Valley schools went a combined 3-7 the past two days in games associated with the 2011 Sears BracketBuster series.  It's the first losing record for the league in the 9-year history of the event.

Southern Illinois 61, Green Bay 60
(AP) CARBONDALE, Ill. -- Mamadou Seck hit a layup with 1 second left Saturday to lift Southern Illinois to a 61-60 victory over Wisconsin-Green Bay in a BracketBusters game.  The Phoenix had taken a 60-59 lead on Bryquis Perine's basket with 23 seconds remaining.

Seck grabbed a rebound off a missed free throw by Green Bay's Alec Brown with 8 seconds remaining, then scored the game-winner on the other end for the Salukis (12-16), who won for only the second time in their last nine games.

Carlton Fay led Southern Illinois with 14 points. Seck added 11 points and nine rebounds, and Justin Bocot had 10 points.  Rahmon Fletcher had 22 points for Green Bay (12-16), moving him past Richard Sims into sixth place on the Phoenix's all-time scoring list with 1,633 points. Jarvis Williams added 11 points and Brown had 10 for Green Bay, which lost for the fifth straight time.

Drake 84, Detroit 76
(AP) DES MOINES, Iowa -- Rayvonte Rice scored 22 points and Drake used a late 12-0 run to overtake Detroit 84-76 in a BracketBusters game Saturday night.

Ryan Wedel added 14 points, Kraidon Woods 13 and Ben Simons and Kurt Alexander 10 apiece for the Bulldogs (12-16), who broke a two-game slide.  Chase Simon had 23 points for the Titans (15-15). Eli Holman and Ray McCallum scored 12 points each and Nick Minnerath 11.

LaMarcus Lowe's dunk pushed Detroit ahead 71-69 with 4:56 to play, but then the Bulldogs ran off a dozen in a row. The spurt featured five points by Woods and ended with a 3-pointer from Simons that put Drake ahead 81-71 with 1:53 to go and sealed the win.  Drake shot 56 percent (28 of 50), and Detroit was not far behind at 50 percent (29 of 58). However, the Bulldogs made 20 free throws to the Titans' 12.

Bradley 81, UT-Martin 75
(AP) MARTIN, Tenn. -- Walt Lemon Jr. scored 20 points and Andrew Warren 16 as Bradley came back to beat Tennessee-Martin 81-75 in a nonconference game on Saturday.

Warren scored 12 of his points in the second half, when the Braves (10-18) of the Missouri Valley Conference shot 53.8 percent (14 of 26) to 30.6 percent (11 of 36) for the Skyhawks (10-19) of the Ohio Valley Conference.  Tennessee-Martin led 44-39 after a first half in which Troy King scored 17 of his 20 points and made 5 of 6 shots from 3-point range.

The Skyhawks led 64-56 with 10:40 remaining, but Bradley tied it by scoring the next eight points. The Braves went ahead to stay, 69-68, on Jake Eastman's layup with 4:09 to play.  Warren secured the win with four free throws in the final 17 seconds.
Dyricus Simms-Edwards had 15 points for Bradley, and Terence Smith had 15 for Tennessee-Martin.

Valparaiso 80, Missouri State 67
(AP) VALPARAISO, Ind. -- Brandon Wood scored 24 points and hot-shooting Valparaiso defeated Missouri State 80-67 Saturday in a BracketBuster game.

Cory Johnson added 13 points and Howard Little had 11 for the Crusaders (20-8), who built a 38-23 lead by halftime. The Crusaders made 58 percent of their shots (32 of 55) while the Bears (21-7) struggled, connecting on just 40 percent (26 of 64) of their field-goal attempts.

Kyle Weems led Missouri State with 17 points, Jermaine Mallett had 14 and Nafis Ricks 11.  Valparaiso dominated the boards, outrebounding Missouri State 39-27.  The Bears got as close as 46-37 with 14:27 remaining.

Morehead State 71, Indiana State 65
(AP) TERRE HAUTE, Ind. -- Kenneth Faried broke Tim Duncan's modern-era NCAA Division I career rebounding record and Morehead State edged Indiana State 71-65 Saturday in a BracketBusters game.  Faried finished with 12 rebounds, giving him 1,576, six more than Duncan collected while at Wake Forest from 1994-97. The 6-foot-8 senior also scored 17 points to lead the Eagles (21-8), who have won nine straight.

