Southern Illinois Stays Up Late to Beat Hawaii

Midnight Madness came a little later this season.

Darren Brooks scored 18 points, including a three-pointer with 28 seconds left, leading No. 20 Southern Illinois to a 66-62 victory over Hawaii on Saturday night at Carbondale, Ill. The game started Sunday morning at 12:07 a.m. EST, 11:07 p.m. Saturday night in Illinois, in order to accommodate a national TV broadcast. Time in Illinois at the end of the game was 12:57 a.m.

Brad Korn added 10 points, helping the Salukis (22-2) extend their winning streak to 14 games.

Phil Martin scored 20 points to lead Hawaii (17-7). Jeff Blackett added 16 points and Michael Kuebler scored 14.

Hawaii led by seven points twice early in the second half before Southern Illinois tied it at 45 with 14:32 left. The teams then were tied twice, the last time at 51-51.

Southern Illinois went on an 8-0 run to take its largest lead of the game, 59-51. Southern Illinois outrebounded Hawaii, 34-33. Hawaii had 24 turnovers while Southern Illinois made 18. The Rainbow Warriors led, 38-35, at halftime.

OTHER GAMES

Gerry McNamara made a fallaway three-pointer at the buzzer to give Syracuse (17-6, 7-5) a 57-54 victory over Georgetown (13-10, 4-8) in a Big East game at Washington.... In another Big East matchup, Kelly Whitney and John Allen led a 19-4 spurt to open the second half and Seton Hall (17-7, 7-5) held off a late Villanova (14-11, 6-6) rally for a 70-68 victory at East Rutherford, N.J.... Keydren Clark scored 33 points, increasing his nation-leading scoring average to 26.9 points per game, but St. Peter’s (15-10, 11-5 Metro Atlantic Athletic) lost, 91-82, to Niagara (17-8, 11-5) at Lewiston, N.Y.... Western Carolina’s Kevin Martin, second in the nation in scoring at 25.8, was held to 12 points as Elon (9-16, 5-8 Southern) beat Western Carolina, 68-53, at Elon, S.C.... Dee Brown made six three-pointers to help Illinois (18-5, 9-3) hold off a second-half rally and beat Penn State (9-14, 3-9), 66-58, in a Big Ten game at State College, Pa.... Also in the Big Ten, Chris Hill scored 16 points to help conference-leading Michigan State (15-9, 10-3) beat Northwestern (11-12, 6-6), 66-56, at East Lansing, Mich.... Anthony Roberson and Matt Walsh scored 24 points each as Florida (15-8, 6-6 SEC) defeated Mississippi (12-11, 4-8), 81-66, at Oxford, Miss.... Jason Edwin scored 25 points to lead Kent State (20-3) to its 10th consecutive victory, 70-55, over Creighton (19-5) at Kent, Ohio, as both teams tried to impress NCAA tournament officials who’ll choose at-large squads.... Reggie Berry scored five of his 10 points in overtime to lead Western Michigan (20-3) to a 83-78 win over the College of Charleston (18-7) at Kalamazoo, Mich.... Fridge Holman scored 16 points as Wichita State (18-8) beat Austin Peay (17-8), 62-47, at Wichita, Kan., to end the Governors’ 14-game winning streak.... Tim Smith scored 26 points as East Tennessee State (23-4) held off Fresno State (12-12) for a 66-62 nonconference victory at Fresno.... Joel Gerlach made two free throws with 1.4 seconds remaining to lift Air Force (19-4, 9-1 Mountain West) to a 59-57 victory over Utah (19-7, 7-4) at Salt Lake City, giving the Falcons their first season sweep of the Utes.

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Streaking

The longest active winning streaks in Division I :

*--* School Streak St. Joseph’s 24 Stanford 23 Gonzaga 16 East Tennessee State 15 Southern Illinois 14 Oklahoma State 11 Eastern Washington 11 Kent State 10 Memphis 10 Pacific 10 Boston U. 9

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