2023 King Cotton Classic: Missouri Tigers football signee Courtney Crutchfield and Pine Bluff (Ark.) shooting for upset over nationally ranked Gonzaga (D.C.)

PINE BLUFF, ARKANSAS – University of Missouri football signee Courtney Crutchfield scored a game-high 31 points in Pine Bluff’s win over Texas powerhouse Duncanville 84-79 before a hometown crowd at the Pine Bluff Convention Center in the first round of the King Cotton Holiday Classic on Wednesday night. The Pine Bluff multi-sport athlete was one of the recent key additions for Z’s head Coach Billy Dixon, the reigning SBLive Arkansas Coach of the Year, who recently assembled his full roster. After playing one of its better games thus far, Pine Bluff now faces possibly its toughest challenge of the season…