Shandong and Jiangsu of the Chinese Basketball Association battled in the final game of the Straits Cup basketball tournament yesterday, with Jiangsu coming back from an 18-point deficit to win 73-70.
The match came three days after Jiangsu's Meng Da bloodied Taiwan Beer center Wu Tai-hao's nose at the end of a game on Monday night, prompting Taiwan Beer to pull out of the tournament and Straits Cup officials to cut the tourney's last six games to two.
On Wednesday night, Shandong defeated the Dacin Tigers 76-70.
With five minutes left in the second quarter last night, Shandong had taken a commanding 18-point lead.
Jiangsu used a tight defense to battle their way back into the game and Jiangsu's Chen Fei cut the Shandong lead to just four points with a layup with just more than four minutes left in the third quarter to make it 46-42.
Jiangsu nailed a three with seven minutes left in the fourth to cut Shandong's lead to 60-59. Jiangsu took the lead on a drive to the hoop with five minutes left to play.
Jiangsu got the ball with 45 seconds left and a strong inside bucket and free throw with three seconds left gave them a 73-70 win.
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