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Men's Basketball Upends Tulsa 82-78 in Double OT
December 12, 2010 | Men's Basketball
Princeton defeated Tulsa 82-78 in double overtime to improve to 7-3 on the season and extend its winning streak to five games.
The win came over a Tulsa team that, despite falling to 4-5 on the season, has won at least 20 games in each of the last four years and made appearances in each of the last two NITs. This year's slate for the Golden Hurricane includes a win over Pacific-10 Conference foe Stanford.
The game's final tie was its 10th, coming in between two free throws by Tulsa's Justin Hurtt, who led his team with 25 points. Hurtt made both of those, putting the score at 78-77 with 28 seconds to go in the second overtime.
Douglas Davis then put the Tigers ahead by one at 79-78 with a bucket with 14 seconds to go, and rookie T.J. Bray grabbed a rebound off an attempt by Tulsa center Steven Idlet on the Golden Hurricane's last possession to put Princeton in control.
Bray split his free throws after the necessary foul, and the Tigers sealed it when Kodi Maduka's inbound from the opposite end, which would have led to a desperation attempt with 1.9 seconds left, hit the overhead scoreboard to give possession to Princeton.
Princeton had the ball last at the end of regulation and of the first overtime, but last-second attempts by Dan Mavraides at the 40-minute mark and by Brendan Connolly five minutes later both rimmed out.
Eight of the nine Tigers who played contributed points to the win, but no player on the floor had more than Kareem Maddox, whose 31 points reset his career high. The pile of points came just four games after he broke his previous career best by 12 in a 30-point outburst against Siena at Jadwin Gym.
"I felt like we had some advantages there," Sydney Johnson, the Franklin C. Cappon-Edward G. Green '40 head coach of men's basketball said of Maddox. "Obviously they have great size and so they kept going in, but we had some advantages going our way too. We exploited (those advantages) and made some free throws down the stretch."
Maddox was efficient in running up his high point total, making 10 of 13 shots from the field and knocking in 10 of 12 attempts from the free-throw line. With the two 30-point contests, Maddox became the eighth player in program history and first since Kevin Mullin '84 to reach 30 twice in one season.
Ian Hummer added 17 points on 6 of 11 shooting with a team-high eight rebounds, and Mavraides scored 16 points as the third Tiger in double figures.
Princeton survived a double-double by Tulsa's Idlet, who had missed the Golden Hurricane's previous game against Oklahoma State with a knee injury. Idlet finished with 19 points and 11 boards, with 11 of his points coming from the stripe on 18 attempts.
Hurtt's bucket with 7:41 to go in the first half put Tulsa ahead by nine in what turned out to be the largest lead of the game by either team. Princeton, which had made just four of its first 17 attempts from the field, then answered with a 12-2 run in which it made four of its five shots to pull ahead 26-25.
From then on, the teams were never more than six points apart. Princeton led 59-53 with less than two minutes to go until Tulsa hit three-pointers on back-to-back possessions, the first by Hurtt and the second by Scottie Haralson, to tie it at 59-59 inside the final minute.
The Tigers have now won four straight overtime games, with three coming this season. Princeton will play again Friday at Wagner.