{"id":427116,"date":"2024-12-02T02:52:07","date_gmt":"2024-12-02T02:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=427116"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T14:00:00","slug":"Oregon-stuns-No-9-Alabama-in-finals-in-Las-Vegas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/Oregon-stuns-No-9-Alabama-in-finals-in-Las-Vegas\/","title":{"rendered":"Oregon stuns No. 9 Alabama in finals in Las Vegas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Keeshawn Barthelemy scored 22 points, but his biggest shot of the night was a miss that Oregon teammate Nate Bittle tip-dunked to give the Ducks an 83-81 win over No. 9 Alabama in Saturday&#8217;s championship game of the Players Era Festival in Las Vegas. Oregon (8-0) coughed up a six-point lead in the final 30 seconds of regulation when Aden Holloway sliced the deficit in half with a 3-pointer after a pair of Barthelemy free throws pushed the Ducks lead to 81-75. Alabama (6-2) immediately regained possession when Mark Sears swiped the ball from Brandon Angel on the ensuing inbound pass. Sears was then fouled and split his foul shots &#8212; but Mouhamed Dioubate rebounded the miss and was sent to the line, where he sank both attempts to tie the score. The Ducks put the ball in Barthelemy&#8217;s hot hands on their subsequent trip down the court. He shot 4-of-5 from 3-point distance on the night and had given Oregon a critical, four-point cushion in the final minute with a hanging floater earlier. Derrion Reid got a hand on Barthelemy&#8217;s attempt to alter its trajectory, but Bittle followed up for the game-winning dunk. It capped a 19-point, nine-rebound night for Bittle. Oregon also got 12 points from TJ Bamba &#8212; the only Duck beside Barthelemy to make a 3-pointer &#8212; and 11 points from Supreme Cook. Jackson Shelstad scored six points, with no two bigger than the pair he was awarded on a fastbreak layup that underwent a lengthy video review. Shelstad swiped the ball from Grant Nelson&#8217;s blindside with the score tied at 75. Jarin Stevenson&#8217;s chase-down shot-block effort was called goaltending, giving Oregon the lead down the stretch. Labaron Philon shot 6-of-8 from the floor for a team-high 15 points for Alabama. Stevenson, Sears and Holloway added 11 points each. Latrell Whitesell Jr. scored 10 points in the loss. &#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\/c95b83bef39e8724583da8d142eb59fa.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/p>\n<p>Nov 27, 2024; Las Vegas, Nevada, USA; Oregon Ducks forward Brandon Angel (21) dribbles against San Diego State Aztecs forward Magoon Gwath (0) during the first half at MGM Grand Garden Arena. Mandatory Credit: Stephen R. Sylvanie-Imagn Images<\/p>\n<p>-Stephen R. Sylvanie-Imagn Images<br \/><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keeshawn Barthelemy scored 22 points, but his biggest shot of the night was a miss&#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-427116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427116","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=427116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}