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SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO — Jalen Williams scored 22 points, PJ Pipes added 17 and hot-shooting Santa Clara took down antecedently unbeaten TCU, 85-66, successful the SoCal Challenge connected Monday nighttime astatine JSerra High.
Giordan Williams added 15 points and Keshawn Justice 10 for the Broncos (5-0), who changeable 11 for 16 from 3-point scope (68.8%) and 61.2% (30 for 49) overall.
Justice besides had 10 rebounds and the Broncos had a 39-24 vantage connected the boards against a squad that came successful grabbing 48 misses a game, 17 connected the violative end.
Santa Clara volition play Fresno State (4-0) successful a conflict of unbeatens connected Wednesday astatine 10 p.m., portion TCU faces Pepperdine (2-4) connected Wednesday astatine 7:30 p.m.
TCU (3-1) was lone allowing 54 points per game, but Santa Clara came successful having changeable 53.8% implicit its archetypal 4 games.
Maxwell Evans scored 15 points for the Horned Frogs, who were 7 for 20 from agelong scope and changeable 41% wide (26 for 64). Micah Peavy and Mike Miles some had 10 points.
TCU’s lone pb was an opening escaped propulsion and the Horned Frogs tied the people astatine four. The Broncos kept a slender pb until closing the fractional connected a 12-0 tally for a 43-29 lead.
Williams had 10 of his 12 first-half points successful the last 4½ minutes, and the Broncos closed the fractional making 7 of their past 8 shots.
Santa Clara changeable 60% (18 for 30) portion TCU changeable 37% (11 for 30).
The Broncos picked up wherever they near disconnected aft the intermission, scoring the archetypal 14 points of the 2nd fractional to instrumentality a 57-29 lead. Pipes had 2 3-pointers and Giordo Williams and Justice besides connected from distance.
TCU enactment unneurotic a 12-0 tally arsenic Santa Clara had a drawstring of turnovers but the Horned Frogs could lone get wrong 16.
In different first-round games …
Fresno State 70, Pepperdine 63: Orlando Robinson and Isaiah Hill combined to people 30 points to assistance Fresno fend disconnected Pepperdine successful the last crippled of the night. Robinson scored 14 of his 16 points successful the archetypal fractional for the Bulldogs (4-0).
Jan Zidek topped the Waves (2-4) with 20 points. Mike Mitchell Jr. added 15 points and deed 2 precocious 3-pointers to propulsion Pepperdine wrong 65-63 with 34 seconds left, but Hill went 5 for 6 from the free-throw enactment from determination to stave disconnected the Waves.
A Mitchell handbasket got Pepperdine wrong 62-58 with 4:07 left, but some teams went scoreless for the adjacent three-plus minutes, until Fresno’s Anthony Holland bushed the changeable timepiece with a 3-pointer with 53 seconds left. Mitchell made his jumpers to chopped it to 65-63 from there.
Nicholls State 75, Cal Poly 72 (OT): Ty Gordon had 24 points and Devante Carter had 20 points to pb Nicholls State (4-2). Pierce Spencer had 8 rebounds.
Alimamy Koroma had a career-high 23 points for the Mustangs (1-4), whose losing streak reached 4 games. Camren Pierce added 11 points and six rebounds, and Kyle Colvin had 10 points.
Utah Valley 83, Idaho 45: Fardaws Aimaq had 14 points and 16 rebounds and Connor Harding had 14 points and 7 rebounds arsenic Utah Valley (4-1) cruised to an casual win. Tim Fuller added 11 points, and Justin Harmon had 10.
Trevante Anderson had 13 points to pb the Vandals (1-4).
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