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ABILENE — There was some doubt, externally, about UMHB’s ability to go to Abilene in the second round of the playoffs and win on Saturday afternoon. The Cru had, after all, dropped both regular season meetings against the Cowboys this season. And Hardin-Simmons entered this year’s postseason as the No. 2 overall seed, per the NCAA Power Index, with an unblemished 10-0 record.
It happened slowly, yet swiftly. Possession-by-possession, Hardin-Simmons asserted its dominance, at least on this particular day. There was no one play that put it away, but rather the collective result of a game in which the sixth-ranked Cowboys put forth a performance they will long remember, aided by one of UMHB’s most ineffective performances in recent memory.