Monday featured some big college basketball games involving ranked teams, but even the non-marquee matchups delivered excellent entertainment. Just take, for example, the showdown between the Yale Bulldogs and the Howard Bison at Burr Gymnasium in Washington, D.C., which went down to the wire in the second half.
Howard looked poised to shut the door on Yale when Bison sophomore Isaiah Brown made both his free-throw attempts to extend his team’s lead to three points with 15 seconds left in regulation. The Bison then called for a timeout to map out a defensive plan against Yale.
Needing three points to tie the score coming off the timeout, Bulldogs sophomore forward Riley Fox pulled up from behind the arc but missed badly.
However, Yale got an extra possession off an offensive rebound by sophomore guard Jordan Brathwaite, who had the presence of mind to take the ball out to the 3-point area, where he went full Ray Allen and sank a desperation triple to tie the game at 71-71 and force overtime.
What made the entire sequence crazier was the ball going through the legs of a Howard player before Brathwaite recovered the leather.
You can watch it all here:
Yale forces overtime against Howard on one of the wildest shots I’ve seen 😭
— College Basketball Report (@CBKReport) February 10, 2026
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It was an on-brand play for Yale, as the Bulldogs are the most accurate 3-point shooting team in the nation with a success rate of 41.7% from deep.
Yale didn’t waste the opportunity in overtime, with the Bulldogs coming away with a hard-earned 87-81 victory.
March is almost here.
