#AmericanHoops Scoreboard
Texas State 69, Tulane 66 (ot)
Auburn 70, UConn 67 (ot)
San Diego State 82, Tulsa 63
Harvard 57, Houston 56
Texas State 69, Tulane 66 (ot)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Kavin Gilder-Tilbury scored 23 points and Bobby Conley 14, and both hit key shots to lead Texas State over Tulane 69-66 in overtime on Friday.
Gilder-Tilbury sank a contested, high-arcing 3-pointer with 10 seconds left in regulation to tie the game at 60 and send it to overtime where Conley made a 3-pointer with 38 seconds left for what proved to be the game-winner.
Tulane (3-9) had a final chance with 2.7 seconds left after deflecting a Texas State inbounds pass off a Bobcats player, but the Green Wave then had its inbounds pass stolen by Conley after a scramble on the floor.
Gilder-Tilbury and Conley both made three 3-pointers with the Bobcats (7-5) making 9 of 20. Nijal Pearson added 11 points.
Cameron Reynolds scored 20 points for the Green Wave with Malik Morgan adding 15 points and 10 rebounds and Ryan Smith 15 points and six blocks.
Auburn 70, UConn 67 (ot)
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) -- Auburn coach Bruce Pearl says point guard Jared Harper proves there is still room for the little guy in the game of basketball.
Harper scored 22 points, including a key layup in overtime and Auburn won its fourth consecutive game, 70-67 over UConn on Friday afternoon.
Connecticut native Mustapha Heron added 15 points and Danjel Purifoy had a career-high 15 rebounds for the Tigers, who are 10-2 for the first time since the 2002-03 season.
Harper, who is generously listed at 5 feet 10, also grabbed five rebounds, had five assists and four steals.
"He's special, he had no SEC offers when we committed him, because obviously of his size," said Pearl. "But, you can't measure his heart. He's got a future in the game."
Rodney Purvis scored 20 points to lead UConn (5-6) and Kentan Facey had 15 points and 14 rebounds.
Auburn seemed to have the game under control until T.J. Dunans was called for an intentional foul for dragging down a driving Purvis with 80 seconds left and the Tiger's up 60-54. Purvis hit the free throws and a jumper by Facey cut the lead to 60-58.
Amida Brimah tied the game with a short baseline jumper on the Huskies next possession and Harper missed a long 3-pointer, sending the game into extra time.
"We knew there was going to be adversity in the game," Harper said. "We're on the road against a great team. We knew we'd have to come together at the end to win it."
Purifoy hit a 3-pointer to tie the game at 67 in the extra frame and Harper's layup high off the glass with 22 seconds left in overtime gave Auburn a 69-67 lead.
UConn's Vance Jackson missed a 3-pointer on the other end and Heron hit a free throw for the game's final point.
Purvis missed two 3-pointers on UConn's final possession including a shot from the right baseline at the buzzer that would have tied the game.
Auburn hit just two of its first 14 shots and trailed for almost the entire first half.
But UConn failed to take advantage and never led by more than seven points. The Huskies were up by a point, 31-30, at the break.
Auburn shot just 32.9 percent from the floor, but held the Huskies to 35.4 percent.
"The majority of the game we were good defensively," said Facey, who also had four of the Huskies 10 blocked shots. "It came down to a few key stops that we needed to get that we never got."
UConn, playing with just eight scholarship players because of injury, lost starting guard Jalen Adams in the second half to a concussion. He collided with Purifoy and went hard to the floor, opening a cut above his left eye and was taken to the locker room.
His backup, Christian Vital, fouled out in overtime.
San Diego State 82, Tulsa 63
HONOLULU (AP) -- Jeremy Hemsley scored 20 points that included three 3-pointers during a flurry of seven straight Aztec treys that broke the game open and sent San Diego State to an 82-63 victory over Tulsa in the semifinals of the Diamond Head Classic on Friday.
With the score tied and 11 minutes to go, the Aztecs went on a 21-4 run with the seven 3-pointers over a span of 5:13 to lead 73-56.
SDSU (7-4) came in averaging 33 percent from the arc but made 13 of 32 for 41 percent against Tulsa, including a buzzer-beating bank shot by Trey Kell from just inside halfcourt that gave the Aztecs a 41-37 halftime lead.
Hemsley finished with five 3-pointers. Kell, with three treys, scored 19 points, and made five steals. Zylan Cheatham added 15 points.
Junior Etou scored 18 points and Lawson Korita 10 for the Golden Hurricane (6-5), which committed 23 turnovers, 16 on steals, and led to 26 Aztec points.
The Aztecs will play the winner of San Francisco-Illinois State for the championship on Sunday.
Harvard 57, Houston 56
HOUSTON (AP) -- Bryce Aiken matched his personal best with 21 points and Harvard rallied from a nine-point deficit in the final six minutes to win its fourth straight, beating Houston 57-56 on Friday night.
Damyean Dotson's jumper gave Houston a 54-45 lead at the 6-minute mark. Zena Edosomwan scored the game's final basket with 1:12 left -- Harvard's first lead of the second half -- and Houston's Rob Gray Jr. missed a jumper in the final seconds.
Justin Bassey scored on a layup and Aiken hit a pair of 3s to pull the Crimson (5-4) to within one with 4:27 left. Gray's jumper capped the scoring for Houston (9-3) at 56-53 with 2:36 left.
Gray had 15 points to lead Houston, which trailed by seven in the first half but led 34-30 at the break. The Cougars had a 9-2 run to lead 45-36 and traded baskets until the Crimson pulled away.