Washpun was on the bench in favor of Mitchell before that. Mitchell missed a scoop lay-up with 1 1/2 minutes left that could've put the Panthers ahead. Jacobson stayed with it, and the senior responded with a three-point play on the next possession to tie the game at 70 and send the game to overtime.

Mitchell missed on another try midway through overtime, and, with Stephen F. Austin clinging to a one-point lead, Jacobson put the ball in Washpun's hands.

"I felt like, at that point in overtime, that I had worn (Mitchell) out. That's not why he had missed some lay-ups and he knows that. He knows he has to finish a few more of those," said Jacobson. "But at that point, we had rode him pretty hard there in that second half. I went with Wes and rolled the dice a little because he had been sitting there for a long time."

On his first trip down the court, Washpun found Tuttle, who converted a three-point play. That put UNI up 74-72 as one of six lead changes in overtime.

Paul Jesperson's put back put the Panthers up again with 39 seconds left and UNI got the final two stops.