SAN FRANCISCO – On his back, head against the stanchion, Khalil Shabazz clenched both his fists. The University of San Francisco bench leaped up in unison. Taavi Jurkatamm exploded out of his chair and pulled his knees into his chest, nearly falling over.
Shabazz, the Dons' redshirt sophomore guard, had just hit a layup and drawn a foul with just over a second remaining in a back-and-forth game against Fresno State (4-8), giving San Francisco (11-3)a a lead for the first time in 11 minutes.
On a night when Bulldogs freshman forward Orlando Robinson scored a career-high 24, where the Dons trailed by eight with under two minutes left, Shabazz scored 15 of his team-high 17 points in the second half, countering San Francisco's second-half swoon to power a 71-69 road win.