Arkansas guard Jalen Tate made it abundantly clear with his play Saturday that he did not want the Razorbacks’ season to come to an end in the Sweet 16.
The graduate-transfer guard from Northern Kentucky turned in arguably his best performance of the season on the offensive end in Arkansas’ thrilling 72-70 win over 15-seed Oral Roberts. What isn’t up for debate is that it was his most important.
Tate scored a team-high 22 points on 9 of 17 shooting, handed out six assists and grabbed four rebounds for the Razorbacks. Not only did he find freshman Davonte Davis for the game-winning score with 3.