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Show TheSaltLake Tribune COLLEGE BASKETBALL Soeaeee TOP 25 BASKETBALL Sooners’ Defense Key League Games Denies Cowboys BY MICHAELC. LEWIS THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE Thelast time they were home, the Utah State Aggies ‘THE ASSOCIATEDPRESS NORMAN,Okla. No. 6 Oklahomagotbig plays from Hollis Price and Aaron McGhee anda return to form on defense to hold off No.9 Oklahoma watched their long home-court winning streak end. And nowthatthey are back, they need to build another one. Stuck in the middleof a tight race for the Big West Conference regular-season championship, the Aggies State. Fourdays after giving up 92 points in a loss at face two crucial home gaines, starting tonight against Texas Tech, the Sooners held Oklahoma Stateto 41 ercent UC Santa . The Ags and Gauchos are tied for third place in the Big West, one game behind UC Irvine and surprising Cal State Northridge. shooting in a 58-53 victory Wednesday t was OklahomaState’s lowest pointtotal son. “One thing is for certain,” coach Stew Morrill said. “Webetter defend and rebound if we want a chance to win.” The Aggies know he'sright. scored 17 points, six over the final 5:38 when the Sooners (16-3, 5-2 Big 12) had to hang on. McGhee had 10 points and 11 rebounds, and he scored four big points and grabbed two key offensive rebounds downthestretch. “He played beyond his stats,” coach Kelvin Sampson said of McGhee, “Hollis was a leader for us out on the floor tonight. He looked likea firstteam All-American and did whatleaders do.” OklahomaState (17-4, 4-4) got a career-high 14 points from juniorcollege transfer Cheyne Gadson. J. Pat eee OklahomaState forward Fredrik Jonzen, with ball, looks to pass as Oklahoma's Hollis Price tries to defend from the floor Wednesday night in Norman,Okla. Eamest Shelton each scored 21 points and the host Crimson (18-3, 6-1 Southeastem Conference) snapped a three-gamelosing streak against the Razorbacks (11-9, 3-5). #11 Gonzaga 102, Portland 67: DanDickau, who was bothered by the flu, and Anthony Reason each scored 14 points to lead the Zags(19-3, 6-1 West Coast Conference) in Spokane, Wash. Casey Frandsen scored 15 points for the Pilots (5-16, 1-6). South Carolina 80, #16 Georgia 67: Jamel Bradley scored a season-high 22 points and set the South Carolina record for career three-pointers as the host Gamecocks (13-7, 3-4 SEC) won their TOP 25 WOMEN: #3 Stanford 79, California 52: Nicole Powell recorded 12 points points to lead Cal (6-13, 1-10), which los its third straight game and 11-0 Pac-10) won their 13th straight. LaTasha O'Keith scored 14 seventh of eight. helped us, even thoughit wasn’t a pretty game up there #9 Kansas State 80, #14 Texas 76 (207): Laurie Koehnscored and wehadto comefrom behindandall that. Now,the Aggies face a UC Santa Barbara team that and 13 rebounds for her ninth double-double as the Cardinal (21-1, 28points and Nicole Ohide added 24 points and 11 rebounds to propel the Wildcats (20-2, 8-1 Big 12) at Texas (14-5, 6-3). #10 Baylor 74, Nebraska 62: Sheila Lambert scored 18 points Rutgers 61, #17 Connecticut 53: Jerome Coleman scored 26 (13-7, 4-4) beat UConn(14-4, 6-1) for the first time since joining the Big East. “Nebraska 80, #20 Texas Tech 69: Cary Cochran scored 19 points as the host Comhuskers (10-9, 3-5 Big 12) won consecutive games forthe first time in conference play. Andre Emmett scored 17 points and Andy Ellis added 16 points and eight rebounds for the #13 Texas Tech 77, Texas A&M 55: Jia Perkins posted 22 Points, six rebounds, three steals and four assists, and reserve Jolee Ayers added 21 points for the visiting Red Raiders (13-6, 5-4 Big 12). Despite creating 20 tumovers, A&M (10-10, 2-6) shot just 34 percent Michigan State 58, #15 Wisconsin 57: Candace Jackson was first game as a ranked team in five years. Notre Dame 89, #21 Pittsburgh 76: Chris Thomas and David Graves each scored 19 points and Ryan Humphrey added 17 for the host Irish (14-6,4-3 Big East), who swept the season series against the Panthers (18-4, 6-3), for the second straight year. #24 Wake Forest 82, North Carolina State 81: Josh Howard 4-6Big Ten)beat the Badgers (16-5, 7-4) in Madison, Wis., one 25points from Jessie Stomski. #16 lowa State 87, Missouri 61: Tracy Gahan and Angie Welle ‘scored 23 points apiece, and Lindsey Wilson added 19 as the host. points, including 14 of Rutgers’last 17, and the host Scarlet Knights Red Raiders (15-4, 4-3), who committed 20 turnovers in losing their matched his season-high with 21 points, including two clutch free ‘throws with 9.1 seconds left, for the Demon Deacons (15-6, 5-3 Atlantic Coast Conference) in