Brock Harding scored seven of his 19 points in the final minute as TCU snapped a tie and claimed an 84-80 victory over No. 10 Florida on Thursday afternoon in the Rady Children’s Invitational semifinals in San Diego.

Jace Posey led TCU (4-2) with a career-high 21 points while David Punch added 19 points, nine rebounds and three blocks. The Horned Frogs will play Wisconsin on Friday afternoon in the finals.

Urban Klavzar and Thomas Haugh led the Gators (4-2) with 20 points each. Rueben Chinyelu added 13 points and nine rebounds and Boogie Fland had 12 points before fouling out with 1:10 left. Florida, which had a four-game winning streak snapped, faces Providence in the consolation match on Friday.

Florida led by five points at halftime and by 10 with 15:14 to play. But the Horned Frogs fought back to go up by a point on Jayden Pierre’s turnaround with 10:13 remaining. The lead traded hands six times and was tied twice over the final 10 minutes before Harding took over.

TCU took a 77-74 advantage on Posey’s pair of free throws with 2:43 left before Bland’s layup forged the game’s eighth and final tie with 1:34 to play. Harding, who also had 12 assists, canned a jumper with 48 seconds left to put the Horned Frogs on top and then converted 5 of 6 free throws in the final 13 seconds to enable TCU to finish off the upset.

Florida built a 6-point lead after an Alex Condon hook shot just over three minutes into the game before the Horned Frogs clawed back to take a 14-11 advantage via a 10-1 run capped by Pierre’s second-chance 3-pointer.

After a series of ties and lead changes, the Gators surged back in front by six on Haugh’s 3-pointer with 2:31 to play in the half. The teams traded baskets over the final minutes before Haugh’s dunk with six seconds remaining produced a 44-39 Florida lead at the break.

Klavzar and Haugh led the Gators with 12 points each before halftime. Punch’s nine points paced TCU over the first 20 minutes.

–Field Level Media