Even on a light sports night, there aren’t many ways a Little Rock–Louisiana basketball game can generate national buzz. Maybe an on-court fight, full-court buzzer-beater, or postgame press conference meltdown. Or a lighting mishap in the final seconds of a two-point game that could prove pivotal for the Sun Belt’s auto-bid.
Trailing Louisiana, 66–64, in the final seconds on Friday night in Lafayette, Little Rock had the ball when this happened:
If you’ve never seen a Louisiana home game, those are the Ragin Cajuns' red lights that flash after a victory. There’s no indication it was a deliberate attempt to hurt the visitors but the game wasn’t stopped when the lights came on, nor was time added after the buzzer.