AUSTIN, Texas — He thought it was good the moment it left his hand. With 3.1 seconds on the clock, Max Abmas cut around a backcourt screen, caught the inbounds pass, took three speed dribbles down the right wing with a defender on his hip, pulled up behind the 3-point line, and let the potential game-winner fly. His 15th-seeded Oral Roberts trailed No. 3 Arkansas, 72-70, in the 2021 Sweet Sixteen in Indianapolis. The buzzer sounded while the ball was in the air.
Clank.
“It looked like it was on line,” Abmas says with a rueful smile.