FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — PJ Haggerty scored a career-high 42 points and led the go-ahead run for 16th-ranked and No. 1 seed Memphis in an 83-80 win over No. 8 seed Wichita State in a quarterfinal game at the American Men’s Basketball Championship Friday.
The Tigers (27-5) went ahead to stay with a 12-0 run over a 2 1/2-minute span after halftime in which Haggerty scored nine of those points. Two of his baskets in that spurt came off turnovers by Wichita State (19-14), which knocked the Tigers out of last year’s American tournament and is responsible for their only loss in 15 games since Jan.