AP -- ake Odum banked in a 15-footer with eight-tenths of a second left in overtime gave Indiana State a 57-56 win over Miami in the third-place game of the Diamond Head Classic Tuesday.
Manny Arop and R.J. Mahurin scored 13 points apiece for Indiana State, which trailed by as many as nine points and shot just 27 percent from the field. Mahurin sank two free throws with 16.9 seconds left in regulation to close out a 9-2 Indiana State run, which tied it at 49.
In overtime, the Sycamores took their first lead since 2-0 on Kristian Smith's layup. But the Hurricanes (8-3) used a 6-0 run, capped by an alley-oop from Shane Larkin to Rion Brown, to pull ahead 55-53 with just under 2 minutes to play.
Arop made two free throws to tie it at 55 with 1:03 left, and after Miami's Kenny Kadji missed a shot, Smith got the rebound and Indiana State called timeout with 29.3 seconds left.
Odum received the ensuing inbounds pass and held the ball until 5 seconds remained. He started to his right and then pump-faked near the free-throw line and hit what became the game-winning shot. The Hurricanes did not get a shot off at the end.
"We kind of drew up a ball screen slip with the big guy and the lane just kind of opened up," said Odum, a junior point guard. "I gave him the ball fake and he bit on it. I stepped through and shot off the glass. It's a move I like to do, I do it a lot. It happened to fall for me."
For the most part, Miami dominated inside with its post players. Kadji led the Hurricanes with 13 points, Julian Gamble scored 11 points with nine rebounds and four blocks and Trey McKinney Jones grabbed 11 rebounds.
The Hurricanes held a 38-18 edge in points in the paint, plus advantages of 18-7 in second-chance points and 11-2 in points off turnovers. However, they were unable to overcome poor free-throw shooting (11 of 21) and missed all 15 tries from 3-point range.
"We just struggled all game long, couldn't make a 3, 0 for 15 for the game," Miami coach Jim Larranaga said. "Fifty-two percent from the foul line, 33 percent from the field and still had a chance to win. You don't normally produce those kinds of numbers."
It was the second straight loss for the Hurricanes, who had a seven-game winning streak snapped in a 73-58 loss to No. 4 Arizona Sunday.





