Texas Southern tops Southern 59-58 after a wild final few seconds

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana -- For most of the game, it looked like Southern and Texas Southern were destined for a photo finish Monday night.

But the number of twists and turns in the final moments would have been almost impossible to predict.

In a game that was tied 10 times, there were four dramatic possessions in the final 10 seconds.

In the end, Chris Thomas made a tie-breaking free throw with 0.7 seconds left, and two replay reviews went the Tigers way in the final second as they won 59-58 victory in the F.G. Clark Activity Center.

“We knew it was going to be a battle,” said TSU coach Mike Davis, whose team scored six points in the final 3.8 seconds to defeat Kansas State by two points last month.

This victory improved the Tigers to 5-10 and 2-0. The Jaguars, 4-12 and 1-1, visit Grambling on Saturday.

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