Auburn fans shower officials with debris after wild buzzer-beater gets overturned

A chaotic country unfolded astatine Auburn University connected Tuesday nighttime arsenic a chaotic buzzer-beater was waved disconnected good aft the 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 the game-winner.

However, officials went to the scorer’s array to reappraisal the play, which was awfully close.

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Auburn Tigers players ticker the replay of a imaginable game-winning changeable that was called backmost arsenic Auburn Tigers instrumentality 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 the changeable had not gone disconnected successful time, ending the Tigers' solemnisation and prompting 1 from Texas A&M.

The officials rapidly made themselves nationalist force fig 1 and were showered with debris from fans connected their mode disconnected the court. At slightest 1 referee needed his caput to beryllium covered.

One instrumentality sitting courtside adjacent turned his backmost and threw his portion implicit his enarthrosis aimed astatine an official.

"They didn't accidental a word. They conscionable said it was nary bully and ran disconnected the floor. I astir apt wouldn't privation to speech to maine successful that moment, anyway," Auburn caput manager Steven Pearl, who took implicit for his dad, Bruce this season, said aft the game. "So, I get wherefore they'd tally distant from me. Just from the angles that I saw, it looked similar it was disconnected his fingers. But that was just, I don't person each the aforesaid angles they have."

Texas A&M Aggies players observe triumph arsenic Auburn Tigers instrumentality 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 present six losses successful their past 10 games for the Tigers aft starting 5-1. They mislaid successful the Final Four past twelvemonth to Florida, who won the nationalist title implicit Houston.

Auburn (9-6, 0-2) led 47-37 astatine halftime and extended the borderline to 61-45 with 12:29 remaining.

KeShawn Murphy of the Auburn Tigers reacts aft officials ruled that his last-second changeable did not bushed the changeable timepiece to triumph the crippled against the 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 with a dependable tally fueled by extracurricular shooting, taking its archetypal pb astatine 8:42 erstwhile Pop Isaacs buried a 3-pointer. The Aggies followed with back-to-back triples from Isaacs to unfastened a five-point cushion that they would not relinquish, by the tegument of their teeth.

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