JOE BURROW FOR THE WIN ... in a basketball shoot-out?!
Yeah, it happened -- against Oklahoma -- and it was awesome.
Turns out, the LSU and Oklahoma football teams had a friendly Xmas Day basketball shooting contest Wednesday night ahead of the big Peach Bowl game.
The @LSUfootball team beats Oklahoma in tonight’s shooting challenge behind a clutch performance by QB Joe Burrow!
— Emily Villere Dixon (@emilyvdixon) December 26, 2019
K’Lavon Chaisson, Justin Jefferson, Raydarious Jones and Terrace Marshall, Jr. made up the entire team. TE Stephen Sullivan w/ honorable mention as the ball boy. pic.twitter.com/MmJwwMoIFm
Both sides picked a 5-man crew to hit shots from all over the court. The Sooners were up big going into the last round ... but the Heisman Trophy-winning QB stepped in and went 10 for 12, sealing the victory for the Tigers!
By the way, Burrow was a pretty solid high school basketball player back in Ohio before he turned his full-time focus to football.
According to Max Preps, Burrow averaged 19.3 points per game his senior year at Athens High ... with 6.1 rebounds and 2.4 assists. Not bad, right!?
Anyway, he was better at football ... and now he's expected to go Top 3 in the NFL Draft. What an athlete, huh?