No. 13 Purdue beats No. 23 Mississippi 80-78 with last-second setback | National sport

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Myles Colvin rebounded off Braden Smith’s missed fadeaway jumper and scored with 0.5 seconds left to give No. 13 Purdue an 80-78 victory over No. 23 Ole Miss in the championship game of the Rady Children’s Invitational on to give on Friday.

Trey Kaufman-Renn scored 25 points and 13 rebounds for Purdue (7-1), blowing a 17-point first-half lead before ending the Rebels’ national-leading 19-game non-conference winning streak.

Ole Miss tied it at 78 on Matthew Murrell’s layup with 14.7 seconds left. After two timeouts by Ole Miss and one by Purdue, the Boilermakers went to the ground to set up the winning sequence, with Smith shooting from the right baseline and Colvin rushing in for the rebound and putback.

Colvin had 20 points and Smith 18 for Purdue, which won its fourth straight tournament on Thanksgiving week.

Jaemyn Brakefield scored 18 points for Ole Miss (6-1), which had a 75-68 lead with 5:16 left after Jaylen Murray hit a three-pointer. Murrell scored 14 and Murray 13.

NO. 3 GONZAGA 90, DAVIDSON 65

NASSAU, Bahamas (AP) — Ben Gregg scored a career-high 24 points on 8-of-10 shooting, Graham Ike added 18 points and 10 rebounds and No. 3 Gonzaga beat Davidson in the fifth-place game at the Battle 4 Atlantis .

Braden Huff scored 14 points and Dusty Stromer 10 for Gonzaga (7-1).

Huff scored six points and Gregg added four before Ryan Nembhard converted a three-point play to cap a 13-1 run and give Gonzaga a 33-19 lead with 7:08 left in the first half. Gregg added a 3-pointer to make the game 15 points about two minutes later and the Bulldogs took a 42-31 lead into halftime.

Davidson (5-2) trailed by double digits in the second half.

Reed Bailey scored 19 points and Roberts Blums 11 for the Wildcats.

NO. 8 KENTUCKY 105, GEORGIA STATE 76

LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — Jaxson Robinson scored 19 points to lead No. 8 Kentucky to a win over Georgia State.

The Wildcats (7-0) reached the century mark for the fourth time this season and won their first seven games for the first time since the 2016-17 season.

Lamont Butler followed Robinson with 17 points. Amari Williams scored 14 points, Ansley Almonor and Otega Oweh 12 each, followed by Andrew Carr and Koby Brea with 10 points each.

With an average of 11 3-pointers per game, Kentucky hit a season-low seven treys against the Panthers.

Cesare Edwards led Georgia State (4-4) with 21 points, followed by Zarique Nutter with 19 and Malachi Brown with 11.

NO. 11 DUKE 70, SEATTLE 48

DURHAM, N.C. (AP) — Tyrese Proctor scored 13 points and No. 11 Duke held Seattle to 21.3% shooting in the win.

Freshman Cooper Flagg added nine points, nine rebounds and seven assists for the Blue Devils (5-2), who led by a dozen at halftime and held the Redhawks scoreless in the first eight minutes after halftime.

Matthew-Alexander Moncrieffe had nine points and 12 rebounds for the Redhawks (2-5), who made 10 of 47 shots.

NO. 14. INDIANA 89, PROVIDENCE 73

NASSAU, Bahamas (AP) — Mackenzie Mgbako scored 25 points, Malik Reneau added 21 on 8-of-9 shooting and No. 14 Indiana beat Providence to claim seventh place in the Battle 4 Atlantis.

Mgbako scored seven straight Indiana points late in the first half and finished with 13 points at halftime. Indiana led by as many as 19 points in the second half and Providence didn’t get closer than nine points after halftime.

Trey Galloway scored 18 points and Oumar Ballo grabbed 10 rebounds and eight points for Indiana (5-2). The Hoosiers shot 53% from the field and made 17 of 20 at the free throw line.

Jayden Pierre led Providence (5-3) with 22 points. Jabri Abdur-Rahim scored 14 points despite being limited after picking up his fourth foul 15:25 into the second half. Corey Floyd Jr. also scored 14 points.

NO. 18 FLORIDA 88, WICHITA STATE 51

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. (AP) — Walter Clayton Jr scored 19 points and Alex Condon had 17 points and nine rebounds to help No. 18 Florida defeat Wichita State in the championship game of the ESPN Events Invitational at Disney World.

Rueben Chinyelu had a strong defensive performance, finishing the game with 14 points and 11 rebounds for the Gators (8-0), who led by as many as 48 points after a 27-0 run that began in the final seven-plus minutes the first half.

Matej Bosnjak came off the bench to lead Wichita State (6-1) with 11 points. However, the Shockers’ leading scorer, Justin Hill, was limited to four-for-2 on 12 shots.

WEST VIRGINIA 83, NO. 24 ARIZONA 73, OT

NASSAU, Bahamas (AP) — Tucker DeVries scored 26 points, Javon Small made 7 of 8 free throws in overtime and West Virginia secured third place in the Battle 4 Atlantis with a win over No. 24 Arizona.

DeVries made his eighth and final three-pointer during West Virginia’s 7-2 run to open overtime, and Toby Okani added his third three-pointer nearly two minutes later for a six-point lead.

It was the third straight overtime game in three days for West Virginia (5-2), which also beat No. 3 Gonzaga early in the tournament on Wednesday.

Okani finished the game with 20 points and Small added 14 points for West Virginia. Amani Hansberry had 13 points and 10 rebounds.

Caleb Love scored 24 points on 9 of 20 shooting for Arizona (3-4). Trey Townsend added 19.

BUTLER 87, MISSISSIPPI STATE 77

TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — Jahmyl Telfort scored 24 points, Pierre Brooks II added 22 and Butler beat No. 25 Mississippi State to win the Arizona Tip-Off.

Butler (6-1) survived the semifinals with a 61-59 win over Northwestern after blowing a 15-point lead and nearly took an 11-point lead Friday night after Riley Kugel and Josh Hubbard brought Mississippi State back had.

Kugel had 10 points in the first three minutes of the second half and Hubbard followed with 13 quick points as Mississippi State (6-1) used an 8-0 run to get within 70-68.

Brooks hit a 3-pointer and scored on a runner after Telford hit a floater to extend the lead to 81-70 with 2 1/2 minutes left. After that, Mississippi State didn’t get closer than eight.

Hubbard and Kugel each had 22 points.