Andrej Jakimovski hit a layup with eight seconds left and Colorado upset No. 2 UConn 73-72 in the consolation bracket of the Maui Invitational on Tuesday in Lahaina, Hawaii.
Colorado rallied from down 11 in the first half to get the win over the two-time defending national champion Huskies. With UConn up 72-71, Jakimovski drove the right side of the lane and made a scoop shot as he was falling down. UConn called timeout to set up the final play, but Hassan Diarra missed a 3-point attempt with two seconds left.
Jakimovski finished with 12 points and 10 rebounds and Julian Hammond III and Elijah Malone each scored 16 for the Buffaloes, who advanced to the fifth-place game in Maui on Wednesday.
Liam McNeeley led UConn with 20 points, Solo Ball scored 16 and Diarra finished with 11. The Huskies have lost two straight for the first time since dropping three in a row Jan. 11-18, 2023. They will play Dayton for seventh place on Wednesday.
No. 1 Kansas 75, No. 11 Duke 72
Duane Harris Jr. tallied 14 points and nine assists while Zeke Mayo added 12 points to lead Kansas over Duke in Las Vegas.
Mayo put the Jayhawks ahead for good with 1:57 remaining. Duke scored just one point over the last 2:29, and Kon Knueppel’s 3-point attempt rimmed out at the buzzer. Duke’s Tyrese Proctor scored a team-high 15 points. Cooper Flagg, the Blue Devils’ freshman star, finished with 13 points after being held to just two points in the first half.
Kansas’ Hunter Dickinson scored 11 points before being ejected on a Flagrant-2 foul call with 10:26 remaining. Referees deemed that he intentionally kicked Duke’s Maliq Brown in the head during an on-the-floor tangle.
No. 4 Auburn 85, No. 12 North Carolina 72
A sensational performance of 23 points, a career-high 19 rebounds, five assists and three blocked shots from Johni Broome powered Auburn past North Carolina and into the championship game of the Maui Invitational in Lahaina, Hawaii.
Broome scored 18 points in the first half. Miles Kelly hit three 3-pointers and finished with 15 points. Chad Baker-Mazara added 14 points, Chaney Johnson came off the bench to add 11 points, and Tahaad Pettiford scored 10.
Seth Trimble scored 17 points for the Tar Heels. RJ Davis added 12, and North Carolina got 10 points each from Jae’Lyn Withers, Elliot Cadeau and Ven-Allen Lubin.
No. 5 Iowa State 89, Dayton 84
Keshon Gilbert scored six of his 24 points in the final 44 seconds to propel the Cyclones to a win over the Flyers in the consolation bracket of the Maui Invitational in Lahaina, Hawaii.
Curtis Jones delivered 19 points off the bench as Iowa State (4-1) recovered from an agonizing loss to No. 4 Auburn on Monday in the opening round of the tournament. It was a tie game when Gilbert drew a foul with 44 seconds left and then swished two free throws to give the Cyclones the lead for good.
Malachi Smith provided a career-high 22 points and nine assists to pace Dayton (5-2).
No. 9 Alabama 85, No. 6 Houston 80 (OT)
Mark Sears scored a season-best 24 points and No. 9 Alabama held Houston to two points in overtime while notching a victory in the Players Era Festival in Las Vegas.
Aden Holloway scored 14 points, Grant Nelson added 13 points and 10 rebounds and Latrell Wrightsell Jr. tallied 12 points for the Crimson Tide (5-1). Mouhamed Dioubate had 10 points and a career-best 16 rebounds for Alabama.
LJ Cryer matched his career high of 30 points but made just 9 of 26 shots for Houston (3-2). The Cougars made just 1 of 10 field-goal attempts in overtime, with Cryer missing all six of his shots.
No. 8 Kentucky 87, Western Kentucky 68
Otega Oweh scored 18 points and Andrew Carr finished with 18 points and 10 rebounds to lead the Wildcats to a victory over the Hilltoppers in Lexington, Ky.
Kentucky (6-0) improved upon its best start in eight years by surviving a tough battle with the Western Kentucky (3-3), which had its three-game winning streak snapped.
Julius Thedford led Western Kentucky with 18 points and five rebounds while Babacar Faye had 16 points and six rebounds before fouling out.
Oregon 80, No. 20 Texas A&M 70
The Ducks scored the final 10 points of the game to upset the Aggies at the Players Era Festival in Las Vegas.
TJ Bamba finished with a team-high 18 points for Oregon (6-0), which shot 61.5 percent in the second half, had runs of 16 and 10 straight points in the half and put up 51 points after the break.
Texas A&M (4-2) got 20 points from Zhuric Phelps and 15 from Wade Taylor IV. The Aggies lost a 10-point lead in the second half.
San Diego State 71, No. 21 Creighton 53
Sophomore BJ Davis recorded career highs with 18 points and nine rebounds, lifting the Aztecs to a victory over the Bluejays in the Players Era Festival in Las Vegas.
Miles Byrd, who finished with 16 points, combined with Davis to make 13 of 21 shots from the floor, including 5 of 9 from 3-point range. San Diego State (3-1) outscored Creighton (4-2) by a 39-25 margin in the second half.
The Bluejays’ Pop Isaacs scored 18 points and Jackson McAndrew drained four 3-pointers to highlight his 12-point, 14-rebound performance.
–Field Level Media
