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Show DAILY Sunday, February 17, 2008 HERALD COLLEGE BASKETBALL Tigers barely survive UAB's upset bid , THE Indiana (214, ) desperately needed a victory t o st ay in contention for the Big Ten title and to salvage something from one of the bleakest weeks in the program's history. Michigan State (20-5- , 84) was led by Drew Neitzel with 21 points 10-2- ASSOCIATlDPREy f ' BIRMINGHAM. Ala- .Chris Douglas-Robert- s and No. 1 Memphis made the shot that counted, then watched UAB hit the one that didn't. The result was a scare and a st record. converted Douglas-Robert- s a three-poiplay with 6.5 seconds left and the Blazers' final basket was a split second too late, giving the Tigers a win Saturday night. Memphis left with its regular-seasoand league winning streaks barely MEN S intact, and 79-7- 8 V " n with Douglas- Roberts' main TOP 25 ROUNDUP foca .win. 15-- 6 v A .... ... . Af j i 3r I double-chec- k 7-- days earlier. I No. 3 Kansas 69, Colorado 45: At Lawrence, Kan., Mario 9-- 2 overmatched visitors Marcus Hall had 15 points 38-2- (10-1- ). 74, Georgia 71: At Athens. Ga., Chris Lofton scored 19 of his 22 points in the second half and Wayne Chism had 16 points for Ten- - Associated Memphis's Shawn Taggart, left, goes high to block a shot by UAB's Robert Vadeii during the second half Saturday. nessee, which stretched its winning streak to seven games. Lofton w as of 6 i rom range before hultlime, but the senior hit live 3 in the second half, pushing his Sout iieasl cm Conference-recortotal to .'598. Tennessee (23-2- . has ) won eight straight in the; 1. series with Georgia ( including a sweep of this with minute to go. up Sixteen seconds later, Budinger er from responded with a the top of the key to give the Wildcats a point lead, After Brook Lopez hit two free throws with 18 seconds to go. Budinger missed a running .xjter in the final seconds. 10) 1 1 65-6- 1 d 10-1- 5-- 12-- 1 season's two games. Sundiatta (iaines led Syracuse 77, No. 8 Georgetown 70: At Syracuse, N.Y., Paul I larris scored 22 points and freshman Donte Greene added 18 to lead Syracuse. The Orange (17-9- , Big Enst)coming off a surprising loss at South Florida; built a 2 point lead in the first halt and withstood two late rallies by the Hoyas (204, I Geor- gia with 23 points, nine re- bounds and eight assists. 7-- 6 No. 5 North Carolina 92, Virginia Tech 53: At Chapel Hill. N.C., Tyler Hunsbrough had 23 points and nine rebounds and Wayne Lllingtou had points for the Tar Heels 1 19 1 No. 7 Stanford 67, Arizona 66: At 1 ucson, An,.. Urook Lopez had 23 points and 10 I No. 9 Butleri, Cleveland St. 46: At Indianapolis. Matt : I toward scored 17 points and Butler avenged one of its two losses this season. A.J, Graves added 15 points Hofor the Bulldogs (24-2- , rizon League), who won their eighth straight. Cedric Jackson scored 20 points and ,1'Nathan Bullock added for Cleveland State (17-1which had won three in a row,. 13-- 2 1 10-6- ), rebounds and his twin brother Robin added 14 points to lead Slanford. with 4,23 to Trailing play, the Wildcats scored nine straight points to take a lead on Chase Budinger's free throw with 2:03 remaining. Brook Lopez t ied it with a free throw and then hit a er to Pac- put the Cardinal (2 14, 62-5- 4 10-- 3 No. 13 Indiana 80, No. 10 Michigan St. 61: At Blooming-ton- , Ind.. Eric Gordon scored 28 points and broke Indiana's freshman scoring record. With coach Kelvin Sampson's job status in question after being accused of five major NCAA infractions Wednesday, I No. 17 Connecticut 74, South Florida 73: At Tampa, Fla. Craig Austrie's runner in the lane with less than a second left in overtime gave Connecticut its ninth straight win. A.J. Price scored 23 points, including the Huskies' first five in the overtime. , , i v. 4. us v 63-5- 1 4 ' t 10-f- 2 26-2- 4 41-3- 0 . 