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LAS VEGAS -- Alec Peters scored 24 points, including three 3-pointers, and grabbed 10 rebounds and Valparaiso beat Alabama 68-60 on Monday night in the MGM Grand Main Event.Valpo will play BYU in the championship game on Wednesday.Peters made 7 of 12 from the field and all of his seven free-throw attempts. Jubril Adekoya added 16 points and Shane Hammink scored 10.After Alabamas Braxton Key hit a 3 to give Alabama (2-2) a 45-44 lead -- its first of the half -- with 11:50 to play. The Crusaders responded with a 17-6 run, capped by a Peters 3-pointer, to make it 61-51 with 2:51 remaining.Two free throws by Corban Collins trimmed the Tides deficit to four with 1:18 left, but Peters converted a 3-point play and Valpo (4-1) held on.Collins and Riley Norris scored 10 points apiece for Alabama. The Tide made of 9 of 28 (32.1 percent) second-half shots. Saucony Outlet Uk . Newcastle dominated in the early stages but City weathered the storm and then raised its game in extra time. 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They have seven picks in the first two games, something that hasnt happened at Ohio State in 35 years.Theyve got good players at every spot and theyre coached well, which is obvious, Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops said this week. And you see the athleticism, the speed everywhere.But it will be a different ballgame against Oklahoma. Big boy football is how Ohio State defensive coordinator Greg Schiano put it.Oklahoma quarterback Baker Mayfield last year threw for 3,700 yards and 36 touchdowns with just seven interceptions, and rushed for 405 yards and seven scores. The effort was good enough for fourth place in Heisman Trophy voting. Hes thrown for 567 yards and five TDs through the first two games this season.Mayfield, who sat out in 2014 after transferring from Texas Tech, has thrown passes this season to 14 different players, including 6-foot-5 wide tight end Mark Andrews, who has five catches, three of them for touchdowns. Running backs Samaje Perine and Joe Mixon also are prolific receivers.Its not just what he can do as a quarterback, Schiano said. What I think makes him most dangerous is when the play breaks down. He tends to create things. He scrambles, but he scrambles to throw the ball down the field. He does a very good job keeping his eyes down the field.Hes very shifty, said Ohio State cornerback Marshon Lattimore, who had two interceptions last weekk, one returned for a 40-yard touchdown.ddddddddddddMayfield said he doesnt expect anything fancy from Ohio State, just skilled players who know their jobs.Theyre just physical, Mayfield said. Theyre all-around good players. Yeah, they lost a lot of people from last year, but that doesnt matter. They do a good job recruiting and filling in the spots. Theyre an all-around good defense, or else they wouldnt be giving up only 215 yards a game and 6.5 points per game.FIRST TIME AWAY FROM HOME:Ohio State coaches expressed concern this week about getting so many young players ready for the first away game in a hostile atmosphere against another top-tier team.Thats the only thing with a young team, the newness of what happens on the road as opposed to focusing on their assignments, coach Urban Meyer said.Middle linebacker Raekwon McMillan, one of just six returning starters for the Buckeyes this year, said preparations for this game have taken on a higher level of urgency.The most important game is the next game, he said. But its definitely more intensified this week because were going on the road for the first time, and weve got a lot of young guys. Weve got to prepare like this is our last game.RECEIVERS UNSETTLEDMeyer said receivers are performing well, but one of them has yet to emerge from the pack.In the first two games, five different wide receivers caught passes, in addition to H-backs Curtis Samuel and Dontre Wilson and tight ends Marcus Baugh and A.J. Alexander.Were still figuring out the receiver position because theyre so new, Meyer said. We dont have the one guy thats your go-to guy yet.---Online: AP college football site: http://collegefootball.ap.org/---Follow Mitch Stacy at http://twitter.com/mitchstacyFor some of his other recent stories: http://bigstory.ap.org/content/mitch-stacy ' ' '