Missing a handful of players to illness and minor injuries, Link Academy found itself only up by six with less than three minutes left in its Thursday night Ozark Mountain Shootout appearance at Glendale High School.
A roster full of four- and five-star recruits bound for the biggest colleges in the country had impressed throughout with their high-flying abilities and, at times, moved the ball in a way that was reminiscent of the Harlem Globetrotters.
But they needed a few buckets late to contain Mansfield Legacy, one of the top teams at the highest class in Texas, which was shooting lights out from beyond the arc.