EAST LANSING, Mich. — Shay Colley had a team-high 14 points, including a layup with two seconds remaining Monday as the Michigan State Spartans beat the University of Toledo women’s basketball team 68-66 in a second-round WNIT game at the Breslin Center.

Taya Reimer added 10 points for the Spartans (19-13), who had a nine-point lead in the first quarter but trailed to start the final quarter.

Kaayla McIntyre had 16 points, 10 rebounds, and five assists to lead Toledo (18-15). Tanaya Beacham added 12 points and nine rebounds, and Mikaela Boyd and Jay-Ann Bravo-Harriott each had 10 points.

The Rockets end the season losing five of its final six games and eight of its last 11.

But they did not go away quietly. Toledo trailed 19-10 with 1 minute, 38 seconds left in the first after Victoria Gaines converted a pair of free throws. The Rockets finished the quarter on a 5-0 run to trim the gap to four points, took their first lead of the game with 4:48 remaining before halftime on a Jada Woody layup, and went into the locker room up 33-32.

Toledo then expanded its lead in the third. Boyd had a jumper, and McIntyre converted a conventional three-point play just 1:36 into the quarter to take a 38-32 lead.

It was 40-34 with 6:48 to go after a McIntyre layup, but Michigan State put together a 7-0 run, finished off by Colley’s layup as the Spartans held a 41-40 advantage with 3:12 remaining. Toledo got the lead back and expanded it to five points before it settled at 48-45 Rockets going to the fourth.

The lead never was larger than four points the rest of the way. 

There were seven lead changes and three ties in the final quarter. 

It looked like Michigan State salted it away with 18 seconds left as Colley converted a jumper for a 66-62 lead. But Boyd hit a jumper out of a timeout with 12 seconds to go, and Beacham then hit a layup with nine seconds left to tie the game, setting up Colley’s game-winning shot.

First Published March 20, 2018, 3:17 a.m.