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NCAA Basketball: Armed Forces Classic-Arizona vs Michigan State
65
Arizona ARIZ 5-1
69
Winner Butler BUT 6-0
Arizona ARIZ
5-1
65
Final
69
Butler BUT
6-0
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 F
Arizona ARIZ 34 31 65
Butler BUT 36 33 69

Game Recap: Men's Basketball | | AP

Butler Knocks Off No. 8 Arizona, 69-65

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Kelan Martin had 16 points, while Andrew Chrabascz had 14 points and seven rebounds to lead Butler to a 69-65 victory over No. 8 Arizona on Friday night in the championship game of the Continental Las Vegas Invitational.

Avery Woodson contributed 13 points, Kamar Baldwin had 11 and Tyler Wideman had eight rebounds for the Bulldogs (6-0).

Chrabascz was named MVP of the tournament.

Lauri Markkanen and Kobi Simmons led Arizona (5-1) with 15 and 14 points, respectively.

The Wildcats, who fell behind by as many as nine points with 14 minutes to play, used a 17-2 run to regain momentum to get back in the game before Butler made a final run down the stretch.

Trailing 63-58, the Bulldogs scored the game's next eight points, highlighted by Wideman's dunk with 29.3 seconds left that gave Butler a 65-63 lead. His ensuing free throw made it 66-63.

The Bulldogs set themselves up with momentum at the close of the first half, when Sean McDermott took a pass on the run from Tyler Lewis, and banked in a soft jumper high off the glass to give Butler a 36-34 lead.

After Arizona tied the game at 38-all less than 2 minutes into the second half, the Bulldogs went on an 11-2 run to move ahead 49-40 and seize control of the tempo. The momentum shift visibly frustrated the Wildcats, who committed five turnovers inside the first 7 minutes of the second half.

POLL IMPLICATIONS: With the loss, the eighth-ranked Wildcats will likely drop out of the Top 10. Arizona has been ranked in the Top 25 for 81 consecutive weeks, the second-longest streak in the nation behind Kansas (145 weeks). Since the start of the 2012-13 season, the Wildcats have spent 60 of those weeks ranked in the Top 10.

UP NEXT

Arizona: The Wildcats won't play again until Nov. 30, when they return to the McKale Center to host Texas Southern.

Butler: The Bulldogs have little time to rest, as they head to Salt Lake City for a Nov. 28 date with Pac 12-member Utah.

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