The Cougars committed five of their nine turnovers in the final 3:24, including four on their last four possessions, and failed to attempt a shot in the final minute<\/p>\n
It came down to one more play.<\/p>\n
In a championship game<\/a> where every possession felt like a fistfight, Florida landed the final punch. Houston buckled. And for Kelvin Sampson\u2019s Cougars, that sliver of difference will sting for a long time.<\/p>\n 1:21<\/strong> \u2013 Joseph Tugler stripped in the paint<\/p>\n 0:52<\/strong> \u2013 LJ Cryer lost the ball under pressure<\/p>\n 0:26<\/strong> \u2013 Sharp dribbled the ball off his leg in a triple-team trap<\/p>\n 0:00<\/strong> \u2013 Sharp dropped the ball on the final play, unable to recover without traveling<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Cougars committed five of their nine turnovers in the final 3:24, including four on their last four possessions, and failed to attempt a shot in the final minute It came down to one more play. In a championship game where every possession felt like a fistfight, Florida landed the final punch. Houston buckled. And … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}