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Peters scores 24, Valparaiso beats Alabama 68-60

Updated Mar. 4, 2020 8:54 p.m. ET

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LAS VEGAS (AP) Alec Peters scored 24 points, including three 3-pointers, and grabbed 10 rebounds and Valparaiso beat Alabama 68-60 on Monday night in the MGM Grand Main Event.

Valpo will play BYU in the championship game on Wednesday.

Peters made 7 of 12 from the field and all of his seven free-throw attempts. Jubril Adekoya added 16 points and Shane Hammink scored 10.

After Alabama's Braxton Key hit a 3 to give Alabama (2-2) a 45-44 lead - its first of the half - with 11:50 to play. The Crusaders responded with a 17-6 run, capped by a Peters 3-pointer, to make it 61-51 with 2:51 remaining.

Two free throws by Corban Collins trimmed the Tide's deficit to four with 1:18 left, but Peters converted a 3-point play and Valpo (4-1) held on.

Collins and Riley Norris scored 10 points apiece for Alabama. The Tide made of 9 of 28 (32.1 percent) second-half shots.

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