Micah Robinson scored a game-winning layup with 18 seconds left in overtime, as TCU held off Oklahoma State 95-92 in a Big 12 game Saturday in Stillwater, Okla.
David Punch led the Horned Frogs (16-9, 6-6) with 19 points and six rebounds before fouling out with 27 seconds left in overtime.
Parsa Fallah led the Cowboys (16-9, 4-8) with 27 points and six rebounds in the battle of two NCAA Tournament bubble teams.
The Cowboys trailed through the whole second half, but Fallah was able to tie it at the buzzer and force overtime.
Liutauras Lelevicius made one of two free throws with six seconds left to give TCU an 84-82 lead.
Jaylen Curry took a 31-foot shot that missed the rim, but rebounded right to Fallah, who went straight back up for the layup as the horn sounded.
Anthony Roy had 16 points for the Cowboys; Kayne Clary had 13 points and nine assists before fouling out in the closing minute of regulation.
Jayden Pierre also had 16 points and six rebounds for TCU.
The Horned Frogs led by as many as nine in the first half, but Fallah completed a three-point play with 50 seconds left to cut the lead to five at halftime.
TCU led 22-13 with 12:48 left but went scoreless for more than three minutes and didn’t hit a field goal for nearly five minutes as the Cowboys climbed back within three.
The Horned Frogs only shot 35.3% from the floor (12-of-34), but they were 7-for-13 from beyond the 3-point line to build the lead.
Five different players nailed 3-pointers for TCU, led by two each from Pierre, who led the Horned Frogs with eight first-half points, and Brock Harding.
Fallah led the Cowboys with 11 points, hitting 4-for-5 shots from the floor.
The Cowboys made 40% of their field goals (12-of-30) in the first half.
Punch only had two points in the first half and left the game with 4:54 left in the half when he took an inadvertent shot to the face from Fallah on a loose ball. He returned in the final minute of the first half.
Roy hit a 3-pointer with 2:24 left in the half to cut the TCU lead to 36-31, but Harding answered with a 3-pointer to give TCU an eight-point lead in the final two minutes.
–Field Level Media