4-- s 3 No. 18 Kansas State 100, Missouri 63: At Manhattan, Kan.. Michael Beasley had 40 points and 17 rebounds for his 2 1st double-doublto lead No. 18 16-- Kansas Stale in a I 10-1- rout. I No. 19 Purdue 71, Northwestern 56: At Evanston, 111., fresh- 33-2- man E'Twaun Moore scored a season-hig28 points for Iirdue, which despite blowing a lead in the second half, won its 1 llh straight. h I No. 23 Louisville 80, Providence 72: At Providence, R.I.. Earl Clark had 20 points and nine rebounds and made a key er with 2 12 minutes left for Louisville. No. 24 Vanderbilt 61, Florida 58: At Nashville, Tenn., Alex d Gordon made four free throws over the final 24 seconds and Vanderbilt held off Florida to remain undefeated at home this season. Vanderbilt (224, 74 SEC) has won 29 of its last 30 at Memorial Gym. IV A ' 1 - 10-- 2 first-plac- De-on- 7-- 5 I No. 9 California 66, Arizona 45: At Berkeley, Calif., Ashley Walker scored 24 points and California won its Kith straight home game with a victory over Arizona. aiul-fort- h 68-6- 8 70-6- 8 ' nine-gam- -- 5-- CARPENEANAssociated Press I St. Bonaventure 63, No. 14 George by Washington 60: At Olean, N.Y., Dana Wyoming's Hanna Zavecz, left, and Jodi Mitchell and Kately n Murray scored 14 points each to help St. Bonaventure upset Bolderjavk, right, on Saturday. George Washington for the Bonnies' first victory ever over a ranked opponenent. Diego State, which has lost 20 of 21 I No. 16 Notre Dame 79, No. 21 Syracuse games to Utah. The Aztecs hit only 30.4 67: At Syracuse, N.Y., Charel Allen had of its field-goattempts. "They have a great point guard (Mitch- 22 points and 12 rebounds and Notre Dame pulled away from Syracuse in the ell)," San Diego State coach Beth Burns final 3 minutes for their fifth straight win. said. "That's why we trapped them, to road make someone else make a decision." Playing the first of a three-gam- e 3 It worked late in the first half when trip, Notre Dame (20-Big East) moved to 17-- 0 in Big East play against San Diego State's pressure defense led run to numerous turnovers and an Syracuse (19-5- , 74) and into a tie for in the final 6:32 that turned a deficit fourth in the conference with Pittsburgh. ANDY Air Force's Kathleen Schjodt is guarded 8-- 11-- 1 23-1- 5 26-2- 4 well," said Mitchell. "We made it really hard for them defensively." Jene Morris scored 13 points for San 11-- ftn(dedd- e Morgantown, W.V., Deirdre Naughton 15 re-- . had 24 points and a career-hig- h bounds to lead DePaul over West Virginia, ending the Mountaineers' school e record winning streak. turnovers. ' Morgan Warburton and Ixilani Mitch- halftime lead. into a ell scored 15 points apiece for Utah, which won despite shooting just 38.5 percent from the field. The Utes were held to I No. 5 Rutgers 71, South Florida 50: At Tamless than 40 percent shooting for only the pa, Fla., Matee Ajavon scored 14 points and second time this season. Epiphanny Prince and Myia McCurdy add"The first couple of possessions (of the ed 10 apiece as Rutgers rebounded from a controversial loss to beat South Florida. second half) we came out and did really 13 second-hal- f - UNLV BYU 1 DePaul 81, No. 11 West Virginia 80: At well-playe- d 11 ,10 g her fans something to remember in her final regular season game at Maples Pavilion, scoring 23 points to move into second-place on the Pac-1(- ) career scoring list and lead Stanford over Arizona State. 3 i W !)i 65-6- 1 Atlantic Coast Conference), who dominated the entire way to avenge last season's sweep by the Hokies. North Carolina shot 50 repercent and held a 54-bounding advantage, while its defense held Virginia. Tech to 26 percent shooting. 9-- 2 After a lackluster first SAN DIEGO half, it didn't take long for Utah to take control.Utah stepped up its defensive pressure and ran a more precision offense that led to easy baskets in the second half as the Utes pulled away for a win over San Diego State on Saturday. The victory was Utah's 16lh straight. tying idle Chattanooga WOMEN'S for the nation's longest active winning streak. TOP 25 "This was not a pretty ROUNDUP game," Utes coach Elaine Elliott said. "They didn't play well, either. It was not a game, I was disturbed by the lack of intelligence in the game." l Mountain West) had 19 Utah (21-turnovers, San Diego State finished with 21, and neither team shot well. Kalee Whipple led the Utes with 15 points and 11 rebounds. She scored five points during a 15-- run over the first 9 12 minutes of the second half after the at the break. Utah led Utes trailed at the 8:30 mark after holding the Aztecs to just one field goal in the first 12 minutes of the half "The big thing was to pick up our defense," Whipple said. "We knew we needed to get tough on defense." into Utah forced the Aztecs ( standings 6-- 5 (24-2- , ASSOCIATED PRtSS 13-1- MWC All Games Conference I e SALT LAKE CI IT PCT W