Glenn pours in 18 second-half points as Tulsa holds off Boise State in WAC game

TULSA, Okla. – Jarius Glenn scored 18 of his 27 points in the second half to lead Tulsa to a 76-63 victory over Boise State on Saturday.

Glenn helped Tulsa fight off a pesky Boise State team that climbed back in the game despite not hitting a field goal for more than seven minutes in the second half.

Boise State (9-13, 3-8 Western Athletic Conference) came back from a 55-39 deficit with about 13 minutes left in a game Tulsa had controlled from the beginning.

The Broncos, trailing 55-42 after a 3-pointer by Eric Lane with 11:25 left, didn’t score another point from the field until Franco Harris hit a 3-pointer with 4:05 remaining to make the score 60-55.

Boise State had cut into the deficit by drawing fouls and scoring 10 points on free throws. Then Tulsa scored perhaps its biggest basket of the game.

With the shot clock winding down, Glenn fired up an air ball in traffic that Vernell Davis put back in to make the score 62-55 with 3:26 remaining.

“That was huge because it was kind of a dead feeling with the refs stopping the game all the time with all those fouls,” Glenn said.

A rapidly improving Tulsa improved its record to 6-14 overall, and 3-8 in the WAC while winning its second conference game in the last 48 hours. Tulsa defeated conference-leading Texas-El Paso 65-54 Thursday night.

Coby Karl led Boise State by scoring 12 of his 15 points in the second half, including 8 of 9 free throws.

Tulsa led from the first basket of the game and held a double-digit lead for most of the rest of the game after Glenn hit a jumper with 6:11 left in the first half to extend Tulsa’s lead to 28-17.