IOWA CITY, Iowa - Chauncey Leslie scored 15 points and the game-winning basket with 14.4 seconds left to give Iowa a 62-60 victory Monday night over Valparaiso in the first round of the NIT.

With 30 seconds to go and Valparaiso up 60-59, Leslie got the ball on the wing, sliced down the lane and sank a pull-up jumper in traffic.

Valparaiso's Stalin Ortiz missed a shot from the baseline and the rebound bounced off the hands of a teammate and out of bounds. That advanced the Hawkeyes (16-13) to next week's second round.

The first meeting between the teams was a seesaw struggle throughout, with neither leading by more than eight points. In the second half alone, the teams had three ties and 10 lead changes in the final 14 minutes.

Iowa got 11 points each from Jared Reiner, Sean Sonderleiter and Brody Boyd.

Reiner, who also had 10 rebounds, was held scoreless until 6:14 remained, when he gave Iowa a 54-52 lead.

Iowa shot 50 percent and outrebounded the Crusaders 34-26.

Ortiz led Valparaiso (20-11) with 14 points and four steals. Miguel Ali Berdiel added 13 points as the Crusaders shot 46.3 percent from the floor, but just 21.4 percent from behind the three-point arc.

Iowa led 32-29 at the break and stretched it to five points in the opening minutes of the second half, when Leslie scored on a baseline drive.

But Joaquim Gomes, who had just two points in the opening half, tied it at 36 by scoring seven straight points in a 1:14 span.

The lead traded hands five times in the next five minutes before Valparaiso took a five-point lead, only to see Iowa storm back with a 12-2 run.