BOWLING GREEN, Ky. -- Senior Rashad Reed hit a free throw with one-tenth of a second on the clock as Indiana State stunned 2,269 fans at historic E.A. Diddle Arena and the Sycamores earned a dramatic 64-63 win over Western Kentucky in the Dick's Sporting Goods NIT Season Tipoff.

ISU improves to 4-2 on the season while Western Kentucky dropped to 2-2.

The Sycamores wrapped up play in the NIT Season Tipoff with a 2-2 record. ISU downed Milwaukee and Western Kentucky and fell to Coastal Carolina and LSU.

ISU led 35-21 at the half and stretched the lead to a game-high 16 points (40-26) with 19:04 left in the game on a 3-pointer by Dwayne Lathan.

The lead shrunk down to 42-35 with 14:28 left on a traditional 3-point play by AJ Slaughter, but off the bench freshman Koang Doluony stretched it back to double digits, 45-35 with a 3-point answer. Doluony's trey kick-started a 7-0 spurt which made it 49-35 with 12 and a half minutes to go.

ISU took several Western Kentucky punches over the next few minutes but a pair of Jake Kelly free throws made it 59-49 with three and half minutes left.

WKU's star Slaughter hit a 3-pointer with three minutes left which made it 59-52. After an ISU turnover and a Kelly foul, WKU's Steffphon Pettigrew hit 1-of-2 free throws to thin the Sycamores advantage to 59-53 with 1:58 left.

Marshall answered with a lay-up and a free throw to make it 62-53. Slaughter drove to the basket for a score and after an ISU turnover, hit a 3-pointer to make it 62-58 with 1:21 left.

Kelly hit 1-of-2 free throws to stretch the ISU lead to 63-58 and Pettigrew made it 63-60 with 1:14 left after an over the back foul on Brant Leitnaker.

ISU used all of the shot clock and Marshall's long 3-point attempt didn't connect as Slaughter came down with the rebound.

Following a WKU time-out, ISU got a coveted stop on the defensive end, but Lathan missed both ensuing free throws to give the Hilltoppers another chance. With six tenths of a second on the clock and the ISU defense guarding hard trying to prevent a game-tying 3-point shot, Jameson Tipping stepped through a Sycamore defender and launched an off-balance, line drive shot that found nothing but net to tie the contest.

Marshall took the ball out of bounds and heaved a prayer in the direction of a streaking Reed down the left sideline. Reed and the ball arrived just past the 3-point line at nearly the same time as WKU's Jeremy Evans. There was contact and the official signaled a foul.

After discussion, Reed was awarded a pair of free throws after it was determined that the foul was committed before the buzzer and on the floor. With one-tenth of a second on the clock, Reed was awarded two free throws as Western Kentucky was over the limit of 10 fouls. Reed hit the first to give ISU a 64-63 lead and missed the second. The game ended when Slaughter touched the ball and there was not enough time remaining for legal shot.

The Sycamores fell behind 4-0 n the game, but tied it up at 8 on a pair of free throws by Lathan with 14:16 on the clock. After a Caden Dickerson 3-pointer made it 14-13, the Sycamores got back-to-back buckets by Jordan Printy and reed to make it 18-13.

After Western cut the Sycamore lead down to 19-17, Marshall scored a bucket and that was followed by a lay-up from Kelly as well as Lathan 3-pointer as ISU found themselves up 26-17 with 5:08 to go.

WKU scored a bucket at 4:36 to end a nearly two minute scoring drought, before ISU quick scored the game's next seven points on buckets by Reed and Lathan as well as wide-open triple by Printy. After the spurt, ISU led 33-19 with just over two minutes left.

Lathan answered a Pettigrew bucket at the end of the first half to give the Sycamores a 35-21 advantage heading back into the lockeroom.

Lathan reached double figures scoring for the fifth time in five games as he paced ISU with 15 points, 12 of which were scored in the first half. He hit 5-of-8 shots from the field, including a pair of 3-pointers and three free throws. He added five rebounds in 20 minutes of action.

Reed's ninth point was the decisive one in the contest as Kelly added nine as well. Marshall, Doluony and Printy scored seven each. Josh Crawford led ISU with six rebounds.

The Sycamores won the battle on the glass, 38-34 over the Hilltoppers.

ISU held WKU, which came within an eyelash of downing Gonzaga and advancing to the NCAA Sweet 16 one year ago, to 40 percent shooting, as they hit 24-of-60 field goals.

The win by ISU snapped a 15-game home court winning streak for the Hilltoppers, who had won 29 of its last 30 contests at Diddle Arena. WKU was poised to win its 500th all-time game in its venerable home, but ISU stopped that with the heart-pounding victory.

Slaughter paced Western Kentucky with 20 points, all of which came in the second half of play.

ISU will resume play on Sunday, November 29 when they travel to another Sun Belt foe, Arkansas State. Tipoff is slated for 3:05 p.m. (ET). The game can be heard live on The Crock 92.7FM as well as online at GoSycamores.com.