Journal Star sports story of the year: Bradley basketball takes the national stage--Peoria Journal Star
Without labor, ISU's Key feels nothing in his game prospers--Terre Haute Tribune Star
From Gordon Hayward's miss to Kentucky's togetherness: Mike DeCourcy's best college basketball moments of the 2010s--Sporting News
9. A long way down
The UNI Panthers held a 12-point lead over Texas A&M with 34 [Ed: it was 44] seconds remaining in their NCAA Tournament second-round game in Oklahoma City. That’s when you start booking the tickets for the regional, right? You’re going to the Sweet 16, obviously.
Except A&M wound up on that plane.
It remains difficult to fathom how UNI could surrender a lead that large in a time frame that small, but it happened. The Aggies score six baskets, one of those a 3-pointer, and a free throw — countered by only a single Panthers field goal — to tie the game at the end of regulation.
Twice — not once, but twice — a Panthers player inbounding the ball saw no options and tried to throw it off the defender’s leg to gain a new five-second count and wound up, instead, seeing the ball gathered by an Aggies player and laid in the goal.
The Aggies won in double overtime. UNI, as one would expect with a coach as classy as Ben Jacobson, handled their defeat as well as possible. Their locker room was quiet, but those at the center of the collapse dealt with the questions they faced with poise.
MVC Power Rankings: Bears fall, Loyola rises in latest rankings--The Southern Illinoisan
Saluki Basketball 5@5: Cook still progressing and big implications for UNI--The Southern Illinoisan
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