OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Jahmyl Telfort matched his season high with 26 points, DJ Davis added 22 and Butler held off No. 13 Creighton 99-98 in a wild finish Friday night.

The Bulldogs (15-7, 6-5 Big East) won their fourth straight. They shot 62.5% in the second half and went 13 of 22 on 3-pointers for the game against the conference's top 3-point defense.

It was their second win over a ranked opponent, a resume-helper for a team squarely on the NCAA Tournament bubble with just over a month left in the regular season.

“We've had so many games in league, a decent amount, where we’ve been right there,” Butler coach Thad Matta said. “I could go around the locker room and talk about every single guy and what he brought to the table for us tonight.”

Baylor Scheierman and Steven Ashworth scored 26 points apiece for the Bluejays (16-6, 7-4). Trey Alexander had 22 and Ryan Kalkbrenner 20.

Finley Bizjack’s layup gave Butler a 69-68 lead with 12 minutes left, and the Bulldogs never relinquished it. There still was plenty of drama before the highest-scoring Big East game of the season ended.

“That was a crazy game, and for people watching on TV, there was a lot of shot-making in that game, crazy 3s, crazy shots,” Telfort said.

Bizjack, the Bulldogs' first man off the bench, entered the game just 9 of 44 on 3s but made all three of his shots from distance. Boden Kapke, who has played sparingly in six games before Friday, made two 3s and hit key free throws late.

The Bluejays never trailed by more than five points the rest of the way and, after Kalkbrenner made two free throws to make it 97-96 with 11 seconds left, they had two chances to go ahead.

Creighton got the ball right back when Butler’s inbound pass following Kalkbrenner’s free throws went off DJ Davis’ leg and out of bounds. But Alexnader lost the ball on Creighton’s inbound pass, and Francisco Farabello fouled Davis on the next inbounds pass, hitting him around the eye.

Davis was unable to shoot the free throws, with Kapke taking his place and making both with 6.4 seconds left for a three-point lead.

Alexander was fouled immediately and made two free throws to make it 99-98 with 5.8 seconds left. The ball got loose on the Butler inbound, and Creighton got the ball on the alternating possession after a tie-up.

But only 0.5 seconds remained. Alexander's pass to the hoop was good, but Kalkbrenner was unable to tip it in.

“Hat's off to Butler,” Creighton coach Greg McDermott said. “Any one who comes in and scores 99 on us on our home floor played pretty darn well.”

The Bulldogs played without Posh Alexander (foot), who was held out after going through pregame warmups. Landon Moore, who played two seasons at St. Francis, made his first start for the Bulldogs.

BIG PICTURE

Butler: Butler has won one more game than it did last season. It was a Butler kind of game. The Bulldogs are averaging 81.5 points per game, its best figure since 1990-91, and allowing 73.8, it’s most since 1991-92.

Creighton: The Bluejays lost for the first time in 34 Friday night games since 1977.

UP NEXT

Butler: At No. 1 Connecticut on Tuesday night.

Creighton: At Providence on Wednesday night.

Formann scores 27 points, No. 6 Colorado women edge Washington State 63-57

PULLMAN, Wash. (AP) — Frida Formann matched her career high with 27 points, draining six 3-pointers, and No. 6 Colorado pulled out a 63-57 win over Washington State on Friday night.

The Buffaloes put together a 7-0 in the last minute with Formann making five free throws, to ice a game that prior to that never had a lead larger than six points. That made the score 63-54 before the Cougars hit a late 3. There were 13 ties and 10 lead changes.

Aaronette Vonleh scored 20 points for Colorado (18-3, 8-2 Pac-12 Conference) and Quay Miller grabbed 15 rebounds as the Buffaloes ended up with a 50-38 advantage on the boards. Formann had 27-points in a season-opening win over No. 1 LSU.

Tara Wallack scored 19 points to lead the Cougars (15-7, 4-5) and Eleonora Villa and Astera Tuhina both had 15.

Tuhina returned just in time after missing seven games with an injury, stepping back into the starting lineup to replace All-America guard Charlisse Leger-Walker, who was lost for the season in last Sunday's historic win over No. 2 UCLA.

Only four players scored for WSU. Bella Murekatete had eight points and 10 rebounds, which gave her 899 boards, tying Kate Benz for the program record.

Wallack had consecutive layups and Tuhina had a jumper that had the Cougars on top 50-48 near the midway point of the fourth quarter but Formann drained two more 3s to grab the lead for good, 54-50.

Wallack had 10 points, including a 3-pointer in the closing seconds of the first half, to give Washington State a 28-25 lead at the break.

The half was evenly matched with 10 ties and five lead changes, with the halftime score WSU's biggest lead while Colorado's biggest lead was 9-5.

The Cougars quickly got the lead to six twice in the third quarter but after CU's Tameiya Sadler converted a three-point play and WSU's Villa hit a 3, Formann drilled three-straight 3s for a 39-38 Buffalo lead.

WSU responded with four points but in the last 10 seconds Colorado got a free throw, an offensive rebound three-point play by Vonleh and then two more free throws from Vonleh after an inbounds turnover, a seven-point run for a 45-42 lead heading into the fourth quarter.

Colorado is at Washington on Sunday when No. 20 Utah plays at Washington State.