NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) – Arkansas guard Daryl Macon says he’s finally stopped watching replays of the Razorbacks’ heartbreaking 72-65 NCAA Tournament loss to eventual national champion North Carolina.
Macon said Wednesday at SEC Tipoff that he “actually just stopped watching it when school started. The guard added that, “Every other day during the summer, I was watching it, (thinking), ‘How did we lose that game?’ We were so close to beating the national champions and we fell short.”
Macon says the Razorbacks learned from that experience that they must start games better. Arkansas trailed by as many as 17 points before rallying to take a 65-60 lead. North Carolina won by closing the game with a 12-0 run.
The Razorbacks are motivated by realizing how close they came to beating the eventual national champions.
Macon says, “It made everybody work 10 times harder as a team and individually.”
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