Indiana University Athletics
Guyton Finds The Range For Hoosiers
1/31/1999 12:00:00 AM | Men's Basketball
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP)-A.J. Guyton scored 33 points, including a decisive 3-pointer with five seconds left in the second overtime, as Indiana (No. 15 ESPN/USA Today, No. 20 AP)rallied from 16 points down to beat Penn State 98-95 Sunday.
Guyton scored 11 points in two back-and-forth overtime periods, including a long 3 to send thegame into a second overtime.
Luke Recker, coming off the worst two-game stretch of his career, added 20 points and 11 rebounds as the Hoosiers (17-7, 4-5 Big Ten), 90-83 overtime losers to Minnesota on Tuesday night. Recker hit a layup with less than a second left to send the game into overtime and a free throw to tie the game at 95-95 with 53 seconds left.
Dan Earl led Penn State (10-9, 2-7) with a career-high 28 points, while Calvin Booth had 23 points, 12 rebounds and eight blocked shots. Penn State was 2-6 in January. Joe Crispin added 21 points, but for the third time against a top-25 team, his last-ditch 3 went awry.
Indiana, trailing 80-78 with 33 seconds left in regulation, misfired on two 3-pointers in the final 10 seconds. But Recker rebounded the second shot and put it back with less than a second left,sending the Hoosiers into overtime for the second straight game.
Titus Ivory had given Penn State the two-point lead on a driving layup.
Penn State opened a seven-point lead with 4:24 left in regulation when Crispin hit two free throwsand a deep 3-pointer -- both after steals at the other end.
Recker pulled Indiana within a point on two spectacular plays. First, he fell to the floor on a missed 3, but got up in time to corral the rebound and sink a 15-footer. Then he batted down apass at the other end and took it in for a layup.
After two free throws by Penn State, Guyton tied it at 76-76 with a 3-pointer with a minute left in regulation.
In falling behind by 16 points early on, Indiana looked like the team that had lost two straight games, but the Hoosiers recovered to take a 33-32 halftime lead when Guyton and Recker found their shots.
After a first half of lopsided runs, the teams traded the lead 13 times in the second half.
