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Nate Williams scored a career-high 28 points and grabbed 12 boards to lead Georgia State over Auburn 77-72 Monday night.
Kevin Thomas scored 12 points for the Panthers (5-3), while Marcus Brown and Herman Favors each added 10 points. Favors also had 11 assists.
Auburn (7-2) took a 26-18 first-half lead with 7:40 remaining, but the Panthers scored six straight points to close to 26-24.
Auburn went on another 9-0 run to open a 10-point lead at 34-24 with 2:44 on the clock. Georgia State closed to 35-28 and had a chance to cut the lead but drew an offensive foul on D'Andre McGrew's 3-pointer.
Down by 10 at the half, Georgia State made a 13-0 run on a pair of 3-pointers by Lamont McIntosh and Kevin Thomas, making it 41-38 with 13 minutes remaining in the game.
The closest Auburn got was by five points with 20.8 seconds left.
Marco Killingsworth
led the Tigers with 19 points, and Nathan Watson added 18 points. Brandon Robinson
scored 11.
Kevin Martin scored 33 points to lead Western Carolina to its second victory ever against a Southeastern Conference opponent in a 62-59 overtime win Monday night over Arkansas.
Martin, the nation's leading scorer at 28 points per game coming in, had eight of the Catamounts' 11 points in overtime. Arkansas held him to just seven in the first half.
The Razorbacks (6-3) trailed 49-42 in the closing minutes after a pair of free throws by Martin, but they closed regulation time with a 9-2 run.
Senior guard Charles Tatum hit a 3-pointer to cut the lead to 49-45 with 1:12 to go. Ronnie Brewer made a free throw and then Tatum tracked down an offensive rebound then passed to Kendrick Davis for a 3-pointer with 47 seconds remaining.
Jonathon Modica, Arkansas' leading scorer at 21.4 points per game, tied the contest at 51 with a steal and dunk with 36.5 seconds to go. It was his first and only basket of the game.
In the closing seconds, Western Carolina (5-3) couldn't get the ball to Martin, closely guarded by Wen Mukubu, and the Catamounts didn't get a shot off.
In the overtime
period, Arkansas pulled within 58-57 with 1:31 to go, but Martin hit a 25-foot
3-pointer to push the advantage back to four.
The Razorbacks trailed 62-59 after a field goal by Pharis and a free throw by
Western Carolina's Corey Muirhead. Arkansas had three shots at the end of overtime,
two by Brewer, but none found the goal.
The Razorbacks lost their second straight at home by shooting 30 percent -- 21 of 70 -- from the field and making 20 turnovers that Western Carolina turned into 20 points. Arkansas lost by 15 to Oklahoma State on Saturday.
Arkansas' top scorer was Brewer with 15 points and 10 rebounds, but he missed his first five free throws and went 5-of-17 from the field.
Western Carolina, which lost to Georgia by 11 in the season opener, is now 2-26 against schools currently in the Southeastern Conference. The Catamounts' only other win came against Tennessee, 78-71, in 1993.