TUESDAY’S NCAA HIGHLIGHTS
Texas A&M-CC gets first NCAA victory
DAYTON, Ohio — Isaac Mushila had 15 points and 12 rebounds as Texas A&m-corpus Christi held off Southeast Missouri State 75-71 on Tuesday night to earn the first NCAA Tournament win in program history.
The Islanders (24-10) went 3 of 4 at the free-throw line in the final 15 seconds to ice the game and advance to play top-seeded Alabama in the South Region.
The winners of the Southland Conference, returned to the First Four for a second straight season and led for all but 23 seconds in the opening game of this NCAA Tournament.
Southeast Missouri State (1917) had erased a 10-point deficit and tied it at 64 when Chris Harris made a pair of free throws with 3:07 left.
Jalen Jackson led the Islanders with 22 points, going 14 of 18 at the free-throw line. Ross Williams added 13 points, Tennyson scored 12 and De’lazarus Keys pulled down 10 rebounds.
Harris scored 23 points before fouling out for the Redhawks, the Ohio Valley Conference champions.
■ Pittsburgh 60, Mississippi State 59: Jamarius Burton made a go-ahead jumper with 10 seconds left as the Panthers (23-11) beat the Bulldogs (21-13) in a game that featured 21 lead changes — most in the NCAA Tournament in five years.
Mississippi State had a great chance to win at the end, but Shakeel Moore missed a wideopen 3-pointer from the corner with two seconds remaining and D.J. Jeffries’ tip-in attempt was off target just before the buzzer.
Nelly Cummings had 15 points to lead Pittsburgh, which advanced to face No. 6 Iowa State on Friday in Greensboro, North Carolina.