DePaul and Loyola Marymount will be looking to end lengthy losing streaks when they meet Thursday in the seventh-place game at the Diamond Head Classic in Honolulu. DePaul has lost five straight, surrendering an average of 86 points in those games, while the Lions have dropped six in a row, most recently an overtime defeat against Nebraska on Tuesday night. The Blue Demons have four players averaging 12 points a game or better and Loyola Marymount has one.

Ohio and Nebraska are coming off two distinctly different victories at the Diamond Head Classic in Honolulu and they’ll display their styles in the fifth-place game Thursday. Ohio scored a tournament-record 99 points in its victory Tuesday against DePaul, the same day Nebraska won with 50 points in overtime against Loyola Marymount. Nebraska and Loyola Marymount each made 14 field goals in the game, an all-time low for the tournament.

Two days in Honolulu have produced two very different types of games for Colorado, which figures to get tested again on Thursday when it faces Hawaii in the third-place game of the Diamond Head Classic. The Buffaloes rolled to an 82-68 win over DePaul on Monday, but were held to 36.5 percent shooting in Tuesday’s 53-50 loss to George Washington. “It was a rock ‘em, sock ‘em game … a totally different game compared to yesterday’s game, which was a pick-up game,” Colorado coach Tad Boyle said.

Close calls are nothing new to No. 11 Wichita State, which hopes to avoid another thriller Thursday when it meets George Washington in the Diamond Head Classic title game in Honolulu. Three of the Shockers’ seven December games have been decided by a point, including Tuesday’s 80-79 overtime semifinal win over Hawaii. Wichita State, which saw its 35-game regular-season winning streak halted with a 69-68 loss in Utah on Dec. 3, rallied from 11 down late in a 53-52 win over Alabama on Dec. 16.