By MITCH STACY AP Sports Author

DAYTON, Ohio-- Jamarius Burton made a go-ahead jumper with 10 seconds left and Pitt edged Mississippi State, 60-59, in a back-and-forth First Four video game Tuesday night that featured 21 lead changes-- the most in the NCAA Tournament in five years.

Mississippi State had a great possibility to win at the end, however Shakeel Moore missed out on a wide-open 3-point effort from the corner with two seconds remaining off an inbounds play. D.J. Jeffries' tip-in effort was off-target right before the buzzer.

Nelly Cummings led Pitt with 15 points. Greg Elliott scored 13 and Blake Hinson added 12 as the Panthers (23-11) won an NCAA Tournament video game for the first time given that 2014.

They slot into the Midwest Region bracket as the 11th seed and advance to face No. 6 seed Iowa State on Friday in Greensboro, North Carolina.

" We showed strength, resiliency," Pitt coach Jeff Capel said. "We were who we've been all year, and it wasn't pretty-- however it was gorgeous."

A layup by Tolu Smith provided Mississippi State a 59-58 benefit with 32 seconds left, however Pitt-- after a three-minute scoring dry spell-- got the lead back on Burton's short jumper.

Guillermo Diaz Graham obstructed Smith's driving layup attempt out of bounds with 2.7 seconds left, setting up the last series.

" I did a block-- I don't even know how-- with my left hand," the exhausted 6-foot-11 freshman stated. "I normally don't utilize my left hand. And I obstructed it, and I understood it was a huge play, so I simply let the energy go out."

Dashawn Davis had 15 points for the Bulldogs (21-13), and Moore scored 13.

Burton, who invested almost seven minutes on the bench after getting his 4th nasty, stated he understood his last shot was entering.

" When I had the ball in my hands the last 30 seconds or so, I just told myself I was constructed for it," stated Burton, who completed with six points. "And I simply got to an area and let it go, and I had complete confidence in myself.
The 3-pointers were being released immediately as the teams integrated for 13 in the first half.

Mississippi State, not a great outside shooting group, struck 4 in the very first five minutes however cooled off after that. The Panthers went 8 for 13 from beyond the arc in the opening period.

The teams struck simply one each from long range in the second half.

" Every team is going to make adjustments at halftime, so I believe we needed to make the same kind of modifications and understand what type of video game we were in and take what the defense was giving us," Cummings said.

A GOOD LOOK

Mississippi State coach Chris Jans-- whose team scored 30 points in the paint-- said he could not quarrel with the options his players made in the last couple of seconds.

" It was a heck of an appearance," Jans said of Moore's missed out on 3-point shot. "Fortunately we got it off quick enough where we had at least one tap at it. I do not think the 2nd one was most likely in time, however at that point, it's all you can request, a possibility-- the ball is in the air-- to win an NCAA Tournament video game and still have adequate time to get a putback.

You've got to offer Pitt a lot of credit, they certainly played well enough to win. We simply could not contain the 3, and it was still a one-point video game."

TEXAS A&M-CORPUS CHRISTI 75, SOUTHEAST MISSOURI STATE 71: Isaac Mushila had 15 points and 12 rebounds as Texas A&M-Corpus Christi held back Southeast Missouri State to make the very first NCAA Tournament win in program history.

Texas A&M-Corpus Christi went 3 for 4 at the free-throw line in the last 15 seconds to ice the game and advance to play top-seeded Alabama in the South Region on Thursday in Birmingham, Alabama.

The 16th-seeded Islanders (24-10), winners of the Southland Conference, went back to the First Four for a second straight season and led for all however 23 seconds in the opening game of this one.

Southeast Missouri State (19-17) eliminated a 10-point deficit and connected it at 64 with 3:07 left.

Jalen Jackson led the Islanders with 22 points. Trevian Tennyson scooped in a slick layup off the glass to offer Texas A&M-Corpus Christi a 72-69 lead with 22 seconds remaining.

Chris Harris scored 23 points prior to fouling out for the Redhawks, the Ohio Valley Tournament champions. Phillip Russell came up short on a great take a look at a prospective connecting 3-pointer with 1.5 seconds to go.

Southeast Missouri State went 9 for 20 at the free-throw line.