This is not how it was supposed to end.
Isaac Haas sits hands clasped on the bench in a black warm-up shirt covering the brace that could do everything except heal a bone that was split.
Dakota Mathias, splashes his 96th 3-pointer of the season and record 250th of his career with 38 seconds left, but it only serves to make the score cosmetically closer. It is his only basket of the night, a testament to Texas Tech’s hounding defense.
P.J. Thompson dishes out his fourth assist, the last of his career, but it is all for not.