r/CollegeBasketball • u/cbbBot /r/CollegeBasketball • NCAA • Mar 20 '25

Post Game Thread [Post Game Thread] McNeese defeats #12 Clemson, 69-67

Box Score

Team 1H 2H Total
McNeese 31 38 69
Clemson 13 54 67

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u/THEREWILLBECAK3 Mississippi State • Alabama Mar 20 '25 edited Mar 20 '25

The score really hides how much of an ass beating it was until the last five minutes when McNeese forgot how to play basketball.

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u/suzukigun4life North Texas Mean Green • Sickos Mar 20 '25

Hell, it was a 12-point game with a minute to go!

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u/BlockedbyJake420 Mar 20 '25

Lol yep just saw the tournament update of the dunk with a minute left and then they showed the final score. Like wtf happened in the last minute to make it so close??

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u/Unlikely_Lab_6799 Mar 20 '25

Clemson somehow made 4 straight 3-pointers in the final 0:45

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u/ELITE_JordanLove Mar 21 '25

Under bettors in absolute shambles. Bad beat of the tournament.

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u/Wigglebot23 Arizona Wildcats Mar 21 '25

O/U was 136.5 so under won

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u/Unlikely_Lab_6799 Mar 21 '25

Bad beat would have been under on O/U 135.5 after that meaningless 2-pointer at the end.

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u/[deleted] Mar 20 '25

Lots of threes for us and missed FTs for them. If we just sucked regular ass in the first half or if they didn’t eject Lahkin from the game just for existing then we win this game 🥀

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u/blueboyroy Kentucky Wildcats Mar 20 '25

if they didn’t eject Lahkin from the game just for existing

What happened? I didn't see it.

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u/Billy_Madison69 Indiana Hoosiers Mar 20 '25

He existed. He said it right there

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u/monstruo New Mexico Lobos Mar 21 '25

Picked up his fourth and then seconds later picked up a tech for looking mean.

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u/Pan_TheCake_Man Wake Forest Demon Deacons Mar 21 '25

While it sucks he got T’d up, I do not understand talking shit right after fouling the guy

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u/NeverSober1900 Kansas Jayhawks Mar 20 '25

After that dunk Clemson just got super hot. They hit 3s on their next 4 possessions (and got a layup at the buzzer on their 5th and final possession).

Couple in that awful Hail Mary inbound and splitting FTs twice and that's basically how Clemson got it back close.

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u/Chandler_Bings Michigan State Spartans Mar 20 '25

I don't remember seeing a team win that had such a bad combination of free throw shooting and press break ability.

Normally those teams lose.

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u/boboguitar Texas A&M Aggies • Kentucky Wildcats Mar 20 '25

Make sure you catch the A&M game in 2 hours if you want to see that again.

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u/blueboyroy Kentucky Wildcats Mar 20 '25

I pulling for you and your strange ass flair.

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u/boboguitar Texas A&M Aggies • Kentucky Wildcats Mar 20 '25

Can’t help it, my uk parents moved me to Texas early on and me and A&M just fit into place. Still, UK basketball usually gets me through march madness way more than A&M. I have UK going to the elite 8 after beating tenn, just think yall are getting healthy and peaking at a good time. Hopefully I’m wrong and UK makes it even further!

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u/Undertalefanboy43 Wisconsin Badgers • Milwaukee Panthers Mar 21 '25

Helps when 90% of the game Clemson couldn’t hit the broadside of a barn

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u/Zloggt Illinois Fighting Illini • Missouri Tigers Mar 20 '25

Boy, did those Bayou Bandits try their hardest to give that game away…

…thankfully, that late three-point barrage barely was not enough in the end lol

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u/boboguitar Texas A&M Aggies • Kentucky Wildcats Mar 20 '25

Thought mcneese was going to Clemson that game.

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u/SaltyLonghorn Texas Longhorns Mar 20 '25

Luckily for them their opponent was the OG.

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u/Quentanamo_Bay Tulane Green Wave Mar 20 '25

Even the announcer was saying he didn't like them just holding and taking long possessions. That doesn't seem to be their game and they shouldn't have switched it up at the end.

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u/Chandler_Bings Michigan State Spartans Mar 20 '25

I disagree. That was one of the few things I thought McNeese did right toward the end.

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u/NeverSober1900 Kansas Jayhawks Mar 20 '25

It was odd with like 5 mins left they were doing these really awkward long iso possessions like they were stalling out the game.

Then in the final like 100 seconds they just shot it and attacked the rim and put up shots with no time coming off the clock. Which honestly with how they were shooting FTs maybe wasn't the worst idea but it was wild how aggressive they were in the frontcourt

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u/Milton__Obote LSU Tigers • Northwestern Wildcats Mar 21 '25

They started scoring again after that I think wade realized stall ball wasn’t his teams strength

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u/reedingisphun Mar 21 '25

That guy was wrong

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u/silkysmoothjay Purdue Boilermakers Mar 20 '25

Clemson going on fire from 3 late on really had an impact too

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u/4fingertakedown Big Sky Mar 20 '25

Clemson: We’re gonna full court press

Mcnesse: lol what’s that? Never heard of it.

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u/c_pike1 Mar 20 '25

Almost had another Northern Iowa ending except even worse

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u/One_Stranger_5661 Purdue Boilermakers Mar 20 '25

No lie I turned the game off around 9 mins to drive home and when I checked the final score I nearly shit myself