Stephen F. Austin Wins on Buzzer Beating Dunk

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Well, this sure is something you don't see everyday.

Stephen F. Austin University from the Southland Conference is on a roll. They've now won 22-games in a row.

Yes, 22.

And they got number 22 only because the way Saturday's game with Northwestern State ended.

Here's the setup: Clock winding down in a tie game. Northwestern with the ball. All of a sudden, Jacob Parker breaks on a pass, steals it, races down court and throws it down as the buzzer sounds.

Austin wins, game over....

BUZZER BEATER: A Goaltending Call By Central Arkansas Cost The Bears The Game, Parker Wentz A Hero For Abilene Christian

What a wild ending Saturday night in Abilene, Texas.  Tirrel Brown knocked down a lay up with three seconds left to give the Bears a 72-71 lead over Abilene Christian.

Wildcat guard Parker Wentz took the inbounds pass and drove the length of the floor and threw up a wild lay up but Brown, who had just hit a potential game winner for UCA, pinned the shot on the backboard and the goaltending call was a winner for Abilene Christian.

Here's the play.

Thanks ACU Athletics

"Our guys just kept battling," ACU head coach Joe Golding said.  "We've had a lot of tough things happen to this team over the course of the last couple of weeks, but these guys that suited up (today) just kept believing and playing and working to win this game."

"It's disappointing because we thought we had two winnable games on this road trip," UCA head coach Clarence Finley said.  "We got over it (the hump) today but we just couldn't get the stops at the end of the ballgame."

This was a really important win for Abilene Christian.  It was the Wildcats first win over a Division I team since 1984 when ACU defeated Pepperdine 93-89.

It had been 40 years since Abilene Christian had defeated a Southland Conference team.  

UCA learned a hard lesson, never touch the ball on the way down.

Houston Baptist Takes The Field

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Houston Baptist's football program was 53 years in the making...

And the head coach, Vic Shealy, wanted to play Sam Houston State (yes, them...) for their first-game ever...

They lost 74-0, but that was okay...

"We knew this would be really, really a challenge much larger than you see typically on a college field," Shealy said after the game. "While you'd like to think we were capable of playing better, you cannot put into context just how young we are and how big an opportunity this was for us to grow our program."

The HBU offense only crossed midfield once...

Here's a piece our friends at MyFoxHouston put together before the season opener...
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The Huskies were playing their first game in program history and have an abbreviated seven-game schedule. Houston Baptist will join the Southland Conference in 2014.