VALPARAISO, Ind. -- Alec Peters and Valparaiso did not shrink from the challenge, Tuesday night.With No. 21 Rhode Island storming back in the final seconds, Valpos leading scorer came up big on the defensive end. Peters got a piece of Jarvis Garretts potential game-tying 3-pointer with two seconds to play, and Valparaiso held off the Rams, 65-62.Peters also did it on offense, as usual for Valpo. Fourth in the nation in scoring at just over 25 points per game, Peters scored 27 points to go with nine rebounds, finished 10 of 10 from the free throw line, and scored on three straight possessions down the stretch.We always talk about not shying away from the moment and its very evident that Alec wants the ball in those moments, said Valparaiso coach Matt Lottich. Im happy hes on our side.The win snapped a streak of 40 straight Valpo losses to ranked teams, dating back to the Crusaders upset over Ole Miss in the 1998 NCAA tournament.This is pretty big... Definitely top five, Peters said when asked to rank this win in his career. Weve still got some big games ahead of us and Im very confident that we can win some bigger ones.Jubril Adekoya chipped in 13 points and Tevonn Walker had 10 for the Crusaders (7-1), who will take more than a week off before a trip to face No. 1 Kentucky in Lexington.Jared Terrell scored 21 points for Rhode Island (5-2) in the Rams first true road game of the season. Hassan Martin added 16 points and six rebounds.These are the type of game that expose the things you need to work on and get better at, said Rhode Island coach Dan Hurley. They also prepare you for the rigors of conference play. That was a conference-type game, semi-final of a conference championship intensity in that game.Consecutive URI buckets cut Valpos lead to 64-62 with 20 seconds left. After Shane Hammink missed a layup, the Rams went to the free throw line with a chance to tie the game, but Martin missed, and Adekoya hit one of two foul shots at the other end to put Valpo up three with 11 seconds to play, setting up the final play.With 13:50 to go following a technical foul on Rhode Island coach Dan Hurley, Peters knocked down both free throws and Max Joseph hit a layup to give the Crusaders their largest lead, 43-38, since the early minutes of the game.After the Rams cut it to one, Valpo scored the next seven, a run capped by Adekoyas three-point play to push the lead to 50-42 with 8:58 to play.We always talk about being resilient, Lottich said. Our guys just continued to push the envelope, continued to play aggressive.POLL IMPLICATIONSRhode Island moved up two spots to 21 in the AP poll this week and has been ranked for four consecutive weeks, the second-longest stretch in program history, a streak now in jeopardy, while Valpo will try again to play giant killer against Kentucky next week.RESUME BUILDERHurley pointed to what this game could do for his teams NCAA resume, despite the loss.These are great wins for your postseason resume, and theyre probably not bad losses, either, Hurley said. I think well both have good numbers at the end of the year if we both do what were supposed to do.BIG PICTURERhode Island: The Rams failed to avenge a 58-55 home loss to Valpo last season.Valparaiso: Coming off a program-best 30 wins last season, the Crusaders matched their best eight-game start in the last 70 years, and improved to 4-1 all-time against Rhode Island.UP NEXTRhode Island: The Rams stay on the road to play to try and avenge another narrow loss last year when they visit in-state rival Providence College on Saturday.Valparaiso: The Crusaders are off eight days before traveling to Lexington to face No. 1 Kentucky next Wednesday.Steve Buechele Jersey . -- On the field, it was business as usual for Jameis Winston and No. Ariel Jurado Rangers Jersey . With Parker having a quiet game for once, Nicolas Batum and Boris Diaw provided the scoring as France won its first major basketball title by beating Lithuania 80-66 on Sunday. 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INTZ was outclassed across the board, and UoL made sure to go for the throat once it found a lead; this was a simple thing to find considering Fabian Exileh Schubert lived up to his post-season peak from earlier this year, completely blowing away INTZs Gabriel Tockers Claumann in both games. Exileh paved the way for the team to work its historically strong rotational play, and it never gave INTZ an opportunity to mount a comeback.The second match was equally lopsided, but more interesting to many Western fans due to the relative obscurity of the teams involved. Oceanias Chiefs made their debut on the IEM stage, only to face South Koreas Longzhu, which was also making its IEM debut. The match started off with an exciting back and forth in Game 1 that almost led to a Chiefs victory thanks to their unexpectedly strong coordination and the efforts from jungler Samuel Spookz Broadley and mid laner Simon Swiffer Papamarkos.Unfortunately, the deficit that their ttop laner, Brandon Swip3rR Holland, had against Bon-Taek Expession Gu proved to be too much to bear; despite their strong teamfighting the Chiefs just proved unable to fight Longzhu 1-vs-1 in the split push the South Koreans initiated.dddddddddddd Game 2 would prove nowhere near as competitive: Longzhu stomped Chiefs flat thanks to an amazing performance from Lee Chaser Sang-hyum, whose early pressure in the solo lanes gave Expession the opportunity to once again dominate Swip3rR and split push the team to a win.Sunday is sure to be an exciting day, as Unicorns take on Team SoloMid while Longzhu will challenge Flash Wolves. With Unicorns in some of the best form in its organizations history, the team is sure to give the hometown heroes a good fight, while Longzhu looks to follow in SK Telecom T1s footsteps from Worlds and thrash the longtime thorn in the side of South Korean hegemony.However the dice fall tomorrow, well be crowning a new champion of the $100,000 tournament come the evening. Expect to see some close and exciting matches, a welcome change after todays bloodbaths. ' ' '