Oak Hill's Billy Preston puts up a shot attempt against Dr. Phillips. He scored 19 points with 13 rebounds in the Warriors' win. CJ Caraang | SL

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Mon, Dec 19, 2016 @ Iolani

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Dr. Phillips

48

Oak Hill

89

Final	1	2	3	4
Dr. Phillips	9	12	13	14	48
Oak Hill	12	28	26	23	89

• Points
• Rebounds
• Assists

B. Preston 19 pts  7/9 FTs

N. Smith 16 pts  1 3pm  1/4 FTs

B. Preston 13 tot  3 off  10 def

N. Smith 6 tot  1 off  5 def

L. Wigginton 4 ast

D. Love 4 ast

Billy Preston scored 19 points with 13 rebounds to lead Oak Hill (Mouth of Wilson, Va.) to an 89-48 win over Dr. Phillips (Orlando, Fla.) in a quarterfinal game of the Iolani Prep Classic Monday night.

The Warriors, the No. 2 team in the USA Today Super 25 preseason national rankings, improved to 15-1 and will face Southwind (Memphis, Tenn.) in a 6:30 p.m. semifinal Tuesday.

Preston, a 6-foot-10, 230-pound power forward, was an efficient 6-of-9 shooting from the field, including 6 of 7 on 2-pointers. The University of Kansas-signee also had two assists, two steals and a block.

For the second straight game, all five Oak Hill starters scored in double-figures. Lindell Wiggington scored 15 points with six rebounds, four assists and two steals. Devontae Shuler had 12 points with eight rebounds and four steals, Ty-Shon Alexander added 12 points and Matt Coleman chipped in 11 points with five boards.

The Warriors never trailed. They jumped out to a quick 6-0, but struggled shooting the ball from long-range early on.

"We were lethargic; I don't know what it was," said Oak Hill coach Steve Smith, whose team seized a commanding 29-6 lead after the first quarter of Saturday's first-round win over Kapolei.

"We started off so well Saturday night and we talked about that in pre-game; coming out with the same emotion, the same energy on defense, but we didn't play well," Smith said. "We took a lot of 3's; we were oh-for-seven on 3's in the first quarter and I have a line and always tell them that if you take them, you've got to make them in the first quarter, so we took too many 3's and that hurt us offensively. We couldn't get a flow going offensively."

Oak Hill's 3-point woes went on. It shot just 2 for 20 from behind the arc for the game.

Unfortunately for the Panthers, the rest of the game was a different story.

Coleman drained a Oak Hill's first 3-pointer at the 4:22 mark of the second quarter, which ignited a 13-0 run that was capped by Preston's three-point play to stretch the lead to 34-17 with 2:20 left in the first half.

The Warriors outscored the Panthers in the second quarter, 28 to 12, and took a 40-21 lead into the intermission.

It was more of the same after halftime, as Oak Hill extended its lead to 66-34 after three quarters.

"We were really battling and we were right in it in the first quarter, but eventually they just overwhelmed us with their talent — which everybody has to deal with when playing that school," Dr. Phillips coach Anthony Long said. "We battled, we fought, we scratched, we did everything that we could, so I'm proud of our kids, but (Oak Hill) is just too talented. They're just too good."

The Warriors took advantage of the 27 fouls called against the Panthers — 16 coming in the first half alone — by getting to the line early and often. They were 31 of 39 from the three-throw line.

"They couldn't hold us. They were fouling us, so if that's what we had to do, then that's what we had to do," said Preston, who had 13 points and 11 rebounds by halftime.

Long said the foul disparity was a result of Oak Hill's aggressiveness in getting to the bucket on offense.

"They're trying to get to the rim all the time," Long said. "They're very well-coached and so when that level of an athlete is trying to get to the rim, usually it's going to lead to some foul calls and so we had them shooting one-and-one's really early in the game and that hurt us, too."

Conversely, the Warriors were whistled for just 11 fouls, leading to just 10 free-throw attempts by the Panthers, who made four of them.

"We did a good job of playing defense without fouling," Smith said. "When we had a big lineup in there we played zone, when we had a small lineup we played man and pressed a little bit. I thought the guys had active hands, especially after the first quarter. We played well the second and third quarters defensively and I thought we got a big, working margin."

Oak Hill dominated the glass. It had 23 offensive boards and held a distinct advantage in total rebounding margin, 53 to 23.

Dr. Phillips shot 20-of-57 from the field, including 4 of 19 from behind the 3-point line.

Nick Smith, a North Carolina State football-commit, had 16 points and Je'Quan Burton added 10 for the Panthers, who fell to 8-4 and will play Kailua in a 3:30 p.m. consolation game Tuesday.

Oak Hill improved to 36-2 all-time in Iolani Classic games. It has won the tournament seven times in nine previous appearances.