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Hogs open SEC play with win on road over Texas A&M, 73-71

Despite an overall miserable performance from the free-throw line Saturday night, freshman isaiah Joe made a couple in the final 12 seconds and Arkansas escaped with a 73-71 win over Texas A&M.

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Despite an overall miserable performance from the free-throw line Saturday night, freshman isaiah Joe made a couple in the final 12 seconds and Arkansas escaped with a 73-71 win over Texas A&M.

The Razorbacks were 50 percent at the line for the game and that’s exactly what Joe did in the final seconds, hitting 2-of-4 free throws.

It helped after the Aggies came down with a chance to make a 3 to tie the game at 72 that Christian Mekowulu grabbed a missed shot and instead of kicking it back out for a game-tying 3-pointer sank a layup to cut the Hogs’ lead to 72-71 with two seconds left.

A&M then fouled Joe and put him on the line for two shots and, keeping with the team’s average for the game, he missed the first one, but sank the second one and Arkansas had the win.

In Thursday’s press conference previewing the game, Mike Anderson had talked about rebounding being big and the Hogs won the battle on the boards, 47-42.

Daniel Gafford led the rebounding with 11, but Gabe Osabuohien had seven, a few coming in the final minutes of the game that proved to be huge.

Jalen Harris led the Hogs’ scorers with 15 points, Desi Sills had 14 while Gafford and Joe scored 11 each.

As a team, Arkansas shot just 37 percent from the field (26-of-70) while A&M hit 61 percent.

The Hogs were nailing 3-pointers in the second half, though. making 10-of-33 while the Aggies were just 5-of-24.

The Razorbacks, now 10-3 overall, will host Florida on Wednesday night at Bud Walton Arena in a 7:30 start.

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2024 High School Rankings

Following is the Arkansas Sports Media High School Football Poll including the Overall Top 10, the top five in Classes 7A, 6A, 5A, 4A, 3A and 2A, plus the top three in the 8-man division, as voted by a panel of sports media from around the state for the week ending August 24. Ranking is given with first-place votes received, records, total points and ranking from last week's poll:
OVERALLRecordPtsPrv
1.Bryant (25)10-02681
2.Greenwood (2)10-02343
30Conway9-12022
4.Little Rock Parkview9-11714
5.Bentonville7-31625
6.Benton9-11486
7.Fayetteville8-21117
8.Pulaski Academy8-2898
9.Rogers7-3439
10.Joe T. Robinson9-122
Others receiving votes: Valley View 8, Mountain Home 7, Cabot 6, Little Rock Catholic 6, Shiloh Christian 6, Elkins 1, Farmington 1.
CLASS 7A
1.Bryant (27)10-01351
2.Conway9-11022
3.Bentonville7-3813
4.Fayetteville8-2454
5.Pulaski Academy8-2395
Others receiving votes: Rogers 3.
CLASS 6A
1.Greenwood (27)10-01351
2.Benton9-11082
3.Mountain Home8-2623
4.Shiloh Christian7-3494
5.Little Rock Catholic9-1345
Others receiving votes: Marion 6.
CLASS 5A
1.Little Rock Parkview (27)9-11351
2.Joe T. Robinson9-11062
3.Valley View10-0793
4.Farmington9-1484
5.Hot Springs Lakeside8-2205
Others receiving votes: Camden Fairview 7, Harding Academy 7, Morrilton 3.
CLASS 4A
1.Elkins (20)10-01261
3.Arkadelphia (5)8-2913
2.Little Rock Mills (1)10-0682
4.Warren8-2554
5.Dardanell (1)9-123
Southside Batesville10-023
Others receiving votes: Malvern 12, Gravette 5, Highland 2.
CLASS 3A
1.Bismarck (12)10-01051t
2.Fordyce (10)10-0961t
3.Prescott (1)9-1704
4.Osceola (2)8-1543
5.Booneville (1)9-1395
Others receiving votes: Mansfield (1) 23, Rivercrest 10, Rison 4, Salem 4.
CLASS 2A
1.Carlisle (20)10-01271
2.Conway Christian (7)10-01152
3.Des Arc8-2595
4.East Poinsett Co.7-352
5.Bigelow6-4183
Murfreesboro7-3184
Others receiving votes: Mount Ida 6, Junction City 4, Cross County 3, Poyen 3.
8-MAN SANCTIONED
1.Strong-Huttig (27)5-0811
2.Midland9-0532
3.Cedar Ridge8-1253
Others receiving votes: Woodlawn 3.

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