Heytvelt leads All-Star team to win

Detroit (AP) - Josh Heytvelt expected to finish his career with a Final Four trip in Detroit, not a meaningless All-Star game.

His shot at the Final Four denied, Heytvelt still wanted to go out with a memory on the Ford Field court.

Heytvelt hit the winning 3-pointer in the final minute, scored 17 points and grabbed 11 rebounds to lead the Reese's All-Stars to a 105-100 win over Hershey's All-Stars in a college senior game Friday night.

"Walking in the hallway right when we got here in Ford Field was kind of depressing a little bit," Heytvelt said. "But I got over it, because I had something to look forward to today."

The Tar Heels eliminated Heytvelt's Gonzaga team in the regional semifinal.

Boston College's Tyrese Rice scored 24 points and Wisconsin's Marcus Landry had 14 for the winners in a game played on the same court as the Final Four.

Connecticut plays Michigan State, and Villanova plays North Carolina on Saturday.

"Just to have this experience like those great teams is wonderful," Landry said.

The exhibition pitted a couple of Final Four coaching veterans against each other.

Former Arkansas coach Nolan Richardson led Josh Carter and the Hershey's team, and Bruce Weber of Illinois coached Rice and the Reese's All Stars.

Each coach was familiar with his top assistant. Richardson reunited with Missouri coach Mike Anderson; the duo worked together on Arkansas' 1994 title team.

Purdue coach Matt Painter was an assistant under Weber at Southern Illinois. Weber, who led Illinois to a national runner-up finish in 2005, was a last-minute sub for former Purdue coach Gene Keady. Keady missed the game because his wife is ill.

"I feel bad for him because he'd love to be part of it," Weber said. "It's fun to get to know guys from all over the place. I thought they played pretty hard and played basketball like you're supposed to."

Central Florida's Jermaine Taylor had 23 points for Hershey's. Washington's Justin Dentmon had 22 points, and Auburn's Korvotney Barber added 17.

This game, featuring a collection of players who aren't moving on to the NBA, looked like just about any other basketball All-Star game. Richardson's famed "40 Minutes of Hell" took 30 minutes to warm up.

Richardson had only two days to get his roster caught up on the basics of the pressure defense. Most of the players have been finished for weeks, and it looked like it.

"They didn't have their legs and the style that I play, you have to have other guys come in and give that group some help," Richardson said.

There were a whopping 55 turnovers in the game, and 10 players scored in double figures.

"In the beginning it was just guys trying to get familiar with the court and everything, but in the second half the intensity really picked up," Landry said. "Guys were out there to play."

Landry hit a pair of 3s midway through the second half to give the Reese's team a 76-64 lead.

Like he did with the Razorbacks, Richardson cranked up the defensive pressure, and his team stormed back to take the lead. Barber's dunk off a miss made it 80-79 to give Richardson's team the lead. The lead swapped between the teams several times over the final minutes, delighting a few thousand fans who watched the free game at Ford Field.

"We're kind of chilling there with the lead, and they made the run at us," Weber said. "Coach Richardson was pressing us."

Taylor's dunk with 1 minute left gave Hershey's its last lead, 98-96.

Heytvelt, who scored 14 points in his final game for Gonzaga in an NCAA tournament loss to North Carolina, hit the 3 that put Reese's ahead for good. Rice sealed the win from the free-throw line.

"It took some time to get used to it, but it was pretty neat," Heytvelt said.