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SCORIGAMI: Alabama Crimson Tide 117, Arkansas Razorbacks 115 is the first 117-115 game in NCAA Men's Basketball history

Final · February 18, 2026

NCAA Men's Basketball got a brand-new final score on February 18, 2026. Alabama Crimson Tide beat Arkansas Razorbacks 117-115, and in every NCAA Men's Basketball game since 2003, no game had ever ended that way before.

Where 117-115 sits among nearby NCAA Men's Basketball scores. Deeper blue means a score has happened more often; the outlined cell is the new one.

The league's previous scorigami was 117-114, North Florida Ospreys over Bellarmine Knights on January 24, 2026, 25 days earlier. This is NCAA Men's Basketball's 82nd new final score of the 2026 season, and the grid now holds 24.8 percent of every realistic final score.

Its closest neighbors show how tight the score space had become: 118-115 had happened 1 time and 117-116 had still never happened. It lands on the high-scoring frontier of the grid, the sparse territory that only fills in on the rare night the points pile up.

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