I PCT 20 5 .800 .900 Borha scored 22 points 19 .760 and Utah fought back f rom a .769 20 6 Npw Utah 15 8 .652 nearly disastrous start to beat 16 9 .640 San 13 .542. San Diego State for its 12 12 .500 fourth straight victoi v on Sat14 .417 urday. The Utes (15-- 64 Mountain Saturday's results Utah 72, San Diego St. 66 West) didn't score for the first 48 74, 6:38 of the game and fell beNew Mfw M. IM hind but gradually fought back to beat the Atecs ( Mountain West) for the t fie line .over the final three 25th time in the last 26 meet.minutes: "Weliad to scramble ings at the Huntsman (ruler. D.J. Gay scored 21 points to tonight." lead the Aztecs, who lost tor Brandon I wing, the , ,. scor- the fifth time in seven games. league's second-leadinLorrenzo Wade added 16 and er, finished with 18 points, but was held in check for most of Ryan Amoroso had 1, but Kelvin Davis the second half as he scored was scoreless just seven, all in the final 3:1 1 ' LOCAL - m place of sus-- : of the game. yson Johnson had 12 points ROUNDUP while Brad Jones and Eric Piatt each cont ributed 1 1, The CowKyle Spain. The game was close haven't won at boy s ( Chine. Arena since 2003. throughout the second half, "Air force is a good team," and the Aztecs pulled to within with 1:09 remaining on said Wyoming coach Heath Sehroyer, whose team Gays But the Utes made 7 of 8 free Air. Force throws the rest of the way, and but had 17 turnovers. "These Johnnie Bryant grabbed a cruguys have played the same cial rebound with 18,0'seconds way . played the same system. left that sealed the victory,, hey 're a tough team to play it's like plaving the wishBryant fmishetPvalli 17 bone in football." points for the Utes, and Luke Lvv ing said the Falcons. sim- Nevilf added 10 and five rebounds. ,' ply didn't give the Cowboys any good looks, especially in the second half. But that's Air Force 72, Wyoming 66: At Air Force Academy, Color., nothing new. Falcons coach Jetf Reynolds "They're a great defensive can't bring himself to slip Anteam," said Lwing, who played all 40 minutes. "They execute drew Henke into the starting and well, t hey 're lineup. He's too valuable as. an enthey did a great job of adjusting at halftime. Ve didn't ergy source off he bench. Henke scored a career-higknock down enough shots." I!) points, Evan WashingI Portland State 76, Weber ton added 12 and Air lorce slide, State 73: At Portland, Ore., snapped a three-gam- e Jeremiah Dominguez scored 17 hanging on to beat Wyoming. "We talked about stalling points, including the final eight the game for Portland him," Reynolds said. "But we're points-onot going to mess with it." State, to lead the Vikings to a I lenke's fine with not start- win over Weber State. Andre Murray and Scott as long as he's.out there ing Morrison each scored 14 points, at the end. for Portland State (17-8- , "My job is to give us a lilt," Henke said. Big Sky Conference), which won its eighth straight game He's been doing just that, e and padded their coming off the bench to score in double figures in each of the position in the league race. Huff added 12 points. last three games. Kellen McCoy came off the "I've been feeling pretty bench to lead Weber State (12-1good lately," he said with a Big Sky) with 21 points. grin. :. I aviin Davis added 20 That's because he's keeping points teams honest by no longer sit-- , for the Wildcats. Altei a back game ting on the wing, flinging up shots. He's added a pump take that saw 20 lead changes, to his repertoire. tie Dominguez broke a with a running jumper with "People were flying at me," 2:10 left to play to give PortHenke said. "1 hey were sending the kitchen sink at me for a land State a advantage. Down the stretch, Dominwhile. Now, they can't play me so aggressive. I'm taking what guez connected on six straight the defense gives me, I'll drive free throws to hold off the around them if they fly at me." Wildcats' run. A last second shot to tie by Weber State's The Falcons (13-1Juan Pablo Silveira hit the back Mountain West Conference) of the rim and secured the Viwere lethargic in the opening minutes of the game, falling be- kings victory. Portland State shot 41 hind by as many as 12 points. percent from the field and Reynolds blamed the fatigue outscored Weber State in the on an emotional loss against .' UNLV on Tuesday . , paint ' "We had no energy, we Southern Utah 