Juke Harris scored 25 points and hit key shots down the stretch as Wake Forest rallied past Stanford in a 68-63 victory in Winston-Salem, N.C., on Saturday.

Mekhi Mason came off the bench for 10 points for Wake Forest (13-12, 4-8 Atlantic Coast Conference), which won at home for the first time since Jan. 3.

Harris shot 6 of 15 from the field and 12 of 13 at the free-throw line, eclipsing the 20-point mark for the fourth consecutive game.

Ebuka Okorie scored 26 points for Stanford (16-10, 5-8), which was in position for its second road win in four days until the final minute. The Cardinal won at Boston College on Wednesday night.

Benny Gealer’s 11 points and Aidan Cammann’s 10 points and 11 rebounds helped Stanford, which was outscored 28-9 on free throws.

Wake Forest ended the game on a 17-5 run. Harris, who also led Wake Forest in rebounding with seven, scored the team’s final seven points.

The Demon Deacons overcame 4-of-17 shooting on 3-pointers by making 28 of 32 foul shots.

Wake Forest closed within 60-59 on two Omaha Biliew free throws with 2:30 left. The Demon Deacons were even at 61-all on Harris’ lay-in.

On the next possession, Harris drove into the lane for an off-balance shot, giving the Demon Deacons the lead at the 54-second mark.

Stanford’s Jeremy Dent-Smith missed an open jumper from inside the arc before Harris went 1 of 2 at the free-throw line. Okorie then forced a potential tying 3-pointer, with Harris rebounding and responding with two foul shots.

Stanford scored the final seven points of the first half for a 39-30 lead at the break.

Okorie and Gealer both finished with three 3-pointers. Stanford starters Donavin Young and Ryan Agarwal were both scoreless in 24 combined minutes.

–Field Level Media

INGLEWOOD, Calif. — Damian Lillard has not played a minute on the court for the Portland Trail Blazers this season and yet still found a way to make an impact at All-Star Weekend.

Lillard defeated seven other long-distance shooting rivals in the 3-point Contest and won the event Saturday for a third time, tying the record previously held by Larry Bird and Craig Hodges. The 35-year-old has been out due to an Achilles injury.

Lillard scored 29 points in the final round to hold off Devin Booker of the Phoenix Suns, who had 27 in the final after posting a high score of 30 while advancing from the first round. Rookie Kon Knnueppel of the Charlotte Hornets also advanced to the final round but was eliminated with a score of 17.

While Lillard made his final 3-point shot to record his 29, Booker reached 27 by making his first two shots on the final rack of balls, then missed all three of his final shots, any one of which would have forced overtime in the competition.

In addition to Booker’s 30 in the first found, Knueppel and Lillard each scored 27 to move on. Failing to advance were the Cleveland Cavaliers’ Donovan Mitchell (24), the Miami Heat’s Norman Powell (23), the Denver Nuggets’ Jamal Murray (18), the Philadelphia 76ers’ Tyrese Maxey (17) and the Milwaukee Bucks’ Bobby Portis Jr. (15).

–Doug Padilla, Field Level Media

Emanuel Sharp scored 23 points and the No. 3 Houston’s defense did the rest to the help the host Cougars produce a 78-64 win over reeling Kansas State on Saturday afternoon in a Big 12 Conference clash.

The Cougars (23-2, 11-1 Big 12) relied on their defense to limit Kansas State to just five field goals in the first half and scored the final 13 points on the way to a 33-19 lead at halftime. Houston was up by 14 points despite missing 23 of their 33 shots over the first 20 minutes.

Houston increased the margin to as many as 24 points in the second half when Chris Cenac Jr. hit a 3-pointer with 16:41 to play. But the Wildcats refused to go away, pulling to within 59-49 on Nate Johnson’s basket from beyond the arc with 7:06 left.

That’s a close as Kansas State would get as the Cougars extended their overall winning streak to six games and have captured 18 straight and 51 of their last 52 contests at home.

Milos Uzan and Kingston Flemings added 12 points each for Houston, whose next three games are against teams ranked in the top 10 beginning with No. 5 Iowa State on the road on Monday. The Cougars shot 53.8% in the second half.

P.J. Haggerty led the Wildcats with 23 points while Johnson had 12 and Taj Manning scored 10. Kansas State (10-15, 1-11 Big 12) dropped its sixth game in a row.

The Cougars survived a ragged offensive beginning, missing 11 straight shots from the floor after scoring the game’s opening basket and falling behind 9-3. Houston snapped that swoon when Sharp canned a 3-pointer with 12:47 left but still trailed 15-6 after Haggerty poured in a 3-pointer with 11:35 to play in the half.

Houston finally found its collective stride, running off 13 of the ensuing 14 points to take the lead at 19-16 on Kalifa Sakho’s dunk with 6:48 left until halftime. Uzan’s third chance, 3-pointer 4:06 before halftime stoked the Cougars’ lead to six points, and Houston extended its run through the rest of the half, getting two free throws by Flemings with 5.1 seconds left to carry a 33-19 lead to the break.

Sharp led all scorers with 14 points before halftime while Houston shot just 30.3% from the floor for the half. Haggerty’s eight points paced the Wildcats, who made only 20.8 percent of their field goals – missing their final 10 shots of the half – and going scoreless over the final 5:24 before the break.

–Field Level Media