Keith Williams and David DeJulius scored 14 points apiece and Mason Madsen hit the clinching free throw with 2.1-seconds left as the Bearcats held off the Knights for a 69-68 win.
Madsen made a pair of free throws with 11.3 second remaining. UCF’s Darius Perry then missed a potential game-tying 3-pointer with five seconds left and the Knights were forced to foul.
Madsen hit one of two free throws and Perry hit a 3-pointer at the buzzer, but it left the Knights one point short of catching the Bearcats.
“We had a designed play [on the potential tying possession that began with 11.