It wasn’t quite the Creighton game from last year in Hawaii, but Arkansas-Stanford was a memorable one.
The No. 20 Razorbacks rallied then held off the Cardinal in the quarterfinals of the Battle 4 Atlantis tournament in Bahamas, 77-74, and will face Memphis at 4 p.m. on Thanksgiving.
Arkansas faithful were biting nails as the game went into two overtimes. The first was forced by the Hogs after Devo Davis made a pair of free throws and Stanford missed a 3-pointer at the buzzer.
The second happened because the Cardinal made a buzzer-beater, with little-used former walk-on Benny Gealer burying a runner from the wing.
In the end, defense and rebounding, two things coach Eric Musselman has been begging for, was enough for the Hogs to hold on.
Here’s how social media reacted after the game.