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LAS VEGAS (AP) — Faced with its first true test of the season, No. 12 Texas Tech fell short and lost a top player to injury.
Jordan Bohannon had 20 points and six assists, Luka Garza added 17 points and 12 rebounds, and Iowa held off the Red Raiders 72-61 on Thursday at the Las Vegas Invitational.
The Hawkeyes (5-1) will play in the championship game Friday night against San Diego State.
“I’m very proud of our defensive effort,” Iowa coach Fran McCaffery said. “We recognized the quality of our opponent. Texas Tech is a talented team, and incredibly well-coached. Anything short of that, we would have been carved up.”
Chris Clarke had 11 points and 10 rebounds off the bench for Texas Tech (5-1), which lost Big 12 leading scorer Jahmi’us Ramsey to a leg injury with 10:06 to play. He finished with seven points.
After the game, coach Chris Beard was unsure of Ramsey’s status for Friday’s consolation game against Creighton.
Joe Wieskamp had 16 points and six rebounds for the Hawkeyes, and CJ Fredrick scored 10. His 3-pointer off a broken play as the shot clock expired put Iowa ahead 64-59 with 1:29 left. He followed that up with two free throws with 1:07 remaining to just about put it away.
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Iowa: Plays for the Las Vegas Invitational title Friday against San Diego State. Pregame is set for 6:00pm, tip at 7:00pm. We plan on having coverage on KJAN following coverage of the football game.
Texas Tech: Also plays Friday vs. Creighton.
PARADISE ISLAND, Bahamas (AP) — Tyrese Haliburton brought plenty of flair at the helm of Iowa State’s attack, from flashing a hand sign to his ear like he was talking on the phone to another as though he was looking through binoculars after a nifty opencourt pass.
Of course, it was easy for the Cyclones to enjoy Thursday considering they were hitting from outside, playing in a flow and rolling to a huge scoring output.
Haliburton came within an assist of a triple-double while Iowa State posted a record scoring output for the Battle 4 Atlantis by beating Alabama 104-89 on Thursday.
“It’s great to make some shots,” Iowa State coach Steve Prohm quipped.
Indeed, the offensive numbers looked great for the Cyclones (4-2), who shook free of their 3-point shooting struggles and fed off the flair of their sophomore point guard.
Haliburton finished with 23 points, 11 rebounds and nine assists while Rasir Bolton added 22 points.
Bolton, a Penn State transfer who was granted immediate eligibility by the NCAA, entered the game shooting just 2 of 20 from 3-point range to mirror those troubles.
But he made 5 of 7 on Thursday, while Iowa State made 15 of 29 shots from behind the arc in easily its best totals for made 3s and 3-point percentage this season.
“It feels like I’m back to normal,” Bolton said.
John Petty Jr. had 34 points and six 3-pointers to lead Alabama (2-4), posting the No. 2 point total in the tournament’s nine-year history. But the Crimson Tide did little to keep the Cyclones offense in check.
Iowa State’s 104 points broke the previous tournament record of 102 points by Michigan against Charlotte in November 2015.
UP NEXT
Alabama: The Crimson Tide will play in Friday’s seventh-place game against Southern Miss.
Iowa State: The Cyclones will play in Friday’s fifth-place game against No. 13 Seton Hall.
The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office reports the arrest of a Clarinda man on Thursday. At 5:00pm Deputies arrested 62-year-old Robert Wade Harbin of Clarinda for Aggravated Assault and Simple Assault following an incident in the 200 block of Central Avenue in Villisca. Harbin was taken to the Montgomery County Jail and held on $2,000 bond.
Skyscan Forecast Friday, November 29, 2019 Dan Hicks
Today: Cloudy. Fog and drizzle in the morning, light rain in the afternoon. SE @ 10-20. High 40.
Tonight: Mostly cloudy. Rain. SE @ 10-20. Low 40.
Saturday: Partly cloudy to cloudy. Light rain early. S @ 15-25, shifting W later in the day. High 50.
Sunday: Mostly cloudy. Windy and cooler. A few Flurries. High 35.
Monday: Partly cloudy. High 42.
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PITTSBURGH (AP) — A Pennsylvania court has rejected the appeal of a man convicted of killing two sisters who lived next door to him in Pittsburgh and were sisters of an Iowa state lawmaker. Forty-nine-year-old Allen Wade was convicted of two counts of first-degree murder in the February 2014 deaths of Sarah and Susan Wolfe, who were found shot to death in the basement of their East Liberty home.
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports that a Superior Court panel rejected his appeal arguments, including a challenge to prosecutors’ use of a hat containing his DNA found in the victims’ home five weeks before their deaths. Prosecutors sought the death penalty, but a jury deadlock led to a life without parole sentence. The victims were sisters of Democratic Iowa state Rep. Mary Wolfe.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A woman who stole thousands of dollars from the Open Bibles Churches organization in the Des Moines area has been given a suspended prison sentence and forgiveness by the organization’s leaders. Polk County District Court records say 55-year-old Michelene Kinning was sentenced Nov. 21 to two years’ probation and a suspended 10-year prison term. She also paid more than $154,000 in restitution. The records say she’d pleaded guilty to theft.
The Des Moines Register reports that Randall Bach is president of Open Bible Churches, and he said last week that church representatives thought probation and the suspended prison time were appropriate punishments. Bach says church representatives were shocked to learn what Kinning had done while working at the organization headquarters, “but we forgive her.”
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