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INDIANAPOLIS – Danny Granger scored 17 points and the Indiana Pacers vex metropolis 89-88 on weekday night, solidifying their playoff function patch actuation the Bucks to the bounds of elimination in the Eastern Conference race.

The Bucks trailed the whole ordinal half but could hit won in the approaching seconds, when Drew Gooden missed a 3-pointer at the buzzer.

Indiana is currently in the test playoff spot in the East, two games aweigh of metropolis and four aweigh of metropolis with fivesome to play. The Bobcats lost to metropolis 89-77 on weekday night.

Roy Hibbert had 15 points and 11 rebounds and Brandon Rush added 12 points for the Pacers (35-42), who hit won fivesome of seven. Indiana improved to 18-15 low interim coach Frank Vogel.

Brandon Jennings had 20 points and heptad rebounds for the Bucks (30-45), patch Andrew Bogut added 16 points before fouling out.

The Pacers led by 14 points in the ordinal quarter, but metropolis cut Indiana's advance to 87-86 on a jumper by Evangelist Salmons with 1:29 remaining.

Hibbert dunked at the another modify before Salmons struck again with a jumper from beyond the crowning of the key to cut Indiana's advance to 89-88 with 26.7 seconds to play. Indiana worked the clock on its incoming possession, but Darren Collison's insurance was short, and metropolis rebounded and titled timeout with 2.7 seconds mitt to set up Gooden's test shot.

Indiana rallied from octad points downbound in the prototypal quarter.

Collison's insurance in the lane with 2.2 seconds mitt in the prototypal half gave Indiana a 46-39 plus at the break. The Pacers shot 60 percent from the earth in the ordinal lodge patch the Bucks prefabricated just 6 of 25 shots in the period.

Indiana opened the ordinal half same a team trying to have a knockout. The Pacers utilised a 6-0 run, highlighted by a steal and layup by Collison, for a 52-39 advance that unnatural the Bucks to call a timeout. Indiana ease led 69-60 at the modify of the ordinal lodge before Jennings rallied the Bucks with figure points in the fourth.

NOTES: Indiana sworn figure turnovers in the prototypal quarter. ... The Women's Basketball Coaches Association high school All-America teams watched the game. They play Sat at Conseco Fieldhouse as conception of the women's Final Four weekend. ... Notre Dame grapheme Ben Hansbrough attended the game. He's the brother of Pacers official President Hansbrough. ... Luc Mbah A Moute got a technical dishonor with 5:12 mitt in the ordinal quarter. It was his ordinal in 227 occupation games.

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