Dwayne Lathan led the Sycamores (15-13) with 25 points and 11 rebounds.

Morehead State fell behind 5-0 before taking the lead for good with a 10-0 run. The Eagles went into halftime up 31-26 and held on after making just three field goals in the final 7 minutes. Terrance Hill added 15 points for Morehead State.  The NCAA's modern era began after 1973, when freshman were permitted to play.

Western Michigan 68, Illinois State 65
(AP) KALAMAZOO, Mich. -- Demetrius Ward scored 14 points and hit two late free throws that gave Western Michigan the lead for good in a 68-65 BracketBusters victory over Illinois State on Saturday.

Ward hit double figures for the 10th straight game, and Alex Wolf and Matt Stainbrook had 12 points apiece for the Broncos (15-10), who won their third in a row.

Austin Hill led the Redbirds (11-17) with 12 points. Justin Clark hit three 3-pointers and scored 11, while Jon Ekey scored 10 for Illinois State, which has dropped six in a row. Tony Lewis had a game-high eight rebounds. Ward sank two free throws with 3:12 left to break a 59-59 tie and put the Broncos ahead to stay.  Hill hit two foul shots for Illinois State to cut it to 66-65 with 43 seconds left, but Ward made two more free throws with 5 seconds left to seal it.

Akron 76, Creighton 67
(AP) AKRON, Ohio -- Brett McKnight scored a season-high 21 points, Nikola Cvetinovic added 19 and Akron defeated Creighton 76-67 on Saturday night for its fifth straight win.

McKnight was 9 for 13 from the field for the Zips (17-10), who trailed by as many as six points in the first half.  Down 40-36 with 14:37 left, Akron went on an 11-4 run, punctuated by two layups apiece by McKnight and Cvetinovic, to take the lead for good.  The Zips made 13 of 14 free throws in the final 3:24 to seal the win.

The Bluejays (17-12), who won their only other meeting 71-60 in the first round of the 2006 NIT, had 17 turnovers to Akron's eight, resulting in 14 Zips points.  One game after making 16 3-pointers against Bowling Green, the Zips were only 3 of 9 from long range while Creighton was 6 of 18.  Doug McDermott had 16 points and 16 rebounds for the Bluejays, who had a 42-32 rebounding edge.

George Mason 77, UNI 71
(AP) CEDAR FALLS, Iowa -- Ryan Pearson scored 21 points and pulled down 15 rebounds as George Mason rallied to defeat Northern Iowa 77-71 Saturday to extend the longest active winning streak in Division I to 13 games.

Andre Cornelius scored 24 points to lead the Patriots (23-5) in a BracketBusters game and first-ever meeting between the teams. Pearson dominated the boards, and his strong inside play got him to the foul line often where he made all 13 free-throw attempts.

Kwadzo Ahelegbe led the Panthers (19-10) with 26 points, and Jake Koch added 14.
Northern Iowa led 36-32 at the half and was up 47-40 with 13:14 remaining. Cornelius made a free throw to give George Mason its first lead of the second half, 62-61, with 3 minutes remaining. His two free throws with 43 seconds left gave the Patriots a 71-65 edge. Northern Iowa got as close as 73-71 with 15 seconds left, but Pearson made four free throws to close it out.

Murray State 72, Evansville 47
(AP) MURRAY, Ky. -- B.J. Jenkins scored 16 points as Murray State used three big runs to cruise to a 72-47 win over Evansville on Saturday night.  The Racers (21-7), coming off a 64-57 loss to Southeast Missouri State, have won nine of their last 10.

Murray State opened the game with a 15-6 spurt. After the Purple Aces (14-13) made the first basket of the second half to close the gap to two points, at 30-28, the Racers went on a 15-1 run to make it 45-29 with 15:17 to go.

Evansville got to 56-45 with 5:35 left on a Denver Holmes layup, then the Racers outscored the Purple Aces 16-2 the rest of the way, with Evansville's only other basket a Clint Hopf jumper with 4:32 to go.  Isaac Miles added 12 points for Murray State, Isaiah Canaan had 10 and Jeffery McClain chipped in eight points, 12 rebounds and six assists.  Colt Ryan's 13 points led the Purple Aces, who have lost three in a row.