Houston (AP) – LJ Cryer scored 28 points, Milos Uzan added 19 points and the n ° 5 Houston kept on Saturday 8 Iowa State 68-59.
Cryer and Uzan combined to draw 18 out of 27, including 8 out of 12 on 3 points. Emanuel Sharp added 11 points for Houston (23-4, 15-1 Big 12), who won his sixth consequence.
Milan Momcilovic scored his 16 points in the second half to lead a furious rally for cyclones (21-6, 11-5). Nate Heise added 12 points and Tamin Lipsey scored 11.
By dragging by 16 to half the second half, the cyclones used a race of 18-3 to reduce the advance to 48-47 on a 3-point pointer per heise with eight minutes remaining. Houston responded with four consecutive points to push the advance to five.
NO. 1 Auburn 82, Georgia 70
Auburn, ala. (AP) – Johni Broome scored a summit of 31 points and added 14 rebounds while N ° 1 Auburn beat Georgia.
For the second consecutive match, Auburn (25-2, 13-1 sec) ended up in a tight contest against an unreverse opponent before moving away in the last minutes.
Broome took over in the second half, including a series of seven consecutive points for tigers. Double-double was his 17th of the season.
Denver Jones added 17 points for Tigers, while Chad Baker-Mazara and Miles Kelly had 11 each.
Asa Newell led the Bulldogs (16-11, 4-10) with 20 points. Silas Demary Jr. added 18.
NO. 2 Florida 79, LSU 65
Baton Rouge, Louisiana (AP) – Rueben Chinaeru had a 19 -point career summit to go with 13 rebounds and Florida No. 2 rugged with an eight -time eight -time deficit to beat the LSU.
Thomas Haugh scored 16 points, Alijah Martin added 14 and Walter Clayton Jr. 13 for Florida (24-3, 11-3 sec), who won his sixth match.
LSU first-year student Robert Miller III scored a 19-point career summit to go with 10 rebounds and was the great reason why tigers (14-13, 3-11) seemed ready to challenge Florida well in the second half.
Florida ran to an advance of 29-15 for the first 13 minutes. But LSU suddenly found its place when Curtis Givens III struck a 3, causing a superb 22-2 race during the last 6:41 half.
Florida took the lead for good with a 15-2 race which gave the Gators an advance of 53-48. ChinaiLu scored seven points during this push, including a decline when he was the victim of a fault.
NO. 3 Duke 110, Illinois 67
NEW YORK (AP) – Cooper Flagg collected 16 points in its beginnings from Madison Square Garden and seven players scored in duplicate for No. 3 Duke in an Illinois eruption.
Isaiah Evans punctuated the Blue Devils (24-3) with 17 points on the bench, and Kon Knueppel added 15. Duke built a 23-point lead advance and was never threatened while fixing a Standing season.
Flagg, the first year which should be the first choice of the NBA draft this year, added seven rebounds and five assists in 23 1/2 minutes. But the Blue Devils didn’t even need his best tonight.
Tre White collected 16 points for Illinois (17-11) in a confrontation without conference between the programs that lost eight in the NCAA tournament last year. Kasparas Jakucionis scored 14.
NO. 4 Alabama 96, no. 17 Kentucky 83
Tuscaloosa, ala. (AP) – Mark Sears scored 30 points and Alabama n ° 4 came from behind for a victory over Kentucky n ° 17.
Alabama (22-5, 11-3 Southeastern Conference), which had lost its two previous games, obtained 19 points from Aden Holloway, which made five 3 points. Chris Youngblood had 14 points and Clifford Omoruyi had 11.
Koby Brea led Kentucky (18-9, 7-7 seconds) with 20 points while Andrew Carr and Amari Williams each scored 17. Travis Perry added 12 points.
NO. 6 Tennessee 77, no. 7 Texas A & M 69
College Station, Texas (AP) – Chaz Lanier collected a summit of 30 points, including 8 3 points to lead the volunteers on the Aggies.
Lanier, a senior transfer from northern Florida, went 8 out of 13 beyond the arc and 10 out of 18 in total in match which included 11 head changes and eight links.
Jordan Gainey made a 3-point with 3:33 on the left to give Tennessee (22-5, 9-5 Conference from the South-East) an advance of 63-59. Zakai Zeigler hit a 3 in front of the flight bench on an incoming pass with 21 remaining seconds to seal the victory.
The Aggies (20-7, 9-5) started the match with three consecutive dunks before the flights finally mark a little more than three minutes in the noisy setting of Reed Arena.
NO. 9 Texas Tech 73, Virginie-Western 51
Lubbock, Texas (AP) – JT Toppin scored 22 points, the recruit Christian Anderson collected 21 seasonal points with five 3 points at his first start to his career to help the Red Raiders beat the Mountaineers.
Toppin and the Red Raiders (21-6, 12-4 Big 12) overcome a slow start, with the 6 feet 9 inch 9 National player of the week prevailing ap Make nine of your last 10 shots after missing your first six. Tech was late on 24-15 when it lacks 18 of its first 23 shots before finishing the first half with a sequence of 15-3 to move forward to stay.
Amani Hansberry collected 14 points and 11 rebounds for Virginia-Western (16-11, 7-9), his second double-double in a row. Javon Small had 10 points.
