{"id":672026,"date":"2026-03-22T04:51:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T04:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/672026\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T04:51:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T04:51:21","slug":"darius-acuff-jr-scores-36-to-lift-arkansas-over-high-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/672026\/","title":{"rendered":"Darius Acuff Jr. scores 36 to lift Arkansas over High Point"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2118649\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2118649\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/highpoint.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2118649\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">High Point played Arkansas tough, but ultimately the Razorbacks earned the win.<\/p>\n<p>PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) \u2014 Darius Acuff Jr. had 36 points and six assists to help No. 4-seeded Arkansas survive a scare from 12th-seeded High Point with a 94-88 victory in the second round of the\u00a0NCAA Tournament\u00a0on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>The Razorbacks (28-8) will face the winner of Sunday\u2019s matchup between top-seeded Arizona and No. 9 seed Utah State on Thursday in the Sweet 16 in San Jose, California.<\/p>\n<p>Two of the highest-scoring teams in the nation combined on a back-and-forth affair that featured 15 lead changes and six ties, before Arkansas had just enough late to send coach John Calipari to his 17th Sweet 16.<\/p>\n<p>Rob Martin had 30 points, five assists and four rebounds for High Point (31-5), which pulled off a\u00a0first-round upset of fifth-seeded Wisconsin.\u00a0Cam\u2019Ron Fletcher, who was recruited by Calipari when he coached at Kentucky, had 25 points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"High Point played Arkansas tough, but ultimately the Razorbacks earned the win. PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) \u2014 Darius Acuff&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":672027,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,6,84972,1138],"class_list":["post-672026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-basketball","tag-nba","tag-ncaa-tournament-2026","tag-second-round"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116271035061017337","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=672026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672026\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/672027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}