Arkansas falls apart late in Sweet 16 loss to Arizona with ejection, bad fouls and a John Calipari technical
The Razorbacks unraveled fast on Thursday night in San Jose.
Arkansas completely fell apart Thursday night in San Jose. The Razorbacks had a player ejected, another player foul out and head coach John Calipari receive a technical foul down the stretch of what ended up being a blowout 109-88 loss to No. 1 Arizona in the Sweet 16 .
The mistakes kept compounding on each other, and made the NCAA tournament exit that much worse. Draft your Yahoo Fantasy Baseball team for the 2026 MLB Season With about seven minutes left in the game, Arkansas guard Billy Richmond drilled Arizona forward Ivan Kharchenkov hard as he tried to fight through a screen. Kharchenkov went flying down to the court and sliding toward the bench.
Officials called a foul quickly, and ended up hitting Richmond with a flagrant 2 foul. That triggered his automatic ejection from the game. Billy Richmond is given a Flagrant 2 foul and ejected from the game.
pic. twitter. com/jnIYhJkzpa — CBS Sports College Basketball 🏀 (@CBSSportsCBB) March 27, 2026 Richmond finished with 13 points and five rebounds.