Pepperdine Can’t Hold 20-Point Lead
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SAN FRANCISCO — A little prosperity was more than Pepperdine’s basketball team could handle Saturday night.
The Waves, in their worst collapse of the season, squandered a 20-point second-half lead and lost to San Francisco, 56-54, after center Booker T. Washington made two free throws with 18 seconds to play in a West Coast Conference game before 3,722 at Memorial Gymnasium.
Pepperdine, 7-7 overall and 0-2 in the conference, got off three shots in the final seconds, but an outside jumper by Marques Johnson, a follow attempt by Gerald Brown and a tip-in try by Bryan Hill failed.
The Waves led, 49-29, with 14:09 left, then were scoreless for nearly nine minutes as San Francisco (9-6, 2-1) went on a 17-0 run.
Johnson led the Waves with 13 points.
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