{"id":424469,"date":"2024-11-29T19:57:27","date_gmt":"2024-11-29T19:57:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=424469"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T14:00:00","slug":"Washington-fends-off-Colorado-State-in-Acrisure-Invitational-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/Washington-fends-off-Colorado-State-in-Acrisure-Invitational-play\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington fends off Colorado State in Acrisure Invitational play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tyler Harris scored 24 points and Washington used a late run to fend off Colorado State 73-67 Thursday afternoon at the Acrisure Invitational in Palm Desert, Calif. The Huskies (5-1) won their fourth straight and also got 16 points, eight rebounds and seven assists from center Great Osobor, a transfer from Utah State. Nique Clifford&#8217;s 13 points and nine rebounds led Colorado State (3-3), which lost its third straight game. Jalen Lake scored 12 and Kyan Evans added 11. Washington will face Santa Clara in the invitational&#8217;s championship game Friday, while Colorado State will meet TCU in the third-place game. Harris, who was a West Coast Conference all-freshman selection last year for the University of Portland, drove to the basket with no one to defend him as he reached the rim and scored for a 66-58 Huskies lead. That capped off a 10-0 run with 2:41 to go. But the Rams made it 67-65 with 45.7 seconds to play, when Evans hit a 3-pointer. They couldn&#8217;t reclaim the lead, however, as the Huskies sealed their win with six free throws, four from Mekhi Mason inside of 21 seconds left. The Huskies surged to a pair of eight-point leads in the second half, but the Rams wouldn&#8217;t go away. Clifford&#8217;s 3 with 9:58 to play trimmed it to 51-49 for the Huskies, then Lake connected from long range to make it 53-52 Washington. Colorado State took a 57-56 lead with two Lake free throws at the 7:20 mark, but moments later the Huskies went ahead 59-58 on a triple by Mason. Osobor had 13 points, six assists and five rebounds in the second half, causing problems for the Rams&#8217; defense. The first half saw Harris score 14 points, knocking down 5 of 7 shots, including three 3-pointers. Washington, with two Harris 3s and one from Zoom Diallo, scored 13 points in a row after trailing 4-0. But a 10-1 run put Colorado State in front 20-17 with 11:12 to play in the half. Colorado State didn&#8217;t trail the rest of the half and took a 28-26 lead into the break. &#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\/3e6b508a554fa4c072d13f1606578c55.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/p>\n<p>Oct 3, 2024; Rosemont, IL, USA; Washington head coach Danny Sprinkle takes a question at the podium during the 2024 Big Ten Men\u00eds Basketball media day at Donald E. Stephens Convention Center. Mandatory Credit: Melissa Tamez-Imagn Images<\/p>\n<p>-Melissa Tamez-Imagn Images<br \/><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tyler Harris scored 24 points and Washington used a late run to fend off Colorado&#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-424469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424469","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=424469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}