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A chaotic segment unfolded astatine Auburn University connected Tuesday nighttime arsenic a chaotic buzzer-beater was waved disconnected good aft nan Tigers had celebrated connected their ain court.
With 0.6 seconds remaining and Auburn trailing 90-88, KeShawn Murphy, someway near wide open, caught an inbounds walk and nailed a agelong 3-pointer for what was thought to beryllium nan game-winner.
However, officials went to nan scorer’s array to reappraisal nan play, which was awfully close.
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Auburn Tigers players watch nan replay of a imaginable game-winning changeable that was called backmost arsenic Auburn Tigers return connected Texas A&M Aggies astatine Neville Arena successful Auburn, Alabama connected Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2026. (Jake Crandall/USA Today Network via Imagn Images)
Ultimately, officials ruled that nan changeable had not gone disconnected successful time, ending nan Tigers' ceremony and prompting 1 from Texas A&M.
The officials quickly made themselves nationalist force number 1 and were showered pinch debris from fans connected their measurement disconnected nan court. At slightest 1 referee needed his caput to beryllium covered.
One instrumentality sitting courtside moreover turned his backmost and threw his portion complete his enarthrosis aimed astatine an official.
"They didn't opportunity a word. They conscionable said it was nary bully and ran disconnected nan floor. I astir apt wouldn't want to talk to maine successful that moment, anyway," Auburn caput coach Steven Pearl, who took complete for his dad, Bruce this season, said after nan game. "So, I get why they'd tally distant from me. Just from nan angles that I saw, it looked for illustration it was disconnected his fingers. But that was just, I don't person each nan aforesaid angles they have."
Texas A&M Aggies players observe triumph arsenic Auburn Tigers return connected Texas A&M Aggies astatine Neville Arena successful Auburn, Alabama, connected Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2026. (Jake Crandall/USA Today Network via Imagn Images)
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It is now six losses successful their past 10 games for nan Tigers aft starting 5-1. They mislaid successful nan Final Four past twelvemonth to Florida, who won nan nationalist title complete Houston.
Auburn (9-6, 0-2) led 47-37 astatine halftime and extended nan separator to 61-45 pinch 12:29 remaining.
KeShawn Murphy of nan Auburn Tigers reacts aft officials ruled that his last-second changeable did not hit nan changeable timepiece to triumph nan crippled against nan Texas A&M Aggies astatine Neville Arena connected Jan. 6, 2026 successful Auburn, Alabama. (Stew Milne/Getty Images)
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Texas A&M answered pinch a dependable tally fueled by extracurricular shooting, taking its first lead astatine 8:42 erstwhile Pop Isaacs buried a 3-pointer. The Aggies followed pinch back-to-back triples from Isaacs to unfastened a five-point cushion that they would not relinquish, by nan tegument of their teeth.
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