Louisiana Tech 56, Northeastern 53
RUSTON, La. -(LT Media Relations) Junior guard Brandon Gibson (Marianna, Fla.) and freshman guard Raheem Appleby (Jacksonville, Ark.) led Louisiana Tech to another exciting victory over the Northeastern of the Colonial Athletic Association Tuesday night 56-53 in front of 2,183 fans at the Thomas Assembly Center.
Appleby led all scorers with 22 points on 8-of-12 shooting while Gibson scored 14 on 5-of-9 shooting as the Bulldogs improve to 7-5 on the year. The Huskies drop their fifth straight contest and are now 3-6 overall.
Tech has now won five of its last six games with all five victories coming by three points or less.
Tech fell behind by nine in the second half, 30-21, after a layup from Kashief Edwards with 15:46 left in the game.
A 7-0 run over the next 2:41 cut the Bulldogs' deficit to two with four points coming from freshmen Kenneth Smith (St. Petersburg, Fla.) and three from Gibson. The Huskies stretched the lead back to eight at the 7:12 mark on a layup by Alwayne Bigby.
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Wright State 80, Idaho 78 (OT)
DAYTON, Ohio –(UI Media Relations) In a game that featured two buzzer-beaters, Idaho men’s basketball suffered a gut-wrenching, 80-78 defeat in overtime at the hands of Wright State on Tuesday at the Nutter Center in Dayton, Ohio.
Senior guard Landon Tatum looked like the hero for the Vandals after banking in a halfcourt buzzer-beater at the end of regulation to force extra time, then finding Daz Starke for a wide-open layup that gave Idaho a one-point lead with four seconds to go, but WSU’s Julius Mays hit a runner as time expired for the win.
The loss ends Idaho’s three-game winning streak, knocks the Vandals down to 7-5 and leaves the team lamenting a handful of missed opportunities in what could have been a big road win. The Vandals missed 12 free throws and turned the ball over 16 times.
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San Jose State 79, UC Davis 59
San Jose, Calif.--(SJSU Media Relations) James Kinney led five San Jose State double-figure scorers with 24 points as the Spartans ended a three-game losing streak in a 79-59 victory over UC Davis in a non-conference men’s basketball game.
Kinney snapped out of a 3-for-24 shooting slump over the previous two games nailing all six of his first half field goal tries for 19 of his 24 points. The 6-foot-2 guard finished 8-of-13 from the field and 5-of-7 from 3-point range.
Guard Keith Shamburger chipped in with 13 points and 7 assists. Chris Jones, making his first start of the season, forward Wil Carter and reserve guard D.J. Brown each scored 11 points for San Jose State (4-7).
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Utah State 73, UT-Arlington 69
LOGAN, Utah –(USU Media Relations) Sophomore guard Preston Medlin scored a career-high 27 points in leading Utah State to a 73-69 home win against future Western Athletic Conference member UT Arlington here Tuesday in the second game of the Athletes In Action Classic, sponsored by Gossner Foods.
Utah State improves to 6-5 on the season after posting back-to-back wins for the first time this year, and UT Arlington falls to 4-5 overall after suffering its third-straight loss. Furthermore, USU has now scored 70-plus points in each of its last three games after scoring over 70 points just once in its first eight outings.
Medlin, who was 8-of-12 from the field, 6-of-9 from three-point range and 5-of-6 at the free throw line, also had a career-higheight assists in the game to go along with a career-high tying two steals. He also had four rebounds and just one turnover in 33 minutes.
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