Show 25 Over Top 50-3- Continued from B3 Continued from B1 from the free throw line to finish with 14 points 11 rebounds and 10 assists He became the fust Arizona player to have three — all this season Loren Woods had two No 17 Wisconsin 78 Ohio St 48 At Madison Wise Devin Harris scored 33 points to lead the Badgers to their biggest rout over the Buckeyes since the series began in 1905 The Badgers (17-- 4 stayed in fust place in the Big Ten and improved to 22-- 0 in conference games at the Kohl coach Center under third-yeBo Ryan Wisconsin has won 26 straight games at the Kohl Center with an average margin of victory of 205 points No 18 Texas Tech 82 Kansas St 71 At Lubbock Texas Andre Enum tt had 26 points and 10 rebounds his seventh doubledouble of the season to lead the Red Raiders The Red Raiders (18-- 6 4 Big 12) led 6048 on a Ronald Ross with 13:44 remaining Kansas State cut the margin to 7 with 5:31 left but Tfech went on a 0 run with Emmett getting four of the points LSU 73 No 22 Florida 70 At Gainesville Fla Darrel Utah State played an extremely impressive fust half shooting 583 percent from the field including from range and took a 9 advantage into the locker room But that was against the 10 triple-doubl- es 8-- Tigers’ 2 zone defense Pacific head coach Bob Thomason iii the switched to second half and Utah State's offensive statistics plummeted to 32 percent shooting overall and just from long range "They just pressured us arid did a nice job of it" Morrill said "I think their strategy was to play more zone but in the first half we handled their zone pretty well "But they were down by about 10 or so and they didn't have anything to lose So they 3-- 2) -7 got out and pressured us and we didn't handle it very well "We missed layups — we missed several layups — and if we had a made a couple of those and a couple of free throws it would have been a 6-- 70-6- 6-- AP photo Pacific players sprint onto the court after the Tigers upset No Spanos Center in Stockton Calif different story" Cardell Butler paced the Aggies who hadn't suffered a defeat since a 5 setback at Utah on Dec 3 with 16 points on shooting Nate Harris added 11 points and seven-- ' rebounds while Mike Ahmad 56-4- 14 : Continued from B1 Boston’s Ricky Davis and Denver’s Chris Andersen were eliminated in the first round Davis made only one dunk and Andersen got more cheers for his elaborately spiked hair than his jams Jones is a longtime fan of the dunk contest who admired Michael Jordan and Dominique Wilkins before he was tall enough to slam He was ready for his first crack at the contest: He got a 50 for his fust dunk — a long bounce pass finished off with a hard slam — go-ahe- ad something different" first three-tim-e champion But Richardson also missed his final dunk handing the title to Jones “It was an honor to be out here because Jason Richardson is one of the eight points with 4:02 remain-- : ing but closed the game on a run one-hand- ed - eight-gam- 11-- st - asec-ond-peri- od er game-winn- Host yoursitewith (IMS' 'MtttAV i in a nut it 'Mi VJ A Umsitlwk & Mui i sUB Hi) eHCii i fl omamJJame Reqistratio 4" hU MHIt A' htlt i i : I in 1 iftf SAlt Saturday night at the i I MISSIS SI i uMihTMtyiijnnm ! MICHELMl 360-degr- : 17-ga- one-hand- ed NHL : 64-6- 0 and another 50 on his reverse in the finials And in the second round he brought the crowd to its feet with a leaning reverse following a similar pass Jones rattled the champ who needed three false starts before making slam a lackluster Jones needed only a 46 to win but be went for a difficult briginal dunk He passed the ball into the stands to a friend who threw a bounce pass toward the basket It was a beautiful unique idea for a slam — except Jones missed it twice No 23 S Illinois 59 SW Missouri St 58 At Springfield Mo Darren Brooks scored 19 points for the Salukis including the go- ahead with just over Continued from B3 2 minutes left and he grabbed Coyotes 3 Stan 2 a key offensive rebound of At Glendale Ariz Day- his own miss with 24 seconds Langkow and Ladlslav left to seal their 12th straight a goal and an assist had Nagy win' arid Brian Boucher apiece No 24 Providence 61 32 to help Phoenix ' made saves ' Boston College 52 e winless end an At Boston Ryan Gomes had streak 20 points and 11 rebounds and Mike Comrie acquired to Rob Sanders hit a Monday from Philadelphia for key an 0 run late in the secgoalie Sean Burire scored his ond half for the Friars first goal for Phoenix No 25 South Carolina 82 Mighty Ducks 2 Canucks 1 Vanderbilt 75 At Vancouver British AtCoiiunbia SC Michael Anaheim’s Sergei Columbia Boynton Ir had a career-bebecame the first Fedorov for all 15 of his five Russian-bor- n the and Gamecocks v player to reach points with 1000NHL e ended a points losing assist then set up streak with a victory over the in the third ' the Commodores two-gam- 9 Utah State 10 points) came off the bench and played one of his best games in weeks Brown knocked down three in the first half but didn't score after halftime and Spencer Nelson got only two of his nine shots to fall before foul- - Jones line But two misses on his clever final attempt — on a pass from a friend in the stands — should have made it easy for Golden State’s Richardson to become the contest’s 1 -5 greatest dunkers ever” Jones said'T was just trying to be creative and da Mitchell scored 18 points including the tying basket and free throws in the final two minutes to lead die Tigers to their sixth straight win The Hgets(17-- 4 7-- 3 Southeastern Conference) trailed by 15-- 4 an man-to-m- all Pacific as the home team limited the Aggies to just one field goal (a by Butler) over the final six-plminutes ' The Tigers meanwhile came from behind down the stretch thanks to free throws With 79 " seconds left Maraker tied the game for die fust time at 6060 with a pair of freebies then after Guillaume Yango blocked an attempt by Nelson Butler fouled Davison a drive down the lane and the senior guard hit both free throws to give Pacific its fust lead in nearly 38 minutes Davis then snared a missed jumper by Butler with 68 seconds left and after being fouled he hit both free throw attempts to secure the victory Yada yada: The Aggies'six turnovers were a season-lo- w but Pacific's four were also a season-low for a USU opponent UOPis the fust team since BYU (15 games) to shoot better than the Aggies : USUs winning streak was the second-longe- st in school history us 37-2- ar ' The Herald Journal Logan Utah Sunday February 15 2004 — B5 HxTKni Brown found Harris in transition to put USU up 8 But after a timeout by Thomason the Tigers scored 10 of the next 12 points to finally get the crowd of 5166 into the game From there it was just about ee high-archi- ng fumbling good passes Jones shook his ' head while his friends howled their disapproval But Richardson missed another unimpressive attempt and Jones won the contest while sitting on the bench “Nobody could really get a grip on the ball” Richardson said “I'm not even sad about it I’m happy just win- ning twice” It was the 20th anniversary of the NBA’s revival pf the contest which was a cult favorite in the ABA iii the 1970s Phoenix’s Larry Nance won the first contest in 1984 |