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TULSA, Okla. (AP) -- Jarius Glenn scored 18 of his game-high 27 points in the second half to lead Tulsa to a 76-63 victory over Boise State on Saturday.
Glenn helped Tulsa fight off a pesky Boise State team that climbed back in the game despite not hitting a field goal for over seven minutes in the second half.
Boise State, (9-13, 3-8 WAC), came back from a 55-39 deficit with over 13 minutes left in a game Tulsa had controlled from the beginning.
The Broncos, trailing 55-42 after a three-pointer by Eric Lane with 11:25 left, didn't score another point from the field until Franco Harris hit a three-pointer with 4:05 remaining to make the score 60-55.
Boise State had gotten back in the game by drawing fouls and scoring all 10 of its points in between on free throws. Then Tulsa scored perhaps its biggest basket of the game.
With the shot clock winding down, Glenn fired up an air ball in traffic that Vernell Davis put back in to make the score 62-55 with 3:26 remaining.
"That was huge because it was kind of a dead feeling with the refs stopping the game all the time with all those fouls," said Glenn of Davis' basket.
A rapidly improving Tulsa improved its record to 6-14 overall, and 3-8 in the WAC while winning its second conference game in the last 48 hours. Tulsa defeated then league-leading UTEP 65-54 Thursday night.
Coby Karl led Boise State by scoring 12 of his 15 points in the second half, including eight of nine free throws.
Tulsa led from the first basket of the game and held a double-digit lead for most of the rest of the game after Glenn hit a jumper with 6:11 left in the first half to extend Tulsa lead to 28-17.
