Sometimes the scoreboard doesn’t lie, and the tale it told on Wednesday in Oxford as the Texas Longhorns dropped a 72-69 thriller against the No. 23 Ole Miss Rebels was of a tight game with small margins.
The game data spoke of a hard-fought contest that went into double digits in ties and lead changes, a typically rugged SEC amongst teams with a sum of small separation.
Down by two points and with 26 seconds remaining and a four-second difference in the shot clock and game clock and with Ole Miss intent on denying the ball to star freshman guard Tre Johnson throughout the game by any means possible — including committing a foul at the midcourt circle on a dribble handoff with 5:43 remaining — Texas was able to successfully execute a dribble handoff for Johnson, who drove to his right hand and lofted a near-paint floater off the window and off the front of the rim.