Social media respond to the victory of Arkansas 78-70 over Texas – rivals.com – Arkansas

Coach John Calipari and Arkansas RazorBacks (14-8, 3-6 sec) are officially in a winning series after defeating Texas Longhorp, 78-70, on Wednesday in the center of Moody.

Arkansas opened the game with good defensive pressure as it held Texas up to 33.3% firing from the first time Aut. In the same period, Razorbacks-thanks to six points on DJ Wagner-3-from-5 attempts to lead, 8-6.

Later, in half, Hogs had an advantage of 12-6 behind four thefts (two from John Davis) and four buckets. However, Arkansas had not yet hit from three attempts.

Texas finally put an end to Arkansas leak from waiting, but that did not prevent the pigs from extending their lead. After making threes from Wagner and Carter Knox and more impressive protection from Davis, Razorbacks led 22-12 with 7:11 minutes left in the first half.

After 2:33 minutes before halftime, Wagner (nine points) and Davis (eight points) led the pigs at the point, while the freshman of the star Texas Tresu Johnson began to go with seven points at six attempts. Both teams shot a combined 4 of 17 beyond the rainbow.

The backward continued between Razorbacks and Longhorns, but Arkansas retains its lead thanks to Thiero’s aggressiveness and desire to falsify for free throws. In half the pigs led 35-24.

Arkansas and more remarkable Davis began the second half with absolute fire. In less than two and a half minutes of the half -time, the former Florida Atlantic transfer started and turned two threes to help expand the team’s lead to 19 above Texas.

The contents of Razorbacks serve most of the second half, but a small tobacco jump made things interesting about 7:04 minutes, such as Longhorns down, 58-44, after two free throws. A Texas dipped later, and Longhorns were running 9-0.

Despite the valiant move of Longhorns, which reduced the deficit to five points, Arkansas linger in Austin.

The leading road to Arkansas was Davis, who finished with 24 points and four threes. Thierro added 14 points, and Wagner scored 13. The big man Zvonimir Ivisic scored nine points and collected team 12 rebounds to lead things.

Below are the highlights of the game and the reactions of social media from the victory of the Arkansas Conference …