MILWAUKEE (AP) - Tony Meier made two free throws with 1.1 seconds remaining to give Milwaukee an 86-84 victory against Cleveland State on Tuesday night.
Meier, who scored 15 points, was fouled on a 3-point attempt. He made the first two shots but missed the third for the Panthers (16-12, 9-7 Horizon League).
James Haarsma had 25 points and made five 3-point shots for Milwaukee. Paris Gulley added 17 points, Kyle Kelm 13 and Kaylon Williams 12.
Trevon Harmon scored 27 points and Jeremy Montgomery 15 for the Vikings (20-7, 10-5), who rallied from a 15-point second-half deficit but could not prevent their conference regular-season title hopes from taking a hit.
Valparaiso (19-9, 12-4) defeated Illinois-Chicago on Tuesday and holds the tiebreaker over Cleveland State. The Crusaders can clinch first place by beating Loyola Chicago on Feb. 21.
Milwaukee made 33 of 40 free-throw attempts; Cleveland State was 20 of 24.
Charlie Lee had 14 points and Anton Grady 10 for the Vikings, who shot 28 of 46 (60.9 percent) from the field.
| Scoreboard | |||
| Final | 1 | 2 | T |
| Cleveland State (20-7) | 41 | 43 | 84 |
| Wisconsin-Milwaukee (16-12) « | 50 | 36 | 86 |
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| Cleveland State Vikings | |||||||
| STARTERS | M | FG | FT | TR | A | PF | PTS |
| A. Grady, F | 29 | 3-5 | 4-4 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 10 |
| A. Pogue, F | 29 | 1-2 | 2-5 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| T. Kamczyc, F | 18 | 2-3 | 2-2 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 7 |
| T. Harmon, G | 39 | 8-14 | 7-8 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 27 |
| J. Montgomery, G | 30 | 6-13 | 2-2 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 15 |
| BENCH | M | FG | FT | TR | A | PF | PTS |
| C. Lee | 22 | 5-5 | 3-3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 14 |
| M. Mason | 22 | 1-2 | 0-0 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 3 |
| I. Nwamu | 5 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| D. Long | 3 | 2-2 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| L. Ndaye | 3 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Totals | 28-46 | 20-24 | 21 | 10 | 27 | 84 | |
| 60.9% | 83.3% | ||||||
| Wisconsin-Milwaukee Panthers | |||||||
| STARTERS | M | FG | FT | TR | A | PF | PTS |
| T. Meier, F | 32 | 3-4 | 6-8 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 15 |
| J. Haarsma, F | 26 | 6-9 | 8-8 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 25 |
| K. Williams, G | 36 | 1-9 | 9-10 | 4 | 7 | 4 | 12 |
| P. Gulley, G | 28 | 5-11 | 3-4 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 17 |
| R. Allen, G | 21 | 0-4 | 1-2 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 1 |
| BENCH | M | FG | FT | TR | A | PF | PTS |
| K. Kelm | 22 | 4-6 | 5-6 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 13 |
| R. Haggerty | 18 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| S. Boga | 11 | 1-1 | 1-2 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 3 |
| E. Richard | 6 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Totals | 20-45 | 33-40 | 26 | 16 | 21 | 86 | |
| 44.4% | 82.5% | ||||||
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