PHOENIX (Field Level Media) - Santa Clara held off a late comeback to defeat Washington State 69-61 Saturday at the Jerry Colangelo Classic in Phoenix behind 23 points from Adama-Alpha Bal.

Isaac Jones led Washington State (8-2) with 16 points. Andrej Jakimovski added 14 and Myles Rice scored 12 for the Cougars, who had a six-game winning streak come to an end.

Bal was 6 for 9 from the field, including 3 of 4 from 3-point range, and made all eight of his free-throw attempts.

The Cougars were up 16-12 with 13:55 left in half before Santa Clara went on a 23-1 run.

Kymany Houinsou's fast-break dunk off a turnover with 2:56 left in half was the first Washington State field goal since Jakimovski's 3-pointer with 14:42 remaining.

The Cougars used a late 10-0 run to pull within 60-54 with 2:23 remaining.

WSU's Jones made a dunk with 49 seconds left to cut Santa Clara's lead to four points, but the Broncos went 6-for-6 from the free-throw line the rest of the way to close out the victory.

Santa Clara shot 41.1% from the field (23 of 56) while limiting the Cougars to 33.3% (22 of 66).

Broncos sophomore 7-footer Christoph Tilly, who averages 8.3 points and 4.2 rebounds, didn't play for undisclosed reasons.