Buffalo tops Milwaukee in Northern Ireland
BELFAST, Northern Ireland – Jeremy Harris scored 21 points, Nick Perkins added 20 with nine rebounds, and No. 21 Buffalo beat Milwaukee 96-77 on Friday in the Basketball Hall of Fame Belfast Classic.
CJ Massinburg added 16 points as the Bulls improved to 6-0 for the first time since the 1930-31 season.
Buffalo advanced to Saturday’s championship game in the Goliath bracket where they will meet San Francisco (7-0), a 76-58 winner over Stephen F. Austin.
The Bulls shot 14 of 33 (42 percent) from 3-point range while the Panthers went 6 for 28.
Perkins was 4 of 5 from behind the arc. Massinburg went 4 of 8, becoming the fourth player in school history to surpass 200 career 3-pointers. No. 9 Michigan State 78, Rutgers 69: Cassius Winston scored 22 points and Nick Ward had 20 points to lead Michigan State past Rutgers in the Big Ten opener.
After a back-and-forth first half, where Rutgers led much of the first 10 minutes, Winston hit a 3-pointer to give Michigan State (5-2) the 39-37 lead over Rutgers (5-2) at the break.
Rutgers would open the second half with a 3-pointer by Peter Kiss from the top of the arc to retake the lead, but a quick 6-0 run from Michigan State caused Rutgers coach Steve Pikiell to call timeout down 45-40 with 17:54 to go.
The deficit would eventually balloon to 13. No. 22 Wisconsin 72, No. 14 Iowa 66: D’Mitrik Trice scored 20 points, including a crucial 3 with 20 seconds left, and Wisconsin held off Iowa in the Big Ten opener for both teams.
Ethan Happ had 13 points, seven boards and five assists for the Badgers (7-1), who handed the resurgent Hawkeyes their first loss of the season.
With the Badgers up 65-63, Trice – who led the nation at 60 percent on 3s entering play – hit his 3-pointer.
Jordan Bohannon answered with a quick 3 for Iowa (6-1, 0-1), but Wisconsin was able to seal it at the line.
Freshman Joe Wieskamp blocked Trice’s 3-point try and turned it into a
3-point play and a 61-60 Iowa lead on other end. Brevin Pritzl got open in the corner though, burying a 3 with 1:35 left to put Wisconsin back up by 2. Happ then got around Iowa’s Luka Garza for a scoop to make it 65-61 with 51 seconds left. Radford 62, No. 17 Texas 59: Carlik Jones made a spinning layup and a free throw with 24.5 seconds left, sending Radford to an upset of Texas.
Devin Hutchison made one of two free throws with 11 seconds left before Texas’ Jase Febres missed a 3-pointer to tie and Radford rebounded to end the game.
It was the second big road win for Radford (6-1), which beat Notre Dame earlier this season. No. 25 Mississippi State 65, Dayton
58: Nick Weatherspoon hit a pair of 3pointers in the closing minutes, and Mississippi State trailed most of the game before rallying to a victory over Dayton.
The Bulldogs (6-1) salvaged their first true road game by hitting late 3s after missing 15 of their first 19 tries from behind the arc. Weatherspoon’s 3pointer from the corner with 27 seconds left put the Bulldogs up 61-55. He finished with 14 points.
Quinndary Weatherspoon led Mississippi State with 21 points and 12 rebounds, two shy of his career high.