Raleigh, N.C. Anthony Grundy scored 24 points for N.C. Stata (16-5, 5-3). Tip-off: 7 p.m. @ Radio: KVNU-AM (610), KWLW-AM (700) i Records:Utah State 14-4 (6-3 Big West); UC Santa Barbara 12-6 (6-3) 1m Series: USU leads, 31-21 @ Last Meeting: USU 60, UCSB 56 (Jan. 5) ‘Line: USU by 5% ‘About the Aggies: With 258 three-pointers, G ‘Tony Brown could finish his career as the third-4eading shooter in Big West Conference history. Brown needs 26 in the final nine games to pass UNLV's Anderson Hunt. Brown also shoots 49 percent from long range, which ranks 11th in the nation... They have won the last four meetings with the Gauchos,dating to a 75-74 loss in the first round of the 1999 conference touriament... F Toraino Johnson is expected to start ‘again, after making his first start of the season in piace of Chad Evans in a win at Kiaho last ‘About the Gauchos:With all of their starters back from last season,they have been among the strongest teams in the league. . . F Mark Hull and F Branduinn Fullove combine to average 29.6 points... . 4-1 in league games onthe road. (12-9, 26). perfect on four free throws in the final 1:12 as the Spartans (14-7, U BASKETBALL SN) first time all season by an Idaho team withouta player taller than 6-foot-6. The Aggies still won that game. “That would have been real tough,to go back-to-back and lose to Fullerton and Idaho,” Morrill said. “Our guys responded real well after the Fullerton loss and practicéd consistently throughout the week. And that for the host Bears (17-3,5-3 Big 12), which had a huge advantage at the foulline and benefited from poor ballhandling by Nebraska fourth straight over Georgia (16-5, 5-3) Compared with the past two seasons, when they practically sailed through the conference season en route to the NCAA Tournament, the Ags (14-4, 6-3) have struggled recently. Theyfell apart on defense at the end of a loss to UC Irvine that snapped their 31-game winningstreak at the Smith Spectrum,then collapsed for most of the second half of a shockingloss at Cal State Fullerton the next Utah State vs. UCSB 1 Tonight at the Smith Spectrum, Logan weekend, After that, they were outrebounded for the IN OTHER GAMES: 47 Alabama 109, Arkansas 94: Rod Grizzard and freshman Thursday, January 31, 2002 has won four of its five league road games and is out for revenge after losing to the Ags at homeearlier this month. The Ags were comingoff an unprecedented loss at Cal Poly — the Mustangsvisit the Spectrum on Satur- day night — andheld the Gauchosto 27-percent shootingin the secondhalf of a 60-56 victory. “They're good,”Morrill said. “I knew what a quality win that was for us down there and I knew at the time that that was a huge win, that they were going to be one of the top teamsin our league. . . We were very deter- mined and we will need the samedetermination to have achance to beat them here.” Southern Utah vs. Oakland tel at the Centrum, Cedar City 7 p.m. mad: KSUB.“AM (590) Records: Southem Utah 8-11 (5-2 Mid-Con); Oakland 11-11 (4-3) Series: SUU leads, 4-3 1 Last Meeting: Oakland 58, SUU57 (Jan. 5) ‘About the Thunderbirds: They have won fre straight gamesto moveinto tie for second place with Oral Roberts in the Mid-Continent Conference, one game behind Valparaiso. About the Golden Grizzlies: The Rochester, Mich., school has three players with more than 1,000 careerpoints, but none of them leads the team in scor- ing, That distinction goes to Mike Helms (19.0), 2 FOR 1 EXERCISE MACHINE Cyclones (16-5, 4-5 Big 12) handed the Tigers (12-7, 35) their © Lifer 1 (Rah in some ber) fourth straightdefeat. #20 Boston College 76, West Virginia 51: Clare Droesch was §-for-5 from three-point range while scoring 17, and the Eagles (16-4; 7-2 Big East) withstood a season-high 27 from West Virginia's Sherell Sowho in Boston.The Mountaineers fell to (11-8, 3-5). COLLEGE BASKETBALL SCORES ——— ‘ETSU 96, VMI77 «gia Southem 80, Savannah St 41 ven ary NY. 74 Nowpte 57 George Tec 7, Pid S48 Cent. Connecticut St. 76, Quinnipiac 66 Colgate 82, Army 72. ‘Memphis 80, 70 ‘Mississippi 73, Vanderbilt 61 ‘Amescan U. 67, Navy 68.0T 63, ‘Notre Dame89, Fetsbugh 76 5 ios 101, Evans62 dames Madison 67, fd Dorion 61 ‘eva 78, Va. 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F Linda Frohlich averages 22.1 points and 11.1 rebounds. G Constance Jinks adds 17.1 points, About the Cougars: They aretrying to maintain the momentum oflast weekend's 77-66 win at Utah. They till are fourth in the Mountain West, so they need to sweep the Aztecs and UNLVthis week to move up. ‘About the Aztecs: They losttheir frst four conference games betore beatingAir Force 58-50. 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