Razorbacks return to Sweet 16 with 53-48 win over Aggies
Associated PressBUFFALO, N.Y. — Arkansas’ Eric Musselman leaned heavily on his NBA coaching days of having to defend Kobe Bryant in devising a plan for how to keep New Mexico State’s Teddy “Buckets” Allen in check. And it was only fitting to Musselman that swingman Au’Diese Toney — the player he counted on most to contain Allen — capped the decisive run with a one-handed, fast-break dunk with about six minutes left to launch the fourth-seeded Razorbacks into the Sweet 16 for a second consecutive year following a 53-48 win over the No. “That was perfect,” Musselman said of Toney converting Davonte Davis’ long pass with a soaring slam to put Arkansas up 41-33 in a tightly contested defensive struggle. “We thought this team had a chance to make one of those special runs, but it just didn’t happen.” Though his numerous NBA stops spread over 10 seasons were mostly short ones and included head-coaching stints at Golden State and Sacramento, Musselman referred to the notes he kept when it came to guarding Bryant, the late Los Angeles Lakers star.
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