Oregon 77, no. 11 Wisconsin 73, ot
Madison, Wisconsin (AP) – Nate Bittle collected 23 points and Jackson Shelstad made a despair 3 to force extensions that led to a victory of the Ducks over the badgers.
Bittle, a 7 -foot center, scored six points in overtime to help take the sequence of five consecutive wisconsin victories. Shelstad scored 13 points while the Ducks (20-8, 9-8 Big Ten) extended their sequence of victories with four games.
Bittle played minutes limited in the first half with three faults.
John Tonje had 22 points for Wisconsin (21-6, 11-5). Steve Crowl scored 12.
Badgers have lost only two home games this season.
Arkansas 92, no. 15 Missouri 85
Fayetteville, Ark. (AP) – Zvonimir Ivisic scored 20 points, Johnell Davis added 18 and Arkansas beaten the Missouri n ° 15 for his third victory against a top -15 team this season.
Ivisic and Davis made 3 consecutive points in a second half race which saw the Razorbacks (16-11, 5-9 Southeastern Conference) transform a deficit of three points in a seven points advance with less Eight minutes play.
The Missouri (20-7, 9-5) committed 18 reversals and the Arkansas took advantage of it, marking 30 points. Easy gifts for several gifts contributed to the razors by firing 55% in the field.
DJ Wagner added 17 points, Karter Knox had 14 and Adou Thiero 11 for Arkansas.
The Missouri also obtained five players from 10 points or more, led by the 17 years of Mark Mitchell. Warrick brands added 16 points, Caleb Grill scored its 13 points in the first half, and Tony Perkins and Jacob Crews each had 10.
NO. 18 Clemson 79, SMU 69
Dallas (AP) – Jaeden Zackery collected 19 points, including five best in career at 3 points before half -time, plus six rebounds, seven assists and five interceptions to help n ° 18 Clemson Beat SMU.
Chase Hunter added 17 points and Viktor Lakhin had 16 for the Tigers (22-5, 14-2 conference on the Atlantic coast), which are tied in second place with Louisville and a match behind Duke.
Chuck Harris scored 16 points, and Matt Cross and BJ Edwards had 12 for the Mustangs (20-7, 11-5).
Clemson ended the first half on a 7-2 race after SMU took his only lead in the match at 30-29, then scored the first nine points of the second half. The biggest advance of Tigers was 18 points.
Oklahoma 93, no. 21 Mississippi State 87
Norman, okla. (AP) – Jeremiah Fears collected 27 points and 10 career assists, while the Sooners beat the Bulldogs to take a losing skipping of five games and relaunch its hopes of the NCAA tournament.
Fears, an 18 -year -old first year student, made 7 of the 12 goals in the field and 11 of the 14 free throws. It was one of its most effective performances overall and its second best score effort of the season.
Milon Moore scored 15 of his 18 points in the second half and Sam Godwin collected 17 points and 10 rebounds for the Sooners (17-10, 4-10 Southeast conference).
NO. 23 Kansas 96, Oklahoma State 64
Lawrence, Kan. (AP) – Hunter Dickinson had 16 points and 11 rebounds, and four other Jayhawks scored at least 14 N ° 23 Kansas has demolished the state of Oklahoma.
The Jayhawks (18-9, 9-7 Big 12) used a well-balanced offensive attack and held the cowboys at almost 30 points below their season average. They started the first half slowly before finally taking control with a late race. They led by 29 at halftime and stretched it up to 39 points in the second period.
Besides Dickinson, Kansas obtained 15 points from David Coit and Zeke Mayo. Dajuan Harris Jr. had an excellent versatile match with 14 points, five assists and six interceptions.
The state of Oklahoma (13-14, 5-11) was led by Bryce Thompson with 21 points.
Vanderbilt 77, no. 24 Mississippi 72
Nashville, Tennessee (AP) – Chris Manon at 3 points with 4:53 on the left Vander Before staying while the commodores beat the number 24 Ole Miss to break a scrap of three games.
The commodores (18-9, 6-8 conference in the south-east) led up to 19 and 41-33 at half-time before Ole Miss put Vanderbilt in danger of blowing another two-digit lead.
Manon finished with a summit of 16 points. Jason Edwards added 15, Tyler Nickel had 13 and Devin McGlockton 10.
First -year coach Mark Byington got closer to the NCAA tournament after being chosen to finish last in the dry. The commodores won three victories on classified opponents and entered Saturday 10 in the League classification.
NO. 25 Louisville 89, Florida State 81
Louisville, Ky. (AP) – Chucky Hepburn carried out five free throws on the section as part of his 29 points, I.Vonne Hadley added 18 points while the cardinals resisted several rallys in the second half to maintain The Seminoles for his fifth consecutive victory. .
The cardinals (21-6, 14-2 conference of the Atlantic coast) led 39-19 at the end of the first half before the closing of the seminoles in six points several times in the second period. Hadley and Terrence Edwards Jr. (16 points) made layups for a two-digit advantage, and Hepburn followed with a basket in painting and two free throws for a 74-61 cushion.
HEPBURN rescue 3 with a check check on the left on the chronometer was 79-64, but Florida State arrived at 81-75 on the Daquan Davis lay-up with 1:05 on the left. Hepburn made three free throws, Edwards reached two and Hepburn made two more with 14 seconds to play to help Louisville finish a scan of the season.
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