Shocking: Enchantment stuns defending TBT champs to force Game 3

After Monday, this was shocking.

Former Lobo Vance Jackson hit seven 3-pointers and scored a game-high 29 points to lead The Enchantment, a UNM and NMSU alumni basketball team, to a stunning 74-68 win over the Aftershocks, a team of Wichita State alumni, on Thursday night in Game 2 of the best of three TBT opening round series in Wichita’s Koch Arena.

The decisive Game 3 in the first round of the $2 million, winner-take-all tournament is Friday at 7 p.m. MT (8 p.m. CT in Wichita). The game will be broadcast on either FS1 or FS2.

In Monday’s Game 1, the defending champion Aftershocks blew out Enchantment, 98-77, in a game that wasn’t even as close as that 21-point deficit suggested.

Thursday night, Jackson scored 17 of his 25 by halftime and Enchantment led 34-33 at the break — three days after a game in which they trailed by 48-22 at the half and by as many as 26 points in the third quarter.

Former Lobo K.J. Jenkins was second in scoring with 12 points, five assists and four steals. Enchantment had 15 steals with five players have two or more — Jenkins (four), Jemel Jones (four), CJ Noland (two), Troy Simons (two) and Johnny McCants (two). They scored 21 points off turnovers in the win.

Former UNM Lobo Morris Udeze, who played his first four college seasons for Wichita State, scored two points and had six rebounds for the Aftershocks, who were led in scoring overall by 11 points by Conner Frankamp.

The winner of Friday’s game plays the winner of a game between a team of Kansas alumni and Kansas State alumni. That game will be Monday. The tournament turns into a single-elimination tournament after Friday.

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