A little over a month of his Super Bowl sorrow with the Chiefs of Kansas City, Patrick Mahomes suffered more agony on Saturday evening.
The NFL icon was forced to watch its Alma Mater, Texas Tech, strangling in the elite eight of Mars madness against Florida.
Two days after the furious return of the Red Raiders to beat the arkansas in overtime, they were at the other end of a rally by the Florida of the seeded in a defeat of 84-79.
Texas Tech has missed a chance to reach the first Final Four of the program since its loss of the championship match against Virginia in 2019 when they wasted a lead of nine points during the 3:14 finals.
However, Mahomes offered a short and sweet reaction to the crushing blow when he chose to focus on the positive.
“Large season !!!” published the triple winner of the Super Bowl on X, marking the account of the male basketball team and adding some flexible emojis.
Patrick Mahomes shared a short and sweet message to his former Texas Tech college on Saturday
Texas Tech wasted a nine points lead in the dying minutes of their Elite Eight match
After the defeat of his Alma Mater against Florida, the quarter-Arrière went to social networks
Mahomes spent his collegial years in Lubbock to play under the Texas Tech football center and has often returned to school to take the basketball team in action.
However, it seems that the quarter-Arrière looked at the merger on the ground of his former security college of his house on Saturday evening.
It was a nightmare for Texas Tech which, until the decreasing crucial minutes, crushed the boards with the author’s authorization of the rebounds in a timely manner which led to additional chances of score. They forced reversals and capitalized on the errors of Florida.
Then Walter Clayton Jr. took over the game for Gators and Texas Tech went flat.
Darrion Williams missed the pressure strokes he made in the event of a crisis against the Razorbacks. He led Texas Tech with 23 points but could not convert two 3 points in the last 33 seconds. Florida, on the other hand, made four consecutive shots during a 12-2 race in the closing minutes, a thrust featuring two 3 of Clayton.
Williams and JT Toppin – The player of the year Big 12 and the newcomer of the year – and their support distribution could have another chance of making a deep race for coach Grant McCasland in March if the team remains together.
The defeat of 84-79 ended its chances of reaching the Final Four for the first time since 2019
But this one will sting for a moment.
Williams brilliantly played before these two missons which he wishes to return.
The Red Raiders have done so much, but all the occasions missed at this stage are amplified. They maintained an advantage of 22-5 in reversal points and led 23-8 in the second chance.
Once the final buzzer sounded at the Chase Center and Texas Tech had been so close, Kerwin Walton, a fifth year senior, stood his hands on his hips in Florida and his well-transported crowd, and not the Red Raiders, celebrated after winning a berth in the final Four next weekend in San Antonio.
