game out.
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Kansas led by as many as 11 in the first half. No. 1 and No. 2 have met 40 times previously in college basketball.
Out of the break, it was the Sooners who extended their lead and seemed to be in control.
Oklahoma hopes to be the roadblock to the Jayhawks’ good fortune this year. There were, of course, controversial calls, techs, big shots, missed free throws, made free throws and sublime individual play.
“It’s going to hurt my heart forever”, he said, and for all of the things the 16,300 who bore witness will remember – the impossible shots and 3-point mastery and fashion in which one man controlled a 10-man game – what will evermore plague Hield is what he couldn’t do. Kansas had six players on the court at the time, but Devonte’ Graham made it from about a foot outside the key to the bench before the officials noticed.
A triple overtime epic between the top two teams in the country and Hield was the star.
The two teams traded buckets to start the second extra period to be knotted up at 92-92 with under three minutes left in the game.
4 VIRGINIA 68 (at Blacksburg, Va.) – Zach LeDay scored 18 of his 22 points in the second half and blocked London Perrantes’ attempt to tie the game in the final seconds as the Hokies (10-5, 2-0 ACC) stunned the Cavaliers (12-2, 1-1). Oklahoma would turn the ball over on two of their final three possessions while Kansas sank free throws to set up a three-point lead. After another missed shot for both team, Kansas had the ball as time wound down, but again missed what would have been the game-winner as time expired, forcing a third overtime.
The Jayhawks looked like they would end it in regulation after Hield made two free throws with 21.3 seconds left to tie the game at 77-77.
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He almost hit the game-tying three-point shot at the buzzer.
In the end, it came down to the Jayhawks’ defence and one huge gamble that paid off. The players frequently don’t stick around long enough to leave much of an impression. After the turnover, Woodard fouled out and Kansas retook the lead and never relinquished it. With just three second remaining, Kansas forward Landen Lucas went over the back of Oklahoma forward Khadeem Lattin’s fighting for an offensive rebound, sending Lattin to the line with a one-to-one.
The game between the nation’s No. 1 Kansas Jayhawks and No. 2 Oklahoma Sooners was as good as advertised. Oklahoma hasn’t won in Phog Allen in Hield’s lifetime.
Hield hit eight 3-pointers and scored 46 points in one of the finest performances in school history, one that earned him a standing ovation from Kansas fans.
Kansas’ Jamari Traylor (31) and Evan Manning leap into the air as Frank Mason III (0) and Wayne Selden Jr.
Lost in the three overtimes of Oklahoma’s setback to Kansas on Monday night was OU’s awful start.
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