Well, that is an absolutely heartbreaking way for the Houston Cougars to lose the NCAA tournament championship game.

Welcome in. I'm Pete Mundo. We are Heartland College Sports and we cover the Big 12. And of course, this one absolutely stinks.

You can talk about the refs. We'll get to that, but the reality is this.

Florida's defense was locked down in that final two minutes, and frankly, Houston had some

terrible possessions down the stretch of this game.

You look back to the final minute plus of this game, and it was an absolute mess for the Houston Cougars.

All right.

At the 152 mark, let's see, the 130 mark,

Uzan missed a three-pointer.

Then you had a Houston turnover after a Cryer, miss jumper, about 10 seconds later.

You go under a minute left in this game and you have another turnover, L.J.

Cryer at the 52 second mark in this game.

Go down to the 26 second mark.

Emmanuel Sharp, turnover.

And then you get to that final possession of the game where the Houston Cougars could

not get a shot off.

I know it's easy to sit here and say it's a choke job.

Houston, Florida really locked down on its defense in the last few minutes of that game.

And they looked like a totally different team.

But if you want to call it a choke job on Houston, you can.

I can't do it because if you watch the way the game played out, Florida's defense was at another

level for the last few minutes of that game. And Florida had come back time and time again

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