72, North Dawere walking in sand." Reynkota State 67: At Cedar City, olds said. "They were drained, I made some subs to get the David Marek scored 15 points and hit two free throws with energy going," half a second on the clock to Henke helped provide that energy as Air Force closed out lead Southern Utah past North Dakota State. run to the first half on a Geoff Payne scored 12 points take a 1 lead at halftime. for the Thunderbirds 8 The Falcons extended their lead to as many as 19 points in Summit League), who won the second half before hanging their tliird straight for the first on down the stretch. Air Force time this season. Southern Utah's Tyler Quin-nehas now won four of its last five against Wyoming. Dax Crum and Cris Hoopes "We were just out of it, but scored 11 points each, and Quin-ne- y had eight rebounds. thankfully found a way to battle through it," said Reynolds, Ben Woodside led the Bison whose team didn't help their with 23 points, while ( from cause by going Brett Winkclinan added 22 72-6- Oklahoma St. 59, No. 16 Texas A81M 54: At College Station. Texas, Byron Eaton had 17 points, including two free throws with 9 seconds left, and Oklahoma State snapped a road losing streak. No. 19 Utes run win streak to 16 THE Press 1 63-6- 2 t No. 4 Tennessee figures. The Badgers (214, from the Big Ten) were line, including making 15 in two runs that gave key second-hal- f them the lead for good and then Press put the game away. 3 2 Chalmers had 13 points and No. 3 Kansas held Colorado's Richard Roby to just two in the Jayhawks' 25th straight win at home. The Jayhawks (24-2- , Big 12) scored 23 points off turn- overs and outrebounded the PIZAC 'Associated (5) Utes, Falcons, Lobos earn i wins 65, Minnesota 56: At Madison. Wis., Marcus Landry scored 12 points to lead five Wisconsin players in double HAL YEAGER 11-- 0 C. shoots ugttinst SDSl! forward Billy White during the second half itt .Stiff Lake City on Saturday. Utah guard Luka Drca I No. 15 Wisconsin that Kinnard didn't get the shot off in time. He already knew it. "When I got the rebound, I looked up and saw that t he r (shot clock) light was red," Kinnard said. "I was hoping and praying they might give it to us. but I knew it was too late." It wasn't the last scary scene for Memphis players. Several had angry exchanges with UAB fans who rushed the court celebrating what they thought was a win. Then the Conference Tigers (25-0- , USA) were quickly herded to their locker room. "They thought the shot had . counted so they wanted to get on the court," said Memphis' Robert Dozier, who had eight rebounds. "They stormed on the court and they realized the time had expired and they got kind of mad. They started spitting at us and stuff: Guys got kind of heated We got out of there." is the last UAB (17-8- , CUSA team to beat Memphis, for Colorado i r DOUGLAS No. 14 Drake 65, Northern Iowa 55: At Cedar Falls, Iowa. Adam Emmenecker scored 13 points arid Drake clinched its first Missouri Valley Conference title since 1971. Douglas-Robert- s f e 17-- - made his shot, the Blazers' Robert Vaden missed badly aton an tempt and Lawrence Kinnard grabbed the long rebound, He heaved up a shot in the paint that went in, and officials prompt ly headed t o t he scorer's table to watch replays. They ruled with only a brief 715 f . I; y tr8 Douglas-Ro- 8-- 2 3r"v r "The winning streak wasn't in my mind at all," said berts, who scored 32 points. "It was just winning the game. That's all I was thinking about." After No. 11 Texas 82, Baylor 77: At Waco, Texas, with Kevin Durant watching his former teammates, Damion James had 19 points and 1.0 rebounds to lead Texas to its fifth straight victory and 22nd in a row against the Baylor. Baylor closed the game with a run, a stretch when the Big 12) Longhorns (214, missed seven free throws including three straight chances. Tweety Carter and Henry Dugat had consecutive for the Bears ( I No. 22 Wyoming 60, Air Force 32: At Laramie, Wyo., Justyna Podziemska scored 13 points and Hanna Zavecz added nine points and 14 rebounds to help Wyoming to a win over Air Force. The Cowgirls (204, 8 Mountain West Conference) outscored the Falcons stretch in the 254 over a second half to put the game out of reach. (8-1- t No. At Stanford, Gilif., Candice Wiggins gave 6 Stanford 79, Arizona State 57: 2-- 1 4l t 28-2- 19-- 6 32-3- (8-1- I . 6-- |