Memphis basketball survives at Tulsa with Jahvon Quinerly clutch shot. Here are 5 takeaways

TULSA, Okla. — The No. 15 Memphis basketball team escaped Tulsa's Reynolds Center with a 78-75 win Thursday, the Tigers' seventh in a row.

Tulsa (9-4, 0-1 AAC) tied the score at 75 with 33.4 seconds to play, but Jahvon Quinerly drilled a 3-pointer with 4 seconds left to save Memphis (12-2, 1-0).

Nae'Qwan Tomlin and David Jones scored 17 points apiece for the Tigers. PJ Haggerty had 27 for Tulsa.

Here are five takeaways from Thursday's game.

Nae'Qwan Tomlin shines again

The midseason Kansas State transfer didn't need long to make an impact.

Tomlin, the 6-foot-10 forward, put up 15 points and 15 rebounds in last week's win over Austin Peay, becoming the first Memphis player since at least 2010-11 with a 15-and-15 double-double in 23 minutes or less.

What does he do for an encore? Lead Memphis to a hard-fought road win over the pesky Golden Hurricane.

Tomlin was a force around the basket — on both ends of the floor. On one sequence, he blocked a shot on defense, then took the outlet pass nearly the length of the floor and finished with a wide-open one-handed dunk with authority.

He also collected seven rebounds.

David Jones — sick?

Memphis wasn't even sure its leading scorer would play Thursday.

Not after a difficult-to-shake bug kept David Jones off the practice floor for most of this week.

But if he was still feeling the effects of his illness, he wore it well. Despite committing seven turnovers, Jones scored 17 points and grabbed eight rebounds.

PJ Haggerty lives up to billing

Haggerty had his way with Memphis in the first half.

The 6-3 redshirt freshman guard was a dizzying one-man ball of fire. He dropped 17 points before halftime on 6-of-11 shooting from the field and 4-for-5 at the free-throw line, and had three rebounds and a steal.

The Tigers take pride in shutting down their opponents' best player. But the Crosby, Texas, native finished with 27 points.

Caleb Mills' ugly injury

The senior guard had an open lane to the basket, so he broke down the baseline for it. As he neared the goal, he planted his left foot, only to be sent airborne.

Mills immediately grabbed his left knee, obviously in intense pain. Head athletic trainer Darrell Turner (also the athletic department's senior associate athletic director for sports medicine) and strength coach Darby Rich rushed out to check on Mills. Hardaway followed them.

After several minutes, most of which Mills spent writhing in pain, he tried putting weight on his left leg. But he could not, so Hardaway, Turner and Rich carried him off the floor.

Shortly after the team went to the locker room at halftime, Mills left the courtside area, partially under his own power. With a brace on his left knee and his arms around a pair of staff members, he was able to put some weight on his left leg as he slowly made his way to the locker room.

Mills is averaging 8.5 points and 3.2 rebounds a game this season.

How Tulsa got back into the game

The Golden Hurricane, try as they might, couldn't get much of anything going beyond the arc in the first half (3-for-13).

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They flipped that on its head in the second, using 3-pointers to eat away at the Tigers' 14-point halftime lead. After its sixth made 3-pointer of the second half, Tulsa trailed just 56-53 with 12:18 left in the game.

The bulk of the damage was done by Carlous Williams, who went into Thursday's game just 3-for-15 this season at the 3-point line. He made that many in a four-minute span early in the second half.

Williams finished with 16 points and four made 3-pointers.

Reach sports writer Jason Munz at jason.munz@commercialappeal.com or on Twitter @munzly.

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