Hogs ease by
Huskers with late-game run
Posted: Fri March 13, 1998 at 1:19 AM ET
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Arkansas' Kareem Reid poured in 17 points for the Razorbacks
(Brian Bahr/Allsport)
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BOISE, Idaho (AP) -- The football school still can't win an NCAA
tournament basketball game.
Nebraska fumbled away a 10-point second-half lead Thursday night
and lost to Arkansas 74-65 in a first-round slop-fest that featured
43 turnovers.
Pat Bradley scored 19 points for the sixth-seeded Razorbacks,
including 4-of-4 free throws in the final two minutes and seven
seconds. Arkansas (24-8) broke away from a 61-61 tie with a 13-4
run over the final three minutes to advance to the second round
against Utah on Saturday.
All of Arkansas' points in the final four minutes came on
15-of-16 free-throw shooting.
Arkansas' 22 turnovers resulted in 31 Nebraska points, but that
wasn't enough to prevent the 11th-seeded Cornhuskers (20-12) from
falling to 0-6 in NCAA tournament play. Nebraska had 21 turnovers
resulting in 23 Razorback points.
Kareem Reid added 17 points and Tarik Wallace had 13 for Arkansas,
back in the tournament after its nine-year NCAA run came to an end
last season. Tyronn Lue, Nebraska's smooth point guard, scored 18.
Venson Martin added 14 points and 10 rebounds for the Cornhuskers.
For most of the night, Lue was an oasis of wizardry in a
ball-handling wasteland. But the junior, who is considering a jump
to the NBA this year, had a costly turnover, one of only three in
the game for him, down the stretch.
Nebraska was up 40-33 at the half and 47-37 with 16:45 to play
before Wallace sank two 3-pointers to ignite a 10-0 run that tied
the score at 47-47 with 13:30 remaining.
Then Lue took over. He had an assist to Larry
Florence for a basket, then scored his team's next eight, including
two 3-pointers, to put Nebraska back on top 57-50 with 8:17 to go.
Arkansas' Landis Williams wrestles away a rebound
(Jon Ferrey/Allsport)
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Arkansas rallied again to take the lead 61-59 on Bradley's fifth
3-pointer with 4:06 to play. It was the Razorbacks' last field
goal, but the way they were shooting from the line, it didn't
matter.
Andy Markowski, a 37 percent free throw shooter this season,
made two from the line for Nebraska to tie it one last time at
61-61 with 3:46 remaining. Ali Thompson and Bradley each made two
free throws after Cornhuskers turnovers to make it 65-61 and
Arkansas didn't trail again.
Lue had six assists and three steals, while teammate Cookie
Belcher had six steals. But the Cornhuskers, who shot 53 percent
from the field in the first half, cooled off to 33 percent in the
second.
Reid had six of his team's turnovers and just two assists, but
the Razorbacks didn't have any turnovers during the late run that
gave them the win.
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