HONOLULU (AP) — Zach Edey had 28 points and 15 rebounds to carry No. 2 Purdue to a 78-75 win over No. 4 Marquette in the championship game of the Maui Invitational on Wednesday.
Edey, the reigning national Player of the Year, shot 11 of 19 from the field and led the Boilermakers (6-0) to their first Maui Invitational title.
Purdue led by 15 early in the second half, but Marquette chipped away and pulled to 76-75 on a basket by Oso Ighodaro with less than a minute to play. Edey gave his team some breathing room with a right-handed putback of Braden Smith’s missed jumper for a 78-75 lead with 18 seconds remaining.
Marquette had two chances to tie it, but 3-point attempts by Tyler Kolek and Kam Jones in the closing seconds failed to drop.
Smith scored 18 points and Fletcher Loyer added 10 for Purdue.
Kolek had 22 points, seven rebounds and six assists. Jones added 17 points and five assists for the Golden Eagles (5-1).
NO. 1 KANSAS 69, NO. 7 TENNESSEE 60
HONOLULU (AP) — Hunter Dickinson had 17 points and 20 rebounds and Kansas beat Tennessee.
The Jayhawks (5-1) bounced back from a 14-point loss a day earlier to take third place in the Maui Invitational over the Volunteers (4-2), who have dropped their last two games.
Kevin McCullar Jr. had 14 points, KJ Adams Jr. added 13 and Dajuan Harris Jr. chipped in eight assists for Kansas, which led by as many as 11 in the closing minutes.
Santiago Vescovi made five 3-pointers and finished with 21 points. Dalton Knecht and Jordan Gainey contributed 13 apiece and Jonas Aidoo had 11 rebounds.
NO. 14 NORTH CAROLINA 91, NORTHERN IOWA 69
NASSAU, Bahamas (AP) — Harrison Ingram scored 16 points, Cormac Ryan added 15 and North Carolina used a big second-half run to beat Northern Iowa in the opening game of the Battle 4 Atlantis.
North Carolina (4-0) will play Villanova on Thursday. Northern Iowa (1-3) moves into the consolation bracket and will face Texas Tech..
North Carolina trailed by six points at halftime and made eight of its first nine 3-pointers in the second half and scored 34 of the opening 40 points for a 69-47 lead.
Freshman Elliot Cadeau scored 11 of his 15 points in the final 11 minutes for North Carolina. RJ Davis added 13 points.
Nate Heise scored 14 points and Jacob Hutson had 10 for Northern Iowa. Tytan Anderson had seven points and 10 rebounds.
NO. 8 CREIGHTON 88, LOYOLA CHICAGO 65
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Baylor Scheierman had 24 points and 12 rebounds, Ryan Kalkbrenner added 29 points as Creighton topped Loyola Chicago advanced to the Hall of Fame Classic championship game.
Steven Ashworth added 10 points for the Bluejays (5-0), who will try for their first in-season tournament title since the 2018 Cayman Islands Classic when they play Colorado State on Thursday. The Rams beat Boston College in their semifinal.
Des Watson had 15 points to lead the Ramblers (2-3). Braden Norris finished with 14.
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