{"id":423809,"date":"2024-11-30T00:35:42","date_gmt":"2024-11-30T00:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=423809"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T14:00:00","slug":"Jahmyl-Telfort-Butler-top-Northwestern-at-Arizona-Tip-Off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/Jahmyl-Telfort-Butler-top-Northwestern-at-Arizona-Tip-Off\/","title":{"rendered":"Jahmyl Telfort, Butler top Northwestern at Arizona Tip-Off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jahmyl Telfort scored nine of his 23 points in the final 6:12 to help Butler hold on to a 71-69 victory over Northwestern in an Arizona Tip-Off semifinal Thursday night in Tempe, Ariz. After Boden Kapke sank a free throw with 5.8 seconds left to give Butler the two-point edge, Brooks Barnhizer drove the length of the court and his game-tying layup rolled off the iron &#8212; and Nick Martinelli&#8217;s tip a split-second before the horn curled around the inside of the rim before coming out. Fifth-year center Andre Screen came off the bench to contribute a season-high 15 points for Butler (5-1), which advanced to Friday&#8217;s championship game against No. 25 Mississippi State. Finley Bizjack added 12 points. Leading scorer Pierre Brooks II finished 1 of 7 from the field for two points &#8212; 14 points below his average. Barnhizer paced Northwestern (5-2) with 24 points and seven rebounds while fifth-year center Matthew Nicholson finished with a season-high 14 points. Martinelli, who entered the day as the nation&#8217;s No. 5 scorer with 23.8 points per game while shooting 60.2 percent from the field, missed his first six shots and finished with seven points on 3-of-15 shooting. The Wildcats will meet UNLV in the third-place game Friday. Both teams needed time to heat up. Butler needed six possessions and four minutes to register its first points while Northwestern, after getting a Barnhizer fadeaway on the game&#8217;s first possession, needed nearly five minutes to get its second basket. The Bulldogs found their groove first. They put together an 11-0 run that began with Patrick McCaffery&#8217;s jumper at the 14:28 mark and concluded with Screen&#8217;s power move for a layup to take a 15-6 lead with 11:17 to go. While the Wildcats were busy missing 10 out of 11 field-goal tries, Butler pushed its margin to 24-10 with 6:43 left as Screen threw down a putback dunk and a layup and Telfort swished a 3. K.J. Windham came off the bench to kickstart a Northwestern rally with a 3-pointer and a transition layup. Barnhizer finished the half with a 3-pointer and two free throws to cap a 13-2 run and pull the Wildcats within 31-28 at the break. In the second half, Northwestern failed to capitalize on its first seven possessions to tie or take the lead. Then Jalen Leach cashed a pullup just beyond the free-throw line with 6:27 left to give the Wildcats a 53-52 edge &#8212; their first lead since 6-4. That sparked Butler&#8217;s game-defining run. Telfort hit two free throws, Bizjack made a 3-pointer and Telfort sank a 3 from the wing to push the Bulldogs&#8217; margin to 60-55 with 3:45 to play. &#8211;Field Level Media<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/imgupload\/91f7bdc6bc4a381afafde500916a1f45.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/p>\n<p>Butler Bulldogs forward Jahmyl Telfort (11) watches the ball Monday, Nov. 11, 2024, during the game at Hinkle Fieldhouse in Indianapolis. The Butler Bulldogs defeated the Western Michigan Broncos, 85-65.<\/p>\n<p>-Grace Hollars\/IndyStar \/ USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images<br \/><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jahmyl Telfort scored nine of his 23 points in the final 6:12 to help Butler&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-423809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}