All-America candidate Buddy Hield scored 27 points — including the go-ahead free throw with 1:28 remaining — and grabbed nine rebounds tonight to lift No. 3-ranked Oklahoma to a pulsating 84-81 victory over Hawai’i in the Hawaiian Airlines Diamond Head Classic semifinals.
An electrified crowd of about 6,300 at the Stan Sheriff Center watched the Sooners overcome a spectacular 32-point, six-assist, four-rebound performance by Rainbow Warriors point guard Roderick Bobbitt to improve to 10-0 and advance to the championship game vs. Harvard at 3:30 p.m. Christmas Day. UH fell to 8-2 and into Friday’s 1:30 p.m. third-place game vs.