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ATLANTA -- Josh Okogie hasnt needed much time to show coach Josh Pastner that he can score from anywhere on the floor.I feel like if Im able to keep playing hard, Ill be able to keep producing for my team, Okogie said. Coach expressed that to me as well. He said that Ive got to get offensive rebounds and putbacks.Okogie set a Georgia Tech freshman scoring record with 38 points, Ben Lammers added 19 points and 12 rebounds and the Yellow Jackets beat Tulane 82-68 on Saturday night.Quinton Stephens had 14 points and 12 rebounds as the Jackets (4-1) finished a five-game home stand to begin its first season under Pastner.Cameron Reynolds finished with 20 points to lead Tulane (1-5), which is in its first season under former NBA coach Mike Dunleavy.Okogie, who starred at nearby Shiloh High School, surpassed the previous freshman record of 33 points by Mark Price against Virginia in the 1983 ACC tournament and Dion Glover against Seton Hall in the 1998 NIT.Okogie hit 10 of his first 16 shots from the field and had 23 points when his layup pushed the Jackets to a 58-49 lead with 9:35 remaining. Okogies total was the most by a Tech player since Kenny Anderson scored 42 points against Howard in 1991.Beforehand, he had a tendency to take plays off, Pastner said. Now I say that and you look at his numbers as a freshman. Pretty darned good, but he just continues to get better. The reason he scored offensively was that he was at his best defensively.Lammers added four blocks to push his season total to 28 blocks, most in the nation.Georgia Tech led 37-32 at halftime as Stephens combined with Okogie for 21 points and with Lammers for 15 rebounds.Tulane, playing its first road game, missed its first six shots of the second half and trailed 48-32 on Lammers 3-point play.The Green Wave cut the lead to five three times, but Lammers answered with a dunk and a 12-foot turnaround jumper from the baseline that made it 65-58 with 6:13 remaining.I thought we played our worst game of the year, Dunleavey said. We showed no toughness out there. We came out in the second half and we didnt play that great. We had it to a five-point game, and we broke down on a couple of our different basic principles.Okogie followed with a pair of free throws, a dunk on a bounce pass from Lammers and he added a 3-point play for a 16-point lead at the 2:03 mark.Malik Morgan scored 13 points and Kain Harris added 11 for the Green Wave.BIG PICTURETulane: Reynolds began the game leading the Green Wave with a 17.6 scoring average, but he picked up two early fouls and had just two points in 10 minutes of the first half. He missed six of his first eight shots before getting hot in the games closing minutes.Georgia Tech: The 6-foot-10, 227-pound Lammers, a junior, is becoming an inside force under Pastner, crashing the boards multiple times and pulling down five offensive rebounds. 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DJ LeMahieu Yankees Jersey .C. -- Rodney Hood connected from all over the court while freshman Jabari Parker was busy swatting shots and scoring in transition.Australia have all but secured their spot in the Four Nations final after beating a fast-finishing New Zealand 14-8 at Coventrys Ricoh Arena.The Kangaroos were simply irresistible at times in the opening 30 minutes and their 10-0 lead at halftime, thanks to tries from Blake Ferguson and Johnathan Thurston was not a fair reflection of their dominance.However, the Kiwis were much improved after the break, holding the Kangaroos to a pair of Johnathan Thurston penalties in the second stanza and scoring two tries through Solomone Kata and Jordan Rapana but were unable to pull off a grandstand finish.Ferguson opened the scoring after five minutes, putting the finishing touches to a sweeping move by hauling in a superb pass from Michael Morgan.Morgan and Ferguson were also involved in the Kangaroos second four-pointer with Johnathan Thurston barging through two Kiwi tackles to cross four minutes later and then convert his own try.Greg Inglis, who earlier produced a bone-jarring tackle on Rapana then tormented the winger furrther by preventing a certain try with an ankle tap after hed intercepted a Darius Boyd passJustin ONeill went close to extending Australias advantage, only to be denied by the desperate New Zealand defence with Adam Blair holding up his former Melbourne teammate.ddddddddddddKata dived over nine minutes after the restart but Johnson failed to convert with Thurston punishing some ill-discipline from the Kiwis by drilling home two penalties.Some magic from Johnson set Rapana up for a late four-pointer, with the halfback gathering his own kick and spreading the ball wide for the Canberra winger to score.Johnson thought he had scored in the final seconds, but the video referee rightly adjudged that he had not grounded the ball.There could also be some injury concerns for the Kangaroos with Thurston looking to have picked up a knee injury after running into Jordan Kahu five minutes from time. 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