No. 1 Auburn’s recent struggles on the road against SEC competition finally caught up with it on Tuesday as the Tigers dropped an 80-76 overtime thriller to a red-hot Arkansas team. The upset ends Auburn’s winning streak at 19 games and extends Arkansas’ current streak to nine as the Razorbacks continue to rebound from an 0-3 start to league play.
Arkansas (19-5, 8-3 SEC) used a 7-0 run consisting entirely of free throws to build a six-point lead in overtime and held on from there despite a pair of late 3-pointers from Auburn freshman phenom Jabari Smith. As the final buzzer sounded, many from a record crowd of 20,327 at Bud Walton Arena filled the floor in celebration of the program’s second-ever victory against a top-ranked opponent; the first win against a No. 1-ranked opponent came when Arkansas knocked off Michael Jordan’s North Carolina squad in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, during the 1983-84 season.
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