By virtue of scheduling, Florida It became the first of the four SEC schools with an opportunity to reach the fourth final in what could be remembered as the best weekend of basketball in the conference history. Gutors, first -ranked in the West, reached this stage by moving away from Maryland, ranked fourth in the Sweet 16 race earlier this week. They entered the date of Saturday with number 3 Technology Technology On the petition of the national semi -finals, the place where the program was not since former coach Billy Donovan was wandering in the margin in 2014, which is the penultimate season before he climbed to the American Professional League. There is no season between then, and the fans base is now captured by one, which included 33 wins in 37 games before Elite Eight, including the SEC championship title, and a series of nine consecutive victories dating back to March 1. It was easy to understand why Al -Fateh was in a modern national championship for both observers and analysts.
It was standing between Florida and the last four, a group of Red Raiders, which needed a heroic return late in the game-in addition to additional work-to overcome Arkansas, the tenth seeded Arkansas in Sweet 16. Jt Toppinfor Darwin Williams and Christian Anderson All of them top 20 points that night to keep the Texas Tech season standing on its feet. Red Raiders received another big boost on Saturday afternoon when it became clear that the shooting guard Memilian opportunityThe average of 14.2 points and 4.1 counterators per game will return to the stadium against Florida after losing five games due to an inclined injury. The theater was appointed in a battle between two teams that were classified among the best nine in the country by Kinbum.
The first half, which is not exposed to Florida, ended, where Florida ranked from three points at the end of the first half, and at that time, the series of 28 consecutive victories came when he was leading at the end of the first-half-linked to the longest lines of such a nation-in play directly. Can Texas Tech, which had significant defects in height and depth of quality compared to Gators, is a charge in the second half while it relies heavily on the shooting of the ocean and the second opportunity points? Or will the weekend that may include a series of coronation from SEC with withdrawing from the Golden team in the last stages, just as it did against Uconn and Maryland in the previous two rounds?
The answers to these questions came in an amazing manner, punishable by 12-2 run by Red Raiders who blocked the mid-half point. During this sequence, it was when the internal trio of Lilloms (23 points, five rebound balls), Tobreen (20 points, 11 rebounds) and Federico Federico (Four points, apostates) began to punish Florida in the low position with a bodily attack and offensive apostasy, eventually, Golden prompted a deadline in the hope of stopping the bleeding. A wave of buckets on the interior, many of which resulted in the isolation Williams, helped to pay the unexpected TEXAS Tech’s progress to 10 points with 7:49, which led to the evaluation of the championship deficit as a possibility to intensify it. When Florida was photographed for violation around the clock shortly after, Golden put his hands on his head before slapping a close body in frustration.
But then Florida began doing the thing that Florida is always doing: it caught 3 points with such cruelty and speed that cannot be recovered. Thomas Haig (20 points, 11 rebounds) 3S consecutive in a period of 33 seconds. Walter Clayton JuniorWho made many clutch bullets to calm the return against Uconn last week, buried two others in 48 seconds, with his second shot in an incredible transformation after he fell behind the bow from the middle of the corridor. Such championships, such a 16-2 falling range, gave the Gators team ahead of one point with less than a minute survival in a game they did not lag behind again. Clayton scored 22 out of 30 games in the second half, including 13 points in the final 5:24.
The Smash-AND-PRAB conclusion has produced the 84-79 final result that left the amazing and amazing Texas Tech. But more importantly, Florida was sent to the four final.
Michael Cohen covers university football and university basketball for Fox Sports. Follow it on Twitter @michael_cohen13.
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