Miles Byrd scored 18 points and San Diego State upset No. 6 Houston with a 73-70 overtime win in the third-place game at the Players Era Festival in Las Vegas on Saturday afternoon.
Jared Coleman-Jones scored 16 points, Pharaoh Compton scored 13 off the bench and Nick Boyd scored all 12 of his points after halftime for San Diego State (4-2).
Emanuel Sharp scored 23 points and L.J. Cryer scored 21 for Houston (4-3), which lost to No. 9 Alabama in overtime on Tuesday night, the opening night of the tournament.
Both teams traded leads in the first half of overtime before Byrd’s reverse layup gave the Aztecs a 70-67 lead with 1:28 left. Boyd then put San Diego State up five with a driving layup with 43 seconds remaining. Magoon Gwath made one of two free throws with 12 seconds remaining to extend the lead to 73-70 before Cryer missed a 3-pointer with two seconds left.
No. 1 Kansas 86, Furman 51
KJ Adams shot 10-of-12 from the field and tied his career high with 22 points as the Jayhawks trounced the Paladins in Lawrence, Kan.
The Jayhawks flexed their muscles on the inside, netting 62 points in the paint to just 14 for the Paladins. Kansas also shot 60.9 percent (39-of-64) from the field, while holding Furman to 29.8 percent (17-of-57). Dajuan Harris, who had four assists in the first eight minutes, finished with eight to go with eight points for Kansas (7-0). Hunter Dickinson and Rylan Griffen each had 10 points to lead the Jayhawks.
Eddrin Bronson topped Furman (7-1) with 14 points, followed by Garrett Hien with 12. The Paladins relied heavily on the 3-point shot and made four of their first seven, but they finished 9-of-38 (23.7 percent).
No. 2 UConn 99, Maryland Eastern Shore 45
Tarris Reed Jr. had 10 points and 12 rebounds off the bench to help the Huskies end a three-game losing streak by beating the Hawks in Hartford, Conn.
Liam McNeeley and Jaylin Stewart each scored a team-high 16 points for UConn. Solo Ball had 12, Aidan Mahaney 11, and Jayden Ross 10 for the Huskies, who lost to Memphis, Colorado and Dayton in the Maui Invitational. UConn (5-3) played without Alex Karaban, who is in concussion protocol after sustaining a head injury in Wednesday’s loss to Dayton. Karaban is averaging a team-high 15.9 points per game.
UMES (2-9) received a game-high 18 points and six rebounds from Ketron Shaw. The Hawks have lost their last five games and fell to 0-9 in road games.
Oregon 83, No. 9 Alabama 81
Keeshawn Barthelemy scored 22 points, but his biggest shot of the night was a miss that teammate Nate Bittle tip-dunked to lift the Ducks over the Crimson Tide in the championship game of the Players Era Festival in Las Vegas.
Oregon (8-0) also got 12 points from TJ Bamba — the only Duck beside Barthelemy to make a 3-pointer — and 11 points from Supreme Cook.
Labaron Philon shot 6-of-8 from the floor for a team-high 15 points for Alabama (6-2). Jarin Stevenson, Mark Sears and Aden Holloway added 11 each. Latrell Whitesell Jr. scored 10 points in the loss.
No. 10 Marquette 94, Western Carolina 62
Kam Jones scored 20 points and dished 10 assists to send the Golden Eagles soaring over the visiting Catamounts in Milwaukee.
Jones added six rebounds for Marquette (8-0), which is off to its best start since winning 10 straight to begin the 2011-12 campaign. Marquette controlled most of the game, thanks largely to 51.4 percent shooting and 21 takeaways.
The Catamounts (2-4) were led by Bernard Pelote’s 13 points and eight boards.
No. 15 Wisconsin 74, Chicago State 53
John Tonje scored a game-high 22 points as the Badgers pulled away from the feisty Cougars in the second half in Madison, Wis.
Nolan Winter had 12 points and six rebounds and Steven Crowl had nine points, seven rebounds, five assists and three blocks for Wisconsin (8-0), which begins Big Ten play on Tuesday against visiting Michigan.
Jalen Forrest scored 10 points and Gabe Spinelli had six points and 11 rebounds for the Cougars (0-9).
No. 20 Texas A&M 81, Rutgers 77
Wade Taylor IV poured in 24 points, Manny Obaseki put his team ahead for good with a fastbreak dunk and the Aggies staved off the Scarlet Knights to take fifth place at the Players Era Festival in Las Vegas.
In a game with seven ties and 10 lead changes, the Aggies (6-2) took a 78-77 lead when Solomon Washington pulled out a defensive rebound and heaved it up the court for Obaseki to convert a two-handed slam with 2:12 to play. Washington had 11 points, five rebounds and four blocks for Texas A&M. Henry Coleman III and Obaseki also finished with 11 points.
Ace Bailey led Rutgers (5-3) with 24 points and a game-high 10 rebounds. Jeremiah Williams scored 20 points on 7-of-8 shooting and Dylan Harper had 18 points. Centers Emmanuel Ogbole and Lathan Sommerville each fouled out.
No. 21 Creighton 80, Notre Dame 76
Jamiya Neal filled the stat sheet with 21 points, nine rebounds and four assists, carrying the Bluejays past the Fighting Irish in the seventh-place game of the Players Era Festival in Las Vegas.
Fredrick King started in place of the injured Ryan Kalkbrenner and finished with 14 points as Creighton (5-3) ended a three-game losing streak. Steven Ashworth chipped in 15 points and six rebounds.
Notre Dame (4-4) lost its fourth consecutive game despite four players scoring in double figures, including 17-point efforts from Braeden Shrewsberry and Tae Davis. Matt Allocco scored 12 and Garrett Sundra tallied 11. The Irish are still without leading scorer Markus Burton, who injured his right knee in Tuesday’s overtime loss to Rutgers.
–Field Level Media
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