Darien Jackson and Jeriah Horne each scored 21 points to lead Tulsa for an 83-77 win over the Cincinnati Bearcats in front of a Legends Day crowd of 3,405 fan at the Donald W. Reynolds Center.

Jackson scored 17 of his points in the second half and ended the game tying his career-high which came in the earlier meeting against the Bearcats. He was 8-of-10 from the field, 2-of-2 from three-point range and added five rebounds.

Tulsa freshman Anthony Pritchard finished with career-highs for his first career double-double tallying 11 points and 10 assists. Rey Idowu added 14 points and three rebounds for the Hurricane.

Tulsa avenged an earlier loss in Cincinnati to even the season series at one game apiece, while improving its overall record to 8-15 and league mark to 2-10. The Bearcats fell to 16-8 and 6-5 in The American.

“Obviously, we needed this. It was a great win,” said Tulsa coach Frank Haith. “We had a lot of guys score well and defensively, they scored 77 points, but I thought we played great defense as we held them to 33-percent from three-point range.

“If you look at their output in the first game up there, we were much better tonight.”

The Hurricane out-scored Cincinnati in the paint 44-to-26, while hitting 53-percent of its field goals compared to just 38 percent for the Bearcats. Tulsa led the entire game except for when the contest was tied at 4-4 for just 0:52 in the first three minutes.

“We executed on offense. We executed in the first half and came out in the second half and did a really good job of taking good shots,” added Haith. “We had 14 assists, but Pritch had 10 of them. Outstanding job by the freshman with 11 points and 10 assists. But DJ and Jeriah were outstanding.

“Every time we needed a big play, a big shot, DJ made a lot of those shots. Great game, Great win.”

Tulsa played UCF in Orlando Monday night.