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Houston 72, Vermont 71
#rv/rv Cincinnati 70, Samford 55
#13/12 Oregon 79, #--/rv UConn 69
Houston 72, Vermont 71
ESTERO, Fla. (AP) -- Devin Davis sank a layup with one second to play to give Houston a 72-71 edge over Vermont in the Gulf Coast Showcase on Wednesday night.
Houston trailed 71-70 for nearly the final minute when Davis got the assist from Damyean Dotson inside and sank the layup with one second to play to win it for the Cougars (4-0).
Davis finished with 10 points and seven rebounds. Rob Gray Jr. led with 20 points, five assists and three rebounds, Danrad Knowles added 11 points and four rebounds and Kyle Meyer chipped in nine points off the bench.
Houston led 37-26 at the break and through most of the second period but fell behind to trail by four points, 71-67, with 1:24 to play.
Ernie Duncan scored 17 points with three assists and two boards for the Catamounts (5-2). The loss snaps a four-game winning streak for Vermont.
#rv/rv Cincinnati 70, Samford 55
CINCINNATI (AP) -- Kyle Washington scored 18 points and grabbed 12 rebounds and Gary Clark added 13 points and seven boards to lead Cincinnati to a 70-55 win over Samford on Wednesday night.
Cincinnati (4-1) trailed 35-30 at halftime and tightened up the defense in the second half in which Samford (2-2) shot 6 for 29 from the field (20.7 percent). The Bearcats outscored Samford 21-6 in the first 10 minutes after intermission and led 51-41 on Troy Maupin's 3. The Bearcats led by double digits the rest of the way.
Demetrius Denzel-Dyson led Samford with 14 points and Triston Chambers added 12.
The Bearcats raced to a 13-2 lead punctuated by Washington's dunk with 13:59 left before the break. Samford rallied outscoring Cincinnati 31-4 over the next 10 minutes and led 33-17 on Justin Hopkins' 3.
Cincinnati then used a 13-2 run to get back in it.
Despite shooting just 4 for 20 from 3, the Bearcats dominated the interior outscoring Samford 30-10.
#13/12 Oregon 79, #--/rv UConn 69
LAHAINA, Hawaii (AP) -- Oregon opened the Maui Invitational with a disappointing loss, won in overtime and closed with a click-on-all-cylinders win.
Winning the tournament was the goal, but getting better with each game wasn't a bad consolation.
Chris Boucher scored 21 points, Tyler Dorsey added 19 and No. 13 Oregon beat Connecticut 79-69 on Wednesday in the fifth-place game of the Maui Invitational.
"Obviously, we still have a lot of stuff we need to work on offensively and defensively, but I think we took a step," said Oregon forward Jordan Bell, who had 12 points. "I think every game we got a little better."
Oregon (4-2) lost its opener to Georgetown, but bounced back with an overtime victory over Tennessee on Dillon Brooks' long 3-pointer. The Ducks wanted to get off to a fast start in their Maui finale and did just that, racing to a 15-point lead in the opening 4 1/2 minutes.
UConn (2-4) chipped into the lead by halftime, but the Ducks started flying again, building the lead back up to 17.
Dylan Ennis added 15 points for Oregon, which shot 54 percent and made 9 of 21 from 3-point range.
Jalen Adams led the Huskies with 27 points and Rodney Purvis added 13.
"Comes down to fundamentals: play defense and execute on offense," UConn coach Kevin Ollie said. "I don't know what else to say. Energy and you've got to play defense. They made shots and we didn't make shots. Simple game. There's no secret to it."
The Ducks attacked the Huskies from the opening tip, scoring the game's first 10 points, racing out to an 18-point lead.
Ollie called a timeout 41 seconds into the game and Adams, the Huskies' leading scorer, headed to the bench at 17:03 after picking up his second foul.
"I don't think we were just playing with the intensity we should have," Adams said. "We didn't match their intensity or their energy and I think we have to work on that. We've got to build on that."
Oregon pushed the lead to 21, but the Huskies came roaring back.
UConn started hitting shots it was missing earlier, while the Ducks went more than 8 minutes without a field goal, trimming the lead to 39-28 by halftime.
Oregon revved up again to start the second half, hitting 5 of its first 7 shots to push the lead to 53-34.
UConn had one more run. The Huskies whittled away at the lead and got it down to eight with 3 minutes left, but couldn't make up any more ground.
"I just thought our energy level today was much better because of the ball movement and getting some shots down," Oregon coach Dana Altman said.